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More Information about Historical Debugging in VSTS 2010

2009-05-15T06:33:48Z

IanWho’s blog has a great post about historical debugging in VSTS 2010. If you are not aware, the next release of VSTS will provide a significant enhancement in testing and test management. Part of this great solution is the ability to play back important points in program execution. You can read it here.

Details on TFS Administration

2009-05-06T15:35:51Z

The TFS 2010 release will contain some exciting changes in administration for TFS. Brian Harry outlined the changes in a recent blog post. Here is a link to read all about it:

TFS 2010 Administration Changes

Events around Pittsburgh

2009-04-01T17:32:06Z

Over the next few weeks I will doing a few sessions around VSTS 2010 in the Pittsburgh area. So if you would like a preview of VSTS, and discussion feel free to join me in a few locations

This Saturday April 4th I will be speaking at the Pittsburgh Code Camp on VSTS 2010. If you have some extra time, feel free to come out! Several of my colleagues will be doing sessions as well. For more information travel to the Pittsburgh Code Camp for more details.

Tuesday April 14th, I will be doing a similar presentation at the Pittsburgh .NET Users group. If you have not been to a user group session, they great an well run events. Great work by Craig Oaks and David Hoerster in leading the user group!

Blogger Found!

2009-04-01T17:07:45Z

It has been awhile, since I have blogged, but look for some information coming soon! With all the excitement around VSTS 2010, it is definitely an exciting time here at Microsoft. It’s great to hear customer successes around using VSTS to manage their day to day development, and it is a pleasure to work with customers around VSTS.

Also, since Spring is started, maybe it is time to do a little spring cleaning on the old blog, new color scheme, something new and fresh!

Upcoming Webcasts

2008-06-30T15:52:00Z

Here are few upcoming live sessions that may interest you.

Introduction to TFS

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server is an integrated collaboration server for Visual Studio Team System. It combines team portal, version control, work item tracking, build management, process guidance, and business intelligence into a unified server. It allows everyone on the team to collaborate more effectively and deliver better quality software. Discover how TFS can help your team deliver better software.

Host and Moderator Sajee Mathew
Sajee is a Developer Technical Specialist for Microsoft in the NY city area. He has been with Microsoft for 11 years, most recently with Microsoft Consulting Services, helping customers build software on the Microsoft platform.

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Date: Friday, July 11, 2008
Time: 1:00–2:00 EST

Integrating TFS & Enterprise Project Management
Project Managers and Development teams may be the “Odd Couple” of the 21st century, working together but having different approaches and perspectives. Integrating Project Server and Team Foundation Server helps them work better, together. We’ll show how to link two different processes running side-by-side in each system, and cover some of the reasons to integrate the two systems, including:

Project Management is tracking more than application development, but not all of application development. Integrating lets each camp focus on what's important to them.

EPM is getting more formal, with more documentation. Application development is getting leaner. Integrating lets you loosely couple EPM and application development so that they can work together while working differently.

Host and Moderator David Scruggs
David is a Developer Technical Specialist for Microsoft, and loves the fact that he can get on betas. He has worked with design, CM, RM, and software engineering tools for years, and enjoys finding the latest new capability. He has BSEE and MSEE degrees from Georgia Tech.

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Date: Friday, August 15, 2008
Time: 1:00–2:00 EST

Configuring Team System Session

2008-06-27T17:41:00Z

If you had a chance to attend the Configure Team System For Your Environment session, well thank you! We hope sessions like these help in the education around Team System. As promised I have linked the slides here, this deck contains links to various resources for Team System. If you did not have a chance to attend the session, a recording will be made availble. I will also post by the end of the day, two other sessions that have been announced. As always, if you have recommendations for topics feel free to let us know!

Ken

MSDN Session on Team System

2008-06-05T18:33:00Z

Later this month i will doing a session on configuration of various Team System compenents. If you are interested please free to register. Here is the invite!

Configuring Team System For Your Environment

Working with customers on Team System we get questions around the configuration of the Team System environment. From external users using Team Foundation Server to setting up test rigs for staged load tests. We will cover some of these typical scenarios in Team System, and make you aware of various resources that you have access to, to help guide your deployment.

Host and Moderator

Kenneth McArdle, for three years Ken has been a VSTS Technical Specialist for Microsoft, and is a Certified Technology Specialist for Team Foundation Server. For years Ken has worked in field with enterprise customers on their SDLC tools and process. “It’s been a great experience working for Microsoft the last 3 years, because the marriage of process and tools can truly be realized with Team System.”

Configuring Team System For Your Environment

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On Demand Event ID:

1032378715

Date:

Friday, June 27, 2008

Time:

12:00–1:00 EST

Calling all VSTS Mid-Atlantic users Part 2

2008-04-30T07:42:00Z

Thank you for those of you that have emailed me about the user group. Apparently when I recently remodeled my blog the anonymous post setting was changed. So for those of you who were interested in commenting on whether you were interested in attending user group sessions please feel free to comment again.

Calling all VSTS Mid-Atlantic users

2008-04-24T07:23:00Z

If you are a VSTS user in the Mid Atlantic area and you have interest in a VSTS user group, please feel free to reach out to me. While talking with a technical fellow in the community this evening, we had a good discussion about building a VSTS community and user group in the Mid Atlantic area. So please free to comment if you would have interest in attending either virtual meetings, in-person meetings, or would like to help in building this user group community. Of course everyone is welcome to the community developers, testers, project managers, or anyone that just has passion around process and the Team System tools to support them.

Requirements in VSTS

2008-03-27T15:17:00Z

We recently released a white paper on requirements management in VSTS. It is a good document explain what we support and can do with requirements in Team System. it will also give you some insight into our direction for Rosario.

Requirements Management White Paper

I also just got back from Rochester, NY and would just like to say thank you to everyone who attended the GetReady event! It was a pleasure discussing Team System and best practices with everyone.

VSTS Resources

2008-03-14T16:29:00Z

As VSTS continues to grow in the market, we always seem to get questions around resources and where to find them. With changes to the VSTS 2008 site on MSDN, information is much easier to find, but I still felt the need to create a document outlining a lot of this information. So I have included a link to a living document that will provide links to updated information on VSTS. This will include whitepaper's, webcasts, integrations, etc. Enjoy!

VSTS Resources Document

TFS to ClearCase conversion

2007-09-14T18:59:07Z

Some exciting news came out yesterday about TFS. If you are interested in converting from ClearCase to TFS, that process has now become easier. We have released the TFS to ClearCase conversion tool. One thing I would like to point out about the conversion tool is the ability to do bi-directional synchronization, this is a key feature because it usually not a one time move of all projects from one server to the next. For more information about the tool check out our TFS Conversion Blog.

Building Cool Silverlight Applications

2007-09-14T17:16:28Z

If you are in or around the Malvern, PA area on October 18th, you may want to register for our Silverlight event. I am currently writing this from the Pittsburgh event and is being well received. You will see in action how to embed video in your applications and how the Expressions tools can help you build them. Whether your a developer or designer this is the event for you. Seating is limited so please don't forget to register.

Long time

2007-09-14T16:58:22Z

Well it has been awhile since I have posted, it has been a busy summer with a lot of exciting things going on around VSTS. Look for a good number of posts in the coming weeks that outline some exciting things that we will be doing around VSTS.

If you like webcasts and are looking for more information around VSTS. My colleagues in the north have created a webcast series focused on topics such as TFS 2008 to Application Lifecycle Best practices. Here is a link:

http://blogs.msdn.com/adamga/archive/2007/07/31/visual-studio-accelerate-webcast-series.aspx

Visual Studio Team System Chat – This Friday

2007-04-25T15:17:00Z

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the in the Visual Studio code name “Orcas” Beta 1releases for Team Suite and Team Foundation Server.

Join the chat on Friday, April 27th, 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time.

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