April 2008 - Posts

External Team Foundation Server Tools
28 April 08 03:47 PM

The other day I was in a customer call and I was asked for a list of TFS External tools, I am defining those as any TFS feature or tool that is not included in the packaged product.  Although I still don't have a compiled list the best advice I could Read More...

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Enterprise Team Foundation Server Management Spec
23 April 08 09:44 PM

As you know we are constantly looking at ways to improve our product in order to meet the growing market demands of our customers. Our enterprise customers today are looking to consolidate and usually decide to purchase one server for their teams and Read More...

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Feature Design and Simplicity- Part 3
21 April 08 10:46 PM

I have gotten some emails by readers about this series so I thought to continue the momentum and talk about the next law: Time . It is no secret that "Thin is in" with customers and that there is nothing more frustrating and at times upsetting Read More...

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Slick Design
15 April 08 01:55 PM

We Program Managers are always looking for the latest technology, trends and designs that will be enable us to deliver our vision of the feature to our users in its simplest and most powerful form. I was doing some research on tilt UI and physics UI and Read More...

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Team Foundation Sidekicks 2.1 Release
14 April 08 01:20 PM

Hi, Attrice has released a new version on their Sidekicks which you can now get here: ( http://www.attrice.info/downloads ). In addition to bug fixes, there are two big features of note (more details at http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tfsidekicks/archive/2008/04/08/get-team-foundation-sidekicks-2-1.aspx Read More...

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