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Load Testing with 2008 Gotcha

One of the nice things about moving from VS2005 to VS2008 is that you no longer need to run as admin on a Vista machine. However, you may now find that you can't access the SQL server you use for storing load load test results. If you need a quick fix Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 2:58 PM by neilk | 1 Comments

We are Releasing the Source code to the .Net Framework

Yesterday we announced our plans to release some of the source code for the .Net framework. We'll begin by offering the source code (with source file comments included) for the .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.IO, System.Collections, System.Configuration, Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 04, 2007 1:08 PM by neilk | 1 Comments

Feeding Back Errors from WebTest or Request Plug Ins

If you are ever in the situation where you need to write a WebTestPlugin or WebTestRequestPlugin , you might find it useful to be able to feedback, into the test results, any errors that occur. Reading the docs for the WebTestRequest or WebTest objects Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:24 PM by neilk | 1 Comments

Just Released: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server – Project Server 2007 Connector

We are pleased to announce the release of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server – Project Server 2007 Connector which is available at http://www.codeplex.com/tfsconnector. OVERVIEW The Visual Studio Team Foundation Server - Project Server 2007 Connector Read More...
Posted Monday, June 11, 2007 7:17 AM by Jon Pratt | 0 Comments

Reflector Add-Ins

Great posting listing some of the add-ins you can get for Reflector : http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ReflectorAddinsAndPowerShellLanguageSupportForReflector.aspx Neil. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:05 PM by neilk | 0 Comments

Resources from yesterday's DBPro WebCast

Slides to follow. Resources: Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/teamsystem/aa718807.aspx Database Professional Team Centre http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/teamsystem/aa718764.aspx Database Professional Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:40 PM by RichE | 1 Comments

Team System Sidebar Gadget

Jason Pricket (Team System dev) has written a Vista Sidebar Gadget that will monitor the status of a Team Build. The key features are: Each instance of the sidebar gadget monitors a particular build definition. An icon represents the status of the most Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:38 PM by neilk | 0 Comments

Write your own content on MSDN

MSDN has now become a Wiki! Well its not completely a Wiki, we've added a community content section at the bottom of each page. I know that the MSDN guys have been trialling this for a while, but it looks like this has now gone mainstream. Personally Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:26 PM by neilk | 0 Comments

The new process template editor is very cool

Rich blogged a couple days ago about version 1.2 of the Team Foundation Server Power Tools . I've just got round to having a look at the new process template editing tool, and I have to say I am impressed! The team have created a DSL editor to allow you Read More...
Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 8:21 PM by neilk | 0 Comments

Virtual PC 2007 and Team Build

Virtual PC 2007 released earlier this week, in case you didn’t know, virtual PC and virtual server are now free downloads. To download virtual PC 2007 followed this link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:58 PM by neilk | 1 Comments

Installing the TFS Power Toys on Vista

If you try and install the Team Foundation Server Power Toys (or Tools) on a Vista machine, you may well see the following error: Error 1721. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program required for this install to complete could Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:14 AM by neilk | 2 Comments

IEeee! just RTM'ed

Ok, so RTM'ed is a big exaggeration, but I've updated IEeee - the IE addin to allow you to raise bugs straight from the browser to TFS. I’ve also made the following changes: I've fixed a couple of bugs – occasionally an assert dialog would appear stating Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 7:26 PM by neilk | 0 Comments

Default Working Folders in TFS

Last week a customer moving from PVCS to Team Foundation Server Version Control asked me how they could specify a default working folder for a solution within his team project. With PVCS they set working folders to default to a mapped Z:\ drive so that Read More...
Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 10:59 AM by RichE | 1 Comments

View Version History Diagrams

When I'm demonstrating Team Foundation Server to Clearcase users they sometimes ask about version history/branch diagrams in TFS. Diagrams are not a feature of v1 but if it is a blocker for you then check out these two options: Foundation Tree TFS Source Read More...
Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 2:24 PM by RichE | 0 Comments

Announcing the Visual Studio Team System - Project Server Connector

This is really great news! It means that it is possible to integrate the project & portfolio management functionality of Microsoft Project Server with Team Foundation Server. This means updates to work items in VSTS are automatically applied to the Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:59 PM by Jon Pratt | 0 Comments
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