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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

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

Team System Partner - Testhouse

One of the key challenges involved in bringing Team System to market has been the identification of suitable services partners who can help customers exploit the new functionality contained within the product. To this end, we have been working with a Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 3:53 PM by Jon Pratt | 0 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

VS2005 Tips and Tricks

I've just seen a nice little article detailing some tips and tricks for Visual Studio 2005: Visual Studio 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks I especially like the Team Settings bit. This shows how you can distribute code formatting rules across your team to ensure Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 11:18 AM by neilk | 0 Comments

Do you want to know what you get with each version of MSDN?

There is a great page on the MSDN site that details: - What you get with each version of Team System & - What benefits you get with the different levels of MSDN subscription The page can be found at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718657.aspx Read More...
Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 4:28 PM by Jon Pratt | 0 Comments

Team System for Free!

Just a quick reminder that anyone who has an MSDN Universal Subscription can upgrade for free to either: Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals - or - Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects - or - Visual Studio 2005 Read More...
Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 4:13 PM by Jon Pratt | 2 Comments

IEeee! has been updated

My apologies for taking some time to get round to this, but I've finally fixed a couple of bugs that have been raised against the IEeee addin . For those that haven't seen this, it allows you to submit bugs to TFS from IE and automatically includes a Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 03, 2007 4:25 PM by neilk | 0 Comments
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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

Subscription Queries?

If you have a query about your subscription (things like what version have you got, when does it expire, can you take advantage of the free migration to a Team System role etc) then you can call the MSDN contact centre on 0800 0517215. There are a team Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:10 PM by Jon Pratt | 0 Comments
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