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VSTS Rangers Project - TFS Migration Tools: Configuration Demystified

After creating a number of the TFS Migration Tools documents (Getting Started, Migration Guidance and Architecture Overview) and looking at the questions and problems raised by the VSTS Rangers working on this project, we have realised that the configuration Read More...
Posted Monday, June 29, 2009 4:05 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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How do I determine which files can be safely deleted in TFS Version Control?

I recently received a query, which in essence can be summarised as: “ How can I create a list of deleted files and folders in Team Foundation Server (TFS) hat are safe to be deleted permanently ”. The question is an interesting one and probably highlights Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 27, 2009 9:08 PM by willys | 0 Comments

Can you tell me about TFS and VSTS in 5 minutes … the “Steven Scenario”

Yesterday we were discussing the feasibility of creating a webcast for one of our VSTS Rangers projects. After an invaluable discussion and some detours ( Synergy … a poor man’s KVM switch? No Way! ) we agreed that it is too early for a recording. I am Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:04 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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Synergy … a poor man’s KVM switch? No Way!

I spend the day in Redmond yesterday and apart from having a great meeting with team colleagues from the “DevX Customer and Project Management” team, I spend just over an hour with “the” Brian Keller chatting  about the projects we are working on Read More...
Posted Friday, June 26, 2009 8:00 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration: Questions and Answers 2

Last week we posted a batch of questions and answers in the post VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration: Questions and Answers . Here are two more questions we have received and the appropriate answers: For conflict resolution does the resolution order Read More...
Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 5:44 PM by willys | 1 Comments

VSTS Rangers Projects - WCF Load Test Tool 3.0: Some interesting features

We announced version 3.0 in the post VSTS Rangers Projects - WCF Load Test Tool 3.0 Ships , giving you a high level overview of the tool. In this post I would like to re-visit the code generated by the tool and highlight why I believe some of the features Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 18, 2009 6:56 AM by willys | 1 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration: Questions and Answers

As mentioned in the post VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration: A state of the nation status update , we are busy reviewing some of the new and also existing re-factored artefacts. The following questions and answers are some of the questions that we Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:49 PM by willys | 6 Comments

VSTS Rangers Projects - WCF Load Test Tool 3.0 Ships

Rob Jarratt asked me to have a quick look at the latest version of the WCF Load Test tool … I decided to postpone one of my UNISA assignments this weekend and instead explore the world of WCF again. The decision was worth it, because the new WCF Load Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:15 PM by willys | 3 Comments
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The new life at Microsoft and living in Canada … what have the first 4.5 months been like?

We have just scratched another month into our calendar in our new home in Canada, far away from Africa. As mentioned on previous posts the challenges of any move are enormous there are three things vitally important before you jump on the plane or ship: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:35 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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RadioTFS Strikes Again - Dogfooding TFS with Grant Holliday

  Get the latest podcast from RadioTFS, which features Grant Holliday, an ex-Ream System MVP and now a Microsoft Program Manager and heavily involved in the support, optimization, on boarding and promotion of TFS for Microsoft's internal customers. Read More...
Posted Monday, June 15, 2009 8:04 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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Agile Vancouver – Scrum at Microsoft

Please visit http://agilevancouver.xplorex.com/?p2=modules/blog/viewcomments.jsp&bid=45 for more details of an exciting Agile/Scrum event that is scheduled at Microsoft Canada Development Centre.   It is part of a series of agile events that Read More...
Posted Monday, June 15, 2009 5:09 PM by willys | 1 Comments
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Migration Tools Community

“Something that I’m currently working on is trying to better understand the interest our partners and community members have in the migration/sync space.  There are already some people out there that have built tools on our existing Migration Toolkit Read More...
Posted Friday, June 12, 2009 6:39 PM by willys | 0 Comments

VSTS Rangers Projects – Visualizing the Deployment of VSTS: Saying “hello” and embracing the build engine room

As part of the VSTS Rangers project, looking at guidance for the virtualization of VSTS 2010 (see Virtualized Deployment of TFS | VSTS and VSTS Rangers Project - Virtualized Deployment of TFS | VSTS: Status Update 1 for details), we created a working Read More...
Posted Friday, June 12, 2009 4:45 PM by willys | 1 Comments

VSTS Rangers Projects – Using VSTS 2010 BETA-1 as part of the TFS Migration tools initiative

As mentioned in previous posts a huge effort of the TFS Migration tools initiative was to reverse engineer an existing code base, understand and document the environment. At this stage we are making huge strides with tools such as Sandcastle and Reflector Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:54 PM by willys | 3 Comments

VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration: A state of the nation status update

The TFS2TFS Project Copy VSTS Rangers project is well under way and the team is also gearing up to deliver level 300 sessions, both interactive and hands-on-lab, at TechReady9 in July. The team working on this VSTS Rangers project is “rocking”, the product Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 09, 2009 11:05 PM by willys | 6 Comments

Visual Studio Team System Community Blog Aggregator … another “rocking” service!

A while ago I subscribed to the Visual Studio Team System Community Blog Aggregator and it is time that I mention this “rocking” service for everyone to subscribe to and enjoy. Richard Hundhausen , a VSTS MVP, has created the aggregator which not only Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 07, 2009 7:40 PM by willys | 2 Comments
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Radio TFS 21 – The Beta 1 Show

My Zune has just downloaded the latest RadioTFS podcast #21, with the title “The Beta 1 Show”. Yes, I have something interesting to listen to on the bus on my way home today :) Go get it! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:47 PM by willys | 1 Comments
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Debugging .NET Applications … a power course (day 2/2)

Day one was covered in Debugging .NET Applications … a power course (day 1/2) … let’s summarise the exciting journey during day 2. The menu was amazing … watch windows, visualizers, DebuggerTypeProxy, remote debugging, exceptions, error handling, WinDBG, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 03, 2009 12:39 AM by willys | 1 Comments
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Team Explorer (TE) 2005|2008 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Interoperability

In Good news for TFS 2005, 2008 and in future 2010 users in terms of compatibility … ‘ZAYD’ take note we briefly mentioned support in Team Explorer (TE) 2005 and TE 2008 for interoperability with Team Foundation Server 2010. So we have the good news that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 5:10 PM by willys | 1 Comments
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Debugging .NET Applications … a power course (day 1/2)

I attended day one of two of the “Debugging .NET Applications”, presented by my MVP colleague John Robbins , a master of debugging, a wizard of tools and a mountain range of experience and tips around debugging and testing. I signed up for the course Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:04 AM by willys | 2 Comments
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