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June 2008 - Posts

Expression and TFS

Warning - this is early information and is subject to change but the Expression team cleared me to say something about it. We get a lot of feedback from customers who would like more seamless integration between Expression and the rest of their development

TFS on Hyper-V

With the announcement of the release of the new Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology, I've seen a surge of questions about TFS support for Hyper-V. We have tested TFS running in a Hyper-V virtual machine. It works well and is officially supported.
Posted by bharry | 10 Comments

Automating the creation of Team Projects

Since I announced the ability to automate the creation of Team Projects in my TFS SP1 feature set post and my March Power Tools post, I've gotten several questions about the format of the XML file you need to create and pass to: tfpt createteamproject
Posted by bharry | 6 Comments
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Attachment(s): ProjectCreationSettingsFileSchema.xsd

Rally connects to TFS for Agile project management

Today Rally is announcing that they have built a connector to enable its web based Agile project management tool to connect to TFS. This new connection enable source code checkins and TFS builds to be tied to the project management features in Rally,
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments

TFS support for Dynamics developers

Less than a month ago, Dynamics AX 2009 was released .  This new version enables Dynamics developers to store their source code and have an integrated experience for checkout, check in, get and history - the basic version control operations in TFS. 
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments

PDC 2008 & precons

Preparation is in full swing for the Microsoft PDC this fall (Oct 27 - 30).  PDCs are the primary event where we talk about the future (as opposed to events like TechEd where we primarily talk about the present).  This PDC promised to have a

Coolest Team System Gadget contest

Mike Azocar (one of the Team System MVPs) has come up with the idea of running a contest to see who can come up with the coolest Team System add-on. It seems like it could be fun. If you've got some great idea for an add-on that you've been eager to try,
Posted by bharry | 5 Comments

TFS & Teamprise for enterprises doing serious cross platform development

We recently published a case study with Thomson Reuters on their experiences adoption TFS in a cross platform development team using Teamprise for their Java developers.  It's a great testament to how the combination of these two products can work
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments

Sharing Team System Process Templates

There are as many processes for software development as there are software teams.  Ever since we shipped TFS, I have hoped that a community would form for sharing process ideas and for sharing process templates.  Creating new process templates
Posted by bharry | 3 Comments

DB Pro Database Extensibility

Also, at the TechEd Keynote, I demonstrated VSTS for Database Professionals working with DB2.  The first step in the process is a release we are working on now called the VSTS for Database Professionals 2008 GDR (I'm not going to waste your time
Posted by bharry | 1 Comments

TechEd 2008 Keynote

I just got back from TechEd.  I had a great time and met some terrific people.  This is the first TechEd where the conference has been split across 2 weeks - the first for developers, the second for IT. This TechEd has a first for me. 
Posted by bharry | 8 Comments
 
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