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Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:21 PM

TFS 2010 Admin, Operations & Setup Improvements

Since I started with the key architectural concepts, I think the most appropriate place (though perhaps least exciting) is the setup/admin/ops feature area. Pre-reqs I wrote a post on pre-reqs a while ago but I’ll refresh it a bit here. To save me typing
Posted by bharry | 55 Comments
Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:06 AM

Gaming Company drives compliance using IBM Telelogic Doors integration with VSTS

Here's a nice story about how Telelogic can integrate with TFS for a team that has rigorous requirements management needs. http://blogs.msdn.com/terryclancy/archive/2009/04/29/gaming-company-drives-compliance-using-ibm-telelogic-doors-integration-with-vsts.aspx
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:45 AM

Power Tool for Profiling Browser JScript Code

We've recently released a new Power Tool to enable profiling of JScript code running in a web browser. Today getting a good understand on where all of the time spent in the overall user experience in a sophisticated web application is difficult. This
Posted by bharry | 3 Comments
Sunday, April 19, 2009 2:26 PM

Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts

Before I start enumerating the features of TFS 2010, I need to start with some of the big conceptual changes that we’ve made.  This post set some architectural groundwork and define some terms that I’ll use in subsequent posts. Team Project Collections
Posted by bharry | 37 Comments
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:24 PM

Using SQL 2008 SP1 with TFS 2008 SP1

You may have noticed that SQL 2008 SP1 was recently released. I've seen a flurry of questions about whether or not TFS 2008 SP1 will work with SQL 2008 SP1. The good news is that the answer is yes. The bad news is that there's a work around you may have
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 3:54 PM

Team System 2010 Overview

I’ve been threatening for 6 months to start blogging about VSTS 2010 features and somehow it’s just never made it to the top of my list.  With the Beta 1 release coming increasingly closer, it seems like I’m running out of time to tell you much about
Posted by bharry | 27 Comments
Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:06 AM

TFS Product team to be at the Down Town Seattle User Group meeting April 8th

Chuck sent me email asking to publicize the fact a couple of the TFS Product Team Members will be at this week’s Seattle Down Town User group. From the description looks to be a good time. Where: Seattle Down Town User Group @ Safeco Center 1191 Second
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:00 AM

New Official Blog for VSTS Database features information

We've recently launched a new blog as a semi-official channel for information on the VSTS Database Edition. There's already several good posts up there, including one with details of the updates coming for the GDR to support SQL 2008. Brian
Posted by bharry | 1 Comments
Monday, April 06, 2009 10:06 AM

Update to the DBPro GDR

A few months ago we released an update to the Team System for Database Edition product that enabled it to work seamlessly with SQLServer 2008. Since then we've gotten some reports from customers about compatibility issues and things that didn't work quite
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
Monday, April 06, 2009 9:59 AM

Second annual Team System Conference in Germany

Last year's German Team System conference was a big hit so the new tradition is continuing. This year's conference will be May 5-7th. The conference will include keynotes for prominent people in the industry, case studies from other companies (so you
Posted by bharry | 1 Comments
Monday, April 06, 2009 9:48 AM

ALM Catalyst workshops

During the months of April, May and June, we are running a series of workshops on Application Lifecyle Management with Team system. These workshops are not just about how to use the tools but ideas for improving your software development process. There
Posted by bharry | 1 Comments
Wednesday, April 01, 2009 7:49 AM

Another use for TFS Work Item Tracking

Our user education (documentation) team recently changed the tooling and process for tracking documentation reviews. They have a fairly daunting requirement to track reviews of hundreds of topics by dozens of people against a rigorous schedule. We used
Posted by bharry | 6 Comments
 
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