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Friday, February 29, 2008 12:07 PM

launching the Microsoft Tester Center

While the Test Centre has been around for a little bit; according to the traffic nobody knows about it-g. The Microsoft Tester Center showcases the test discipline as an integral part of the application lifecycle, describes test roles and responsibilities,
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Friday, February 29, 2008 11:55 AM

Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition just released

The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of resources designed to help you quickly and consistently build Web services that adhere to well-known architecture and design patterns.
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Friday, February 29, 2008 9:38 AM

Web Client Software Factory just released

The Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) provides a set of guidance for architects and developers building enterprise Web applications. The factory includes samples, reusable code and a guidance package which automates key development tasks from within
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:33 AM

VSTS User group tonight in Seattle Feb 27

Effective Project Management with VSTS Date and Time : 6:30pm - 7:30pm on Wednesday Feb 27, 2008 Topic : Project Management with VSTS Location : MS Redmond Campus - Building 118- Room Mt. Si Click here for a map of the location. Meeting Leader : Sumit
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:14 AM

A STAR is born -James Whittaker on Testing

Strange you can chat with somebody, sit next to them in meetings exchange A LOT of email with them and have no idea who they are. (The word i am probably looking for is oblivious) In either case I am exchanging email with "just" another one
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:37 AM

New resource centre for Visual Studio extensions

The VSX Team just released a resource centre for people building or looking for Visual Studio extensions: http://visualstudiogallery.com/
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:19 AM

Team foundation Server 2008 Admin and Setup FAQ

Bryan Krieger on the Team Foundation Server Team has started a TFS 2008 Setup and Administration FAQs . This FAQ will keep growing so you might want to book mark it!
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 4:37 AM

blog roll: Visual Studio Team System MVP's

In getting to know my new team mates i found the Team System development is made up of 5/6 teams. (6 including the MVP's) In this post I am including my first cut of the Team Foundation Team System MVP's roll. I realize I am missing a bunch of people
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 6:38 PM

Definitive list of events that are supported in TFS

Question came in today: What's the definitive list of events that are supported in 2008? Are their any events that should be avoided? Bill Essary Architect on the TFS team was the first to jump on this: The event that we now use to communicate highwater
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 6:33 PM

Radio TFS!

Just found out that Mickey Gousset , Martin Woodward and Paul Hacker have created a radio program called -what else? Radio TFS
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 6:20 PM

Rosario Specifications for some of the TFS Features

I have been with the team for 6 weeks and very embarrassed to just learn 4 of the Rossario feature Specifications have already been published. Thanks to Matthew Mitrik for both pointing this out -and publishing these specifications! The Four Specifications
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 4:35 AM

blog roll: Visual Studio Team Test Team

In getting to know my new team mates i found the Team System development is made up of 5/6 teams. In this post I am including my first cut of the Visual Studio Team Test Team blog roll. Once i have all 6 teams done I am then going to update the horribly
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Friday, February 22, 2008 10:44 AM

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Office System

  Sorry for the echo chamber but this is pretty cool! Here’s the download page: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=46B6BF86-E35D-4870-B214-4D7B72B02BF9&displaylang=en The 9 tools are packaged in 3 groups (because we
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:20 AM

blog roll: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Team

In getting to know my new team mates i found the Team System development is made up of 5/6 teams. In this post I am including my first cut of the Team Foundation Server team blog roll. Once i have all 6 teams done I am then going to update the horribly
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:29 AM

blog roll: Visual Studio Team System Team

In getting to know my new team mates i found the Team System development is made up of 5/6 teams. While not really a team there are bunch of us that do work across all 5 of the separate teams and in this post I am including my first cut of the Team System
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:15 AM

Free software for students?

Just noticed at about midnight Max Zuckerman posted an interview with Bill where this became a reality as Bill Gates announced " DreamSpark ", a program which allows all verified students to freely download Microsoft platform, design, and developer
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:01 AM

blog roll: Visual Studio Team System Development Team

In getting to know my new team mates i found out that the Team System development is made up of 5/6 teams. Team Foundation Server Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Visual Studio Team System
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 1:14 PM

WebCasts on the New Testing Features in VSTS 2008

Been spending some time with the Canadians and just found out they are doing a bunch of testing WebCasts on the Team System 2008 Testing Features. New Testing Features in VSTS 2008 Feb 26, 08 1pm EST Mar 25, 08 1pm EST Apr 22, 08 1pm EST Visual Studio
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:53 PM

Team System Website on MSDN -we are listening

I have to apologize I am just now getting around to fixing the MSDN TeamSystem website bugs (like the links to the TeamSystem developer centers pointing to 2005 content and the 2008 Team Foundation Server site not discoverable). So if you have a TeamSystem
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:35 PM

Localized versions of Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool is now available

From Buck Hodges Now available for TSWA 2008: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish The final set of localized versions of the Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool is now available. Here is a list of links to all of the localized
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:05 PM

New Team foundation Server build API documentation for Team Foundation Server 2008

At code camp i mentioned build as one of the areas in TeamSystem with the most enhancements was Build- well now there is a new set of documentation for the Team build API to go with it! http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/f/8/5f872c2e-4221-410b-b86e-4c3cd831b0c4/Team
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:37 AM

Defining custom actions for state transitions sample

One of our internal ALM specialists was asking for a sample on Associating a State Transition with an Action . While documentation does have some great information on things like Automating State Transitions there wasn't any samples. Turns out one of
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:26 AM

Adding or removing accounts from the Service Accounts group after performing a domain move on TFS 2005

Customer question came in today: I am unable to add or remove accounts from the Service Accounts group after performing a domain move on TFS 2005 per the documentation. One symptom is that the TFSSERVICE account from their old domain is still present
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:16 AM

Tutorial on creating your own FXcop Rules

David Kean just pointed out that Jason Kresowaty (contributor to many projects) has written a tutorial on creating your own FXcop rules. http://www.binarycoder.net/fxcop/ (excerpt from the Tutorial) FxCop's capabilities encompass a great breadth and depth
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Monday, February 18, 2008 1:47 AM

Just Released: Gudiance Automation Extensions and Guidance Automation Toolkit

Just Released: Gudiance Automation Extensions and Guidance Automation Toolkit The Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) expands the capabilities of Visual Studio by allowing architects and developers to run guidance packages, such as those included in
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 2:49 AM

In depth look at the new Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools

Last night the Data Team released a new version of their Power Tools. Well Gert and the Gang have already done a drill down on the Data Generation Wizard -A read if you are installing the Power Tools for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition
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Friday, February 15, 2008 4:01 PM

Team System Database Edition Power Tools Available

Huge congratulations to Gert and the rest of the “DataDude” team for releasing the Power Tools for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition. The Power Tools for 2008 contains all the functionality they shipped in 2005 plus: · Command line SQL Static
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Friday, February 15, 2008 7:57 AM

Fixing the Red Boxes of death in Team Explorer connecting to the Team Foundation Server VPC

Big thanks to Brian Randall for running this down!  He will be blogging a more complete version of this asap... A couple people have been having issues connecting the Team Foundation Server VPC both from Windows Vista and Windows XP.  More often
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:58 PM

Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio Team System 2008 -back online

This morning at about 1:00am Jelle Druyts noticed the Installation Guide for Team System 2008 was missing in action. Not certain what Jelle was doing reading a Team Foundation Server installation guide at 1:00am but the world is once again a safe place
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:29 PM

Upgrading Team Foundation Server 2005 via Volume License

Received a question today from somebody trying to upgrade their Team Foundation Server 2005 from trial to the full version. In this case they are trying to use their volume license. Included below is the table for upgrading Team Foundation Server (TFS)
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:50 AM

MSDN Magazine Reader

Pretty cool tool. I like the email referral functionality and the reading list -just wished the reader indexed outside MSDN Magazine and went back further than 2007.   http://windowsclient.net/wpf/starter-kits/sce.aspx The MSDN Reader allows
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:23 PM

Me: The Team System Blogfather?

Last week Rob Caron bestowed the title of "Team System Blogfather" on me.  Rob Caron really defined blogging for me, he trawled his inbox for nuggets of information, distilled it down to the information you needed and still managed to add
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 3:46 PM

How to automatically populate the comments section

One of the questions on the alias today was "How to automatically populate the comments section" Ed Hintz (of the MSSCI provider fame) posted this code as a sample: IPendingCheckin m_pendingCheckin; Initialize(IPendingCheckin pendingCheckin)
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 3:17 PM

New Team System VPC's: Visual Studio Team System 2008 with Team Foundation Server or just Team Foundation Server

At Code Camp Seattle a couple people asked me about the software configuration I was running and if could they get their hands on it. Turns out i was just running the box stock VPC from MS Downloads plus the TFS Admin console. I was running the TeamSystem
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 3:02 PM

Build Server hanging but building interactively works fine

I am guessing this is an FAQ somewhere but the question came up on the alias today. We have a BVT which runs on the BVTServer. We tested BVT remotely from different machines through VS and it is working fine from all the machines. But when we start the
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 2:35 PM

Internal Error in Work Items from Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.PolicyExceptionFailure

Brian Randall happens to be in town this week and of course what does he do when gets to Seattle? -He writes code! In this case he was writing some code to check the work item policy. From a class library his code was working fine but in a Windows form
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:51 AM

Reverse engineer code with the class designer in Visual Studio 2008

In our Visual Studio documentation we stated to get round-trip engineering documentation you needed Visio for Enterprise Architects. This is not the case in Visual Studio 2008 as this feature comes will versions of the Visual Studio 2008 Product family.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:37 AM

Complimentary Requirements Authoring Tools for Visual Studio 2008 Team System

A question came in today on one of the distribution lists: "What is our recommendation for customer's that want a requirement authoring tool with their VSTS 2008 deployment?" Lori Lamkin happened to have to top 8 memorized (i think she's been studying
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:56 AM

New Team Foundation Server Administration Tool now works with 2008.

If you use the Team Foundation Server Administration Tool like me you will be very happy to know the contributors just released version 1.3 -and it now works with Team Foundation Server and VSTS 2008!  http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=TFSAdmin&ReleaseId=10164
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:46 AM

New utility for Measuring Software Code Stability

I was trolling through the downloads and happen to run across this: Using Visual Studio Team System 2005 to Measure Software Code Stability at Microsoft MS IT partnered with Microsoft Research to create a VSTS 2005 extension that counts lines of code
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Monday, February 11, 2008 7:18 PM

Team System Architect Edition Team looking for feedback

One of my new found friends Mark Groves is a Program manager on the Team System Architecture team and he is looking for feedback on Architect features. The survey took me about 3 minutes to fill out -and will make a difference on what features Mark is
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:05 PM

Team System Productivity Case Studies

I must admit this post is for me as much as the rest of the internet. One of the questions i recieve on a semi regular basis is "Do you have any productivity case studies for Visual Studio Team System?". Unfortunately these queries don't come in frequently
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Monday, February 04, 2008 5:25 PM

Team Foundation Server Process Templates?

Friday evening i was talking to Stephanie Saad then later Anthony Borton on the topic of Team Foundation Server Process Templates wondering how many Team Foundation Server Templates are out in the wild. Looks like Richard Hundhausen @ http://widgets.accentient.com/default.aspx
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