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March 2007 - Posts

VSTS Guidance ...

posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:26 AM by Badawi
Visual Studi Team System Guidance is now available on CodePlex The purpose of this project is to build some insightful and practical guidance around using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. It's a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, Read More
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VSTS Future Releases ...

posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 5:43 PM by Badawi
Microsoft released their roadmap for Team System and Team Foundation Server on MSDN. Check it to see the many additions planned for VSTS and TFS, which target architects, developers, testers, and database professionals (in addition, of course, to project Read More
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TeamPlain is now Free for TFS Customers!!

posted Monday, March 26, 2007 11:36 PM by Badawi
As part of an acquisition made by Microsoft over devBix, TeamPlain is now free for TFS Customers. It can be downloaded here. Check the PressPass. Thanks Microsoft for the great addition ... TeamPlain Web Access is a web interface for Microsoft® Team Read More
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TFS Branching Guidance ...

posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:44 AM by Badawi
TFS Branching Guidance is now available on CodePlex The purpose of this project is to build some insightful and practical guidance around doing branching and merging using Team Foundation Server. It's a collaborative effort between industry experts, Microsoft Read More
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Work Item Tracking ...

posted Monday, March 19, 2007 11:14 PM by Badawi
Brian A. Randel just published a great article on Work Item Tracking. It can be found on MSDN VS2005 Technical Articles The Work Item Tracking subsystem offered by Team Foundation Server exposes a rich object model for integration with your own solutions. Read More
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Performance Testing Guidance

posted Sunday, March 18, 2007 9:36 AM by Badawi
Patterns & Practices: Performance Testing Guidance is now available on CodePlex. The purpose of this project is to build some insightful and practical guidance around doing performance testing and using Visual Studio 2005. It's a collaborative Read More
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Database Unit Testing with VSTS for DB Professionals

posted Saturday, March 17, 2007 11:41 AM by Badawi
Sachin Rekhi just published his detailed whitepaper on Database Unit Testing. It can be found on MSDN VS2005 Technical Articles Summary: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals is the first toolset to deliver a comprehensive Read More
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Viewing Other Users' Pending Changes in VS

posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:44 AM by Badawi
You can always view other users' Pending Changes by Running "tf status /user:* $/ /r" but it's not that neat and appealing to everyone. Ekobit released a new free VS Add-In that allows you to directly see other users' Pending Changes from withing VS2005. Read More
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TFS Work Item Management Outlook Addin

posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:27 AM by Badawi
The SRL Team has released an Addin for MS Outlook that connects to TFS. You can generate a Work Item right from MS Outlook. You can view queries, you can search your work items, you can even generate a work item based on content from an email. Subject Read More
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Customising TFS Builds with MSBuild Tasks

posted Saturday, March 10, 2007 10:12 PM by Badawi
I just came acrossa great help for customizing TFS Builds, The MSBuild Community Tasks Project which is an open source project for MSBuild tasks. The goal of the project is to provide a collection of open source tasks for MSBuild. Read More
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VSTS Add In - Search Work Items

posted Friday, March 09, 2007 2:20 PM by Badawi
Finally a great Add In that provides keyword search to be searched across all fields in all workitems. The tool does the search whil giving thought on performance impact and providing a template to reduce such impact. Check the Search Work Items Add Read More
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Visual Studio 4.0 SDK is Now Available Including Updates to TFS Extensibility Documentation

posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:12 AM by Badawi
The Visual Studio 4.0 SDK was released early March '07. On behalf of the VS Tools Ecosystem team, we are pleased to announce that after months of hard work, we have completed shipping the VS SDK 4.0 RTM release! We have done tons of work to make this Read More
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VS2005 SP1 Vista Update Now Available

posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:01 AM by Badawi
VS2005 SP1 update for Vista is now available on download center. You can download the update from Microsoft Downloads. You've to apply VS2005 SP1 before applying this update on Vista. Read More
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TFS Migration Toolkit Specs Published

posted Monday, March 05, 2007 9:50 AM by Badawi
If you are interested in writing version control or work item tracking conversion tools, be sure to check it out the TFS Migration Toolkit Specs that has been just published and give them your feedback. Read More
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