I went to the 2009 MVP Global Summit this year and figuring I would have a lot of time to kill aboard the airplane I brought my copy of “Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build”. This book was fantastic, full of great examples and guides you through customizing MSBuild and […]
Continue readingQFE (Patch) for Visual Studio Team System Database Edition GDR coming soon
A QFE release date has not been established for this release yet. The Data Dude team also expects to release the Database Power Tools refresh shortly after the QFE is released. This service release will be made available to all customers through the Microsoft downloads site where they originally got the GDR. The QFE addresses […]
Continue readingOracle Database Development Support coming to Visual Studio Team System Database Edition 2010
Yesterday at the VSLive conference in San Francisco, Quest Software announced that it will be offering an Oracle Database Schema Provider (DSP) for Visual Studio Team System Database Edition 2010. The DSP gives VSTS developers the ability to work with non-Microsoft databases without limitations for the first time. You can sign up to be notified […]
Continue readingNotion Tools for Team System v1.0 is released
Here is the Press Release from Notion Solutions Notion Tools for Team System v1.0 was finally released on February 20th. We’re actively documenting requirements for v1.1, your ideas are welcome! You can download the software from our website and follow the instructions to get it up and running with a trial key. In order […]
Continue readingVisual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build (Team Build) and VSeWSS 1.3 February 2009 CTP
I couldn’t wait to try out the latest VSeWSS 1.3 CTP due to the fact I could not get the January 2009 CTP to work properly with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition (x32) and MOSS 2007 SP1, let alone Team Build. After you install the February 2009 CTP you might […]
Continue readingNew Team System web site launched
This is phase 1 of the new site, I think you will find it has a fresh new look. If you have any comments or suggestions on the new site please send them to Share Elkins here.
Continue readingVirtualizing (P2V’ing) your Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
We made the conscious decision to move away from a physical server to host our Team Foundation Server machine at one of our client installations. It is installed in a “single server” configuration so we had to make sure no services were running before we ran the conversion tool. The client made the decision […]
Continue readingTeam Foundation Server 2008 in Action
"Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action" is a hands-on guide to Team Foundation Server 2008. Written for developers with a good handle on TFS basics, this book shows you how to solve real-life problems. It’s not a repetition of Microsoft’s product documentation. "Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action" is a practitioner’s handbook for how to […]
Continue readingTeam System Web Access 2008 Scalability White Paper
This white paper explains the scalability limits of Team System Web Access and provides workarounds to improve the total number of concurrent users that Team System Web Access can support. Generally, it is not recommended to have more than 100 concurrent users using a single Web Access instance. You can access the download page here.
Continue readingSecurity Update for TSWA 2008 SP1
A security issue has been identified with Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 and Microsoft has recently published an update that fixes it. NOTE: This is a full release, so you will need to uninstall any existing versions of Team System Web Access before installing this update. You can download it here. Technorati Tags: […]
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