Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Awesomeness

As announced by Gert Drapers during his session at PDC the immediate availability of the Release Candidate 1.  Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR implements support for SQL Server 2008.  If you have a previous version of the GDR installed uninstall it first by issuing the following command from a command prompt: msiexec […]

  You can now follow VSTS on twitter.  Updates will be posted regularly and with PDC just around the corner there should be lots to follow. Technorati Tags: Visual Studio Team System,Twitter

  If you want to configure Work Item Hyperlinks to use Team System Web Access make sure you apply the following hotfix first.  If you do not apply the hotfix check-in notifications emails will stop working. Download the hotfix here. If you want to configure Work Item Tracking emails to use the TSWA URL you […]

  I am going to step through an example of adding the “Duration” field from MS Project into an Agile Task Work Item. First download a copy of the MS Project field mapping file from the Team Project. Open a Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt and execute the following command: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio […]

  Microsoft should have called it Team Foundation Server Power Tools – Best Release Ever, the features they’ve included in this up coming release really hit the mark.  There are 3 major new components to the October Power Tools release: Team Members – A new node has been added to the Team Explorer called "Team […]

You can now register your phone numbers to stop those telemarketing calls from bothering you at all hours. You can register here: http://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/ The site must be quite popular as I was only able to register two phone numbers……and then the site went down. I wonder if they could have used Visual Studio Team System […]

As posted on Brian Harry’s blog today: Microsoft will be combining the Team Development product and the Team Database product into a single Team Development product (essentially giving you 2 for the price of 1).  That change will be in effect go into effect on 10/1/08 (the day after tomorrow). This is a huge announcement […]

A whitepaper has been published about using Team Foundation Server to support your SharePoint Application Development Activities. Technorati Tags: Team Foundation Server, SharePoint Server 2007

Posted last night! You can now download the latest version of the Web Access Power Tool. New With Service Pack 1 Work item only view for users without a client access license (CAL). [Previously known as Work Item Web Access (WIWA) feature] To access the work item only view, use the following URL syntax: http://Server:8090/wiwa […]

This download page contains four separate VPC images, depending on what version of IE you want to test.  IE6-XPSP3_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP3 with IE6 VHD file IE7-XPSP2_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP2 with IE7 VHD file IE8B2-XPSP3_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP3 with IE8 Beta 2 VHD file IE7-VIS1.exe+IE7-VIS2.rar+IE7-VIS3.rar contain a Vista Image […]