Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Awesomeness

This is an amazing idea, it would make msbuild a much more powerful environment.  Think of all the cmdlets that could be made and used during the build process.   Nanda Lella’s WebLog : Influence the future of Windows sdk : Powershell based build environment

  This white paper outlines how to use Visual Studio Team System for successful requirements management using Visual Studio Team System 2005 or Visual Studio Team System 2008. In addition, you can use this paper to learn about some of the challenges that Microsoft intends to address in the next release: Visual Studio Team System […]

  I decided it would be interesting to see how Team Foundation Server 2008 might behave after Windows Server 2003 is upgraded in place to Windows Server 2008.   Much like my last post about upgrading to Windows Server 2008 you have to uninstall Windows PowerShell 1.0 before you are allowed continue with the upgrade.  This […]

  If you’ve just installed Team Foundation Server 2008 and are looking for the additional policies: Custom Path Policy Forbidden Patterns Policy Changeset Comments Policy Work Item Query Policy These can be added by installing the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools. Technorati Tags: Team Foundation Server 2008, Visual Studio Team […]

  Just recently had an issue with Windows XP Professional w/SP2 and Visual Studio 2008 Test Edition recording a web test.  The user would add a new web test and when IE 7.0 was launched and the URL to the website was entered the browser would crash. It turned out that if McAfee VirusScan 8.0i was installed […]

  The installation package includes Code Review Sidekick, Shelveset Sidekick, Labels Sidekick, History Sidekick, Workspace Sidekick and Status Sidekick in stand-alone application as well as Visual Studio Integration Package with Code Review Sidekick, Search Items dialog, dynamic History and Build Type editing functionality.  more…   Technorati Tags: TFS, Team Foundation Server 2005/2008

  Sometimes you just want to be able to see all of the event subscriptions you are subscribed to.  This tool allows you to subscribe/unsubscribe to events in Team Foundation Server, it is equivalent to the bissubscribe.exe command line tool. Technorati Tags: Team Foundation Server, TFS

Yesterday morning I received an email congratulating me on my award, I would like to say I am very excited about receiving this.  I have enjoyed very much helping the Ottawa .NET Community and will continue to in 2008.  All I can say is WOW! Technorati Tags: Visual Studio Team System, MVP

  Team Foundation Server 2008 Installation Guide Team Foundation Server 2008 Administrator Guide Team Foundation Server 2008 Readme Technorati Tags: Team Foundation Server 2008

This is amazing news!  Adam Gallant has posted the details in this blog entry. Microsoft has made one licensing change with the release of TFS 2008.  The change is as follows: You do not need a CAL to access work item tracking functionality, to create new work items or view and update work items you […]