Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Awesomeness

This is a project on CodePlex which demonstrates the capabilities of a SharePoint Software Factory.  It is an extension for both Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. To use the software factory you must install the following packages: Microsoft Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) – February 2008 Release Microsoft Guidance Automation Extensions for Visual Studio 2008 and […]

  This project is the result of a collaborative effort by VSTS Rangers (special group with members from the VSTS Product Team and Microsoft Services) in cooperation with VSTS MVPs, Microsoft Services, and the VSTS Product Team. TFS Branching Guide Release 2.0 (Posted Dec 19th, 2008)   TFS Branching Guide – Main 2.0 This is […]

  Overview The Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 Management Pack monitors exposed services of TFS. This management pack includes event rules and monitors. It is designed to proactively monitor quality and availability of TFS services and even automate recovery in some scenarios. Feature Summary Auto discovery of TFS components Leverages ASP.NET MP and SQL MP […]

  A huge congratulations out to Gert Drapers and his dedicated team.  You can get the downloads here: Download Page: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed&displaylang=enSetup: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/a/e/0ae1153a-8798-474a-93e6-d19299f37c8b/setup.exe Read Me: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/a/e/0ae1153a-8798-474a-93e6-d19299f37c8b/Readme.mht Documentation: http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/a/e/0ae1153a-8798-474a-93e6-d19299f37c8b/Documentation.zip To put this release in perspective, if you compare this against the 2005 Database Edition or 2008 Database Edition you will see that it is an entirely new […]

  The Team System Café is a centralized place that aggregates and showcases the latest information concerning Visual Studio Team System, Team Foundation Server, Expression Blend, and community events. The website is hosted by Randy Pagels a Developer Technology Specialist at Microsoft.   Some come and visit the café. Technorati Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio Team […]

This has got to be the biggest release of the power tools to date, so many features are in this release it definitely rates as a must have for any developers connected to a TFS repository. The following tools are installed with the tfpt.msi package: Command line tool (TFPT.EXE) Team Explorer IDE menu additions Build […]