Learn how to maximize your team productivity and efficiency with Visual Studio Team System 2008 and experience the integrated Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) with Team Foundation Server. You will be able to understand how these various collaboration tools, processes, in VSTS, can help your team to work more effectively and deliver better quality software on […]
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The Azure Services Platform is designed to help developers quickly and easily create, deploy, manage, and distribute web services and applications on the Internet. Windows Azure is an operating system for the cloud that serves as the development, run-time, and control environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers on-demand compute & storage […]
Continue readingVisual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR RC1
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 […]
Continue readingMicrosoft Hyper-V (Status: Upgrade Available) w/SCVMM 2008 RTM
If you see something like this in SCVMM 2008 and your certain you’ve applied all your Hyper-V patches double check that these ones have been installed: Hyper-V Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB956589) Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB956774) Then you should have this displayed upon reboot in SCVMM 2008 Happy […]
Continue readingNew .NET Logos, just in time for PDC
Here is the rationale for the updated logo from Microsoft: We needed a logo that was in sync with the key values that we want .NET to stand for: consistency, robustness and great user experiences. We also wanted a logo that conformed to the design principles that are driving Microsoft’s brand identity evolution and is […]
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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
Continue readingTechDays Early Bird Registration Extended
The TechDays Canada 2008 tour has great sessions on Web and Windows development to help you stay current. Microsoft has extended the Early Bird Registration for TechDays to October 29th. Hurry and sign up now! Technorati Tags: techdays_ca
Continue readingSharePoint Workflow: While/OnTaskChanged not working
I came across this while developing workflows in SharePoint. The SharePoint 2007 environment I develop in is MOSS 2007 w/SP1 and the Infrastructure Update and when a workflow was created with the following activities all processing would stop and the workflow would not wake up. What was happening is the workflow would enter the While […]
Continue readingKB957196 – Check-in event e-mail alert notification doesn’t work
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 […]
Continue readingTFS and MS Project : Adding Duration from MS Project into Task Work Item
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 […]
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