Mid week Scott Klassen, January 1, 0001 Got all of my workstations and servers patched up this morning. Just a small handful of laptops didn't, because the users forgot to choose “install and shut down” at the end of the day. Our ... Mid week 0 0 0
Another reason to be an ISV! Murray Gordon, January 1, 0001 ... or at least obtain the ISV competency as a Microsoft certified partner or Microsoft certified gold partner. The full Team Foundation Server (not just the workgroup edition) will be made available as ... Another reason to be an ISV! 0 0 0
Slow Monday Scott Klassen, January 1, 0001 Sitting here wishing I was at TechEd in Boston. Instead I'm working on moving our new company Intranet site from a test machine to the server it will live out its' days on. Hit a few bugs after the move ... Slow Monday 0 0 0
First Post Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 This is my first blog post ever. D'Arcy convinced me that I should start a blog to talk about all the good times at Tech-Ed. So here we go. I'm headed down to Boston for Tech-Ed 2006 in a couple days. ... First Post 0 0 0
Greedy Application Mentality with TFS Colin Bowern, January 1, 0001 I set off intending to experiment with Team Foundation Server recently to potentially replace our Subversion deployment. As I built up my virtual machine for the TFS application tier I went to install ... Greedy Application Mentality with TFS 0 0 4
My problem with Continuous Integration Tim Hibbard, January 1, 0001 Raymond Lewallen gave a great presentation at the Wichita Code Camp yesterday on Continuous Integration (zip file) and I know that I could integrate it into our existing source control and automated updating ... My problem with Continuous Integration 0 0 0
Security Tools - Microsoft Threat Analysis & Modeling v2.0 RC1 Re... Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 The ACE Team at Microsoft has released Microsoft Threat Analysis & Modeling v2.0 RC1 this week. Talhah Mir and his team have done a great job with this product. The new features include the following: ... Security Tools - Microsoft Threat Analysis & Modeling v2.0 RC1 Re... 0 0 0
Adean / Variants Of Power Garrett Hoofman, January 1, 0001 So, I've decided to join in on the rat race of the GWB game programming contest. Now this oughta be fun ;) First of all, I'm Garrett Hoofman. I've been playing around with Managed DirectX off and on for ... Adean / Variants Of Power 0 0 0
Around the world in 65 days (Part 5) Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 16:30 EST – Day 22, On the plane again after 27h shore leave home. My bags didn’t make it from New York to Montreal but I got them at 9pm yesterday just in time to do some washing and repacking. ... Around the world in 65 days (Part 5) 0 0 3
Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Starter Kit: Requirements Aut... Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 Earlier this month, Microsoft released the Requirements Authoring Starter Kit (RASK) for Visual Studio 2005. It is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/do... ... Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Starter Kit: Requirements Aut... 0 0 2
Around the world in 65 days (Part 4) Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 6:15am (Argentina Time) – Day 17, This Timezone thing is killing me, I’m so confused I don’t know what time it is anymore. We Left New Zealand on Monday the 22nd at 5pm (NZ time) and ... Around the world in 65 days (Part 4) 0 0 4
Codeplex Darren Gosbell, January 1, 0001 This looks pretty cool and I have already seen a few articles touting it as the successor to GotDotNet. It will be interesting to see how this goes. I for one will be watching it closely. [via Oleg Tkachenko ... Codeplex 0 0 0
TVBUG Meeting - Unit Testing in VB.NET - May 24 User Group Leader, January 1, 0001 Date:Wednesday, May 24, 2006 Topic:Unit Testing in VB.NET Speaker:Dave Lloyd, ObjectSharp Consulting Dave Lloyd from ObjectSharp Consulting will cover Unit Testing with VB.Net. Whether you are using VS ... TVBUG Meeting - Unit Testing in VB.NET - May 24 0 0 0
Microsoft Application Threat Modeling - Security Workshop Wrapup Matthew Podwysocki, January 1, 0001 It was a great workshop held at Microsoft in DC today by Talhah Mir from the Application Consulting and Engineering (ACE) Team. We covered such topics as threat modeling, code security, attacks and countermeasures ... Microsoft Application Threat Modeling - Security Workshop Wrapup 0 0 0
Around the world in 65 days (Part 3) Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 6:00AM (NZ Time) Well we made it to Wellingtion, but our luggages are still in transit… No Worries, what it’s important is our presence ;-). Yesterday we went around to visit a bit, Wellington ... Around the world in 65 days (Part 3) 0 0 0
Requirements Authoring Starter Kit BizTalk + WWF Visionary, January 1, 0001 Your unbelievable!: One of the more fun but challenging aspects of my job is that I sit on the .Net PAC (Microsoft Partner Advisory Council)and this gives me an insight into new products, the workings ... Requirements Authoring Starter Kit 0 0 0
DevTeach is over… What fun that was Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 My two presentation went very well. I’m very happy with the turnout and add a good time with the attendees. What a feeling it is to sit with the likes of Julia Lerman, Kate Gregory, Barry Gervin, ... DevTeach is over… What fun that was 0 0 0
Team System Utilities Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 Looks like the TFS utility aftermarket is begining to grow. Now, if they can get TDD right…. Here is a short list of some Team System utilties that you may find useful. If you know of a Team System ... Team System Utilities 0 0 0
MSDN Webcast: Adopting Visual Studio Team System (Level 200) Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 So I will be giving an MSDN webcast on the 30 of May call Adopting Team System. Here is the link to the registration and following is a brief synopsis Do you want to start using Microsoft Visual Studio ... MSDN Webcast: Adopting Visual Studio Team System (Level 200) 0 0 1
Add a Custom Check-In policy to Team Foundation Server Paul Hacker, January 1, 0001 I decided that I wanted to implement a custom check-in policy for no other reason that to have the knowledge on how it is accomplished. I ran across a great policy on James Mannings' blog that can be found ... Add a Custom Check-In policy to Team Foundation Server 0 0 10
Teamprise 1.0 Chris J. Breisch, January 1, 0001 Teamprise 1.0 is now available. This looks like a pretty sweet way to handle mixed-platform development. Teamprise is a suite of client applications for accessing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation ... Teamprise 1.0 0 0 0
Gave TeamPlain a spin here are the results Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 So I installed TeamPlain on my sandbox to see how it behaved, well let me tell you that this is a cool product. It's all web based and gives you access to your TFS work items, all the reports, your documents ... Gave TeamPlain a spin here are the results 0 0 1
So i've been absent for a while... Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 I'm currently planning a worldwide trip to promote TFS and VSTS in my company and I've been super busy with preparation for this. I'll get back to this subject soon in a series called Around the world ... So i've been absent for a while... 0 0 0
Setting up a Sharepoint (TFS) Marlon Rabara, January 1, 0001 After installing the Work Group edition of TFS successfully, I begun hacking at the sharepoint side of things. To get a better understanding of the SharePoint system, this post proved very informative: ... Setting up a Sharepoint (TFS) 0 0 0
TeamPlain Web Access final version released Paul Hacker, January 1, 0001 TeamPlain is a web interface for Team Foundation Server that allows managing work items, documents, reports and source control repositories. You can get further information and the download from http://www.devbiz.com/teamp... ... TeamPlain Web Access final version released 0 0 3
How To: Modify an Existing Xml File Chris Falter, January 1, 0001 The past couple of days I've been working on a command-line config file parser that will enable our build process to emit the correct web.config for any given environment. For example, we define environments ... How To: Modify an Existing Xml File 0 0 25
Podcast: Test Driven Development with Jean Paul Boodhoo Keith Woods, January 1, 0001 Check out the latest dot net rocks show, its a great overview of TTD. The whole red-green-refactor approach to development is really neat. I wish the project I'm currently on was build using this approach. ... Podcast: Test Driven Development with Jean Paul Boodhoo 0 0 0
Green beer to celebrate the launch! Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 So my good friend John Lawrence from Microsoft posted a picture of me and my colleague Aaron drinking green beer at the TFS Launch party... check it out here Not to good looking but tasty none the less. ... Green beer to celebrate the launch! 0 0 0
Book Review – Windows Server 2003 Security David Douglass, January 1, 0001 Windows Server 2003 Security Roberta Bragg 4 stars (out of 5) This book covers a wide range of security topics: authentication & authorization application security NTFS security and EFS (encrypting ... Book Review – Windows Server 2003 Security 0 0 0
Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition (5-user) RTM on MSDN Dow... Eric Hammersley, January 1, 0001 For all you “small-shops” out there with one of the Team Edition MSDN subscription they have posted the RTM of Team Foundation Server. True to their word they have a workgroup edition for shops ... Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition (5-user) RTM on MSDN Dow... 0 0 0
Ship it! Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 I happened to be in Redmond today for the official signing of the TFS Box. Here’s me with “the box” J Congratulation guys ... Ship it! 0 0 3
Configure SMTP after Team Foundation Install Paul Hacker, January 1, 0001 When I initially installed the Team Foundation Server RC I did not configure the SMTP server at that time. I have since wanted to go back and set up Project Alerts, but I was unsure where to modify the ... Configure SMTP after Team Foundation Install 0 0 73
Team Foundation Server: Bug in Team Build Charles Young, January 1, 0001 We found a bug in the Release Candidate version of Team Foundation Server which I shall 'report' here. We accidentally found ourselves in the position of having a team build containing two Visual Studio ... Team Foundation Server: Bug in Team Build 0 0 4
So much cool stuff, so little time! Tom Wisnowski, January 1, 0001 Sorry it's been a while since my last post, but if you have been keeping up with what microsoft is releasing, you would know what I have been busy with! But for those of you who haven't stayed up to date, ... So much cool stuff, so little time! 0 0 0
Team Foundation Server: Experiences with Team Build Charles Young, January 1, 0001 I've spent some time in the last few days using the Team Build features of Team Foundation Server. I've recorded some observations on this, and also on the Solutions Build Framework (SBF) in an article ... Team Foundation Server: Experiences with Team Build 0 0 1
Building MSIs on the TFS Build Server Eric Matz, January 1, 0001 For those of you that build MSIs to package your applications, you'll quickly find that MSBuild does not support this, so the TFS Build Server cannot build your vdproj setup projects. Anutthara Bharadwaj ... Building MSIs on the TFS Build Server 0 0 2
Software Consulting in Kansas City Jeff Julian, January 1, 0001 Architecture. Custom Development. Mentoring. Training. Development Methodology. Launching and expanding your enterprise systems requires more than just installing the software and turning it on. That’s ... Software Consulting in Kansas City 0 0 0
Heads up! Integrated Authentication only in V1 Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 Rob tells us that the Basic Authentication scenario will not be supported in V1 here. This scenario is very important to a lot of small/medium business with consultant on the road a lot. But fear not, ... Heads up! Integrated Authentication only in V1 0 0 0
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider Beta 2 Chris J. Breisch, January 1, 0001 Team Foundation Server may now be used as a source control provider for Visual Studio 6.0 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 ... Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider Beta 2 0 0 0
True: Expected launch dates BizTalk + WWF Visionary, January 1, 0001 Expected launch dates Product Date expected Current status Comment Windows Server 2003 R2 Feb 2006 RTM Includes Active Directory Federation Services and UNIX password synchronisation, improved replication ... True: Expected launch dates 0 0 0
Minor Hiccups with TFS "Zombie" projects... Rajiv Popat, January 1, 0001 Hmmm... So, after my first encounter with TFS and some more reading on the stuff I have to say I was impressed! I did what any developer in his right mind would do - decided to take it for a ride on a ... Minor Hiccups with TFS "Zombie" projects... 0 0 0
MSBee Betas published!! Tariq, January 1, 0001 If you havent seen it yet MSBee Beta has been release. Check it out here http://www.gotdotnet.com/co... In addition to this there are 2 additional ... MSBee Betas published!! 0 0 0
Canadian VSTS & TFS Tour coming to a city near you... Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 Microsoft Application Lifecycle Development Tools: Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server In November, 2005, Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2005, a major new release of its developer tools ... Canadian VSTS & TFS Tour coming to a city near you... 0 0 0
Encounter with Team Foundation Server (Beta 3) Rajiv Popat, January 1, 0001 I've always been a HUGE promotor of using tools to drive process and when TFS Beta 3 was released I was one of the first ones who decided to lay hands on it and give it a shot. I've never been able to ... Encounter with Team Foundation Server (Beta 3) 0 0 0
More On Team Foundation Server Licensing Eric Matz, January 1, 0001 Since Mickey Gousset raised a good point in his comment on my previous TFS post, I've been looking into this further. I was going to post my findings from the current licensing white paper, but Chris Menegay ... More On Team Foundation Server Licensing 0 0 2
Upgrading Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Refresh to ... Lou Vega, January 1, 0001 Well my happy install of B3R lasted about a week and a half before I was told “Hey RC0 came out on MSDN last night!” So of course my manager decided I should upgrade. So I fire off an e-mail ... Upgrading Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Refresh to ... 0 0 0
Installing Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Refresh Lou Vega, January 1, 0001 OK so after a few meetings with some of the Microsoft Federal (Vlad, Marc, and Ken) guys to discuss implementing Visual Studio Team Foundation Server for our latest project, I hit the ground running and ... Installing Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Refresh 0 0 0
Accessing Team Foundation Server Without The Client Eric Matz, January 1, 0001 One of the key things I feel is missing from Team Foundation Server is access to managing certain things, specifically Work Items, from a web-based interface. In fact, Team Foundtion Server is going to ... Accessing Team Foundation Server Without The Client 0 0 4
You want to manage Permissions in TFS more easily, ya me too! Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 Kannan as just release the First CTP version of Team Foundation Server Admin Tool on gotdotnet. Now that will be a usefull tool if it does what it claims it can do. I will give it a spin and put an update ... You want to manage Permissions in TFS more easily, ya me too! 0 0 1
Upgrading to RC day 2 the dual server config... Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 Here is a summary of what happended (not all good as you will see but all in all thumb up!) So this was a Dual Server upgrade while yesterdays one was a Single Server. So we backed up everything like we ... Upgrading to RC day 2 the dual server config... 0 0 0