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An exhausting day at PDC... Here are the sessions that I did: Keynote: Windows Azure Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: A Lap Around VSTS 2010 ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap Team Foundation Server 2010: Cool New Features WF 4.0: A first look I really love the new features of VSTS and TFS; I can hardly...
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Since Holland is kicked out of Euro 2008 , I found myself some extra time to investigate Visual Studio Team System "Rosario" CTP 12 . It's been a couple of months ago Microsoft released this fantastic platform, but almost nobody blogged about it. Of course three of the most interesting...
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Lately I've been asked to install Team System Web Access on the same machine containing WSS 3.0. Officious I configured their SharePoint using a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) . This gives them the ability to open the TFS sites from outside their environment and on Internet as well. Since MS...
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The latest Project Server to TFS Connector was just released on CodePlex . This release of the PS2007 VSTS Connector is targeted to work with Team Foundation Server 2008 and resolves several bugs that were reported in the first two releases. They've done their best to ensure that this Connector is...
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A couple of weeks ago I posted a post about creating a couple of data generators for DataDude . In mine first data generator I used aggregation extensibility. Microsoft divided each form of extensibility in another section. Since I created one or more instances of the standard data generator classes...
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On June 11 and 12, I attended a 2-day Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals workshop at Class-A . This event was hosted by Gert Drapers (also aka DataDude), see his blog post announcing the event. Gert discussed all the important features of the tool and some of my fellow attendees complained...
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Last night I had a dream about the future of TFS. Wouldn't it be nice if we had one single portal on which all my team projects and their web interfaces resides. That you could easily search across libraries and projects and relate those projects by using site hierarchies. Reports and other functionality...
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As most of you TFS addicts, I also immediately installed the new TFS Power Tools. Like Marcel de Vries wrote in his blog "A must have is the new embedded in Visual Studio Process Template Editor". This editor is almost same as the one I used before, but it's using Visual Studio as a container to modify...
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If you’re going to analyze Visual SourceSafe databases for migration to Team Foundation source control, and to migrate Visual SourceSafe databases to Team Foundation source control, you’ll eventually meet VSSConverter . VSSConverter is a command line utility that uses XML configuration files to transfer...
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!! THIS BLOG IS OBSOLETE SINCE MICROSOFT IS DELIVERING A GUIDE ON MSDN !! I've just finished my guide about upgrading TFS V1 to WSS 3.0 and Microsoft immediately releases Service Pack 1 for TFS V1. This is good thing and I knew it was planned for half December, but I now have to write a second guide...
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This is the second article about Ten Must-Have Tools Every TFS User Should Download Now. Part I discusses : Joel Semeniuk ( Policy Template Editor ) Microsoft TFS Powertoys ( Annotate , TreeDiff ) Attrice TFS Sidekicks ( Team Foundation , add-in , MS Build ) Part II discusses: Naren Datha ( Workitem...
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!! THIS BLOG IS OBSOLETE SINCE MICROSOFT IS DELIVERING A GUIDE ON MSDN !! For users who want to install TFS SP1 after this upgrade an update of this blog is available. In the new blog I explain how to fake a WSS v2 site on a WSS v3 server. For new users, first install TFS SP1 and then follow this guide...
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Yeah, it is for real! This weekend the DataDude product team has officially signed off on v1.0 of "Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals". Build x251 is released to manufacturing (RTM). It was Euan Garden who started talking about the need for a product like this in November 2004; this...
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Before I begun to write this blog I had in mind to name this blog Ten Must-Have Tools Every TFS User Should Download Now . I thought this was a good start because there are so many tools out there. But while testing them I found out, most of them are still in Beta phase and really buggy. Others are not...