I have to start by apologizing profusely for how this whole training thing has gone. Personnally, I feel like an idiot for how many times we've said the training would be ready and then it wasn't or made it available only to take it away again. It's been really painful. Part of the problem has been the way the training effort has ...
I'm incredibly pleased to announce that the first batch of Visual Studio and .NET Framework Hotfixes (we call them QFE's - Quick Fix from Engineering) is available. They are posted on connect.microsoft.com. It will require you to register but then you can puruse the available fixes, read the details of the problems they address and sele...
Well, among other things, it's now called Folder Diff :) We've been doing a lot of work on Folder Diff as part of incorporating it into the Orcas release of TFS. Some key new features include: Here's a screenshot of the updated window (what I wouldn't give for screenshots that weren't so fuzzy looking :)): And here's the new options d...
We've gotten tons of requests since we shipped TFS v1.0 from customers who want more flexibility with the configuration of the SharePoint server that TFS uses. Some want to use a SharePoint web farm that they already have. Others want to use a pre-existing web site. And still others want to change the port # or not have a SharePoi...
The wheels have been turning on my promise to investigate making hot fixes more widely available. It hasn't unfurled quite the way I had pictured but I'm still pretty happy with the result. The hot fixes with be made available through http://connect.microsoft.com and downloading them will require registration so that we have some way to...
A lot has been happening this last month. We've pretty much locked down TFS2005 SP1 and have been making good progress on the Orcas release. A couple of weeks ago I posted about the performance improvements coming in Orcas - the picture there only continues to get better as we continue to find small things to tune. In the next few...
Around Beta1 of TFS V1 we created a "sample" to demonstrate how to connect TFS to Project Server and synchronize task information. It was a pretty basic sample and required a lot of work to turn it into a solution. Further, as TFS evolved through the rest of the V1 cycle we didn't keep the sample up to date - yielding even more work to ...
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I'm heading to Disney World for the week in the morning so I may not be blogging too much next week (we'll see what my wife has to say about it :)) Today I was reviewing some results from some performance work we are doing for Version Control in the Orcas release. We are also doing some work for Work Item Tracking but don't have full results ...
Our training saga continue but is approaching closure - 2 steps forward, 1 step back. The 300 level content is complete and available. Remember that it is really designed for a classroom setting with a trained trainer. If you fit this category you can visit http://connect.microsoft.com. Your application will be evaluated (quite...
