Showing results for April 2007 - Brian Harry's Blog

We've recently published the last couple of the first round of Channel 9 videos that Brian Keller taped a few months ago.  Read about it on Brian's blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/2007/04/26/more-channel-9-interviews-with-the-team-foundation-server-team.aspx Check out the full list here: https://channel9.msdn.com/tags/vsts Br...

Among the most common questions I hear about TFS are "How do I structure my Team Projects?" and "How do I organize my branches?"  Clearly both are very related questions.  We've put together some whitepapers to help give some people some guidance on both questions.  You'll find the umbrella whitepaper here: http://www.codeplex.com/Br...

We've decided to add another Team System Chat today at a time that is more convenient for our Asian customers.  It's probably still not perfect but should help.  The additional chat will be on Friday, April 27th, 2007 from 4:00pm - 5:00pm Pacific Time. Add to Calendar | Additional Time Zones Based on participation level, we'll decide how ...

Our friends at Attrice have released version 1.3 of their TFS Sidekicks tools.  These tools are great add-ons to TFS that add great functionality to Team Explorer.  This new version includes a "shelvesets sidekick" and improvements to the labels sidekick.  Download it and check it out.Brian

Join us for a live chat on Friday 4/27 from 10:00am - 11:00am PDT.  The products groups will be on hand to answer any questions you have about Team System.  This is the first chat since Orcas Beta 1 was released.  Come and find out the latest news.  Sadly I won't be able to be there this time as I will be on an airplane on Frida...

For the past 6 or 9 months we've been working on something we call the Migration & Synchronization toolkit.  It is a framework for building tools that either convert from other systems to TFS or synchronize other systems with TFS.  We frequently think about it as a platform for building tools to migrate from alternative tools - compet...

Orcas Beta 1 is now available for download.  I don't think all of the SKUs are available yet - they will be dribbling out over the next week or so but the VPCs for VSTS Team Suite and TFS server are available now.  To a first approximation (the primary difference being minor bug fixes) these TFS server bits are the same ones deployed on o...

We've been working for the past several months on a new Power Tool - a TFS Best Practices Analyzer.  The goal of this tool is to diagnose TFS configuration and operation problems quickly and easily.  As you probably know, TFS is a pretty complex installation and has many places where things can go wrong. We released the first version of t...

This is my last post for today, I promise.  But Ed Glas (on the VSTS Test team) asked me to help publicize this.  We recently posted a new release of Fiddler - a really nice web test recording tool.  It was not written by the VSTS team but they have started contributing to it because it's a great tool.  You can get it here: http...

I touched on one aspect of customer involvement in our quality efforts in my last post about Dr. Watson.  There are a variety of other metrics we track and measure ourselves against that are more overtly community oriented.  Before I drill into the metrics we track, let's talk a bit about what aspects of community we think about. Pre-rele...