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5 Things You Didn't Know About Me

Thanks for tagging me Rob (I think :))  I can't say I've ever heard of this game before but I guess I'm in.  It seems a bit like a new version of a chain letter (do they every really go away?) but I suppose no harm is done :) I don't think coming up with interesting things about me is my strength.  Overall, I'm a pretty boring ...

January DevDiv TFS Dogfood Statistics

I skipped the December dogfood update because the activity numbers were so skewed at the end of the month by people’s vacations.  There’s nothing that particularly stands out about the dogfood server over the last month.  It continues to grow.  Availability has been good.  Performance continues to improve.&...

January Visual Studio "Orcas" CTP Available

Great news! Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" January 2007 CTP is now available publicly to all customers!!  It is being released as a Virtual PC (VPC) image as well as a self-extracting install.. There's lots of great new stuff in it - you can check out one of the download pages for details.  Unfortuntately (as I had mentioned ...

Happy New Year

I never got around to saying it when I got back.  Sorry, just seems like there's never enough time in the day to do everything.  I hope everyone had a good time off - I know I did.  I spent WAY too much time playing World of Warcraft.  It's embarassing to admit it but I'm a massively multi-player online game addict.  ...

New Orcas specs published

Today we published a bunch of new Orcas specs.  There are new/updated VS specs and 3 new (and 1 updated) TFS specs. Folder Diff - The spec for the productized version of the TreeDiff PowerToy feature.  Check it out and see the improvements we're making. Large Group Sync - A somewhat obtuse feature to improve the behavior ...

New version of TeamLook released by Personify Design

If you haven't checked out TeamLook yet it's worth a peak.  It provides integration of Team Foundation Server work item tracking into Microsoft Outlook.  It allows you to manage your work items in Outlook, easily file bugs from mail threads, etc.  It's a cool add-on the TFS.  Here's a link to a blog post on their latest ...

VSTS Receives 2006 Tester's Choice Awards

Time for a little marketing blurb again :)  I promise I won't do it too often. In December, Software Test and Performance Magazine announced their Tester's Choice Awards.  You can get a copy of their December issue and read all about it. The Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers won first place in the ".NET Test/Performance...