Showing results for November 2008 - Brian Harry's Blog

I know it's been a long time coming and we've had quite a few false starts but it is finally available.  Not a week goes by that someone doesn't check with me on when they could get it so I know there's a fair number of people out there waiting for it.  We've been piloting it with a couple of customers for a couple of months now and we wa...

The long awaited update for VSTS 2008 Database professional is now available.  You may have been following the many pre-releases (CTPs, RCs, etc).  This is the final update. The biggest new feature in this update is support for SQLServer 2008 but there's a great deal more.  Among my favorite are support for offline database developme...

Teamprise has released a new TFS add-on called Teamprise Remote Accelerator.  It is a solution similar to the TFS proxy but is designed for single user remote scenarios.  It functions exactly like a TFS proxy but can easily be run on your local client and polls the server to "prefetch" files so that they are already local whenever you nee...

A couple of months ago, I mentioned that one of our MVPs (Mike Azocar) was running a "Coolest Team System Gadget" contest.  He has just announced the winner of the contest: Mathew Rowan for TFS Working On, a tool to help you track the time you spend on tasks.  The tool is availble on CodePlex here: http://www.codeplex.com/TFSWorkingOn I h...

A couple of months ago, I mentioned that one of our MVPs (Mike Azocar) was running a "Coolest Team System Gadget" contest.  He has just announced the winner of the contest: Mathew Rowan for TFS Working On, a tool to help you track the time you spend on tasks.  The tool is availble on CodePlex here: http://www.codeplex.com/TFSWorkingOn I h...

A few months ago some of our MVPs expressed interest in creating some translations of Team System Web Access.  We looked into it and concluded that enabling it would be pretty straight forward and seemed like a great way to experiment with a new way of interacting with the community.  Thus was born the TSWA Community Translation Project o...

A few months ago some of our MVPs expressed interest in creating some translations of Team System Web Access.  We looked into it and concluded that enabling it would be pretty straight forward and seemed like a great way to experiment with a new way of interacting with the community.  Thus was born the TSWA Community Translation Project o...

The October release of the Team Foundation Power Tools includes a new feature called "Team Members" that allows you to collaborate with your team even better.  One of the features is integration with instant messaging that allows you to see presence, IM, video, audio, etc from inside Team Explorer.  You can read more about the feature her...

The October release of the Team Foundation Power Tools includes a new feature called "Team Members" that allows you to collaborate with your team even better.  One of the features is integration with instant messaging that allows you to see presence, IM, video, audio, etc from inside Team Explorer.  You can read more about the feature her...

This post is going to be my periodically updated list of answers to questions/problems that I hear about.  I'll get right to it... Last updated 12/2/08 1) Login problems with the TFS Windows Shell Extension - Right now the shell extension only supports contact TFS with your default Windows credentials (using integrated authentication).  T...