Brian Harry's Blog

French and German Team System Web Access have shipped

February 2, 2008 Feb 2, 2008 02/2/08

Brian Harry

On Thursday I announced that the Japanese version of Team System Web Access (TSWA) was available.  Today, I have the pleasure of announcing that both the German and French versions are now available.  I know these two are going to be quite popular because we had several customers contact us asking for permission to localize it ...

A new spec on conflict resolution is available

February 1, 2008 Feb 1, 2008 02/1/08

Brian Harry

  We've gotten feedback that branching, merging and conflict resolution are too complicted today.  We are making a series of improvements in our next version of TFS to address these issues.  The new history spec we released a couple of months ago demonstrated one piece of our plan - allowing you to easily track a change across ...

The Japanese version of Team System Web Access is available

January 31, 2008 Jan 31, 2008 01/31/08

Brian Harry

Today we released the Japanese version of the Team System Web Access Power Tool.  Long ago, I announced that we would be releasing localized version of TSWA with the VS 2008 products.  Well, today it is becoming a reality.  Over the next few weeks, we will be releasing the other localized versions - in total, I think, there will...

TFS "Build Recipes" site launched

January 31, 2008 Jan 31, 2008 01/31/08

Brian Harry

One of the most common areas for questions around TFS is using the TFS automated build system.  How do I build .NET 1.1 apps with TFS 2005/TFS 2008?  How do I build VS 2005 solutions with TFS 2008?  How do I customize the build number Team Build generates?  How do I build C++ projects with Team Build?  How do I build ...

Requirements management with Team System

January 29, 2008 Jan 29, 2008 01/29/08

Brian Harry

Here's a nice blog series I ran across on requirements management with Team System, Team Foundation Server and some 3rd party products.  We are also working on a whitepaper to provide an overview of this. http://blogs.msdn.com/slange/archive/2007/11/06/requirements-management-in-tfs-part-1-of-4-overview.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/slange/...

TFSAdmin Updated for TFS 2008

January 25, 2008 Jan 25, 2008 01/25/08

Brian Harry

The popular TFS add-on for administering permissions across TFS, SQL Server Reporting Services and Sharepoint has been updated to support TFS 2008.  The tool, call TFSAdmin, is available on CodePlex here: http://www.codeplex.com/TFSAdmin/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Home Eventually, we plan to make this kind of functionality part of the product, ...

A customer's experience with TFS and Teamprise for Java development

January 25, 2008 Jan 25, 2008 01/25/08

Brian Harry

Yesterday someone forwarded me a link to a Minnesota user group presentation on using TFS and Teamprise in a mixed .NET and Java shop.  Being, admittedly, somewhat biased, I thought it was a terrific presentation on their experiences and felt is was worth sharing.  If you (like so many organizations) do both .NET development and Java...