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Community Translations of Team System Web Access

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 ...

Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

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 ...

Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

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 ...

Common Oct '08 TFS Power Tools Questions

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).&...

Common Oct '08 TFS Power Tools Questions

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).&...

Oct '08 TFS Power Tools are Available!

Yes, I know it's November now :(  We had originally planned to release them about two weeks ago but an early release to our MVP showed us that we still had work left to do to really get it ready.  You can read about all the cool new stuff in this release here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/10/01/preview-of-the-next-tfs-...

Oct '08 TFS Power Tools are Available!

Yes, I know it's November now :(  We had originally planned to release them about two weeks ago but an early release to our MVP showed us that we still had work left to do to really get it ready.  You can read about all the cool new stuff in this release here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/10/01/preview-of-the-next-tfs-...

Getting the VS 2010 CTP running on Hyper-V

I've seen people run into some issues doing this and one of the guys on our team wrote a good blog post on things you need to do.  Check this out if you are trying to use the VS/VSTS/TFS 2010 CTP under hyper-V: http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/archive/2008/11/03/converting-vs2010-ctp-to-hyper-v.aspxBrian...

Getting the VS 2010 CTP running on Hyper-V

I've seen people run into some issues doing this and one of the guys on our team wrote a good blog post on things you need to do.  Check this out if you are trying to use the VS/VSTS/TFS 2010 CTP under hyper-V: http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/archive/2008/11/03/converting-vs2010-ctp-to-hyper-v.aspxBrian...

Microsoft Development Software for the "little guy"

Something came across my desk today that really peaked my interest.  There was a discussion about how expensive software can be for individuals, startups, etc.  Someone forwarded a link to a new program that Microsoft is launching for startups that enables people to get a small startup going with just about all the software they need...