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Oct 7, 2008
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MSBuild Extension Pack

Brian Harry

Mike Fourie has recently published a new CodePlex project for MSBuild extensions.  It is the successor for the FreeToDev MSBuild Extensions and is probably the most comprehensive library available.  If you are looking for MSBuild tasks or are interested in contributing, check it out.Brian

TFSVisual Studio
Oct 7, 2008
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Sharepoint Development with Team System Guidance begins to roll out

Brian Harry

Over the next couple of months we are publishing a series of documents providing guidance for doing Sharepoint 3.0 & MOSS 2007 development with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System.  Over the past year, we've seen increasing interest in guidance on doing Sharepoiint development with VSTS, particularly with Team Foundation Serve...

TFSVisual Studio
Oct 4, 2008
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Update on TFS Adoption at Microsoft

Brian Harry

Every month we take stock of how TFS adoption is going.  I thought I'd share some of the results with you this month.  Overall, it is going strong but we are starting to see a leveling off in the number of regular users at about 15,000.  We've got some new teams in the pipeline but I think we are starting to level out on the number o...

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Oct 2, 2008
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Combining Team Development & Database Editions

Brian Harry

We announced last week that we would be providing "two for the price of one" by combining the Team System Development Edition and Team System Database Edition.  The offer went into effect yesterday and more details are coming out now.  You can read an FAQ on the change and visit this site to see it and learn more.Brian

Oct 1, 2008
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Preview of the next TFS Power Tools release

Brian Harry

Time for a little bit of a teaser post... We've been working on the next Power Tools release for Team Foundation Server 2008 for a while now.  I think I mentioned before that we really wanted to make this next release a "major" Power Tools release and I'm happy to report that I think we have accomplished it.  I think you are go...

Oct 1, 2008
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VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR September CTP is Available

Brian Harry

We've just released a new CTP for the GDR update of the Team System Database Edition product that adds support for SQLServer 2008.  This is the last CTP and the team is really looking for your feedback to ensure that they've gotten it right.  Read more about it on Gert's Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd/archive/2008/09/30/visual-studio-t...

Sep 29, 2008
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Shining the Light on Rosario

Brian Harry

Today is an important milestone in the march towards the Rosario release of Visual Studio Team System. Among the announcements is the official name of the release.  It will be called Visual Studio Team System 2010.  We also announced that it will ship in concert with Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0.  That should give yo...

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Sep 26, 2008
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VSTS Demos

Brian Harry

I have been thinking a lot lately about how to demonstrate the value of what we are doing in our Rosario release.  There is so much and there are so many ways to talk about it.  The first idea I stumbled across was what I call "Wow!" demos.  The goal would be to create a set of demos that show how Team System enables people to solve ...

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Sep 26, 2008
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VSTS Demos

Brian Harry

I have been thinking a lot lately about how to demonstrate the value of what we are doing in our Rosario release.  There is so much and there are so many ways to talk about it.  The first idea I stumbled across was what I call "Wow!" demos.  The goal would be to create a set of demos that show how Team System enables people to solve ...

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