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Issues installing 2010 Beta 1

May 19, 2009 May 19, 2009 05/19/09
Brian Harry
As with every Beta release, there are a set of gotchas that you have to look out for when installing.  My primary guidance is to read the readme file.  Lots of stuff we know about is in there.  I'll call out a few things here as I see them become stumbling blocks for people.  I'll append to this post as I learn more. ...

VS/VSTS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1 is Available!

May 18, 2009 May 18, 2009 05/18/09
Brian Harry
Today at 10:00am PST, the Beta 1 download for Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio Team System 2010 and .NET 4.0 is available to MSDN subscribers.  It will be available to the general public on Wednesday.  MSDN subscribers can download it from the MSDN subscriber download site using this link.  I’ll post the public links for ...

Customizing TFS to fit your process

May 18, 2009 May 18, 2009 05/18/09
Brian Harry
Customizing TFS to fit your process can be a significant undertaking if you have an involved and detailed process.  Our tools can guidance for doing this could certainly use some work to help stream line it.  Kathryn Elliott, one of the people on our documentation team, is undertaking the task of understand how we can improve the ...

Customizing TFS to fit your process

May 18, 2009 May 18, 2009 05/18/09
Brian Harry
Customizing TFS to fit your process can be a significant undertaking if you have an involved and detailed process.  Our tools can guidance for doing this could certainly use some work to help stream line it.  Kathryn Elliott, one of the people on our documentation team, is undertaking the task of understand how we can improve the ...

TFS 2010 Work Item Tracking

May 18, 2009 May 18, 2009 05/18/09
Brian Harry
In my last 2010 post, I covered Setup, Admin & Ops.  In this post I’m going to cover work item tracking features.  The truth, however, is that the lines between the next 3 posts are going to be pretty blurry.  I’ve tried to think about ways to partition it but Work Item Tracking, Project Management and Reporting are all ...

Lessons from the last few days

May 11, 2009 May 11, 2009 05/11/09
Brian Harry
Twice in the past few days I've had the opportunity to be reminded that one shouldn't forget lessons of the past - one of the opportunities was personal and the other was professional. The personal one happened yesterday on my farm.  The family was over for Mother's day dinner and after dinner, my son wanted to go target shooting with my ...