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TFS Integration Tools Beta Available!

June 7, 2010 Jun 7, 2010 06/7/10
Brian Harry
Long ago, we created something called the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit.  The purpose was to enable TFS to interoperate with other systems.  We got a ton of feedback that it was WAY too hard to use.  It required WAY too much work to build even relatively simple integrations.  The docs were slim to non-existent, ...

What on Earth is a Feature Pack?

June 7, 2010 Jun 7, 2010 06/7/10
Brian Harry
If you’ve been following my blog for a while, then you’ve heard about these things we call “Power Tools”.  You might have even tried them out and found out they could be darned useful :)  We’ll if you’ve been following my blog long enough, you’ll know that at one point they were called Power ...

A Scrum Process Template for TFS

June 7, 2010 Jun 7, 2010 06/7/10
Brian Harry
Since TFS 2005, we have delivered two process templates with TFS: MSF Agile and MSF for CMMI.  Our goal with MSF Agile was to create a relatively simple process template for teams doing Agile software development.  We designed it to enable a wide range of iterative development processes without too much process control.  In ...

Security Development Lifecycle for TFS 2010

June 4, 2010 Jun 4, 2010 06/4/10
Brian Harry
Just recently, the SDL team at Microsoft released an update for their Secure Development Lifecycle process template for TFS 2010.  You can download the new MSF Agile + SDL template for free and give it a spin. You can read the details on the SDL blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sdl/archive/2010/05/27/announcing-the-msf-agile-sdl-process...

VS 2010 and SourceSafe

June 4, 2010 Jun 4, 2010 06/4/10
Brian Harry
Several times in recent days I’ve been asked whether or not SourceSafe 2005 works with VS 2010.  I thought I had blogged about this before but couldn’t find it.  The answer is yes.  However, you should install this hot fix.  It is a cumulative hot fix (so it includes all previous hot fixes).  You shouldn&...