Showing results for August 2010 - Brian Harry's Blog

This week, we added a new version selector for the default view of the MSDN library.  I’ve seen numerous cases in recent months of people being confused by finding help topics for the wrong version of VS and not realizing it.  This new selector makes it much clearer which version you are looking at and how to navigate to corresponding content for t...

This week, we added a new version selector for the default view of the MSDN library.  I’ve seen numerous cases in recent months of people being confused by finding help topics for the wrong version of VS and not realizing it.  This new selector makes it much clearer which version you are looking at and how to navigate to corresponding content for t...

Just recently, the Visual Studio Rangers published a new guidance document on best practices for using database projects in Visual Studio 2010.  The guidance focuses on: If you are interested, you can get it here: http://vsdatabaseguide.codeplex.com/ Brian

Just recently, the Visual Studio Rangers published a new guidance document on best practices for using database projects in Visual Studio 2010.  The guidance focuses on: If you are interested, you can get it here: http://vsdatabaseguide.codeplex.com/ Brian

***UPDATED Dec 22 2014*** We now have official documentation that replaces this post.  See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb552341.aspxRecently a question came up through a customer about exactly what permission were needed to SQLServer in order to install/configure Team Foundation Server.  One of the developers put together a l...

Today, we released the final update to the Lab Management features for the Visual Studio 2010 product family.  A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post with a bunch of details on the Lab Management capabilities and also explained recent licensing changes. Today I am announcing that the final bits are now available for download to licensed customer...

Yesterday, I wrote a post on a new upcoming PowerTool to make backing up and restoring your TFS server easier than ever.  The post focused on a TFS Basic install that had no associated Sharepoint or Reporting data.  The great news is that if you do have a more sophisticated install with those additional capabilities, this tool can help you too.  To...

Backing up and restoring a TFS server can be daunting.  There are potentially a lot of services and a lot of steps.  As soon as we shipped TFS 2010, I knew we had to do something to improve it and we began talking about how we were going to simplify the process.  For a thorough understanding of what is involved, see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us...

Backing up and restoring a TFS server can be daunting.  There are potentially a lot of services and a lot of steps.  As soon as we shipped TFS 2010, I knew we had to do something to improve it and we began talking about how we were going to simplify the process.  For a thorough understanding of what is involved, see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us...

We’ve just released 3 packages that will enable you to start with one of the 3 base TFS 2010 Process Guidance sets and customize it and deploy it to your installation.  Read Allen’s blog post on a way to do this with WebMatrix.The download links are here: Brian