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TFS 2010 SCOM Management Pack is Available

October 16, 2010 Oct 16, 2010 10/16/10
Brian Harry
I know it’s been a long time coming but it is now here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=97ca3b31-3653-4d60-bdad-3f2017febdc3&displaylang=en I think (and hope) you will find it worth the wait.  It is a substantial upgrade from the TFS 2008 Management Pack.  Among other things, we’ve added ...

Scrolling menus are dead!

October 15, 2010 Oct 15, 2010 10/15/10
Brian Harry
OK, maybe not quite but a big step forward.  This week we released a hotfix for both VS and WPF that changes menu placement to eliminate scrolling menus when there actually is enough vertical real estate to avoid them.  In the screen shot below (with the patch applied), you can see that menu has been moved up (relative to the right ...

Visual Studio 2010 Survey

October 7, 2010 Oct 7, 2010 10/7/10
Brian Harry
As part of our preparation for Service Pack 1 of VS 2010, we are running a general product satisfaction survey to understand how people feel about the product and what areas, if any, they feel need to be improved.  This is primarily targeted at the kind of improvements we would make in a service pack (not big new features :)).  We'd ...

Visual Studio 2010 Survey

October 7, 2010 Oct 7, 2010 10/7/10
Brian Harry
As part of our preparation for Service Pack 1 of VS 2010, we are running a general product satisfaction survey to understand how people feel about the product and what areas, if any, they feel need to be improved.  This is primarily targeted at the kind of improvements we would make in a service pack (not big new features :)).  We'd ...

BizTalk 2009 and TFS 2010

October 4, 2010 Oct 4, 2010 10/4/10
Brian Harry
After we released TFS 2010, I started to hear some complaints from BizTalk users that trying to build a BizTalk 2009 project using TFS Build associated with a TFS 2010 server did not work.  The principle we strive for is that our various platform technology versions are independent of the version of TFS you use.  You should be able ...

A new generation of Hosted TFS

October 4, 2010 Oct 4, 2010 10/4/10
Brian Harry
In TFS 2010, we did a bunch of work in the product to make it more "hostable" - meaning flexible, manageable, scalable, etc.  In the months after the release of TFS 2010, we also worked on some new licensing plans to help make hosted TFS more affordable.  Finally we are starting to see some of the fruits of that labor coming to light...

Dogfooding TFS Build in Developer Division

October 4, 2010 Oct 4, 2010 10/4/10
Brian Harry
I think, in a post a few months ago, I wrote about the latest evolution of dogfooding TFS within Developer Division - adoption of TFS build for much of our build automation needs.  It's been a large undertaking because our build process is huge and incredibly complex.  Also, I'm talking about build in a large sense here - everything ...

Dogfooding TFS Build in Developer Division

October 4, 2010 Oct 4, 2010 10/4/10
Brian Harry
I think, in a post a few months ago, I wrote about the latest evolution of dogfooding TFS within Developer Division - adoption of TFS build for much of our build automation needs.  It's been a large undertaking because our build process is huge and incredibly complex.  Also, I'm talking about build in a large sense here - everything ...

Dumping the contents of all of your TFS groups

October 1, 2010 Oct 1, 2010 10/1/10
Brian Harry
A few days ago, a customer asked me for a way to display all of the TFS groups and their membership.  We really don't have a way other than navigating through the dialogs.  However, the TFS APIs to do this aren't all that hard to use.  One of the developers here wrote up a sample on how do to it and I figured I share it for ...