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DotNet Rocks Episode with Martin Woodward

November 30, 2010 Nov 30, 2010 11/30/10
Brian Harry
Check out the recent DotNet Rocks episode where our very own Martin Woodward, Program Manager and Developer for Team Explorer Everywhere talks about his experiences joining Microsoft, TFS for heterogeneous development and more. http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=615 Brian...

A new release of the Ranger’s WCF Load Test Tool

November 30, 2010 Nov 30, 2010 11/30/10
Brian Harry
Yesterday, the Rangers released a Beta release of the next version of their WCF Load Test Tool.  This tool enables you to use a trace file to generate a test that reproduces the trace.  There’s a bunch of nice new features: You can download the tool off of CodePlex from here: WCF Load Test tool ...

A new release of the Ranger’s WCF Load Test Tool

November 30, 2010 Nov 30, 2010 11/30/10
Brian Harry
Yesterday, the Rangers released a Beta release of the next version of their WCF Load Test Tool.  This tool enables you to use a trace file to generate a test that reproduces the trace.  There’s a bunch of nice new features: You can download the tool off of CodePlex from here: WCF Load Test tool ...

TeamCompanion and TFS

November 29, 2010 Nov 29, 2010 11/29/10
Brian Harry
As part of my series on TFS and VS ALM as an open platform, I’m going to be posting about some of the premier add-on/extensions.  There are lots of extensions, but these are ones that I’ve used myself and can attest to the quality of the products and the experiences. The first I want to talk about is TeamCompanion.  You ...

TeamCompanion and TFS

November 29, 2010 Nov 29, 2010 11/29/10
Brian Harry
As part of my series on TFS and VS ALM as an open platform, I’m going to be posting about some of the premier add-on/extensions.  There are lots of extensions, but these are ones that I’ve used myself and can attest to the quality of the products and the experiences. The first I want to talk about is TeamCompanion.  You ...

Tasktop Announces TFS and VS Support for Mylyn

November 22, 2010 Nov 22, 2010 11/22/10
Brian Harry
Last week, at the ALM Summit, Tasktop made 2 exciting announcements.  The first is that they are adding support for TFS to their Mylyn Eclipse plugin.  The second is that they are building a Mylyn plugin for Visual Studio.  This is the first in my series on the ALM ecosystem around Team Foundation Server (ok, the first, not ...

TFS is an Open Platform

November 22, 2010 Nov 22, 2010 11/22/10
Brian Harry
From the day we conceived TFS back in 2003, we knew that we wanted it to be an open platform upon which anyone could build their favorite development experiences.  We started by building an architecture based on standard technologies – SQL Server for the datastore, Reporting Services and Analysis Services for analytics, web services...

Feature Pack 2 is Available!

November 15, 2010 Nov 15, 2010 11/15/10
Brian Harry
About a week ago, I wrote a post describing some cool stuff coming in Visual Studio ALM Feature Pack 2.  I’m happy to announce that it is now available. A reminder that Feature Pack 2 is available to customers with VS Ultimate with MSDN, VS Premium with MSDN or VS Test Professional with MSDN.  You can find the download on our ...

Denali and Juneau

November 11, 2010 Nov 11, 2010 11/11/10
Brian Harry
At SQL PASS last week, Microsoft gave some insights into the next version of SQL Server (Denali) and a new generation of database development tools (Juneau).  You can read more about it here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2010/11/10/microsoft-dives-deeper-into-sql-server-code-named-denali-the-next-version-of-sql-...

Busy on the Farm

November 10, 2010 Nov 10, 2010 11/10/10
Brian Harry
A couple of weeks ago I promised I’d post an update on the farm. It’s hard to believe but it’s been over 2 years since my last big post on the farm. It’s been busy but I still love it. In fact, I’m just finishing up a “farmcation”. I needed to stockpile hay for the winter and I can’t grow enough so I had 148 rolls delivered...