Yep, that’s right TFS 2010 Beta 2 and RC are expiring in 2 days. When June 30th comes, they will completely stop working. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve seen an increasing number of customers who’ve let the deadline sneak up on them and now find themselves in a situation where they don’t have the time necessa...
We have discovered a potentially serious issue that can affect upgrades from TFS 2005 or TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. The issue is triggered by a specific pattern of labels, renames, deletes and/or branches that existed before the upgrade. Once the upgrade is complete the contents of the affected labels could be incorrect. Also some inte...
I've had numerous conversations with customers about the frustrations of lack of synchronization of products coming out of Microsoft. For instance, the fact that you can't use VS 2010 to do BizTalk 2006 development. I continue to advocate inside the company for us to be better about this. I won't bore you now with a list of exampl...
Yesterday, the Rangers released an update to the WCF Load Test tool that fixed some bugs and added support for integrating with VS 2010 Ultimate. Check it out: http://wcfloadtest.codeplex.com/Brian
In a post a week or so ago, I introduced the notion of Feature Packs. Now I get to tell you about the availability of the first one! I intended to post the same day but I sat down to play with the feature pack to make sure I understood what all it could do and I realized that my impressions didn’t quite match reality. I wanted to spend some time...
I’ve heard increasing interest from customers in tools to help them plan, manage and execute the release management process. I was thrilled when, a few months ago, Claude stopped by and demoed for me a new tool that InCycle is building called “InRelease”. It is an add on to Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server that helps address this important ar...
In recent years, we have tried to move to a model of producing updates to the documentation on a more frequent basis rather than just synchronizing it with the product schedule. Inevitably the documentation lags behind the product a bit (you can’t write the docs until you have something to document :)) and they get squeezed at the end o...
I’m VERY pleased to announce the latest addition to the Visual Studio Power Tools line-up – the Visual Studio Pro Power Tools. Over the past few years, Power Tools have been such a successful way to deliver compelling value to customers quickly that more and more teams are adding it to their repertoire. Today, we are releasing the first delivery ...
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, etc. ...
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 Toys ...
