I just got to Bangalore a few hours ago and will be going to Hyderabad in a couple of days. I can tell you that the ~24 hours of flying to get here has been exhausting. It's early morning here but bed time at home. I left Friday evening and arrived Sunday morning. It's my first time to India. Unfortunately, it's going ...
Since I’ve gotten a few questions about it, I decided I’d post the list of bug fixes. This doesn’t include any bugs associated with new functionality that showed up in this release – only functionality that was in previous releases:Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) Team Member...
You find the download for the latest version of the Power Tools here: As with the previous release, these require a TFS 2010 client. If you want Power Tools with a previous TFS client, you will need the 2005 or 2008 Power Tools. There are 3 “new features” in this Power Tools release: Admin Console Backup/Restore Wizard I 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...
