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March 2011 - Brian Harry's Blog

A nice case study from InnovaSystems

March 30, 2011 Mar 30, 2011 03/30/11
Brian Harry
We’ve just completed a nice case study with InnovaSystems on their adoption of Team Foundation Server in order to achieve CMMI Level 3 compliance. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-.NET-Framework-4/InnovaSystems-International/Defense-Contractor-Earns-CMMI-L3-Rating-Raises-Productivity-by-Up-to-25-Percent/4000009464 Brian...

TFS Integration Platform Updated (Mar ‘11)

March 28, 2011 Mar 28, 2011 03/28/11
Brian Harry
Last week, we released a new, tested, binary release of the integration platform (the source has been on CodePlex for a while).  This release primarily contains a bunch of bug fixes.  The bugs came from our internal use of server to server synchronization tools, customer reports and internal testing. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn....

Professional Team Foundation Server 2010

March 25, 2011 Mar 25, 2011 03/25/11
Brian Harry
  A new book on Team Foundation server has just recently been released.  It’s an in-depth view of using the breadth of TFS 2010 capabilities and includes a lot of information on customizing and extending TFS. (image) I know the authors well (2 of them are on our team :)) and I can’t think of a better group of people to write...

Mid-west visits by Ed Thomson

March 24, 2011 Mar 24, 2011 03/24/11
Brian Harry
In early April, Ed Thomson, one of the TFS developers working on Team Explorer Everywhere will be making a tour through the mid-west US talking with customers and user groups.  If you are interested in learning more about TFS and Java or non-Windows development, I strongly encourage you to see if you can make it.  Ed’s a very ...

Discount ASP.net offers Urban Turtle add-on

March 24, 2011 Mar 24, 2011 03/24/11
Brian Harry
As you may know Discount ASP.net has been offering hosted TFS for a while now.  They’ve just launched an add-on of Urban Turtle that provides a great SCRUM experience on top of TFS.  They are offering a free 30 day trial so it’s a great time for you to give it a spin.  Learn more about it here: http://www.discountasp...

Team Explorer 2010 SP1 Bug viewing build summary

March 22, 2011 Mar 22, 2011 03/22/11
Brian Harry
The dangers of late breaking changes :(.  In the final weeks of 2010 SP1, we made a performance improvement for viewing build information from the build explorer.  Unfortunately, this was after the Beta and after our compatibility test pass.  The unfortunate result is that we missed a bug when you are using Team Explorer 2010 ...

Installing all the new stuff

March 9, 2011 Mar 9, 2011 03/9/11
Brian Harry
We released a ton of new stuff this week and this, of course, only adds to all the other stuff we have released.  I got a request on one of my posts to clarify what is installed where and in what order.  I’ll try to make sense of it all here. First a couple of principles: Now let’s look at what we’ve ...

Unlimited Load Testing

March 8, 2011 Mar 8, 2011 03/8/11
Brian Harry
Today we announced the release of the Load Testing Feature Pack.  This gives Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN users the ability to do unlimited load testing.  Previously you had to separately purchase Load Test Packs that each included the ability to simulate a certain number of virtual users and could be stacked to simulate very ...