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ALM Summit Survey

Keith asked me to let you all know about a survey he is doing to help plan for a potential ALM Summit later this year.  We did the first one last year and it went pretty well.  It was clearly a V1 and had some rough edges but most of the feedback I got was very positive.  If it's something you are at all interested in, please ...

Code metrics produced from your automated build

One of the things about our 2010 product line that has embarassed me from the beginning is that there's no way to use our code metrics tools to produce data from an automated build.  Our tools only work in the VS IDE and on the loaded solution.  No longer!  We just released a Power Tool that enables you to run code metrics from ...

Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1 is Available

Back in November I wrote about the first Beta of Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1, and today I am proud to announce that the final version is available to download for MSDN Subscribers. **UPDATE 2/11/11** - the publicly available download (for licensed Team Explorer Everywhere customers) is now available: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en...

January 2011 ALM Documentation updates are available

A few days ago, we posted the latest updates to the online documentation.  Below is a summary of the new and updated content.  Perhaps the one I’ve gotten the mote requests for is information on configuring TFS for HTTPS. Team Foundation Administration: Planning and Tracking Projects   Brian...

Updated book for TFS Build and MSBuild

William Bartholomew and Sayed Hashimi just publised and updated book with great coverage of the 2010 versions of TFS Build and MSBuild.  It covers both high level framing of build organization and detailed drill down into "how to".  It's a great reference book if you are responsible for an involved build system. Inside the ...

Urban Turtle for Scrum and TFS

In November I started a series about “TFS as an open platform” and, as part of that I’m writing about some of the top tier 3rd party enhancements to TFS.  I wrote about Tasktop/Mylyn and Team Companion.  Today, I want to tell you about Urban Turtle. Unless you’ve been in a cave for the past 5 or 10 years, you’ve probably ...

Getting back into it after the holidays

I hope you all had a great holiday break and new year.  I just posted my first post since mid December.  I actually took a pretty sizable break from work this year and really didn't do any work at home other than skim mail to avoid being buried when I got back :)  It was a good break for me - lots of family time and plenty of ...

Japanese Team Explorer Everywhere SP1 Beta Available

In my post announcing the availability of Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1 Beta, I talked about the localization improvements we've made in this release.  For the first time, you can experience it yourself.  We have just released the Japanese language pack for the Beta.  It was available on MSDN subscriber downloads just before...