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Improving our communication with the community

I got some feedback on a recent post about how annoying it can be to track down information about VSTS.  The post complained about lack of "official" content and blog posts that chain to other blog posts etc. Well a few of us got together recently to talk about the problem.  It's been a long standing one.  Publishing "official" ...

TFS/Project Server 2007 Connector

I've written before about the TFS <-> Project Server 2007 Connector that the VSTS Ranger team built.  Check out this new Channel 9 video with Lenny (one of the developers of it).  He talks a bit about the Rangers and the projects they have undertaken.  Then he talks in more depth about the Project Server Connector -  ...

TFS 2008 Beta 2 expiration date

I responded earlier to a comment on one of my posts about the Beta 2 expiration date.  At the time I wasn't 100% certain what it is.  I have found out that it is March 15th 2008.  I know the Beta 2 TFS server will stop functioning on that date.  I believe the VS 2008 Beta 2 clients will also stop functioning on that date ...

TF30162: Task "SharePointPortal" from Group "Portal" failed

I suspect a lot of people are going to be seeing this message in the coming months and I want to get out in front of it.  This error occurs when you create a new Team Project using the TFS 2005 client against a WSS 3.0 server.  The most common way you will get in this situation is by install a fresh TFS 2008 server install and ...

Awesome Posters!

One of our partners in South Africa has been creating VS and Team System oriented posters for a while now.  I blogged about this 9 months or so ago but they just keep producing them and I thought it was worth another mention.  These posters are really handy roadmaps to various aspects of the product.  They have dozens of them ...

DBPro Power Tools released

The VS Team System Database Edition team has released a set of Power Tools to work with the 2005 version of DBPro.  There's a ton of really valuable stuff in here, including improved refactoring support, more data generation, msbuild tasks and more.  Check this out... Brian...

The Japanese version of VS 2008 Beta 2 is now available

日本のみなさん、おはようございます。 (image) Part of our work leading up to shipping a product is investing in getting ready for localized versions of it.  Today we released the Japanese version of Beta 2 and are looking forward to feedback on how well we've done.  Are any fields clipped?  Is the translation ...

Final TFS 2008 Feature List

 Gee, time flies when you are having fun.  I can't believe it's been another 4 months since my last post on Orcas features. At this point TFS 2008 is basically done!  We've got a few bugs left to fix and we are still taking feedback from Beta 2 but we're focusing on quality, stability and ensuring TFS works in a wide array of ...

Patterns & Practices releases TFS guidance

The Patterns & Practices team has just released some really good and pretty comprehensive guidance on how to structure your team development using Team System and Team Foundation Server.  It's going to be available in a variety of forms, including a book you can buy.  See JD's blog for more info on it: http://blogs.msdn.com/...

August DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

I think I missed posting dogfood stats last month - sorry about that.  It's just been so busy with all of the recent releases going on, it's been difficult to find time to do it. The “big change” in the past couple of months is that the Visual Studio central build lab is really making progress in enabling support for TFS (rather than ...