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New TFS offline support in Beta 2

July 30, 2007 Jul 30, 2007 07/30/07
Brian Harry
Matias did a very nice write up of the new TFS version control offline support that is now available in Beta 2.  I thought it would be good to share it with you.  He mentions one issue about having to close and reopen the solution - we are looking into that problem now.  Overall, the offline experience for TFS in 2005 was not ...

Upgrading to Orcas Beta 2

July 27, 2007 Jul 27, 2007 07/27/07
Brian Harry
With Orcas Beta 2 now available, I'm starting to see questions about the upgrade process and the availability and interoperability of other components (that don't ship in the box with Orcas).  Let me try to clear some of this up. VSTS Web Access - This is the new web UI (formerly TeamPlain) that we acquired a few months ago.  ...

Orcas Beta 2 download URLs

July 26, 2007 Jul 26, 2007 07/26/07
Brian Harry
Here's a long list of download urls to help you quickly find what you need... All the downloads are live!!! Below are links to landing pages as well as individual SKU downloads:   ·         Marketing launchpad http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/   ·    &...

Orcas Beta 2 is Available!

July 26, 2007 Jul 26, 2007 07/26/07
Brian Harry
Unfortunately, I don't have much time to write something up right now, but I wanted to let you know that Orcas Beta 2 is available today.  You can download it here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx You can also read more about it on Soma's blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/07/26/announcing-the-...

An interesting Agile viewport into TFS

July 26, 2007 Jul 26, 2007 07/26/07
Brian Harry
David Anderson (who used to work on the MSF team here a Microsoft) continues to be a strong advocate of Agile development practices and has an interesting idea for how to manage a virtual whiteboard based on TFS work items.  http://www.agilemanagement.net/Articles/Weblog/DigitalWhiteboardExperime.html Brian...

A Rosario Milestone

July 25, 2007 Jul 25, 2007 07/25/07
Brian Harry
Yesterday, we signed off on the release of the first CTP for our Rosario release of VSTS.  Rosario, as you may recall, is the code name for the release of VSTS that will follow the VS/VSTS 2008 (Orcas) release.  We have not (and will not soon) be announcing anticipated timelines for Rosario, so for now you'll have to be happy with ...

Finalized guidance published for WSS 3.0 support with TFS 2005

July 24, 2007 Jul 24, 2007 07/24/07
Brian Harry
Jeff Beehler blogged today about the final release of the WSS 3.0 guidance.  It hasn't changed much from the "pre-release" version but has incorporated some feedback.  If you have already successfully used the guidance, you are set.  If not, you can check this out.  Of course, Orcas is coming pretty soon and it has WSS 3.0 ...

Update on adoption of TFS at Microsoft

July 24, 2007 Jul 24, 2007 07/24/07
Brian Harry
Our internal adoption team produced an update on our status this week and I thought I'd share the results with you.    We're now up to 21 TFS instances in production, hosting a total of 734 projects about 5,600 users.  2 of those instances are running an Orcas Beta 2 build.  3 are running a very early build of Rosario...

SR1 of VSTS for Database Professionals released

July 24, 2007 Jul 24, 2007 07/24/07
Brian Harry
Yesterday we released a servicing release for VSTS database role product.  The improvements include: • Cross-database referencesSupport is improved to enable you to reference objects in different databases by using database project references or referencing a database metafile (.dbmeta). This support will reduce or eliminate the ...

Cool checkin policy

July 17, 2007 Jul 17, 2007 07/17/07
Brian Harry
Someone forwarded this link to me the other day.  We get requests fairly often for a checkin policy that enforces comments.  Often enough that we released one as part of our Power Tools a few months ago.  However, this one looks better than ours.  I haven't played with it but it looks good.  I thought I'd pass it along...