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2008 Installation Questions
Now that the 2008 wave of developer products has shipped I've seen a ton of questions about downloading and installing them. In this post I'm going to tackle answers to all of the questions I've seen around VSTS/TFS. 1) Hey you guys say you shipped TFS but where do I get it? This is the most common and, unfortunately, most complicated question. There's a multi-part answer to that question depending on that exactly "it" is. TFS 2008 Trial Edition - If you haven't purchased TFS 2008 yet or you want to try it out on a new server, you can download and install the TFS 2008 Trial Edition. It can later...
Team System MSDN Chat on December 5th
We have another MSDN hosted chat coming on December 5th. This would be a great time to ask all of your remaining last minute questions about VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 and .NET 3.5 now that they have shipped. As we've been doing, we'll have 2 at different times to help accomodate differing timezones around the world. It looks like I have a customer meeting and will have to miss the first one, but I plan to be at the second one. Here's the detail... Join the chat on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time. Add to Calendar | Additional Time Zones  ...
Upcoming Power Tool Release for TFS 2008
Now that the 2008 wave of products have shipped, many of you are probably beginning to ask yourselves - "hey, what about the Power Tools"? I know this because I've been bombarded with emails about it today :) We have a plan :) I wish I could announce that they were ready to go but unfortunately we just weren't able to get them all ready at the same time as getting Orcas shipped. Here's our schedule for delivering updates... The week of 11/26 VSTS Web Access - We released a CTP that is compatible with the TFS 2008 object model a couple of months ago. This build will continue to...
New 2008 features
I didn't post a big list of features with my announcement post an hour or so ago. However, here is a pointer to the final list of TFS 2008 features I posted a couple of months ago. http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/08/08/final-tfs-2008-feature-list.aspx Also, Jeff Beehler has produced a very nice indexed feature list that covers all of VSTS http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-team-system-2008-ships.aspx Brian
VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 are Shipping!
Today (Nov 19th, 2007) we released Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System (including Team Foundation Server) 2008. It may seem a bit anti-climactic after all of the CTPs and Betas along the way, however, it's a thrill to have it done, broadly available and fully supported. You can go to http://www.microsoft.com/vstudio to find the download link. You can also read http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar for more information. This has really been a pivotal product cycle for us. Microsoft has had a reputation for shipping product much later than originally anticipated. With our 2008 releas...
A new TFS to TFS Migration Tool
What's that you ask and why would I want it? As you know TFS stores a ton of lifecycle data about application development - source code, change history, tasks, bugs, historical data, ... If you use the TFS client tools, all of that data goes in and comes out of TFS very nicely. However, there are lots of scenarios where that isn't quite what you want. The first set are around "legacy systems" and involved questions like. To help answer these kinds of questions, we built something called the TFS Migration & Synchronization Toolkit. This toolkit helps you build tools that let TFS ...
Good Article on DBPro & Team Build
Gert Drapers wrote an article on using VSTS Database Edition with TFS's "Team Build" automated build feature. Check it out...Brian
VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Release is near!
Yesterday at TechEd in Europe, Soma announced that the 2008 wave of developer products (VS, VSTS, TFS & .NET 3.5) will ship this month (November). We've been saying for a long time now that it would be this year but, despite repeated requests, we've refused to be more specific :). Now we've narrowed it down to the month. Don't bother asking me the day or the week - because I can't say :) It's going to be a great release and I'm thankful to all of you who helped test the Betas and gave us feedback along the way. My next post on the subject should actually be announcing the release! Bria...
November '07 DevDiv Dogfood Statistics
It's been a while since I wrote about the DevDiv TFS statistics. Sorry about that, I guess it's just been a really busy summer. Usage continues to climb steadily and we are just now beginning the rollout to the rest of DevDiv. The next version of VS/.NET will be built entirely using TFS - no more usage of the older internal tools. It's been exciting and challenging getting ready for that. The numbers you'll see below (while much larger than what I published in Aug) are actually quite a bit smaller than what they might have been. We have been doing quite a lot of server clean up in p...