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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 but I don't have 100% confirmation of that. So one question I've heard is - hey what happens if VS 2008 doesn't ship by then? Well, we've publicly said VS 2008 is expected to ship this year. Based on the best of my ability to predict these things, I'd say we are st...
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 choosing the default options and then using the 2005 client to create Team Projects. I'm already starting to see people hit this using Beta 2. The "full" error message in the project creation log looks like this: Event Description: TF30162: Task "SharePointPortal" from...
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 now. What got my attention today is that they just released two more But don't just stop there, check out the full catalog. Visit http://www.drp.co.za/. On the left hand side, click on Media and then Posters. You may wonder about the BPA one. I've ...
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。 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 good? Did we miss translating any portions? Do we handle sorting and other operations properly? Etc. If you are a Japanese speaker, we'd appreciate you trying it out and letting us know what you think. In the next few weeks we'll be releasing another wave of localized Beta 2 versions and I...
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 configurations at this point. As such, I expect this to be my final feature list post for TFS 2008. I hope you are happy with what we've done. Hopefully you've picked up Beta 2 and tried it out for yourself. We've really tried to focus on addressing thi...
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/jmeier/archive/2007/08/06/new-release-patterns-practices-team-development-with-team-foundation-server-guide.aspx Brian
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 using the mirrored legacy system). Some of the substantial increases in activity are due to the load they put on the system. For example, 5.7 million of the 36 million downloads are from the build lab. They’ve also been pushing the system in some ways that...
Work Item Tracking Enhancements in the Aug Rosario CTP
Perhaps, over the week end, a few of you have had a chance to play around with the Aug CTP of the Rosario release of Visual Studio Team System. This post is to give you a little bit of insight into some of the new things you can do with work item tracking. One of our primary focuses for this release is what we call "Business Alignment". This is about making sure you know what your development organization is doing, why they are doing it and how it is coming compared to plan. There are many features coming to support this goal and I'll talk about a few of them here. Some of them you can see...