Brian Harry's Blog

June DevDev TFS statistics

June 23, 2006 Jun 23, 2006 06/23/06

Brian Harry

The biggest area of growth in the last month is in work item tracking activity.  The reason is that we hooked up a mirror between our "old" work item tracking system and TFS.  This means that changes in each system is being replicated into the other.  This has added some additional load to the server (although the increment is ...

New TFS MSSCCI Provider is available!

June 21, 2006 Jun 21, 2006 06/21/06

Brian Harry

Today we have released an update to the TFS MSSCCI provider.  It is available for download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=87E1FFBD-A484-4C3A-8776-D560AB1E6198&displaylang=enTry it out and let us know what you think.  I've repeated the feature list from a previous blog post: Support for ...

Tech Ed 2006

June 18, 2006 Jun 18, 2006 06/18/06

Brian Harry

Last night I returned from Tech-Ed 2006.  I got  to do one presentation on TFS - sort of a "day in the life demo".  Unfortunately feeback was mixed - some people loved it but the pattern in the negative feedback was that the screen resolution was too high making it too hard to see and that I tried to cover too much stuff and ...

Stuff in the pipe for Team Foundation Server

June 15, 2006 Jun 15, 2006 06/15/06

Brian Harry

Just a brief note about stuff coming down the pipe for TFS... MSSCCI Provider We are working on a new release of the MSSCCI provider.  It will have a variety of fixes for bugs that you have reported and that we have found internally.  Some of the notable improvements include: Support for Enterprise Architect and PowerBuilder...

TFS statistics queries

June 12, 2006 Jun 12, 2006 06/12/06

Brian Harry

You know how it goes - somehow there's just never enough days in the week to get everything done you want to get done.  A couple of weeks ago I promised to post the queries I use to collecting statistics on our server - and other than feeling bad about it, I haven't done much. I'm at Tech Ed this week and looking for any excuse to avoid ...

Deploying TFS in the Developer Division at Microsoft

May 17, 2006 May 17, 2006 05/17/06

Brian Harry

You haven't heard from me for a while because I've been taking a bit of a break for the past month to help out at home with our new daughter.  I returned to work on Monday.  As I'm getting back into the swing of things, I thought it would be a great time to write a new blog post.  I apologize for the length – there’s...

TFS MSSCCI Provider Available Now!

April 6, 2006 Apr 6, 2006 04/6/06

Brian Harry

The new drop of the TFS MSSCCI provider is available now - even in the week we said it would be.  See, we don't always miss our schedule :) The great new features and supported IDEs are listed in my last blog post.  Please download the drop from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=32202966-EF04-442F-8C5C-...

Update on the TFS MSSCCI Provider

March 24, 2006 Mar 24, 2006 03/24/06

Brian Harry

We are in the process of releasing an updated MSSCCI provider to work with the released version of Team Foundation Server.  We expect to post a new drop the week of April 3rd (no exact day at this point :)).  The coding and testing is pretty much done and we're just working through the release mechanics now. This new build will have ...

Team Foundation Server and the Future

February 22, 2006 Feb 22, 2006 02/22/06

Brian Harry

As you can tell from the cadence of releases and information coming out, TFS 2005 is getting pretty close to shipping.  We've entered what we call "escrow".  That means we think we've fixed everything we need to fix and are performing our final full test pass to ensure that there haven't been any new bugs introduced recently or ...

Update on the TFS MSSCCI Provider

February 22, 2006 Feb 22, 2006 02/22/06

Brian Harry

I want to appologize for the problems people have experienced with strong name signing and the updated MSSCCI provider.  We should not have posted it with a manual work around of disabling strong name signing for the test key.  Although many developers will already have it disabled for testing their own code, it's generally a bad ...