The Visual Studio 2005 Team System blog functions as sort of a FAQ in blog form. They've started posting known issues and workarounds for the new beta release. The first two posts are about the problems antivirus software can cause during setup and what to do about AD/AM setup failures due to spaces in paths.
Did you install your beta data tier in Virtual PC or Virtual Server and see a high CPU load while its running? Even on real hardware, you may notice some load when nothing would appear to be going on. Someone mentioned on an internal mailing list that the data tier CPU load for a combined app and data tier installed in Vi...
Speaking of the forum, be sure to check out the Visual Studio Team Foundation forum. Folks like Mike have posted useful information, and lots of MS folks are answering questions. You may even get an answer from Rick LaPlante.The MSDN forums are nice, and they've obviously put quite a bit of work into them. The forums are supp...
Mike Attili has a nice post on fixing reporting service permissions, Problems with SQL Server Reporting Services Permissions. Bruce Taimana answered his post in the forum stating that was the correct way to handle it in the beta.
VSTS pricing is always a popular topic (see posts in January and June). Finally the speculation is over, and the pricing was announced publicly today.Microsoft Details Pricing and Licensing for Visual Studio 2005 and Simplifies Microsoft Developer Network Subscriptionshttp://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/mar05/03-21VS2005PR.aspF...
Akash has posted two articles explaining how to use the conversion tool, VssConverter.exe, to migrate from Visual SourceSafe to Team Foundation Source Control.Walkthrough for migrating from Visual SourceSafe to Team Foundation
We're rapidly approaching the time for Whidbey Beta 2. It is the first beta for Team System as a whole. As a part of that, we'll be using it as our dogfood system. I'm really looking forward to that, as each new dogfood "release" allows us to make more extensive use of features in the system. We also get features that w...
There's now a very detailed article on MSDN describing how to install VSTS on Virtual PCs.Installing the December CTP Release of Visual Studio Team System by David C. Bost
I wrote a post for the Team Foundation blog providing an Overview of Branching, Merging, and Shelving.
Adarsh Khare, who is a tester for the .NET networking classes, has useful blog. Recent posts include the new NetworkInformation namespace that includes things like network availability events and a reference to an MSDN article on running ASMX without IIS.
