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The Version Control Server blog has shown some signs of life.  Bill Tutt has written a couple of posts.  The first one is about the Orcas version control feature that lots of customers have requested: destroy.  The destroy command, which is only available from the tf.exe command line, will permanently remove the specified files and f...

Last fall, Clark Sell wrote a blog post called Stop, the build is broken!! that introduced a checkin policy that reported errors when the build was broken.  If you are using continuous integration where every checkin starts a build, you want folks to stop and fix build breaks when they occur, rather than pile on more checkins and perhaps ...

Naysawn Naderi wrote a post today stating that many of the unit test features in Team System will be included in Visual Studio Professional in Orcas. Here's the entire post, but I've highlighted part below that I think you'll want to read and perhaps provide feedback to the team as to your opinion.  If folks want this, you may want to op...

Since I've started using Outlook 2007 to manage my RSS feeds, I've wanted to have all of the posts show up in a folder, much like new mail shows in up the inbox.  I don't like have to scroll through the list of folders and visit each one containing an unread post.  It's just too tedious unless you have only a couple of feeds tha...

I'm posting this mostly to remind myself of where it is.  This came across on the internal VSTS discussion alias today. Visual Studio Profiler has a standalone installation: look for vs_profiler.exe in the Visual Studio installation CD/DVD. Installing that package allows users to collect, analyze and report performance data from command lin...

According to the following Microsoft web page, you can get a complimentary VS 2005 Standard Edition by attending "labcasts."  You'll have to go to the web page and read the rules, etc.  I thought I'd pass this along, since I stumbled across it tonight. The Mouse is Mightier than the Sword Defy All Challenges With Microsoft Visual Basic ...

A new high-level roadmap for Orcas, Rosario, and Power Tools is now available.  The Visual Studio Team System Future Releases web page covers these topics at varying levels of detail, with the greatest amount detail being supplied for Orcas, of course.  The Orcas TFS information is basically the same as what we've published before. Here'...

We have never had a web interface for Team Foundation Server work item tracking, much to the astonishment of our customers.  Well, there's a fix for that now.  And you can download it today (see below for details). Brian Harry wrote a post this morning about the acquisition of TeamPlain. Microsoft Acquires TeamPlain! Today we are annou...

Jason Prickett, a developer on Team Build, has written some very nice posts.  All of these posts only work with Team Build Orcas. The first one shows a very cool Vista sidebar which Jason has fiddled with a while back as a side project and finally got around to finishing it off and making it available.  His post has a screenshot as ...

Aaron Hallberg took a month off after the birth of his daughter, Stella.  Now that he's back, he's got a couple of interesting posts. The first one applies to TFS 2005 (aka v1) and shows you how to pass custom properties to each solution that you build.  It's something that a lot of folks have needed to be able to do, but the solution wi...