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Eric Lee of Counterpunch Software (former Softie) has started posting about Orcas features in the March CTP.First, he goes through a list of new features with some screenshots. A Baker's Dozen of New Features in Orcas There is nothing like having a new version of Visual Studio to play around with :) Not that Visual Studio 2005 is all that old, but...

I recently needed to test a new checkin policy that I wrote.  In order to do that, I needed to enable a checkin policy for the unit test's team project using the version control API.  I was a little surprised when it wasn't quite as obvious as I had hoped, and I had to poke around in the source to figure it out.  So, I thought I'd po...

The Visual Studio 4.0 SDK was released today.  Here's the announcement. On behalf of the VS Tools Ecosystem team, we are pleased to announce that after months of hard work, we have completed shipping the VS SDK 4.0 RTM release! We have done tons of work to make this release friendly to developers who are new to Visual Studio extensibility. It...

Here's the announcement.  Please download the TFS Virtual PC image and let us know what you think.  Except for build scheduling, this CTP contains all of the new Team Build features, including continuous integration. We are excited to announce that the Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” March 2007 CTP is now available publicly&n...

The WorkspaceMapping.xml file is one of the files generated when creating a new build type.  Those of you who've had to customize a build are probably familiar with the TfsBuild.proj file, which is the top-level file used to orchestrate the build.The WorkspaceMapping.xml file is used by one of the custom tasks to create the TFS workspace that ...

Below are highlights from the Feb. 7 VSTS MSDN Chat (the full transcript is attached to the bottom of this post).  I hadn't participated in one in a quite a while.  We got quite a few questions, and there were lots of folks from the product team on hand to answer the questions.  Keep an eye out for the next one. General JMan...

Adam Gallant is putting together a series of webcasts on VSTS topics, including one on licensing (licensing always seems to generate plenty of questions).  The webcasts will occur over the next couple of months.  His post has all of the details. New VSTS WebCasts... more...tags: vsts, visual studio team system, tfs, team foundation

Jeff has posted a nice GUI for creating event subscriptions.  This tool makes the process less arcane and error prone.  Check it out! Team Foundation Server Event Subscription Tool To set up advanced subscriptions, you needed to use bissubscribe.exe. This is problematic, because the command-line syntax is complicated, and also because bis...

We are happy to announce the release of  version 1.2 of Team Foundation Power Tools (formerly known as Power Toys).  This version includes some bug fixes to previous power tools, support for Vista, and adds the following new functionality: Please note that the Process Template Editor has some additional pre-requisites, they are...

Ameya recently wrote about the new Radius tool from 90 Degree Software.  I stumbled across a new Channel 9 video demonstration of it: Radius: What. How. Why.  If you use or are interested in the reporting feature of TFS, this may be helpful. Technorati tags: tfs, team foundation, reporting