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As you probably already know, Orcas Beta 1 has shipped.  Internally, the product team is focused on finding and fixing bugs for beta 2 (and has been for nearly a month now). The release includes a Virtual PC image with all of Visual Studio Team System plus Team Foundation Server, which you can download now.  There's also an image that ha...

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the in the Visual Studio code name “Orcas” Beta 1 releases for Team Suite and Team Foundation Server. ...

Matt Mitrik, the program manager for the TFS migration tools, has announced the availability of the first pre-release version of the Team Foundation Server migration and synchronization toolkit.  If you are looking into how to migrate away from a different bug tracking or version control system, this is where you'll want to start.  Be sur...

I wrote posts when we hit 1,000,000 files (Nov. 18, 2005) and 10,000 changesets (Sept. 26, 2005) on the DevDiv server.  When you look at the April 2007 statistics (April 18, 2007) for that server, we're at 77,658,652 files and 204,556 changesets.  Clearly, that's a huge change in roughly 18 months. The file count climbs dramatically ever...

Sean Lumley, a developer on the VSTS web test team, has written a series of posts on using a new version of Fiddler to record web tests.  Sean worked with Eric Lawrence, who developed Fiddler, to incorporate new features that make this process much easier than in the past.  If you do any web testing, you'll want to check this ou...

[UPDATE 7/26/07]  Final guidance is now available. Brian Keller has posted information on how to get WSS 3.0 to work with TFS 2005, which has been a very popular request.   This approach has been designed such that the server will still be serviceable after the change (i.e., you'll still be able to apply patches and upgrade to Orcas...

Sébastien Monteil, C# MVP, sent me email about a tool on CodePlex called Fissum, which is a tray app that shows your work items.  That reminded me that back in September I wrote a post listing the tools for Team Foundation Server on CodePlex.  So I thought this would be a good time to post a new list.  It's great to see that t...

Aldo Donetti, lead PM on the VSTS globalization team, sent out email today about the newly released VSTS International Surveys.  These complement the previously released English language survey.  There are both language-specific and some country-specific surveys.  If you use VSTS in one of the languages and/or countries below, it wou...

This week the following question came up.  I've seen this come up before, and there are probably forum threads on it, but I figured I'd post it here.  Bill Essary provided the answer to the question.  As always, keep notes on what you do so that you can undo it if necessary. Question Is there a way to configure TFS to use fully-q...

Aaron Hallberg wrote a great post today showing how to use a custom task to better integrate other build tools, such as devenv (aka Visual Studio), as part of your build in Team Build. Building Non-MSBuild Projects With Team Build Building non-MSBuild projects in Team Build has never been a particularly nice experience...  You can make it ...