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VSTS pricing announced

March 21st, 2005

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...

Visual SourceSafe to Team Foundation Walkthrough

March 6th, 2005

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...

Team Foundation Dogfood

March 4th, 2005

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 ...

Installing the December CTP Release of Visual Studio Team System

February 25th, 2005

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...

Overview of Branching, Merging, and Shelving

February 23rd, 2005

I wrote a post for the Team Foundation blog providing an Overview of Branching, Merging, and Shelving...

Network programming links

February 15th, 2005

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...

Team System Feedback

February 15th, 2005

Paul D. Murphy has a few good things to say about Team System in his Oh man is Team System Sweet post...

BisRegEdit and related Dec. CTP mysteries

February 10th, 2005

Check out Jeff's new weblog. His post from Monday may shed some light on Dec. CTP mysteries if you've ever run into messages regarding bisregedit. Why BisRegEdit is sometimes the reported culprit of a failed install...

Using branching in source control to meet Sarbanes-Oxley requirements

February 9th, 2005

Someone posted this question recently in the newsgroups. I have a question concerning promotion processes using Source Control. Due to requirements from Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), we will need to have tight controls on source code that is being checked into UAT and Production such that it will pass an audit showing that is being tightly controlled ...