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In the Team Foundation forum a question was asked regarding CVS compared to Team Foundation Version Control.  Here's what I wrote. Of course, Team Foundation is much more than version control since we have integrated work item tracking, reporting, etc.I'm biased, of course, and I'm probably leaving stuff out.  I've used CVS in the past, b...

We've had a lot of customer feedback on wanting integration in VS 2003, VB6, etc.  The problem with the VS 2003 environment is that there can only be a single version of the CLR loaded into a process.  VS 2003 loads 1.1.  The TF source control integration requires that the 2.0 CLR be used.  Thus, our VS integration code won't ru...

Pricing is an important topic, and I've written several posts about it.  Today Rick LaPlante announced changes to the pricing of VSTS in response to customer feedback.Here's one part from Rick's post that I think will really make some people happy. One area where we received a lot of feedback was from smaller organizations looking to...

Many folks are interested in guidance on hardware.  In the Team Foundation forum, Brian Harry, Product Unit Manager of Team Foundation, posted the latest preliminary hardware requirements.If you are going with a single processor box (or if you want to maximize performance), I would recommend changing the warehouse update interval to reduc...

Mike Attili has a posted a couple of useful things for using the Team Foundation beta.If you are tired of getting the "Unable to locate control: ctl00oReportCell" message, check out his solution to elminating the problem in Eliminate ctl00oReportCell error in Team System Project Portal.He also provides a guide for setting up a group and assigning t...

In the Team Foundation forum, a user posted the following problem with Windows backup after installing Team Foundation Server, including the April CTP of SQL 2005. Prior to installing Team Foundation Server and Client I was able to use the Windows backup utility to successfully create an ASR backup and full backup of the server. After install...

The News & Observer wrote an article about Brian, Craig, and our office.Microsoft to expand small Durham office DURHAM -- Brian Harry jokes that he called Microsoft the evil empire before it was popular to do so. "I only ever worked for start-ups, and in those days, I viewed it as a behemoth," said Harry, 38. Now he runs a development office ...

Jeff Lucovsky posted a nice two-part series on setting up an RSS feed for your Team Foundation source control server.  Check it out. Team Foundation RSS Feed Generator for Source Control Part 2: What's my source control server doing? A RSS feed to keep track of checkins

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.

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...