Buck Hodges

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Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 CTP and Work Item Web Access 2008 CTP are now available

April 9, 2008 Apr 9, 2008 04/9/08
Buck Hodges
Hakan has announced the availability of the new TSWA community technology preview (CTP) in his post, What's New in TSWA 2008 SP1.  Personally, I would say this release is beta quality or better, so don't let the CTP designation scare you too much. Also released is the first CTP release of what we are calling Work Item Web Access (WIWA).&...

Now available for TSWA 2008: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish

February 5, 2008 Feb 5, 2008 02/5/08
Buck Hodges
The final set of localized versions of the Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool is now available. Here is a list of links to all of the localized releases of TSWA. We're always interested in what you think about the localizations, too.  If there are ways we can improve it, we would like to incorporate that feedback into TSWA...

Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 in Japanese is now available

January 31, 2008 Jan 31, 2008 01/31/08
Buck Hodges
Part of our plan for the TSWA 2008 Power Tool is to release localized versions.  Japanese is the first language to become available.  Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Korean are currently planned for release over the next month.Here's the download page in Japanese, along with a link to it. Team System Web Access (&#...

TSWA: Hakan now has a blog

January 29, 2008 Jan 29, 2008 01/29/08
Buck Hodges
Hakan Eskici is the program manager for Team System Web Access.  He's now blogging, and his first post provides some history on how TeamPlain became TSWA. A little bit about myself and Web Access Some of you might already know that I'm the Program Manager on the Web Access team in Team Foundation Server product group. In March ...

WiX to be included in the Visual Studio “Rosario” release

December 4, 2007 Dec 4, 2007 12/4/07
Buck Hodges
Rob Mensching has written a post about the WiX toolset being included with the Rosario release of Visual Studio Team System.  WiX is part of the toolset used to create the installation packages for Visual Studio, as well as being one of the first open source projects ever at Microsoft.  Whereas Visual Studio setup projects (.vdproj) ...

Visual Studio Team System chat – December 5, 2007

November 28, 2007 Nov 28, 2007 11/28/07
Buck Hodges
Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition. Hopefully, there will be a fair amount of discussion around the newly release 2008 version. I'm planning to be in the first chat. ...

How to uninstall VS 2008 Beta 2 before installing the final version of VS 2008

November 20, 2007 Nov 20, 2007 11/20/07
Buck Hodges
There have been a few questions about how to correctly uninstall all of VS 2008 Beta 2 in order to install the final version of VS 2008.  Scott Guthrie posted the steps for doing this earlier today.  A subset of this list would apply if you have installed Team Foundation Team Explorer 2008 Beta 2, rather than the full VS 2008 with ...