We rolled out scenario cards as a way to give some navigation and advance organization to our content. Check out an idea they are testing in Windows Mobile.John Kennedy has some kind of image map as an advance organizer. He'd love any comments you might have as a device to give readers a better way to look for content.John Kennedy's Blog
I’m very curious to hear feedback from you on replacing orientation topics with a new thing: scenario topics. Every node in our table of contents that has children topics is what we call an orientation topic. It generally just contains a list of links to the topics. In some cases it includes some explanatory information about that topic area. • A...
New users of Team Edition for Database Professionals have asked how to manage reference data. For example, you might use reference data in a lookup table, such as zip codes, states, or any other data that changes rarely. You want that data to be the same for every unit test that you run, because the data will always be the same during production ru...
It's recently come to our attention that some users have been having problems opening the Team Foundation Installation Guide, available from the Microsoft Download Center. It turns out that this is not a problem with the installation guide itself, but a problem with all .chm files that comes up occasionally. If you download the installa...
The industry experts, Microsoft Services, patterns & practices, and VSTS team members have posted new branching guidance on-line. Here is the high-level overview: Go check it out here:http://www.codeplex.com/BranchingGuidance Enjoy,Q the document writer
Last month I created a blog entry and asked for feedback about combining the Team Foundation Readme and the Team Foundation Installation Guide. In the 10 responses I received, nine people thought that having all of the information related to setup in the Installation Guide would be helpful. I am working with everyone involved in creating and p...
Team Foundation Server is happy to announce the release of version 1.2 of Team Foundation Power Tools (formerly known as Power Toys). In this release we’ve added 2 new command line tools for the developer and 3 non-command line tools. This version includes some bug fixes to previous Power Tools, support for Vista, and ...
We have received several emails from users who want to know where the documentation for Work Item Tracking Custom Controls is located, so here is the answer. To view the documentation on Custom Controls: You can also check out Naren’s blog to view articles and examples of Work Item Tracking Custom Controls: http://blogs.msdn.com/n...
If you're still using Visual Source Safe for your source control needs, you should read Richard Berg's blog about the latest word on VSS and Vista.Let him know what you think!-=Susan
One of the Team Foundation managers recently asked me why we have a separate Readme document. The Readme, by definition, is for setup related issues, while the Known Issues document is for operational, non-setup issues. (You can view the Readme and Known Issue documents here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa902633.aspx) We alrea...
