Not certain how Microsoft manages to get the incredible people we do to be our MVPs – but I am very glad we do! Today on a call i mentioned not having time to do blog posts for the new features in Visual Studio Update 1 and one of my MVPs (now one of my favorite MVPs) mentioned she would be happy to help.  By the time i had made it home i had two...

(The other one of Edward’s posts)  ***************************** If you haven't yet seen or heard about the new git-tf tool from Microsoft, this blog post probably won't make any sense.  So...  go check it out over at gittf.codeplex.com.  It's okay, I'll wait. Okay, got it?  Yeah, I know, it's cool, right?  Well, it is, but like any software...

  One of the Team Foundation Server Developers, Edward Thomson, reached out to me this morning: Any way I could get my blog with the fancy new VS 2012 styles? My answer was: “We are only doing this for the team blogs…any reason you aren’t posting to the ALM blog? Turns out he didn’t know to do this…Doh!…Shame on me!  Sounds like I nee...

 Just had dinner with one of my buddies in TFS and they pointed out a great post by Ed that didn’t make to the team blog: Enjoy! If you are installing a TFS Proxy server on a machine that is configured to automatically receive the proxy settings from your network (this is different than DHCP) you may have connectivity issues wh...

In the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP blog post one of the new test features listed was: Automatic updates for Microsoft Test Manager and Microsoft Feedback Client. Since these user interfaces do not have a the normal File, Edit, Tools, Help menu structure i thought it would be nice to show how this functionality is accessed/changed…     Fro...

  Update: We have moved the test case management features for Web Access to Visual Studio Update 2.   So when you install the latest CTP for Visual Studio Update 1 these test features will no longer be present.  We plan to re-enable these features in the CTPs for Visual Studio Update 2. For a final list of all the features in Visual Studio Upda...

11/26/2012 Update.  Note The final release of Visual Studio Update 1 now available, please see: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 now availableAlso Note the KB of fixes is now available: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2797915/EN-US SummaryVisual Studio 2012 Update is providing continuous value to customers, adding ne...

I have had a couple of people ask me about these new downloads appearing in MSDN downloads simply called something like: CTP of Quarterly Update for Visual Studio 2012 (x86) - (English). Unfortunately these downloads contained no description other than: “Statement of Support: This release has not been subject to final verification and valida...

Chris Kinsman wrote a great article on where to use PreEmptive Analytics for Team Foundation Server with best practices, implementation considerations etc etc for MSDN Magazine.  The best part i found of this article was the tutorial on getting started.  In talking to Chris i mentioned i would love to have a quick and dirty “primer” on the ALM Blo...

Marcel de Vries was one of the first people outside of Microsoft to receive Intellitrace builds, involved with almost as much of the planning as the feature PM (Larry Guger) and managed to find and file the first external bug on Intellitrace – so it is no wonder that it was Marcel PluralSight went to write their 5 hour Intellitrace course. 
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