VSALM Library Updates on MSDN for August 2010

August 26th, 2010

Lots of new and updated information in the August update to the Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management section of MSDN. Remember that many of these changes are a direct response to your requests and comments. We welcome your feedback and questions – either in the Community Content at the bottom of each page in the MSDN ...

Channel 9 video series: UML with VS2010 Ultimate

July 30th, 2010

Clint Edmonson, Microsoft Architect Evangelist, posted a video series about how to use the Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate visualization and modeling tools in your software development process: - Esther Fan...

VSALM Library Updates on MSDN for July 2010

July 27th, 2010

The Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management Developer Content team, aka the doc writers, prowl the blogs and forums looking for ideas that we can use to clarify our explanations of VS ALM. We also respond to community comments from the MSDN Library wiki and feedback. Once a month, we publish new and updated topics to the MSDN Library. ...

VSALM Library Updates on MSDN for June 2010

July 8th, 2010

Every month (more or less), the MSDN Library is updated with new topics, additions to existing topics, and even the occasional correction. Many of these changes are a direct response to your requests and comments. We welcome your feedback and questions – either in the Community Content at the bottom of each page in the MSDN Library or in...

Manging Technical Reviews with TFS & SharePoint

April 1st, 2009

I posted a note about managing technical reviews with TFS and SharePoint on my blog in response to BHarry's post on his blog.Allen...

SharePoint and Team System

October 8th, 2008

Over the next few weeks, a series of white papers are set to be released that discuss using Visual Studio Team System for developing solutions for SharePoint Products and Technologies.  Several of our UE team members were involved in this Ranger project.  You can find a link to all the whitepapers here.  Please let us know what ...

Feedback Requested: Common Tasks

May 1st, 2008

For our next release, we’d like your feedback about how we might improve our orientation topics. These topics contain introductory text, followed by links to and brief descriptions of other topics that carry a common theme, and we get frequent feedback that users dislike the current format. Please review the following post and share your...

Draft Documentation Update for Moving Team Foundation Server from One Hardware Configuration to Another

April 25th, 2008

We received word recently that the documentation for moving Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server from one set of hardware to another is not accurate as currently documented on MSDN.  We investigated, and discovered that an undocumented change to the functionality of the renameDT command invalidated the steps as they currently exist.&...

How to: Move Your Team Foundation Server from One Hardware Configuration to Another

April 25th, 2008

Important: This draft article has been finalized and is now available on MSDN.  ...

Sample Help File for Scenario Topics

December 21st, 2007

Last June I posted a blog entry proposing a new concept called “Scenario Topics”. (See http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsue/archive/2007/06/25/scenario-topics.aspx). The proposal was to replace orientation topics with scenario topics. Orientation topics are parent topics of a collection of related children topics in the table of contents. The ...