Now available: Power Tools for Team Edition for Database Professionals with Service Release 1

August 29th, 2007

You can now download the first release of power tools for Team Edition for Database Professionals. By installing the power tools, you gain the ability to perform the following tasks:·         Use database refactoring to update files automatically when you want to: o   Move a database ...

New Content Available on Creating Custom Reports

August 28th, 2007

If you tried to create custom reports, you may have found that you needed more help than what was available. Today, we published new content on MSDN online to help you get started. Check it out, give it a try, and leave feedback so that we can continue to improve this content.http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb649552(VS.80).aspxAllen...

Available Now: Team Edition for Database Professionals Service Release 1

August 6th, 2007

In case you did not see an announcement on another forum or blog, Service Release 1 is now available for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. This update not only addresses bugs that customers reported but also adds a modest number of new features. The new features include the following:·     &...

How to find your Analysis Services server

July 25th, 2007

If you're developing custom reports, you need to know the name of the Analysis Services server for Team System so that you can connect to the Team System cube. Typically, AS is deployed on the data tier server. However, it can be moved to another server to get the load off the data-tier server. In fact, that's a really good practice. If you ...

Missing Proxy installation steps in the current installation guide

July 24th, 2007

 Hi all, The current version of the Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Installation Guide is missing a section from the topic on installing the proxy.  Specifically, the steps for actually installing the proxy are missing from the topic!  These steps should appear between the steps for installing the prerequisites and ...

Diagram-based articles on CRM

July 6th, 2007

In a continued bit of discovery, other teams are using a similar approach to the scenario topics we proposed on this site. The CRM team at Microsoft has posted this on their team blog.http://blogs.msdn.com/crm/archive/2007/05/29/worth-a-thousand-words-let-us-know.aspxThey got some praise in the comments from the CRM audience. I think it's fair...

Do pictures help

July 5th, 2007

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...

Scenario Topics

June 25th, 2007

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 ...

Managing Reference Data in Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

June 19th, 2007

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 ...

Having problems opening compiled Help files (.chm)?

April 13th, 2007

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 ...