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VSALM Library Updates on MSDN for June 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...

Team Foundation SDK for VS 2010

We have just published the first increment of the Team Foundation SDK for VS 2010 . Several months ago, I commented on the negative trend we have seen for the TF SDK content, and I explained that we had started an effort to attempt to turn that around by taking a very different approach. We're experimenting and we'll watch feedback to see what...

Where are those Team Foundation namespaces?

Some of the namespaces in the Team Foundation client object model aren't in namespace .dll. Sometimes, the namespace is spread over more than one assembly. Here's a table to help you find the namespace your interested in, and to make sure you have the whole thing. (These are installed with Visual Studio 2010 at Program FilesMicrosoft Visual ...

Sample Code: Connect to Team Foundation Server

Connecting to Team Foundation Server programmatically isn't as obvious as you might expect. Here's a topic that describes how to do that that. It'll be included in the TFS SDK when we publish that. Let me know whether this info is helpful, and what else you'd like to see. My next post will cover doing some things with work item tracking. ...

SharePoint and Team System

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 ...

The “Last Updated” date on our documentation on MSDN

Some of you have noticed that our content on MSDN has a "Last Updated:" date indicator in light grey text just below the topic title.  Others of you have commented that the date is always November 2007, so the perfectly reasonable assumption is that we haven't updated any topics since then.However, this isn't true.We have made ...

Feedback Requested: Common Tasks

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...