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Community Health for Visual Studio Team System– Part 1 (details)

As you read this blog post, you are part of the community for Visual Studio Team System. Having a healthy community is important not only for the long-term happiness of the customers (including yourself) but also the long-term success of the product. To help foster a healthy community, we have a working group called the Visual Studio Team ...

Community Health for Visual Studio Team System– Part 1

In the first in a series of blog posts, I begin to look at the various community initiatives for Visual Studio Team System, the metrics that give an understanding of "community health", and our plans for the next year in these areas. To read more, see http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsue/pages/community-health-for-visual-studio-...

New Content Available on Creating Custom Reports

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

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

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

 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

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

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

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 ...