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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 ...

Having problems opening compiled Help files (.chm)?

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 ...

New Branching Guidance For Team Foundation Server

The industry experts, Microsoft Services, patterns & practices, and VSTS team members have posted new branching guidance on-line. Here is the high-level overview: Go check it out here:http://www.codeplex.com/BranchingGuidance Enjoy,Q the document writer...

Putting installation issues in the installation guide

Last month I created a blog entry and asked for feedback about combining the Team Foundation Readme and the Team Foundation Installation Guide. In the 10 responses I received, nine people thought that having all of the information related to setup in the Installation Guide would be helpful. I am working with everyone involved in creating ...

Announcing Team Foundation Power Tools v1.2

Team Foundation Server is happy to announce the release of  version 1.2 of Team Foundation Power Tools (formerly known as Power Toys).  In this release we’ve added 2 new command line tools for the developer and 3 non-command line tools.   This version includes some bug fixes to previous Power Tools, support for Vista...

Work Item Tracking Custom Controls

We have received several emails from users who want to know where the documentation for Work Item Tracking Custom Controls is located, so here is the answer. To view the documentation on Custom Controls:  You can also check out Naren’s blog to view articles and examples of Work Item Tracking Custom Controls: http://blogs.msdn....