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Microsoft Development Software for the "little guy"

November 6, 2008 Nov 6, 2008 11/6/08
Brian Harry
Something came across my desk today that really peaked my interest.  There was a discussion about how expensive software can be for individuals, startups, etc.  Someone forwarded a link to a new program that Microsoft is launching for startups that enables people to get a small startup going with just about all the software they need...

Feedback on the VSTS 2010 CTP

November 6, 2008 Nov 6, 2008 11/6/08
Brian Harry
About a week ago now we released a new CTP build of VS/VSTS/TFS 2010 and .NET 4.0.  I haven't heard much feedback yet.  I'm curious what you think about it.  Have you had a chance to download it?  Play with it?  Go through the walk-throughs?  If you have, please let me know what you are thinking.Brian...

Team System Database Edition GDR Release Candidate

October 28, 2008 Oct 28, 2008 10/28/08
Brian Harry
Yesterday Gert announced that the release candidate for Database Edition that enables support for SQL 2008 is now available.  Read more about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd/archive/2008/10/27/the-gdr-rc-is-here.aspx   Brian...

Tales from PDC 2008

October 28, 2008 Oct 28, 2008 10/28/08
Brian Harry
We have 12 talks on Team System at the PDC this year.  They include: TL47 Visual Studio Team System: A Lap Around VSTS 2010 TL52 Team Foundation Server 2010: Cool New Features TL03 Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: Software Diagnostics and Quality for Services TL09 Agile Development with Microsoft Visual Studio TL45 Microsoft Visual ...

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP Available

October 28, 2008 Oct 28, 2008 10/28/08
Brian Harry
Yesterday we released a CTP for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0.  This CTP also includes the Visual Studio Team System "Rosario" features and signals the end of separate "Rosario" CTPs.  From here on, Rosario will only be available in the context of VS/VSTS 2010 pre-releases. It's been quite some time since we put out a CTP and so ...

Update on the October TFS Power Tools release.

October 25, 2008 Oct 25, 2008 10/25/08
Brian Harry
A few weeks ago, I blogged about our upcoming Power Tools release and the really cool new features that are in it.  It's a big enough release that we decided getting some external feedback before releasing it was a good idea.  So about 2 weeks ago we released a preview to our MVPs and, in retrospect, I'm really glad we did.  ...

TFS and Fully Qualified Domain Names

October 25, 2008 Oct 25, 2008 10/25/08
Brian Harry
A while back I promised to blog about how to configure TFS with fully qualified domain names (particularly in light of changes in .NET 3.5 SP1).  Buck beat me to it so I'll just reference his post and you can read it to learn everything you need to do.  Let us know if you have questions.Brian...

Announcing DevLabs!

October 25, 2008 Oct 25, 2008 10/25/08
Brian Harry
This week we introduced a new website and yet another way to collaborate with the community around the future of our Software.  This new initiative is called DevLabs.  The goal of it is to create a forum where we can share with you projects that are still in their incubation phase.  We don't know what their future is or whether ...

TFS 2008 SP1 Hotfix for notifications is available

October 15, 2008 Oct 15, 2008 10/15/08
Brian Harry
Unfortunately, TFS 2008 SP1 had a bug that caused checkin notifications to fail when you've used the new tfsadminutil configureconnections options to configure the URL to your Team System Web Access site in order to get richer links in email notifications.  Yesterday we released a hotfix that you can apply to a TFS 2008 SP1 server and ...

Pre-checkin validation for TFS

October 14, 2008 Oct 14, 2008 10/14/08
Brian Harry
One of our new "killer" features coming in our TFS 2010 (Rosario) release is what we call "Gated Checkin".  It is a feature that enables you validate checkins on a separate build machine before the checkin happens.  I think of it as an evolution of continuous integration that scales a little better for large teams.  Continuous ...