Brian Harry's Blog

Cool work item add-on

April 9, 2007 Apr 9, 2007 04/9/07

Brian Harry

Sorry for so many posts today but I'm working through my mail backlog from last week and running across a ton of cool stuff.  Here's one someone sent me that enables management of work item hierarchies and a neat "recycle bin" for work items.  http://loicbaumann.blog.com/1664355/  Brian...

TFS & Delphi

April 9, 2007 Apr 9, 2007 04/9/07

Brian Harry

I ran across this great post about getting TFS and Delphi working together and thought I'd share it... http://tikotal.blogspot.com/2007/04/connecting-team-foundation-server.html Brian...

Progress on devBiz Components

April 9, 2007 Apr 9, 2007 04/9/07

Brian Harry

Thank you for your patience as we work through the feedback we've gotten after announcing the devBiz acquisition.  The last open issue is feedback from customers of the devBiz components (devMail, etc.) that need a way forward for their use of the components now that they aren't being sold any longer. As I've said ...

Process for requesting TeamPlain refunds

April 6, 2007 Apr 6, 2007 04/6/07

Brian Harry

In an earlier post I described the refund program we are putting in place for people who purchased TeamPlain from devBiz just before they were acquired by Microsoft.  Refunds are available to people who purchased with 30 days before the close of the acquisition (in other words, any purchase on or after 2/26/07) if it is requested before 6...

Back by Popular Demand

April 5, 2007 Apr 5, 2007 04/5/07

Brian Harry

Due to the demand for the VSTS Web Access v2.0 preview, we have again made it available on the devBiz site here: http://www.devbiz.com/teamplain/webaccess/download.aspx This is a pre-release of what will become the TFS Power Tool release of the VSTS Web Access feature.  As I've mentioned before, testing has not yet been completed on it so...

Update on Team Foundation Server Roadmap

April 5, 2007 Apr 5, 2007 04/5/07

Brian Harry

It's been about 4 months now since I published the first Team Foundation Server roadmap.  A lot has happened since then.  For one thing, we've just about completed all of the feature work (final feature checkins will be this week).  For another, we announced the acquisition of devBiz - which I knew was in the works when I wrote ...

New Forum on MSDN for Team System Web Access

April 4, 2007 Apr 4, 2007 04/4/07

Brian Harry

In the last few days, we have launched a new MSDN Forum for discussions of Team System Web Access: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1466&SiteID=1 We have redirected the forums at the devBiz site to the new forum on MSDN.  We had originally anticipated waiting a bit longer for this but we were having ...

Update on devBiz Acquisition

April 2, 2007 Apr 2, 2007 04/2/07

Brian Harry

We're about a week past the closing of the devBiz (makers of TeamPlain Web Access for VSTS) acquisition and it's been a busy week.  There's been a lot of interest and questions and people are really excited.  Clearly there have been a lot of comments on my blog and on the devBiz forums.  I wanted to give you an update on some of...

Microsoft Acquires TeamPlain!

March 26, 2007 Mar 26, 2007 03/26/07

Brian Harry

Today we are announcing that Microsoft has acquired DevBiz Business Solutions, the makers of the popular TeamPlain Web Access for Team System.  TeamPlain is a web front end for VSTS that enables users to access the majority of TFS functionality from within a Web browser.  The focus of TeamPlain is on work item tracking but it also ...

New Guidance on TFS

March 26, 2007 Mar 26, 2007 03/26/07

Brian Harry

Check out the newly released guidance that the Patterns and Practices team has been working on for TFS: http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2007/03/26/vsts-guidance-project-update.aspxIt includes: Brian...