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Some Cool Posts

March 3, 2007 Mar 3, 2007 03/3/07

Brian Harry

I've seen some cool posts on our product over the past few days that I wanted to bring to your attention. I also wanted to mention that this weekend is a big weekend for us. This is the weekend that we upgrade the DevDiv TFS server to an Orcas build. We've spent the last month preparing for it - testing, perf testing, load ...

Updated VS 2005 SDK Available

March 2, 2007 Mar 2, 2007 03/2/07

Brian Harry

Wow, it's hard to keep up with all of the cool stuff for me to talk about! Yesterday we released an updated version of the VS SDK and it's full of lots of cool new stuff. You can download it here if you want to check it out. You can also read more about it in eWeek. I won't list the wide array of improvements, but we (the TFS...

Visual Studio Orcas March CTP is Available!

March 1, 2007 Mar 1, 2007 03/1/07

Brian Harry

The Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available and now contains TFS. In this you will find the majority of the feature work we plan to do for our Orcas release. I appreciate those of you who can look it over and give us feedback. Use http://connect.microsoft.com to give us the feedback (or, if you want, you can comment on ...

Upcoming VSTS Webcasts

February 28, 2007 Feb 28, 2007 02/28/07

Brian Harry

An MS field group in Canada is putting together a series of web casts on VSTS to try to address areas of commonly asked questions (starting with licensing - one of the most commonly asked :)). Here's a blog post from Adam on the schedule - check'em out... http://blogs.msdn.com/adamga/archive/2007/02/27/new-vsts-webcasts.aspx Topics ...

Managing Quality (part 5) – Dr. Watson

February 27, 2007 Feb 27, 2007 02/27/07

Brian Harry

We receive a lot of quality feedback directly from customers and we use that information help direct our investments in bug fixing and testing. One of the tools we use to collect customer feedback is called "Dr. Watson". All of our applications are instrumented to observe any unexpected condition - crash, exception, internal ...

Yet More Team Foundation Server Power Tools

February 23, 2007 Feb 23, 2007 02/23/07

Brian Harry

I went on vacation for a few days this week and lo and behold while I'm gone the team has released our next version of the TFS Power Tools (formerly Power Toys). We've numbered it Version 1.2 but I prefer to refer to it as the Feb '07 release. There's a grab bag of new stuff in this release, including: You can ...

Case Studies for Visual Studio Team System

February 15, 2007 Feb 15, 2007 02/15/07

Brian Harry

I frequently hear requests from customers for case studies that demonstrate the return on investment (ROI) of adopting Team System. We've just completed a couple and posted them on MSDN. Here are the two new ROI case studies: Along side them you will find an array of other Team System case studies. Hopefully you'll find this...

Managing Quality (part 4) – Stress Testing

February 11, 2007 Feb 11, 2007 02/11/07

Brian Harry

The goal of our stress testing is to run an application under load for an extended period of time and capture all "failures". The purpose is to uncover race conditions, long term resource leaks, and bugs that only occur as the result of unexpected sequences or combinations of operations. Mostly we focus on server stress testing, ...

Problems installing TFS SP1

February 8, 2007 Feb 8, 2007 02/8/07

Brian Harry

For a while now I've been seeing people struggling with some TFS SP1 install issues and I've been silent about it for too long. I was waiting for my team to investigate the issues and compile a summary. I appologize for not speaking up about it sooner. The vast majority of issues come down to a tool we have called TFSQuiesce....