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Comments about Team System (VSTS, TFS, etc.), or whatever I see that I think is interesting.

Microsoft Live Labs

I'm sure you already know about this--and it's not technically what I focus on--but we list some...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 10/30/2007

Somasegar's WebLog : F# - A Functional Programming Language

I've been playing around with F# for a little while, but I hadn't gotten my hopes up that it'd end...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 10/26/2007

Data Dude : Database References

Looks like I'm out of date on some of my references. In the initial release of VSTE for Database...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 10/04/2007

Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries - ScottGu's Blog

It's not a big secret that I spent years programming in other languages before coming to...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 10/04/2007

Operations Guidance for Team Foundation Server

The TFS operations guide is out: Operations Guidance for Team Foundation Server It covers...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 10/02/2007

Great Post by Clark Sell: The VSTS Resources Map

I'm constantly asked for a "getting started" list for VSTS. I've saved and rewritten that same...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 09/26/2007

Love song to Attrice Sidekick tools

Attrice has some great TFS tools called "Sidekicks". I know I love them because They do things I...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 08/30/2007

Defy All Challenges/Visual Studio 2005 Extensions

This link has been available for quite a while, but I never posted it in my blog. It's easy to get...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 07/25/2007

Finalized guidance published for WSS 3.0 support (Jeff Beehler linkage and shameless topic theft)

Brian Keller had blogged previously on configuring the current release of TFS to support WSS 3.0 or...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 07/24/2007

IronRuby is out

Last night, the IronRuby team made the source code for IronRuby available. John Lam posted the story...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 07/24/2007

Weather Channel Windows Vista Gadget

Another cross-post here. Chad Brooks posted a link to a Weather Channel Vista Gadget for seeing your...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 06/05/2007

Advanced issues for VSTS testers - Cross posts

The guys over at SRL in Israel have posted some nifty topics on advanced testing (click here). The...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 06/05/2007

New Case Studies

KBC Bank is a Belgian-based bank with eleven million customers, and have developers and project...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 05/07/2007

TFS Migration Toolkit Preview

We've posted a preview of the migration toolkit over on Codeplex, and the PM for the product blogs...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 04/23/2007

Upcoming webcast on Team Test

I'll focus on web testing and load testing. It's next Wednesday for 90 minutes. The invitation is...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 04/20/2007

Shadow folders in TFS

After I've told everyone that it can't be done in Team System, Buck Hodges posts how to emulate that...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 04/16/2007

Sync points in Team System Load Tests

Sync points are something you can use to drive heavy load on a system. In some other tools, they're...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 04/16/2007

New Team System Roadmap posted

The first posting of the roadmap is available here. You can see the update on Brian Harry's blog...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 04/09/2007

Alternative design approaches

In the NCAA basketball tournament that just ended, we had 65 teams with a chance to win the...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 04/06/2007

More places to look for Team System Information

I just finished the OnRamp240 event in Charlotte yesterday, and there were a couple of items that...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 04/04/2007

Two bits: 1) How to test web services using Team System and 2) help debugging an install

Cory Foy put up a pretty good tutorial for Autogenerating Tests for Web Services using Visual...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 03/30/2007

An answer for those of you who wanted Browser-based access to TFS

For those of you who have wanted browser-based access to Team System, Microsoft announced the...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 03/26/2007

Vista Refresh for Visual Studio Service Pack 1 available

You can get it here:...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 03/07/2007

So what is a check-in policy?

If you're reading this blog, you're probably familiar with Team System check-in policies; we have...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 02/04/2007

Two more “getting started” links

I find myself sending this link on quite a bit: accentient.com/widgets.aspx. Calling the...

Author: David Scruggs Date: 02/03/2007

Thoughts about MSF

We're in that "New Year's Resolution" phase of the year, and I'm running into more people going on...