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VSALM Library Updates on MSDN for July 2010

The Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management Developer Content team, aka the doc writers, prowl the blogs and forums looking for ideas that we can use to clarify our explanations of VS ALM. We also respond to community comments from the MSDN Library wiki and feedback. Once a month, we publish new and updated topics to the MSDN Library. ...

Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 – Process Guidance

As Aaron Bjork decribes in his blog , we recently released a template for strict Scrum practitioners. The official name is Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0. Check out Aaron's blog post for the details. As he mentions, the guidance for this template is published on MSDN . This set of guidance takes a very minimal approach by simply trying to ...

VSALM Library Updates on MSDN for June 2010

Every month (more or less), the MSDN Library is updated with new topics, additions to existing topics, and even the occasional correction. Many of these changes are a direct response to your requests and comments. We welcome your feedback and questions – either in the Community Content at the bottom of each page in the MSDN Library or in...

Team Foundation SDK for VS 2010

We have just published the first increment of the Team Foundation SDK for VS 2010 . Several months ago, I commented on the negative trend we have seen for the TF SDK content, and I explained that we had started an effort to attempt to turn that around by taking a very different approach. We're experimenting and we'll watch feedback to see what...

Where are those Team Foundation namespaces?

Some of the namespaces in the Team Foundation client object model aren't in namespace .dll. Sometimes, the namespace is spread over more than one assembly. Here's a table to help you find the namespace your interested in, and to make sure you have the whole thing. (These are installed with Visual Studio 2010 at Program FilesMicrosoft Visual ...

Sample Code: Connect to Team Foundation Server

Connecting to Team Foundation Server programmatically isn't as obvious as you might expect. Here's a topic that describes how to do that that. It'll be included in the TFS SDK when we publish that. Let me know whether this info is helpful, and what else you'd like to see. My next post will cover doing some things with work item tracking. ...