Combining Scrum, TFS2010 and Email to keep everyone in the loop Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Combining Scrum, TFS2010 and Email to keep everyone in the loopOften you will receive rich information from your Product Owner (Customer) about tasks. That information can be in the form of ... Combining Scrum, TFS2010 and Email to keep everyone in the loop 0 0 1
TFS 2010 PowerTools Released Matt deClercq, January 1, 0001 The TFS 2010 Power Tools were released on the 23rd. Check out the link for download and info. TFS 2010 PowerTools ... TFS 2010 PowerTools Released 0 0 0
A little primer on using TFS with a small team johndoucette, January 1, 0001 The scenario; A small team of 3 developers mostly in maintenance mode with traditional ASP.net, classic ASP, .Net integration services and utilities with the company’s third party packages, and a bunch ... A little primer on using TFS with a small team 0 0 0
Starting Spring Lineup onefloridacoder, January 1, 0001 This morning I finished removing all VS2008 related frameworks and installed items related to VS2010 based on posts around the community. Here’s what I started with on my dev laptop, the config for my ... Starting Spring Lineup 0 0 0
What’s new in VS.10 & TFS.10? johndoucette, January 1, 0001 Getting my geek on… I have decided to call the products VS.10 (Visual Studio 2010), TP.10 (Test Professional 2010), and TFS.10 (Team Foundation Server 2010) Thanks Neno Loje. What's new in Visual Studio ... What’s new in VS.10 & TFS.10? 0 0 0
Silverlight Cream for April 18, 2010 -- #840 Dave Campbell, January 1, 0001 In this Issue: CrocusGirl, Giorgetti Alessandro(-2-), smartyP, Pete Brown, David Poll, David Anson, and Bill Reiss. Shoutouts: Yasser Makram has a post up discussing Human Centered ALM with Telerik TeamPulse ... Silverlight Cream for April 18, 2010 -- #840 0 0 0
Upgrading from TFS 2010 RC to TFS 2010 RTM done Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Upgrading from TFS 2010 RC to TFS 2010 RTM doneToday is the big day, with the Launch of Visual Studio 2010 already done in Asia, and rolling around the world towards us, we are getting ready ... Upgrading from TFS 2010 RC to TFS 2010 RTM done 0 0 9
Imaginet Resources acquires Notion Solutions Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 Huge news for my company and me especially. http://www.imaginets.com/ne... With the acquisition we become a very significant player in the Microsoft ALM space. This ... Imaginet Resources acquires Notion Solutions 0 0 0
VS 2010 ALM Whitepapers – link from Neno Loje johndoucette, January 1, 0001 Overview of Visual Studio ALM Whitepapers by Microsoft Overview Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance Installation, Configuration & Administration Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual ... VS 2010 ALM Whitepapers – link from Neno Loje 0 0 0
Scrum for Team Foundation Server 2010 Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Scrum for Team Foundation Server 2010I will be presenting a session on “Scrum for TFS2010” not once, but twice! If you are going to be at the Aberdeen Partner Group meeting on 27th April, or ... Scrum for Team Foundation Server 2010 0 0 0
Articles on TFS Build Server / TFSBuild Martin Watts, January 1, 0001 I have decided to write some articles on using a TFS Build Server. During the past few years I have had the responsibility and challange of keeping one running, and I found out that on some subjects, there ... Articles on TFS Build Server / TFSBuild 0 0 0
So, what’s your blog URL? johndoucette, January 1, 0001 Asked by many of my colleagues often enough, I decided to take the plunge and begin blogging. After many attempts to start and long discussions about what I should write about, I decided to give my “buddies” ... So, what’s your blog URL? 0 0 0
CoolCommands for Visual Studio 2010 ChrisD, January 1, 0001 Gaston Milano has just informed me that he has a new version of CoolCommands for Visual Studio 2010. In addition to all the existing commands, the new release, now called CoolX, supports Context Explorer ... CoolCommands for Visual Studio 2010 0 0 0
How-to: Change Windows Hostname and Keep Oracle 10g Running , January 1, 0001 So I realize it seems like I'm posting a bunch of stuff on Oracle and little on .NET, but it's all related to a large Smart Client application we're developing for our client, using Oracle 10g; thus, it's ... How-to: Change Windows Hostname and Keep Oracle 10g Running 0 0 15
Team Foundation Server Merge Woes – TF14087 , January 1, 0001 In early 2006, we had a difficult bridge to cross as we were about to enter the Construction phase of our current project. Having 35+ developers building interdependent functional areas of the application, ... Team Foundation Server Merge Woes – TF14087 0 0 3
Hello from Heathrow! , January 1, 0001 It seems like the only time I have to myself is in airport lounges! As the post would suggest, I'm in the UK en route to Mumbai to visit my team, check up on things, enjoy some good Chicken Tikka... the ... Hello from Heathrow! 0 0 1
Deleting TFS Workspace Cache , January 1, 0001 Taking a break from my India-related postings…I must say, my experience over the past month working with Team Foundation Server has left an awful taste in my mouth. From licensing to migration issues, ... Deleting TFS Workspace Cache 0 0 3
Now Available: Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Virtual Machi... John Alexander, January 1, 0001 From a message from Brian Keller: “Back in December we posted a set of virtual machines pre-configured with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2, and 7 hands-on-labs. ... Now Available: Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Virtual Machi... 0 0 22
Guidance and Pricing for MSDN 2010 John Alexander, January 1, 0001 Sorry for the rather lengthy post here. I get asked this all the time so I decided to post it…Visual Studio 2010 editions will be available on April 12, 2010. Product Features Professional with MSDN Essentials ... Guidance and Pricing for MSDN 2010 0 0 6
Useful Tips for BizTalk 2006 to BizTalk 2009 Porting Arvind Chaudhary, January 1, 0001 BizTalk projects require some manual intervention in order to upgrade them. First of all make sure that you do not port single BizTalk Project from a solution. So the porting should be done for a complete ... Useful Tips for BizTalk 2006 to BizTalk 2009 Porting 0 0 1
Windows Azure XDrive kaleidoscope, January 1, 0001 This allows your Windows Azure compute applications running in our cloud to use the existing NTFS APIs to store their data in a durable drive. The drive is backed by a Windows Azure Page Blob formatted ... Windows Azure XDrive 0 0 0
BizTalk Cross Reference Data Management Strategy charlie.mott, January 1, 0001 Article Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/c... This article describes an approach to the management of cross reference data for BizTalk. Some articles about the BizTalk Cross Referencing features ... BizTalk Cross Reference Data Management Strategy 0 0 1
UppercuT – Custom Extensions Now With PowerShell and Ruby Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 Arguably, one of the most powerful features of UppercuT (UC) is the ability to extend any step of the build process with a pre, post, or replace hook. This customization is done in a separate location ... UppercuT – Custom Extensions Now With PowerShell and Ruby 0 0 1
Does Test Driven Development (TDD) improve Quality and Correctnes... David V. Corbin, January 1, 0001 Since the dawn of the computer age, various methodologies have been introduced to improve quality and reduce cost. In this posting, I will by sharing my experiences with Test Driven Development; both its ... Does Test Driven Development (TDD) improve Quality and Correctnes... 0 0 0
When should I use Areas in TFS instead of Team Projects in Team F... Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: When should I use Areas in TFS instead of Team Projects in Team Foundation Server 2010Well, it depends…. If you are a small company that creates a finite number of internal projects then you ... When should I use Areas in TFS instead of Team Projects in Team F... 0 0 12
Azure - Part 4 - Table Storage Service in Windows Azure Shaun, January 1, 0001 In Windows Azure platform there are 3 storage we can use to save our data on the cloud. They are the Table, Blob and Queue. Before the Chinese New Year Microsoft announced that Azure SDK 1.1 had been released ... Azure - Part 4 - Table Storage Service in Windows Azure 0 0 2
Firefox for NTLM secured sites Sarang, January 1, 0001 Spent the last weekend fighting to get firefox to connect to a sharepoint portal hosting my homegrown TFS instance's TFS/WEB and team project portal from a friends' place. Firefox is THE favourite browser ... Firefox for NTLM secured sites 0 0 1
Microsoft, please help me diagnose TFS Administration permission ... Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Microsoft, please help me diagnose TFS Administration permission issues!I recently had a fun time trying to debug a permission issue I ran into using TFS 2010’s TfsConfig. Update 5th March 2010 ... Microsoft, please help me diagnose TFS Administration permission ... 0 0 3
How to enable Forms authentication in Team Foundation Server 2010... terje, January 1, 0001 Forms authentication is not what “they” normally recommend from a security point of view, but in some cases it solves access problems. Particularly for companies which doesnt allow the Windows authentication ... How to enable Forms authentication in Team Foundation Server 2010... 0 0 2
Solution: Getting Silverlight to build on Team Foundation Build S... Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Solution: Getting Silverlight to build on Team Foundation Build Services 2010This is SSW’s first time using Team Build 2010 to automatically create a Silverlight application. In the past the ... Solution: Getting Silverlight to build on Team Foundation Build S... 0 0 6
Microsoft MVP Summit 2010 Kevin Grossnicklaus, January 1, 0001 Since everyone else is getting in their final thoughts…I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon. For anyone who hasn’t been following me on Twitter or Facebook over the last week, I was fortunate enough to ... Microsoft MVP Summit 2010 0 0 3
Showing Progress in a .NET Console Application Abhijeet Patel, January 1, 0001 Showing the progress of an operation is trivial in rich client applications using a progress bar control of some sort. But what about .NET console apps? The Console class offers 2 static methods Console.Write ... Showing Progress in a .NET Console Application 0 0 5
Personal Kanban Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 I’ve been finding myself working on too many things at once to be effective. Things get 80% finished and then either forgotten until an external stimulus reminds me to complete it or languish far longer ... Personal Kanban 0 0 0
Using Gnome Partition Editor (GParted) to transfer Windows Server... Liam Westley, January 1, 0001 UPDATE 15 February 2010 : See Virtual PC Guy's Blog here for a crucial item of information about the Windows Startup repair not restoring the Hyper-V service as an automated service. Basically once you ... Using Gnome Partition Editor (GParted) to transfer Windows Server... 0 0 1
TFS 2010 Beta 2 to RC Upgrade Complete Matt deClercq, January 1, 0001 I performed an in place upgrade of a TFS 2010 Beta 2 instance to and RC instance yesterday using this guide: TFS Beta 2 to RC Upgrade Guide The overall process was relatively smooth. There was only one ... TFS 2010 Beta 2 to RC Upgrade Complete 0 0 0
Osiris Data has upgraded TFS 2010 from beta to RC in production terje, January 1, 0001 We have just upgraded our TFS production system to the RC from Beta 2. Upgrading and Migration were done in 1.5 hour. More than 75 team projects upgraded. Our 30 internal developers and some more external ... Osiris Data has upgraded TFS 2010 from beta to RC in production 0 0 1
How to fix annoying connection error to TFS server 2010 RC terje, January 1, 0001 This issue has popped up for some after having upgraded from Team System Beta 2 to RC. You have remembered to uninstall everything (as Jakob points out here: http://geekswithblogs.net/j... ... How to fix annoying connection error to TFS server 2010 RC 0 0 1
Upgrading from TFS 2010 Beta 2 to TFS 2010 RC done Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Upgrading from TFS 2010 Beta 2 to TFS 2010 RC doneVisual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 RC was released yesterday on MSDN. I am happy to report that today we successfully completed upgrading ... Upgrading from TFS 2010 Beta 2 to TFS 2010 RC done 0 0 11
VS2010 and .Net 4.0 RC available now on MSDN, Wed for public. Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 You can now get your hands on the Release Candidate version of Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 if you are an MSDN subscriber. MS also announced that it will make the RC available to all on Wed Feb 10. ... VS2010 and .Net 4.0 RC available now on MSDN, Wed for public. 0 0 0
Step by Step: Trac on Windows, how to install a brand new SubVers... Liam Westley, January 1, 0001 What is Trac and why would you want it? I have already documented in a previous blog how I restored my Trac backup from hosted-projects.com (see http://geekswithblogs.net/t... ... Step by Step: Trac on Windows, how to install a brand new SubVers... 0 0 14
What news in Visual Studio 2010 Mai Nguyen, January 1, 0001 Set your ideas free Create what you can imagine, build on the strengths of your team, and open up new possibilities. · New prototyping, modeling, and visual design tools enable you to create innovative ... What news in Visual Studio 2010 0 0 0
Everything you ever wanted to know about compression, but were af... James Fleming, January 1, 0001 I wanted to pull together all of my notes on compression I've gathered from various sources and bring them together here, in the hope that it would help someone else. All of this information is from reliable ... Everything you ever wanted to know about compression, but were af... 0 0 0
Delete work items TFS 2010 Matt deClercq, January 1, 0001 Seems as though the "destroywi" command has been moved from the Power Tools into the actual TFS administration executables. I case you were wondering here is the /? from the new destroy work item command ... Delete work items TFS 2010 0 0 6
Windows Azure Drive Sarang, January 1, 0001 The Azure team today released a few goodies. One of them is the OS release 1.1 and the other key release is the Azure Drive. This is brilliant implementation and will pave ways for some new patterns in ... Windows Azure Drive 0 0 1
Expression Blend 4 (SketchFlow) TFS Integration Matt deClercq, January 1, 0001 Looking to the future release of Expression Blend 4 I had some questions on how things will work with TFS. The main thing Iw as looking for was work item creation based on SketchFlow screens embedded within ... Expression Blend 4 (SketchFlow) TFS Integration 0 0 0
Free seminar on Visual Studio and TFS 2010 in Bergen with NNUG terje, January 1, 0001 We’re running a new 2.5 hour seminar on the new Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 in Bergen Jan 27th. See the agenda and invitation at the NNUG site. http://nnug.no/Avdelinger/B... ... Free seminar on Visual Studio and TFS 2010 in Bergen with NNUG 0 0 0
Searching TFS for code changes Sanjay Uttam, January 1, 0001 Eventually you're going to need to search their source-control for latest changes given some parameters. I recently came across a couple of handy ways to do this, using TFS Powertools (and Powershell). ... Searching TFS for code changes 0 0 0
Summary of VS ALM Ranger materials for VS 2010 Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 As you’ve probably noticed if you read my blog, the VS ALM Rangers have been busy the last week or so. Here is a summary of what they have released already and I’m sure there is more goodness to come! ... Summary of VS ALM Ranger materials for VS 2010 0 0 0
2010 Branching guidance released by the TFS Rangers team terje, January 1, 0001 A new version of the Branching guidance has been released (III), containing very good stuff on how to do branching. It includes labs, sketches and how-to’s. See http://tfsbranchingguideiii... ... 2010 Branching guidance released by the TFS Rangers team 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Requirements Management... Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 Even MORE ALM Ranger goodness can be found here. Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Requirements Management Guidance This Ranger solution addresses the People, Process, and Technology guidance for ... Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Requirements Management... 0 0 1