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Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:54 AM

MicrosoftVSTS On Twitter With Updates From The PDC

If you are a twitter person like me and also a Microsoft VSTS junky you may wish to start following MicrosoftVSTS on twitter or send out the command 'follow MicrosoftVSTS' from your client. Hmmm... wonder if they are also posting to a Facebook location.
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Friday, July 27, 2007 2:57 PM

Ask and you shall receive - Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team System Install Guide

I was just asking Buck Hodges two days ago why I hadn't seen what the install was going to look like for TFS under Visual Studio 2008. I was specifically asking how it looked to upgrade the server side or to do a fresh install in the 2008 version. He
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Sunday, May 06, 2007 3:50 PM

You know what they say- When in Indianapolis...

... go to the Team System SIG. Some info here and link from there to more info (I think).
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Friday, April 20, 2007 6:32 PM

TFS Work Item XML Export Part 2

In a post a few days ago I discussed TFS Work Items represented as XML. I promised at that time to report when a wiki page had been created to collect stories (requirements) for the creation of a backlog I have created said wiki page. You may need to
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 1:28 PM

WSS 3.0, TFS and NOT Orcas

I try to avoid repeating the same news from the communities I am most closely aligned. I figure if I have read it so have everyone else that reads what I might have to say. But this is such great news that I couldn't help but pass it along. Brian Keller
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 4:53 AM

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for Vista - Released - so much for my theory

The Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for Vista has been released for download. So much for my theory on the countdown for Defy all Challenges
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 3:44 AM

TFS Event Subscription Tool

On CodePlex a project by Jeff Atwood was started for making it much easier to work with TFS Event Subscriptions . I imagine that you should expect another release out on the product soon. One of the deficiencie is that similar to earlier releases of the
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:37 AM

A Sample Four Day Team System Envisioning

I perform a lot of work with Team System often in some sizable companies. As such, I often do a envisioning, or POC phases with a client that can run from days to weeks depending on the nature of the client need. As an example of an agenda that might
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 12:56 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista release notes

Take a look at the Release Notes for SP1 to Visual Studio 2005 . Published today. Looks like I should soon find the actual release version of the service pack. Woohoo. Technorati tags: VSTS , TFS , Vista
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:06 PM

Team System Chat a surreal experience

It was a surreal experience in the Team System Chat that occurred today. What was surreal about it you ask? Well, that on the question asking side was Eric Lee . It was strange to see him as a participant asking questions of the experts versus being on
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Friday, January 12, 2007 4:47 PM

Your longest running team project

*Note- I actually started this post November 1, 2006 and it has sat in my Draft folder for some time. I had a friend ping me about some screwed up work item fields in some projects and this reignited my need to push this post out. I spend a lot of time
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Monday, January 08, 2007 2:26 PM

Impact Assessment in TFS Work Item Fields

In the CMMI template for work items in the analysis tab of a requirement the amount of text is very limited- 247 ascii characters by my count. I haven't looked at the database to see what the field definition says. Nonetheless, I find this very limiting
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:13 AM

I'm honored to now be a new Microsoft MVP

I received a wonderful piece of email in my inbox today. The mail was an award and recognition as a Microsoft MVP . I joined the ranks of some very well respected folks in the MVP category of Visual Developer - Team System . We're a small group and I
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7:39 AM

TeamSysPUG

Don't forget if you are in the Boston area on Thursday, Dec. 21st (that's two days away from when this was posted) and have an interest in Visual Studio Team System drop in for the first monthly meeting of the Team System Public User Group. You can find
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Monday, December 18, 2006 11:43 AM

Data Dude- "Dude..."

I finally got around to using Data Dude a.k.a Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. All I can say is DUDE! This product rocks. I have to say I am exceptionally excited about adding this tool to the arsenal of tools we use in our development.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10:56 AM

Team System Public User Group

I'm proud to announce the first monthly meeting of the Team System Public User Group (TeamSysPUG) in the Boston Metro area. The meetings will be the third Thursday of each month. You can find more details at the website but not much more. I have yet to
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Sunday, November 12, 2006 8:18 PM

Twin Cities Code Camp

As I write this I am at 39,000 ft. returning from Minneapolis. Does this sound like a post from last week? It starts the same and has a number of elements in the middle that are similar and I guess ends somewhat the same as well. This week I flew out
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Saturday, November 04, 2006 6:49 AM

An all day TFS/VSTS Chalk and Talk

I spent two days in the greater Minneapolis area this week. I was at Magenic corporate offices. Magenic is the company I am fortunate enough to work for. It was a great trip despite the fact that is was just downright frigid- 22 degrees Fahrenheit when
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 12:22 PM

Dark on the blog

I have gone dark on my blog the last few weeks as I have kicked off a new project centered around MOSS 2007, Office System 2007, VSTO and have moved to focus a lot on my book on TFS. I will still be focusing a ton on both so expect to see spurts of activity
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