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I have just pushed out a few more changes to the Builder Bob of TeamPatter[1][2]. It won't be long and I'll be able to push this out to CodePlex for share. It occurred to me that I had not widely shared the Live Agent name. You can add it to your windows live messenger and play with it at teampatter@live.com. It will be up and down a lot as I have ...

Where I show a very simple time entry control implementation for TFS and discuss the sad lack of wider ISV partner products for TFS. The topic of time keeping in relation to Team Foundation Server (TFS) work items is always popular or infamous depending on your point of view. On various lists I participate the topic comes up with some regularity. ...

I'm finally pushing out the first TeamPatter samples. Look for a follow up post with the agents LiveId. Weeks overdue but I had some infrastructure issues I had to resolve on my host and it just took me a while to get around to it. :-( You'll be communicating to a Live Agent that is then interacting with a TFS Server (2008) on your behalf in the ...

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. I'll ask and get back to you.

I've been tossing around for a few years now some 'better living through IM' tools to tie into the Team Foundation Server (TFS) toolset. I have a not-even-started-yet-over-a-year-old project called TeamPatter on CodePlex to prove it. It's been one of my favorite TODO items to never do. I have begun to actually code and generate some proof of ...

I hate having to concede a technical design that just doesn't work. It's a good learning experience but also painful. I have been working on some TFS custom work item controls and I have a scenario that has kicked my proverbial... well you get the idea. I'll not go into the design at it's shameful to me that it didn't work. :-) Seriously, it was ...

I'm very interested to see what this potential PSDrive provider for the TFS repository does and looks like.  Bennie... bring it on. I'd like to see what your thoughts are. I'll be patiently waiting.

In the MSDN Team Foundation - Build Automation Forums someone asked last night about restricting access so that only specific users could kick off specific build types. The question below: ''Is it possible to set up different permissions for different builds in the same TFS project? Currently, we have Dev build, QA build and Prod build, and we ...

I ran into an issue yesterday in which I had a freshly minted team build failing on 1 specific project. I reached out to others with the comments below hoping someone could help me. It turns out despite my last statement in the post about being at a total loss that I was not at all in such a loss but had already identified the issue in ...

Synopsis: If you go to the TSWA web site and you have no team projects you get the errors that follows. If you are installing the latest and greatest in the Power Tools for TFS and have installed Team System Web Access (TSWA) you may decide to try out the TSWA URL immediately after installing the tool. This is fine if you have used your TFS ...

I had planned to install this evening, multiple times, Visual Studio Team System Beta 2. Trying out a number of scenarios. I also had a standing problem that despite any port forwarding rules I was applying to my Actiontec MI424-WR router from Verizon (FIOS) I could get no access to the ports I specified. I found out I was not alone. It just ...

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 said it would be out shortly when Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 came along. Well, that ...

I'm working on my next Rough Cuts in Technology Microcast. This session will be on installing WSS 3.0 for use as the Team Site portals for Team System team projects. It's outlined in a TechNote but that doesn't stop folks from liking a visual representation and a verbal walk through. I have taken the screen captures and have begun to ...

Decision Points: the perfect term to describe a lot of what organizations do in Team System implementation planning. I was speaking with a potential client today about their plans on a move into the Visual Studio Team System space. It was the standard discussion about where they are now, where they wish to go, how quickly they wish to get ...

I consult a fair amount with Microsoft Team Foundation Server, though not nearly as much as I would desire. DAMN YOU, MOSS. As part of that I try to keep up with what similar products do and don't do and how they do it, especially in the area of application lifecycle management. I recently was consulting with a client in which MKS had ...

Here is a great post from Neno Loje on what to have prepared before starting a TFS install. Very succinct and a easy to read. An example from the list: In large organizations: Request »TFSService« and »TFSReports«Don't forget to request the two domain accounts (TFSService and TFSReports) in time! It may inspire me to post a similar list but one ...

... go to the Team System SIG. Some info here and link from there to more info (I think).

There is a must read article by Jimmy Li (a developer on the Team System group). It's all about the data warehouse in TFS and is a rockin' post.     Technorati tags: TFS, Team Foundation Server

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 create an account to edit the page. I promise the information is not used in any way, resold or ...

Do you need TFS work items as XML? I've looked around and haven't found an easy way readily available for people to get TFS work items out as XML. Do you need this? Some of the reasons I have found for the such a feature is the ability to take the XML content and have it brought into a Word 2007 document as custom XML that can then populate the ...

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 has a made a post Configuring Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server with Windows SharePoint ...

Anthony Borton posted about the results of the TFS Beta Exam beginning to come back. I naturally logged into Promteric and sure enough in my history it showed: TS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation ServerNEW HORIZONSMicrosoft071-510Passed I was pretty certain I had passed and in fact would have been embarresed had I not ...

My colleagues,Steve St. Jean and Ben Day , just sent me this from Brian Harry's blog, which I read religiously, but had not yet read this post. It states Microsoft acquired TeamPlain, you can find devBiz Business Solutions through the link. Hate to say it but a good case for non open source software. ;-)   Congrats, to both ...

The Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for Vista has been released for download. So much for my theory on the countdown for Defy all Challenges

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 Team Foundation Server Administration Tool  it does not support connecting to a ...