Visual Studio 11 Beta Downloads
Microsoft has made the Visual Studio 11 beta versions available today. #Awesome
I’m glad to see the lineup includes some familiar faces as well as some nice surprises (i.e. Microsoft Test Manager now …
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TFS2010 Build output to a Custom Folder Structure
How to output TFS2010 build output to a subfolder The scenario that exists is that I need to build a more detailed tree structure in the build output. I was looking for the least intrusive means of …
Read more →Scrum Power of 3 imbalance – Scrum Master as Product Owner
The question was recently posed to me – What conflicts occur if the Scrum Master is also the Product Owner? This can be seen as a workaround for not getting a dedicated Product Owner, which is …
Read more →Migrating Areas and Iterations from TFS2008 to TFS2010
I ran into a migration today where the client had scores of Area nodes in their TFS 2008 team project that they wanted migrated over to their new TFS 2010 team project. My usual "Well, if you …
Read more →Team Alerts in Team Foundation Server 11
Team Alerts are just one of the many new features coming in the next version of Team Foundation Server. They simplify the creation and management of alerts that impact that entire team.
For example, …
Read more →Thought for today: TFS build agents are like shared, network printers
Here’s your thought for the day:
Think of Team Foundation Build build agents like shared, network printers in a large enterprise. Each printer can be assigned one or more tags such as laser, ink, …
Read more →Run Visual Studio 11 ALM VMs on a 32-bit operating system
Like most Microsoft ALM geeks, I downloaded the Visual Studio 11 ALM VM the day Brian Keller posted it. One of the first things I realized is that the VM is for 64-bit operating systems only. This is …
Read more →Chicago Visual Studio ALM User Group: VS11 and Scrum
I was in town this week delivering a Professional Scrum Developer Train-The-Trainer (TTT) event. Last night I gave a presentation to a full room at the Chicago Visual Studio ALM User Group on using …
Read more →Microsoft launches Team Foundation Service Preview
There are many, many new and cool technologies and products being introduced, announced, and launched at //Build this week.
One of these is close to my heart: the Visual Studio Team Foundation …
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