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Be among the first to get Visual Studio 2010 Professional

Mar 11, 2010 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12. You should secure your copy today by pre-ordering at the (very affordable) estimated retail price of $549, a savings of $250. …

Visual Studio SQL Server

The Scrum Team needs another role

Mar 11, 2010 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

According to the Scrum Guide, a Scrum Team consists of the ScrumMaster, the Product Owner, and the Team. This works great, until issues, impediments, and dysfunctions are identified and its time to do …

Scrum

TFS 2010 Licensing - Multiplexing

Mar 5, 2010 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I was reading through the new Visual Studio 2010 Licensing White Paper released a couple of weeks ago. It contains a good explanation and examples of multiplexing scenarios. These sounded very …

TFS Azure Boards

No Branch by Label in TFS 2010

Mar 4, 2010 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

This came up today during a presentation I was giving. I didn’t realize you couldn’t do this from the new Branches in 2010. I did some research and wanted to share my findings. In TFS 2010 (RC), if …

Visual Studio TFS

Test Scribe for TFS 2010

Feb 5, 2010 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

This tool popped-up today during our Scrum Developer trainer-prep in Sydney. One of the teams decided to be over-achievers and delivered their test cases (and results) in a nice Word document format. …

Visual Studio Azure Test Plans Testing

The World Cup: How Sports Unites Us

Jan 25, 2010 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I was flying on US Airways and was reading their January 2010 issue of their free magazine when I came across an article written by Robert Tuchman. It was titled The World Cup: How Sports Unites Us …

Misc

I (Heart) Smart Elevators

Jan 24, 2010 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

In Paris for a week and working at Microsoft’s new "Le Campus". It’s very new and very cool. One of the coolest things about the building is the smart elevators. They are not a new thing, but you …

Microsoft

Generating INSERT statements to accompany your Database Projects

Jan 7, 2010 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Microsoft has yet to provide us with some kind of utility to handle the importing, managing, versioning, and deploying of data along with our schema changes inside Visual Studio Team System 2008 …

Visual Studio SQL Server

Team Foundation Server 2010 SDK on MSDN Code Gallery

Jan 7, 2010 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Until the regular SDK documentation on MSDN is updated for Team Foundation Server 2010, you can find information at its official home on Code Gallery. You will find the samples for the Team Foundation …

TFS