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Welcome to the VSTS MVP Program - Martin Danner!

Jun 29, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Yet another Architect MVP has bitten the dust, to join the cooler crowd over here under the Team System MVP banner. Martin Danner is an experienced developer, project manager, and consultant in the …

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When should the next Desert (Phoenix) Code Camp be?

Jun 26, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Talk about "community-driven", Lorin Thwaits and the other coordinators of the Desert Code Camp are wanting your input on when 'camp should be held this next year. You can choose between dates in …

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VSTS "How To" videos have gone live

Jun 22, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Bookmark this page. For the next several weeks, Scott Golightly (Microsoft Regional Director from Utah) and I will be publishing several instructional videos around Team System. Currently, there are …

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Plug-in to Get Latest on Check-out

Jun 20, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Sela has created a great little plug-in to VS 2005 that will warn you when you're doing a check-out if there are later revisions of any of those files on the TFS server. Download it here.

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Cool DBA Automation Jobs

Jun 18, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I saw a demo of these at Tech-Ed, and thought I would share with my friends. Essentially, the Database Operations team at Microsoft uses a suite of jobs on all their servers for performing …

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Project Server 2007 VSTS Connector released

Jun 13, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

This week Microsoft released the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server – Project Server 2007 connector as a CodePlex project. The project has been up for a few weeks, but is now being broadly …

Visual Studio ALM

Did you attend our "Zero to Team System in Five Days" pre-conference?

Jun 12, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I apologize for the delay, but if you attended our PRCN05 pre-conference last week at Tech-Ed, you might be interested in downloading our demo files.

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Did you attend our "Zero to Team System in Five Days" pre-conference?

Jun 12, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I apologize for the delay, but if you attended our PRCN05 pre-conference last week at Tech-Ed, you might be interested in downloading our demo files.

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Orca not Orcas

Jun 12, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I just learned about this neat editor for creating and editing Windows Installer packages (.msi files) and merge modules (.msm files). Orca is just one of many cool installer tools by Microsoft. …

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