Tag: ALM

Apr 20, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Yesterday, Microsoft's Developer Division (DevDiv) released beta 1 of Visual Studio "Orcas", which corresponds with the Connected Systems Division’s beta 1 release of the .NET Framework 3.5. …

Visual Studio ALM

Filing bugs from an ASPX page

Apr 17, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If you’d like to file bugs in TFS using a web page, perhaps for users that don’t have VS2005 or the Team Explorer installed, there’s a pretty clean example located here. Now, I hear …

Visual Studio ALM

WSS3.0 with Team System SP1

Apr 17, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Hallelujah! You can now use WSS 3.0 with TFS 1.0 SP1! This is great news!!! For those of you who haven’t seen WSS 3.0 as compared to WSS 2.0, you’re in for a wonderful treat! WSS 2.0 was …

Visual Studio ALM

Integrating Team Foundation Server with Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0

Apr 16, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Just to catch you up, Microsoft's Team Foundation Server v1.0 (released March 2006) only works with WSS 2.0. WSS 2.0 is the old version. WSS 3.0 is the new version, and launched with Microsoft …

Visual Studio ALM

Productivity Best Practice

Apr 14, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

One of the best things software development shops can do to improve productivity is to set Outlook to only check email once every hour (or 30 minutes at least). This is because people tend to take …

Preferred Practice Misc Visual Studio ALM

Shipping unit tests with your shrinkwrapped software

Apr 12, 2007 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Last year, at PDC, I sat down with Adam Cogan, of SSW, during an MSDN magazine party. Feeling the guilty pleasure of totally geeking out while a decent party was going on, Adam led a group of geeks …

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PEX?

Mar 28, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

PEX = Program EXploration (a Microsoft Research project). I'm not really sure what this is, but a fellow RD, Barry Gervin, pointed it out to some of us MVPs recently after he visited a Microsoft …

Visual Studio ALM Testing

A flurry of VSTS announcements

Mar 28, 2007 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I've been in Orlando this week, speaking at SQL Connections and have been derelict in my blogging duties, especially with regard to VSTS. Microsoft announced on Monday that they had acquired DevBiz …

Visual Studio ALM Azure Boards SQL Server Testing

Running .NET on WebSphere J2EE Servers

Mar 25, 2007 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’m generally involved in the .NET space, but often work with companies that have both .NET and J2EE running in their enterprise. Because of our focus on Team Foundation Server (TFS) and VSTS …

Misc Tools Visual Studio ALM