Tag: Visual Studio

Lightweight Scrum Process Template Updated

Mar 26, 2008 • 1 min read • Martin Danner

Mike Azocar, a fellow Team System MVP, reports: We released LWS version 2.1 today. This version includes a new process guidance and SharePoint template as well as many work item …

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Managing Global Lists in TFS

Mar 24, 2008 • 2 min read • David Starr

Having just inherited a TFS installation to manage, I received a request to add some values to a global list. I got a little nervous about this when I saw that the server had many (MANY) global lists …

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Teamprise 3.0 Ships

Mar 19, 2008 • 1 min read • Martin Danner

Martin Woodward has done his magic again! For those of you who don't know Martin, he is the primary developer of Teamprise, a fantastic suite of client applications that gives Java developers …

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FinalBuilder 6.0 to integrate directly with Team Foundation Build

Mar 19, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Last year I posted a note about how to integrate VSoft Technology FinalBuilder with Team Build. I really like FinalBuilder and think it's easy to use, compared with having to hand-jam the XML of …

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Installing Team Edition(s) on your Team Foundation Build server

Mar 19, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

It's generally known that if you want to run any tests, code analysis, or database project build/deployment that you need to install one or more Team Edition of VSTS on your build server. What's not …

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Design for Operations

Mar 17, 2008 • 2 min read • Martin Danner

Have you ever had a production application in the data center act up, and you spend countless hours hunting down the source of the problem? If so, then then you might be interested in a new project on …

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How maintainable is the code in the Enterprise Library?

Mar 12, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Since first seeing the Code Metrics feature in the Development Edition of Visual Studio Team System 2008, I've been on a quest for bad (read: unmanageable) code. Rather than face the tool towards my …

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Photos from the Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 Launch in LA

Feb 29, 2008 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Back home now, and I have a moment to get the photos downloaded from my camera and uploaded to my blog. Next time I'll take my SD card reader with me. As you can see, registration was quite busy. I …

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Live from the VS/SQL/Windows 2008 launch

Feb 28, 2008 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

In this, my first post of (hopefully) several today, I'm sitting in the keynote session (next to Douglas McDowell), listening to Tom Brokaw warm up the audience. What a nice surprise. It definitely …

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