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Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 Available on MSDN
If you are an MSDN subscriber then you can go and grab VSTS 2010 Beta 1 now! Get it here. If not,...
Author: rerwin Date: 05/19/2009
VSTS 2010 Setup, Configuration and Management
There has been a lot of effort put into the installation, configuration and management features of...
Author: gdavi Date: 04/02/2009
Visual Source Safe vs Team Foundation Server Source Control
It’s a little simplistic to simply compare and contrast VSS with TFS Source Control as TFS provides...
Author: gdavi Date: 04/02/2009
Visual Studio Team Test Quick Reference Guide
The VSTS Rangers have just released a quick reference guide for Team Test on codeplex. To quote the...
Author: gdavi Date: 03/31/2009
Team Foundation Server Benefits
This isn’t a technical blog posting, but instead I’d like to try and help provide a short summary of...
Author: gdavi Date: 03/27/2009
Architecture Insight Conference – Registration Open
The Microsoft Architecture Insight conference is going to take place on the 8th May at the Microsoft...
Author: gdavi Date: 03/26/2009
Code Metrics
My first blog entry and it’s just a quick one; I’ve been curious about exactly how the code metrics...
Author: gdavi Date: 03/18/2009
Watchmen Visual Studio Team System 2010 Event
On Friday I delivered a presentation taking a peak at some of the new functionality due for release...
Author: rerwin Date: 03/10/2009
Adding The MS Loopback Adapter on Windows 7
I had a question about adding the MS Loopback Adapter on Windows 7 after my last post. I...
Author: rerwin Date: 02/27/2009
Visual Studio Team System & Windows 7
The Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000) was released in January and obviously as a team we were excited to...
Author: rerwin Date: 02/27/2009
British Computer Society Agile SCM Event
This week I presented a session at the British Computer Society Configuration Management Specialist...
Author: rerwin Date: 11/27/2008
A New Job
After two years in the Dev Tools Team, I have recently changed role and moved into the Microsoft...
Author: neilk Date: 11/03/2008
Testing with Visual Studio Team System
I recently attended and presented at both TestExpo and the Software & Systems Quality Conference...
Author: rerwin Date: 10/01/2008
Visual Studio Team System 2010
Woohoo! It's all going off today! I can finally start talking about what's coming next in VSTS...
Author: rerwin Date: 09/29/2008
Visual Studio Events, Microsoft Campus, Reading - 17th & 14th Sept
Hello to anyone who attended one of the Visual Studio Events in Reading over the last couple of...
Author: rerwin Date: 09/24/2008
Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.SqlServerCe'
Have you installed the Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR August CTP so...
Author: rerwin Date: 08/22/2008
Should everyone get the Power Tools for Free?
I don't like to talk much about licensingy things - it's not my area and I'm no expert, but this is...
Author: neilk Date: 07/07/2008
Update to the Scriptable Web Test Plugin
I've updated my web test scriptable parameters plugin to fix a bug with scripted context parameters...
Author: neilk Date: 05/16/2008
Regular Expression Builder
I only found this feature of DB Pro the other day - must remember to spend more time exploring menus...
Author: neilk Date: 05/06/2008
Test Expo Follow Up - Visual Studio Team System Testing Resources
As promised I have listed a number of useful links to get you started or help expand your existing...
Author: rerwin Date: 04/15/2008
Test Expo 2008 Presentation
Last Thursday I delivered a short presentation on Testing @ Microsoft as part of the Test Expo...
Author: rerwin Date: 04/13/2008
Visual Studio Tip of the Day
Just in case you haven't seen it, Sara Ford has been doing a heroic job of detailing all the tips...
Author: neilk Date: 04/03/2008
Slides from Last Week
Last week I presented a session on Team System at this years QCon. Now this is traditionally more of...
Author: neilk Date: 03/18/2008
Test Driven Database Development
The latest edition of the MSDN magazine has an article on how to use DB Pro to write Unit Tests for...
Author: neilk Date: 03/07/2008
Team System at The MSDN Roadshow
Registration has opened for the latest set of MSDN Roadshows. This year we will be in: Cardiff -...
Author: neilk Date: 03/04/2008
Load Testing with 2008 Gotcha
One of the nice things about moving from VS2005 to VS2008 is that you no longer need to run as admin...
Author: neilk Date: 02/05/2008
WebTest Scriptable Context Parameters
I started looking over with the WebTest codebase and realised that I was able to quite easily add...
Author: neilk Date: 01/29/2008
2008 version of the Webtest Plugin
A while ago I blogged about a web test plug in I'd written to allow you to create scripted web test...
Author: neilk Date: 01/29/2008
Need to Load test WCF Applications?
Rob Jarratt (fellow UK Microsoftie) has just released a tool that will take a WCF trace and generate...
Author: neilk Date: 01/26/2008
Visual Studio 2008 Launch Event
If you would like to attend the the UK VS2008 launch event, in Birmingham on 19th March, then please...
Author: neilk Date: 01/25/2008
Josh's Magical Unit Tester
Josh has just released a new unit testing library onto CodePlex. The idea behind this to to save you...
Author: neilk Date: 01/15/2008
3 Free E-Books from MS Press
The Visual Studio 2008 Learning Centre has 3 complete MS press books available for download....
Author: neilk Date: 01/11/2008
Creating and Customizing TFS Reports
The Patterns & Practices group have just published a new article describing how to customise the...
Author: neilk Date: 01/11/2008
Interesting Article
I came across this interesting article on eWeek: Microsoft Pays Visual Studio 'Debt' It talks about...
Author: rerwin Date: 12/13/2007
Using DBPro and CA's ERwin
I've just watched a very good webcast on the integration between DBPro and ERwin. This integration...
Author: neilk Date: 12/12/2007
Feedback on the Rosario Specs
Following on from the latest CTP release of Rosario, moves are afoot to gather public feedback on...
Author: neilk Date: 11/30/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Has RTM'ed!
As of this morning, the RTM version of Visual Studio 2008 (was codenamed Orcas) is available for...
Author: neilk Date: 11/19/2007
Team System in the MSDN Magazine
The November edition of the MSDN magazine has a couple of quite techie articles on Team...
Author: neilk Date: 11/07/2007
Scriptable Web Test Parameters
Ever wanted to do something like ... ... where you use a block of C# code to define the value that...
Author: neilk Date: 11/05/2007
Work Item improvements in TFS 2008
The first part of a nice overview, from the product group, of the changes to the work item user...
Author: neilk Date: 10/31/2007
We are Releasing the Source code to the .Net Framework
Yesterday we announced our plans to release some of the source code for the .Net framework. We'll...
Author: neilk Date: 10/04/2007
Feeding Back Errors from WebTest or Request Plug Ins
If you are ever in the situation where you need to write a WebTestPlugin or WebTestRequestPlugin,...
Author: neilk Date: 10/02/2007
Very Nice Interface into VSTS resources
Check out Clark Sell's mind map of VSTS resources:...
Author: neilk Date: 10/01/2007
Useful VSTS Links (as compiled by Richard & Neil)
USEFUL VISUAL STUDIO RESOURCES Overview Introducing Visual Studio 2005 Team System...
Author: Jon Pratt Date: 10/01/2007
MSDN Events - Come and have a chat about Team System
I will be giving a short demo of Visual Studio Team System 2008 at the upcoming MSDN Events in...
Author: rerwin Date: 09/25/2007
New Team System Blogger
Colin Beales, an Application Development Consultant in the UK who specialises in working with Team...
Author: neilk Date: 09/23/2007
ClearCase Migration Tool released for TFS
TFS Migration & Synchronization Tool For ClearCase Released Yesterday we released a new tool...
Author: toonarmy Date: 09/19/2007
Release of Patterns & Practices "Team Development with Team Foundation Server" Guide
We just released the final version of the “Team Development with Team Foundation Server” Guide. This...
Author: Jon Pratt Date: 08/07/2007
FrontPage, Office SharePoint Designer and Expression Web
As most people already know, Microsoft have discontinued FrontPage. The product has been replaced by...
Author: Jon Pratt Date: 08/06/2007
Clearcase migration case study
Currently we are speaking to quite a large number of customers who are currently using Clearcase for...
Author: Jon Pratt Date: 08/06/2007