Eric Lee - A Humble Blog
All things Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server
My blog has moved
Hey guys, To better coincide with my company, my blog has moved to...
Date: 01/02/2007
Apologies, forgot to include a file in my Hemi distribution
Hey guys, Sorry, in my Hemi tool, I’m using a 3rd party control from Component One. I have a...
Date: 11/20/2006
Work Item Moving Tool is back!
Hey guys, I've finally had a chance to update my work item moving tool to work with the RTM release...
Date: 11/20/2006
A change of address of sorts...
Hey guys, Well, the time has come. After 8 years at Microsoft, I've decided to pursue a long-time...
Date: 11/08/2006
Windows Vista for Extreme Programming?
Hey guys, As you can probably tell, the bright shiny lights of the soon-to-be-released products like...
Date: 10/24/2006
Fixed my images and uploaded the Exchange sample code...
Not sure what happened, but it seems like BlogJet is struggling with my build of Vista. In any case,...
Date: 10/24/2006
Ugh, messed up my images...
Apologies, I seem to have hosed something on my hosting site. Other than today, all of the images...
Date: 10/23/2006
Exchange Server 2007 Web Service API for Developers!
Hey guys, Exchange is a Microsoft technology that I’ve used everyday for email, but never really...
Date: 10/22/2006
A diversion - Windows Live Alerts
I’ve been poking around the Windows Live stuff for developers (https://dev.live.com) and someting...
Date: 10/07/2006
'Wall Time' as a way of determining correctness
Quite a few years back, I joined the Windows Server 2003 team as a developer. Windows Server 2003 is...
Date: 09/28/2006
Building development scorecards
Hey guys, Earlier this year, I did some blog posts about how to create key performance indicators...
Date: 09/27/2006
Building a Virtual Kanban System with Team Foundation Server - Part 1
Hey guys, David Anderson is someone that I’ve had the privilege of working with for the past couple...
Date: 09/11/2006
Quick post - 2 really cool features about Work Items
I’ve just returned from Tech Ed Australia and New Zealand and I’ve got lots to blog about that. But...
Date: 09/05/2006
You meet the nicest people on a Honda...
When I moved to Seattle, one of the most enjoyable things I learned how to do was ride a motorcycle....
Date: 08/13/2006
When to use Team Projects
Team Projects have turned out to a more confusing feature than was intended in Visual Studio Team...
Date: 08/09/2006
What does a Team Foundation Server CAL look like?
Much has been made about when and where you need a Team Foundation Server CAL; but until now, I...
Date: 08/09/2006
Sharing files in Team Foundation Server
Hey guys, As you probably know, sharing is not a feature that is supported by Team Foundation...
Date: 07/20/2006
Thoughts on David Lempher's brainstorm about Impact Analysis
Rob Caron pointed me to David Lempher’s recent blog post about possibly doing impact analysis with...
Date: 07/19/2006
More on the Trend Calculation
One of the most useful aspects of the KPI is the ability to report a trend – that is, the value of a...
Date: 07/19/2006
KPI - Percentage Code Coverage
Hi, Hope everyone is doing well, I finally had a chance to post my first KPI-of-the-week. This KPI...
Date: 07/19/2006
KPIs and Metrics
Hey guys, Metrics and KPI’s can be a tricky thing to get adopted in a team. I think a general...
Date: 07/16/2006
Hoping to improve my YouTube video resolutions
Hey guys, The videos I posted on YouTube are pretty fuzzy right now – I played with a bunch of...
Date: 07/10/2006
Updating the TFS Warehouse
I think that my next few posts will be about the Team Foundation Server Data Warehouse, so I wanted...
Date: 07/09/2006
KPIs and Team Foundation Server
I joined Microsoft in 1998 as a software design engineer in test, otherwise known as a tester I...
Date: 07/07/2006
Datamining and Team Foundation Server
My local grocery store sells eggs and tabasco sauce together – looking at that the other day it...
Date: 07/07/2006
Be careful of proxy settings when using the Team Foundation Server Object Model
Someone may have already blogged about this, but I didn’t see it. When using the Team...
Date: 07/07/2006
For shame, I've been a lazy blogger!
Hello, Apologies that it has been so long since my last blog. Summers in Seattle are beautiful so...
Date: 07/07/2006
Port25 : In Case You Missed It...
Testing with blogjet
Date: 05/18/2006
Web Client for Team Foundation Server from TeamPlain now available
Teamplain has just released the official 1.0 version of TeamPlain Web Access; you can get a trial...
Date: 04/07/2006
Web Projects and Team Foundation version control
In Visual Studio 2005, web projects no longer have explicit project files. The only Visual Studio...
Date: 03/29/2006
How much does Team Foundation Server cost?
I wanted to add something to my last post about RTM dates and what not – Team Foundation...
Date: 03/22/2006
Project Coelacanth
I followed the walk through, more or less and created a .NET Winforms control that is hosted in IE....
Date: 03/22/2006
Maybe time to dust off an old idea?
I was at SD West last week and a gentleman asked me whether it was possible to host a .NET control...
Date: 03/21/2006
Backing up Team Foundation Server databases 101
I spent a little while poking through SQL Server Management Studio to figure out to backup my Team...
Date: 03/20/2006
Team Foundation Server RTM's!
Team Foundation Server is done and posted on MSDN as of yesterday morning! It has been a great...
Date: 03/18/2006
Instructions - Moving work items between Team Projects
Hello, I thought I would post some instructions for trying out my little work item moving utility....
Date: 12/21/2005
Moving work items between Team Projects
I've been writing a small utility for moving work items between Team Projects. I just got it into a...
Date: 12/20/2005
Ahh, back from a long set of travels ...
Hello, I'm back (finally!) from my launch travels! Since my last blog entry, I've pretty much been...
Date: 12/20/2005
Quick post about Visual Studio Team System Web Testing
While I was in Europe, a customer asked me whether it was possible to extract the HTTP recording...
Date: 10/06/2005
Workgroup authentication!
Apologies, I'm a bit of a feast-or-famine blogger [:)] I wanted to post to let you know that...
Date: 10/06/2005
Rhymes with whiskey
Hello - Michael and I just got back from a VSTS tour through Europe this week. It was a very...
Date: 10/06/2005
Team Foundation Server Beta 3 is out!!
Actually it was released yesterday :) I'm on the road visiting customers across Europe with one of...
Date: 09/22/2005
Possible version control issue ...
Hello, a quick post from PDC. I had the chance to install a Team Foundation Server Beta 3 candidate...
Date: 09/15/2005
Great job J. Sawyer and company ...
One last post in my blogging frenzy today - J. Sawyer - one of the Developer Evangelists that I work...
Date: 09/09/2005
Merging conflicts in Team Foundation Server Work Items
I'm working with a colleague in Europe who is trying to put together a Team Foundation Server proof...
Date: 09/09/2005
New with the July CTP - Query Bound Lists in Excel
I wanted to blog about this because it is one of those features that is really useful in day-to-day...
Date: 09/08/2005
Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Project Mappings
One of the ways that Visual Studio Team makes it easier for Project Managers to communicate with the...
Date: 09/08/2005
July CTP workarounds
The July CTP release of Visual Studio Team System is really a step foward from the Beta 2....
Date: 08/24/2005