Aggregating popular Team System blogs

Blogs have quickly become a primary means for the Team System team to communicate with our community and as a result we have dozens and dozens of valuable blogs from our team.  Because of this distributed approach, it’s hard for our customers to navigate and track all of the blogs related to various topics.  We’ve also heard from many customers that they tire of the endless cross posts between our blogs…the echo can sometimes be deafening.  

To help us dampen the echo and to provide one place for customers to go to learn about their favorite portions of the product, we are now aggregating the best Team System blog articles on each of the role specific Team Centers.  As we learn more about how this approach works (and doesn’t work) for us and our customers, we’ll evolve this program.  To get us started, I have identified key posts and posters to help us kick off this program. Please take a look, subscribe to your favorite feeds and let us know if this help you to stay in touch with us better. 

Thanks!

jeff

Team System (rss)

• JeffBe
  • Team Architect Power Tool August CTP available
  • Watch TFS - Project Server Connector Channel 9 video
  • final version of Team Development with TFS now available
  • First Rosario CTP now available!
  • Moving to Team System 2008 Beta 2
  • Why choose Team System?
  • Watch our TechEd 2007 sessions
  • Company uses Team System Database edition to tame workflow
  • Team System Web Access Power Tool released!
• BHarry
  • Work Item Tracking Enhancements in the Aug Rosario CTP
  • Final TFS 2008 Feature List

Architect (rss)

• VSArch
  • Importing & Exporting Custom Prototypes
  • Team Architect Power Tools - August 2007 CTP
  • Conform to WSDL - New Feature in Team Architect Orcas
  • New Path Editor for the Domain-Specific Language Tools (DSL Tools)

Developer (rss)

• FXCop
  • New for Visual Studio 2008 - Custom Dictionaries
  • New for Visual Studio 2008 - Spelling rules
  • What rules do Microsoft have turned on internally?
• IanHu
  • The New Developer Menu in Visual Studio Team System
  • The Visual Studio Profiler Data Collection Control Part 1: Excluding Application Startup Time
  • Comparing performance reports with the Visual Studio Team System Profiler

Test (rss)

• VSQualityTools
  • Right-Click Test Execution
  • August 2007 Rosario CTP- Test Case Management
• RyanVog
  • Test Generation from a Compiled Assembly
• EdGlas
  • What does deployment do when running a test?
  • New VSTS Testing Videos on ASP.NET website

Database (rss)

• CameronS
  • Database Edition PowerTools Now Available!
  • ERWin for Database Edition
• GertD
  • Data Bound Generator vs. Sequential Data Bound Generator
  • Visual Studio Team System 2008 - Team Suite Beta 2
  • Database References
  • Service Release 1 is HERE!

TFS (rss)

• BHarry
  • Final TFS 2008 Feature List
  • Work Item Tracking Enhancements in the Aug Rosario CTP
  • Team System Web Access Overview
  • Update on adoption of TFS at Microsoft
• BuckH
  • Team System Web Access for TFS 2005 FAQ
  • TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008
  • Deleting test results from a build
  • Team Build Compatibility between 2005 and 2008
  • Team Foundation Server 2008 Beta 2- Summary of links to Team Build information
  • TFS 2008- Build agent configuration options

Project Manager (rss)

• Team_WIT_Tools
  • Rosario- What is the “Name” attribute for on Links Control XML
  • Rosario: Filtering link types on a work item form
  • Rosario - Customing Link Types Primer
  • Rosario- Managing hierarchies in Microsoft Excel
  • Rosario- Querying on Links
  • What’s new in work item tracking in Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario”

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 06, 2007
  Brian Harry on Updated documentation on creating custom reports. GertD on Data Bound Generator Vs. Sequential...

• Anonymous
  September 07, 2007
  Jeff: I'm one of the customers that is making you deaf. So, here goes a bit more noise for you to digest. This post doesn't solve anything. I'm already subscribed to these blogs. My guess is most folks are too. Plus, what happens when you add a few more "official blogs" to your list? or remove/rename some? Are you going to update this post? Send out another post? The main problem is not that we can't find the right blogs (though I wish it were easier). The problem is that blogs should not be used for knowledge management. Blogs are not a good means of persisting information. They are still valuable, but should act as "news", or "articles", or "opinions" that should be driving your readers to a Real Knowledge Management System (think wiki). Maybe I'm preaching to the choir, but you guys need an "unofficial" Sharepoint(?) wiki where you manage all this wonderful information. Keep your blog posts short and concise - and provide links to the real content on a wiki. This way you minimize fragmentation of your knowledge. It's kind of silly for me, as a developer, to click around blog posts, that refer to blog posts, that also refer to blog posts, to educate myself on certain facets of TFS. Plus, blog posts get old. Wiki pages can constantly be updated to reflect reality. Sorry for the additional noise... I'm sure your issues likely revolve around corporate support for an "unofficial knowledge base", but I think it needs done. --Tony

• Anonymous
  October 03, 2007
  I agree with Tony. I'm working on TFS 2005 and finding 90% of the TFS blogs i subscribe to are now talking all about OCRA - i want to check them out though in case something useful does pop up for 2005. Matt