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A change in our ETM Architecture Plans
As you guys already know we are working on a set of architectural investments that will allow us to...
Date: 05/22/2008
Team Foundation Server Properties Spec
Yesterday we released our first specification discussing Team Foundation Serve properties and our...
Date: 05/09/2008
Version Control Areas of Innovation
If you look at Version Control over the 1990’s you are not going to find a lot of innovative...
Date: 05/08/2008
What does TFS merge uses: local or latest?
Recently our team got this question asked through the forums, and since I remember when we were...
Date: 05/06/2008
Interesting HBR IdeaCast article
Today I came across this article and I thought to share with you because I think it holds a lot of...
Date: 05/01/2008
External Team Foundation Server Tools
The other day I was in a customer call and I was asked for a list of TFS External tools, I am...
Date: 04/28/2008
Enterprise Team Foundation Server Management Spec
As you know we are constantly looking at ways to improve our product in order to meet the growing...
Date: 04/23/2008
Feature Design and Simplicity- Part 3
I have gotten some emails by readers about this series so I thought to continue the momentum and...
Date: 04/21/2008
Team Foundation Sidekicks 2.1 Release
Hi, Attrice has released a new version on their Sidekicks which you can now get here:...
Date: 04/14/2008
Feature Design and Simplicity- Part 2
Yesterday we discussed the first simplicity law: Reduce and went over one example of its use within...
Date: 03/28/2008
How TFS proxy Server 2008 works
One of our testers, Amos, posted his first blog post today and it goes a bit deeper into the TFS...
Date: 03/27/2008
Feature Design and Simplicity- Part 1
As a Program Manager an integral part of our job is designing a great user experience for our...
Date: 03/27/2008
Making quality screencast videos
As a Program Manager at Microsoft you are frequently needing to demo your product or feature to...
Date: 02/25/2008
TFS Resolve Improvements Spec published
Recently, I have been talking about the improvements we are thinking of making to the resolve...
Date: 02/01/2008
0 local, 3 server, 0 both, 0 conflicting
So you may ask what is that string that you have as the title of this blog post? and why are you...
Date: 01/24/2008
I cannot see my workspace
In the past we have had some customers report an issue where when they open Visual Studio the...
Date: 01/09/2008
A new resolve experience
TFS 2008 is now on customers hands and for us that means planning and executing on our next release....
Date: 12/14/2007
Merge your renames at the root
True Rename, not those delete/add solutions, is one of those things that is extremely tricky to get...
Date: 12/07/2007
tfs workspaces and reinstalling the OS or TeamExplorer
In some enterprises and even inside of Microsoft we often partition our drives in two sections. The...
Date: 12/05/2007
TFS Version Control team's mission
Twice a year the entire version control team meets in a big conference room, full of breakfast...
Date: 11/25/2007
Visualizing Change- The Start
Hi: Last week we released a Channel 9 video discussing a new concept, which we call Visualizing...
Date: 04/23/2007
TFS Branching Guidance whitepaper released
Hi: As a Version Control Program Manager, I am frequently asked for branch and merge guidance. This...
Date: 03/22/2007
Visual Studio Orcas March CTP available
The Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available and now contains TFS. In this, you will find the...
Date: 03/01/2007
Sneak peek at a TFS Vista gadget in development
Today I am going to give you a sneak peek at our TFS Query Tracker gadget. Currently is in Alpha, if...
Date: 02/26/2007
Check-in Policy Packs present and future
I know I have been away from the blogs in the last month and I really have no excuse for it, so I am...
Date: 02/25/2007
Simple Design, Creativity and Why people succeed
Over four months ago, I started watching TED Talks. What are TED talks you might ask? Well, TED...
Date: 01/19/2007
Five things about me
Buck Hodges tagged me with the blogging game where you are supposed to write five things people...
Date: 01/15/2007
Undoing a checkout that belongs to another user
Since we shipped, we have gotten a lot of questions but there is one that keeps reappearing and I...
Date: 01/08/2007
The Soul of a New Machine
Hi: I have been playing with the idea of blogging about books that I am currently reading and I have...
Date: 01/02/2007
Two new small features in Orcas
Hi: Recently one of our developers blogged about two new Orcas features that look to alleviate some...
Date: 12/29/2006
New Versions of TFS MSSCCI Provider and Attrice Sideckick released
If I look back at this month there has been a lot of activity in TFS. We released SP1, we got a lot...
Date: 12/20/2006
Deleted Team Project still visible in SCE
I have gotten a number of requests on hiding a visible but deleted Team Project from SCE. The usual...
Date: 12/12/2006
Check-in Policies Pack Update
Hi, I just wanted to give you guys an update on our check-in policies pack. After a lot of feedback...
Date: 11/08/2006
The logic and reason behind error message TF14087
Today I want to talk about an error message that some of you might have encountered which generates...
Date: 10/10/2006
Subscribing to TFS notifications without implementing a client Web Service
First, I want to say thanks to all of you who responded and provided feedback about the check-in...
Date: 09/18/2006
Check-In Policies Pack Feedback Request
I have decided to skip the post about merge and deleted items for today in order to get some...
Date: 09/13/2006
FileName Collision Conflict that won't resolve through the UI- Part 2 of 2
Hi guys: Sorry it took so long to get this fourth blog in but we had a lot to do these past weeks so...
Date: 09/12/2006
FileName Collision Conflict that won't resolve through the UI- Part 1 of 2
I recently had to work with a customer to get them past a problem they encountered after performing...
Date: 08/25/2006
A short write-up about Managing Innovation
I ended my Starter blog with a quote which summarized tells us: "imagination is more important than...
Date: 08/20/2006
The Start
It has been over a year since I started with the Team Foundation Server team in Raleigh, North...
Date: 08/15/2006