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VSTS For Database Professionals Among Jolt Award Winners for 2007 Announced at SD West Expo
I just attended the 2007 Jolt Awards at the SD West Expo in Santa Clara. In case you haven’t already...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 03/22/2007
Released: Team Foundation Power Tools V1.2
In case you haven't seen this yet.. Team Foundation Server is happy to announce the release of...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 03/01/2007
Why are all the links broken in the Team Foundation Server install guide?
I get asked this question a lot. You download the latest and greatest version of the guide, open it,...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 02/15/2007
Tag: I guess I’m it
Are you kidding me? People are using blogging, this great communications medium, to play TAG? So let...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 02/14/2007
Where's my old Borland blog?
I think the folks at Borland have finally removed my StarTeam blog. With the inception of CodeGear,...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 02/03/2007
My 2 cents on Areas and Iterations in Team Foundation Server
There’s not a huge amount of best practice info out there regarding areas and iterations. One...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 01/30/2007
VSTS Database Professional Launch Events Coming Your Way!
Take a look to find the closest of the 23 cities hosting a launch event!...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 11/20/2006
Overview of ‘Data Dude’ aka Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals
I would like to invite you to a webcast designed specifically for our customers in the West Region....
Author: Steven Lange Date: 11/20/2006
TFS Deployment Across Two Non-Trusted Domains
There isn't a lot of documentation out there that covers deploying Team Foundation Server across two...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 09/22/2006
Where can I download the TFS Workgroup edition from MSDN?
Login to your MSDN Subscribers area. Go to downloads. Expand the tree to:Developer Tools->Visual...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 06/26/2006
What's this? Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals?
Yep, we actually do consider database developers first-class citizens in the SDLC!...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 06/14/2006
SoCal Team System Community Site
We've launched the SoCal Team System Community site (https://www.SoCalTeamSystem.com/). Our goal is...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 05/08/2006
But wait! I want the FULL version of Team Foundation Server, not a demo!
The Team Foundation Server bits which you can download from MSDN (find it here) represent the full...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 05/03/2006
Where can I download Team Foundation Server from MSDN?
ogin to your MSDN Subscribers area. Go to downloads. Expand the tree to:Developer Tools->Visual...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 03/31/2006
Where can I find the VSTS Virtual PC Image?
If you're looking for a quick way to "sandbox" Team System and Team Foundation Server, you can...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 03/03/2006
Upcoming VSTS Webcasts by the West Region team
The western region DPE team is hosting twice-a-month webcasts from March through June. The first...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 03/03/2006
Team Foundation Server: Capacity Planning
A quite useful post from Buck Hodges:...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 02/24/2006
Who's using Team System?
Grace Francisco consolidates the most notable adoption case studies into a blog post:...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 02/17/2006
Is Team System Right for You?
Find out: https://blogs.msdn.com/slange/articles/527711.aspx
Author: Steven Lange Date: 02/08/2006
Is Team System Right for You?
So, you've been hearing all this buzz around Visual Studio Team System, Team Foundation Server, blah...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 02/08/2006
Big news from Borland
Borland announced this morning two big moves: The acquisition of Segue Software The divesting of...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 02/08/2006
Do I have to use requirements for my project?
(this is a post moved from my old blog. My old blog post now links to this one) I've been asked this...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 12/30/2005
Group-based Permissions in Team Foundation Server
Two scenarios will be discussed in this post: Single Hat and Multiple Hats. Base Scenario: You have...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 12/30/2005
Integrating Project Server and Team System
There is a GotDotNet Workspace that is developing an integration between Project Server and TFS:...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 12/28/2005
Team Foundation Server: Beta 3 Refresh vs. CTP
Which to use for evaluation? Well it depends on you ultimately might use the evaluated TFS install...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 12/20/2005
Web Interface to Team Foundation Server
Here's a promising one in the works: https://www.devbiz.com/teamplain/default.aspx
Author: Steven Lange Date: 12/19/2005
Timestamps and the Team Foundation Server
I was recently asked about how date/time stamps are stored in the TFS. The concern was centered...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 12/19/2005
New scalability news regarding Team Foundation Server!
Gone are the days of the 500 user recommendation:...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 12/19/2005
My first few days..
I now have a month under my belt at Microsoft as a Technical Specialist for Team System. For those...
Author: Steven Lange Date: 11/09/2005