Visual Studio Team System

TFS SP1 beta is available

Peter Himschoot — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:50:00 GMT

SP1 for TFS is available in beta!

http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2006/09/26/772371.aspx

Next VISUG event, now on Team System

Peter Himschoot — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:10:00 GMT

Friday 31 juni and Saterday 1 july Steven Wilssens, Team System MVP, and president of VISUG organises a Visual Studio Team System event.

There are only 30 seats available, so don't miss this!

Data News Article on Team System - Talk about misinformed

Peter Himschoot — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:55:00 GMT

Data News published an article (end of march) that made my hairs stand up (and those who know me personally know there are only a few hairs left).

They argue about Team System that you could be off a lot cheaper by simply buying a couple of tools to have the same functionality as Team System.

Don't they know that the real power of Team System is the INTEGRATION of the tools? Team System isn't just about source control, project management, unit testing, etc..

It's about integration of these tools. The fact that source control is integrated with work item management and unit testing makes this tool a lot more powerfull. For example when you wonder what you did a couple of months ago to fix a bug, Without integration this means running through the history in source control, ... With integration this means running through the bug fixes that were done in a certain period in work item management (this is a lot less work than running through history in source control), and then following the link to the changeset in source control. Same thing about checkin policy.

Scrum for Team System

Peter Himschoot — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:20:00 GMT

From e-week: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1943200,00.asp

Conchango Releases Scrum Add-In for Visual Studio Team System

"The new tool lets development teams use the Scrum agile development methodology with Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team System, or VSTS. "

Team Foundation Server is shipping

Peter Himschoot — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 05:07:00 GMT

Pant, pant. Although it is almost 17 march here in Belgium, Microsoft is launching TFS RTM at SDWest.

For more information read Rob Caron's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2006/03/16/553177.aspx and of course watch the news.

Now to download the damn thing :)

Web Access for Team System

Peter Himschoot — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:34:00 GMT

devBiz Business Solutions created a web access solution for team system:

http://www.devbiz.com/teamplain/webaccess/

"TeamPlain Web Access is a web interface for Microsoft® Team Foundation Server that allows managing work items, shared documents, reports and source control repositories. "

TFS security tip

Peter Himschoot — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:01:00 GMT

Jean-Pierre Fouché has a nice tip for TFS security.

http://dotnet.org.za/jpfouche/archive/2006/02/27/50544.aspx

"A concern a lot of us have with Team System security is that it is spread across three layers : SQL Reporting Services, Windows Sharepoint services and Team Foundation Server. General practice indicates that you should create three separate lists of Users/Roles to manage access to Team System - a tedious process.

You can simplify your administration by rather creating a single list of users and groups in Windows. The Windows groups can then be added as members of SQL RS, WSS and TFS roles."

Iterative development resources

Peter Himschoot — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:28:00 GMT

Brad Appleton put toghether a resource page on iterative development. Nice!

http://bradapp.blogspot.com/2006/01/iterative-development-resources.html

Team Foundation RC is available, get it while you can!

Peter Himschoot — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:56:00 GMT

Find it on MSDN subscriber downloads! Yes!

Visual Studio Team System 2006 on Horizon

Peter Himschoot — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:14:00 GMT

From eweek: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1913592,00.asp