My time with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

For anyone thinking of heading to TechEd 2008 in Sydney, Australia in September. The early bird offer (save $250) finishes at the end of next week. You can register (before 27th June for the discount) by visiting the TechEd Australia web site. This year I'll be busy at TechEd delivering a 2-day pre-conference...

TechEd Australia 2008 - Early bird offer ends next week →

Fellow Team System MVP, Mike Azocar, has decided to run a fantastic competition to see who can create the Coolest Team System Gadget ! Here's some information about the contest. Have you created a useful gadget for Team System? Do you have one in mind? I am looking for the coolest community built tool...

Coolest Team System Gadget Contest →

Microsoft Learning are due to release two new courses on Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server in the next month or so and I have been engaged by Dimension Data Learning Solutions to deliver the first run of these courses around Australia for them. I expect the courses will be quite popular...

New VSTS & TFS Training courses coming up around Australia →

A while ago, a white paper entitled Key Benefits of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System was released. This document provided a great overview of many of the key benefits of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, as the name implies. There are now a full set of new white papers available that expand on...

New Visual Studio Team System 2008 Capabilities White Papers now available on MSDN →

Now that Microsoft has released the beta versions of Visual Studio 2008 SP1, TFS 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, how should you go about evaluating them? Remember - As beta products, you should NOT install these in production environments. (OK - so you're not silly enough to consider that anyway...

Evaluating the VSTS/TFS 2008 SP1 Beta - How to get started →

Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta was announced today after being kept as a secret for some time. Here is the list of available downloads as part of this release: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service pack 1 Beta - Full Installation Microsoft...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 & TFS Service Pack 1 Betas now available →

One of the great things that the VSTS Product Team showed us at the MVP Summit a couple of weeks ago was an overview of the things coming in TFS 2008 Service Pack 1. Unfortunately this was all covered under NDA and we weren't permitted to blog about it :) Brian Harry has now blogged about the many new...

TFS 2008 SP1 - An impressive list of features →

This month I will be presenting at the Queensland VSTS Users Group. In this "roadmap" session, I will discuss upcoming features for VSTS/TFS including the new WIWA CTP, TSWA updates and *possibly* TFS 2008 SP1. I'll then look at "Rosario", the next version of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and walk...

Queensland VSTS Users Group May meeting →

The latest update to the Microsoft's TFS Power Tools has just been released and as usual there should be something for everyone in this latest version. My top three features are: TFSServerManager client - Now you can product your very own Dogfood statistics for management TFS BPA support for Windows...

New TFS Power Tools released - March 2008 →

One of the things that Microsoft did with the release of VSTS 2008 was to relax the TFS licensing to enable a number of use scenarios. Specifically they now " allow an unlimited number of users in your company to create any work item, query for work items they have created and view or update any...

Work Item Web Access Power Tool - CTP Available →