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Saturday, December 31, 2005 2:28 AM

Top 10 Posts for 2005

For the curious (me), these are the ten most popular posts on this blog in 2005, which I determiend using an arbitrary system based on Web hits, aggregator hits, and comments. Also, I didn't count the "New Team System Stuff" posts I used to do. A Hitchhiker’s
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Friday, December 30, 2005 4:39 PM

Fun with Search Terms

Just having some fun reviewing a day’s worth of searches (using MyBlogLog.com ) that have led people to my blog: Yahoo Search: 525,600 minutes Google (Canada) Search: carpet cleaning MSN Search: wolfie’s grill sydney Yahoo Search: geddy lee surgery Google
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005 9:42 PM

Team Foundation MSSCCI Provider

Still using Visual Studio 6 and wishing you had an integrated Team Foundation Version Control experience? Now you can! As noted below, the Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider is now available for download . You should note that this version is intended
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:33 PM

A .NET Developer Christmas List

One of the items Paul Ballard thinks .NET Developer's want for Christmas this year...I think we’re almost there. A Team Foundation Server... that doesn't require a PhD to Install. Humor: A .NET Developer Christmas List .
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:28 PM

Team System Outlook Add-In

If you attended a Ready Launch 2005 tour event, you probably saw this in action. During one of the keynote demos, we showed you an Outlook add-in from Personify Design (called Teamlook) that was used to create a new work item from within Outlook. The
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Monday, December 26, 2005 8:07 PM

Combining Project and Team System

Sanjay Narang has written an article for DevX.com on combining Team System with Microsoft Project. I haven't had the opportunity to read it, but if you have please feel free to leave a comment. Combine Microsoft Project and Visual Studio Team System for
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Sunday, December 25, 2005 7:25 PM

Why Visual Studio Team System

Earlier this month, the Why Visual Studio page was launched on MSDN. In addition to an evaluation guide of Visual Studio features and a showcase of software life cycle scenarios , you'll also find links to the following series of white papers that focus
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Sunday, December 25, 2005 5:29 PM

Try Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite

If you want to get an evaluation copy of Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite (or Visual Studio 2005 Professional, SQL Server 2005, or Team Foundation Server), but you don't have an MSDN subscription to download a copy, you can order a disc from this site. To
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Sunday, December 25, 2005 4:44 PM

Charles Young on MSF

Charles Young has a great article in his blog on MSF 4.0 that covers MSF in general and the two MSF process templates that ship with Team System. I believe MSF represents a subtle change in Microsoft's attitude. The promotion of MSF in conjunction with
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Saturday, December 24, 2005 10:55 AM

Carpet Cleaning and Web Site Design

I recently helped a friend publish a business Web site that is a Christmas present for her husband, who owns the business. Originally, I was going to use Visual Web Developer , but I found a basic, inexpensive FrontPage Web site template that did everything
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Friday, December 23, 2005 9:09 PM

Visual Guide to Installing Team Foundation Server

Andy Leonard is working on a series of articles that present a visual guide to installing Team Foundation Server (currently for the December 2005 CTP) in a single-server deployment in a Virtual PC from the ground up. You may recall that Dave Bost wrote
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Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:40 PM

DSL Tools Prerelease Documentation

We just posted for download a new CHM help file containing the following prerelease documentation in support of DSL Tools. Overview of Domain-Specific Language Tools Describes the architectural model of the Domain-Specific Language Tools. Domain-Specific
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Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:08 PM

Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques

Be sure to read this new article on Web testing from somone in the know - Josh Christie , who is one of the developers who built the Web testing functionality for Team System. My whitepaper titled Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques is now live
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:51 PM

My Tech Talk on Team System is Live

At TechEd 2005 in June, I sat down with Paul Ballard to discuss blogging, Team Foundationg Server installation, and MSF. In the video I talk about our plans (at the time) to distribute differencing disks for hands-on labs and samples. Perhaps that'll
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Tuesday, December 20, 2005 5:12 PM

Integration Creates Exponential Changes

Barton Friedland has a great post about his company’s experiences with Team System (warts and all) and in particular, Team Foundation Server, that concludes with what I think is a great quote: But what is most interesting to me about all of this is the
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Sunday, December 18, 2005 7:40 PM

Converting NUnit Tests to Team System

James Newkirk has released the first RC of his NUnit conversion tool for migrating NUnit unit tests to Visual Studio 2005 Team System: The first Release Candidate of the NUnit Converter has been uploaded to the GotDotNet workspace. It supports the following:
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Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:45 AM

Some More Team Foundation Docs

Be sure to visit my team's blog to review some additional prerelease documentation: As promised, we're back again this week with advance-copy looks at two documents concerning Team Foundation Server security: Team Foundation Server Security Concepts and
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 1:59 PM

Accessing Team Foundation Server with Teamprise

I’ve blogged about Project Allerton in the past, which was a project created by SourceGear that was later spun-off as its own company, Teamprise , to provide a Java-based client to access Team Foundation Server from other IDEs and platforms. I received
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Monday, December 12, 2005 7:43 PM

LaCie - Brick Desktop Hard Drives

These came out while I was in Australia, but I want a few of these! I wish the drives were 10,000 rpm for some great VPC performance, but I can live with 7200 rpm, I think. They even sell mobile versions and a 2 TB external drive . Crafted by the world-famous
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Monday, December 12, 2005 2:12 PM

Missing Beta 3 to Beta 3 Refresh Migration Step

In Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Refresh, a change was made to provide a unique, but random name for the SharePoint configuration database. However, in the Team Foundation Server Beta 3 to Beta 3 Refresh Migration Guide, a step was missing to reconfigure
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Friday, December 09, 2005 7:09 PM

Team Foundation Server Scalability News

See Brian Harry's blog for a post with major news about Team Foundation Server scalability.
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Friday, December 09, 2005 1:28 PM

Some Preliminary Team Foundation Docs

My teammates are reviving the blog we had started to use for posting preliminary docs and tips on using Help. Susan just posted some new docs for your review. Any feedback we can receive would be greatly appreciated. After all, we don’t want to go down
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Friday, December 09, 2005 3:43 AM

Team Foundation Build on Channel 9

Want some insight on Team Foundation Build? Head over to Channel 9 for this video. Anutthara Bharadwaj & Abhinaba Basu show us around the product unit team of Team [Foundation] Build, an out of the box build system providing end-to-end integration.
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Friday, December 09, 2005 2:04 AM

Thanks, Geoff Appleby

I have Geoff Appleby to thank (and Charles Sterling ) for planting the seed in some people's minds for me to go to Australia back when Chuck was soliciting names to keynote TechEd 2005 in Australia/New Zealand. I finally met Geoff in Canberra . Thanks,
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Friday, December 09, 2005 1:52 AM

Team System Reviewer's Guide and Datasheet

We have a Team System Reviewer’s Guide from earlier this year available for download. It’s a leftover from Beta 2, but the information isn’t too far off. We have a revision in the works that’ll reflect the final shipping version of Team System, including
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Friday, December 09, 2005 12:49 AM

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Studio 2005 Team System for Microsoft Partners

Background Microsoft platforms (particularly the Microsoft application platform) would not enjoy the success they have had without the Microsoft Partner Program , which helps cultivate a thriving ecosystem of experts who extend and build upon these platforms.
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Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:18 PM

The Charcoal, Canberra, Australia

A photo from my last official stop on Frank Arrigo's Steak House Tour of Australia - The Charcoal in Canberra - with (l to r) Frank Arrigo , Jeff Alexander , David Treadwell , David Lemphers , and myself.
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Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:08 PM

Andrew Coates Rocks

I'm finally getting around to going through photos from the trip to Australia for the Ready Launch Tour. This photo is of me with Andrew Coates , who was my de facto host on the tour and terrific presentation coach. As noted in my Adelaide post, I don't
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Thursday, December 08, 2005 4:25 PM

Soma on Self-Hosting Team System

Soma has a post today on our self-hosting of Team System, which we often refer to as " dogfooding ". The team that is building the lifecycle tools is about 300+ strong and is spread across 3 different locations geographically. This team has now been self-hosting
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Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:26 PM

Survey Closing on Team Foundation Server Setup Experience

If you haven’t had the chance to provide feedback on your experience installing Team Foundation Server December CTP, do so now as the survey ( Team Foundation Server Setup Experience Redux ) is closing today at 5:00 PM Pacific (GMT – 8, I think).
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Thursday, December 08, 2005 10:55 AM

Team Foundation Server and Office 12

Here’s a post of interest from Siddharth Bhatia in the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Setup & Administration forum regarding Team Foundation Server support for Office 12: Office integration features for TFS Beta 3 Refresh are not supported with
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Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:34 AM

Correct Process Template

There was an issue with the MSF for Agile Software Development process template we posted on Tuesday that caused errors when trying to upload it to Team Foundation Server. It was the wrong process template. We just posted the correct build (100.1) to
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005 12:58 PM

Updated MSF Content

I just finished uploading some new builds of MSF content. If you visit the Microsoft Downloads center, you’ll find these are updated with new releases: MSF for Agile Software Development (Process Guidance Only) – Build 100 MSF for Agile Software Development
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005 7:47 AM

December CTP Installation

With every release of Team Foundation Server, the installation instructions have changed; sometimes minor changes, sometimes major changes. In the December CTP , one major change is that Reporting Services is now installed on the application-tier computer.
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005 1:08 AM

Agile Software Development for the Entire Project

Team System’s Randy Miller has an article in this month’s issue of CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering . In it, he discusses Microsoft’s internal use of personas, shadow applications, and test thresholds to achieve a more agile software
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Monday, December 05, 2005 7:26 PM

Transitioning Your MSDN Subscription

Some people are having difficulty finding the magic page for transitioning their MSDN Subscription. If you haven’t transitioned your MSDN Subscription, you can do so at the following link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/subscriptions/maketransition/
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Sunday, December 04, 2005 2:04 PM

Australia 2005 - Ready to Cry

Friday night we unofficially added one more steak house to the Steak House Tour of Australia: The Prime , which is a cozy restaurant nestled in the lower level of the GPO Building. Unfortunately, Saturday was our last day in Sydney. We woke up earlier
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Sunday, December 04, 2005 2:03 PM

Team Foundation Server December CTP

For MSDN Subscribers, the Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server CTP - December 2005 (English) is available for download on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. However, be sure to read the fine print (I’ve highlighted some sections in bold ): Visual Studio
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Friday, December 02, 2005 2:19 PM

Team Foundation Server Setup Experience Redux

The Team Foundation Server setup experience has been evolving for over a year now in response to feedback we've received from people like you. While we've made significant progress since that first release last year as Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh
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Friday, December 02, 2005 2:11 PM

Visual Studio Team System TechNotes

You’ll want to add this site to your Favorites: Visual Studio Team System TechNotes TechNotes are short, focused technical articles that explain a specific concept or walk through a particular scenario. TechNotes are intended to supplement the product
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Friday, December 02, 2005 12:47 PM

Team System Wins 3 Testers Choice Awards

Team System won the top votes in several categories (Defect/Issue Management, SCM/Build Management and .NET Test & Performance) of this year’s Testers Choice Awards. I can’t wait to see the results for the 2006 Software Test & Performance magazine’s
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Friday, December 02, 2005 4:11 AM

Australia 2005 - Ready to Rock Canberra

In Canberra (Australia’s national capital) we stayed at Hyatt Hotel Canberra , which was quite elegant. The event for Canberra was held at the National Convention Center. The community launch event at Microsoft Canberra was terrific as I finally met Anthony
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