Monthly Archives: October 2005

Installing TFS using SQL 2005 Developer Edition

With the Developer edition of SQL Server 2005 RTM being the first available on the MSDN Subscriber site, a number of people have installed Team Foundation Server with SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition. This configuration requires an additional step during … Continue reading

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Migrating data from B3 to B3 Refresh

I have been kept nice and busy rebuilding virtual machines with the RTM version of Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers and the Beta 3 Refresh of Team Foundation Server for the last couple of days and now its … Continue reading

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VSTS Role based edition have RTM’d

Rick LaPlante has announced this morning (Sat Australian time) that the Role based editions of VSTS have been released to MSDN Subscriber downloads and should be available any time now. Read his blog entry here

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Installing TFS Beta 3 Refresh – note for using SQL Developer/Express & Eval versions

Rob Caron’s definately busy today pushing out posts on TFS now the VSTS product has RTM’d with TFS Beta 3 Refresh. In this post he makes mention of a little issue that caught me when I installed TFS Beta 3. … Continue reading

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Installing TFS on Windows 64-bit

As a 64bit Windows user, I was interested in Rob Caron’s post about installing TFS on 64bit Windows. There are a couple of gotchas. Here’s the summary from his post earlier today. 64Bit support at RTM You can install the … Continue reading

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Migrating data from TFS Beta 3 to the TFS Beta 3 Refresh

With the VSTS2005 & TFS Beta 3 Refresh becoming available on the MSDN Subscriber download site, Rob Caron takes a moment to caution people from migrating their TFS data until the instructions are available later today.

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The rollout begins – VS2005 Pro & SQL2005 Dev

The long wait for the release of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 is over. This morning Microsoft made available to MSDN Subscribers, the following products on their web site. Hopefully the VS2005 Team editions and Team Foundation Server … Continue reading

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VSTS 2005 – RTM coming soon

A routine check to see if the RTM version of VSTS is available on the MSDN Subscribers Download site revealed that it is not there just yet, but there has been a minor change made to pave the way. Notice … Continue reading

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VDNAUG (Victorian .NET Architects Users Group)

I read a mailing list entry today from Clarke Scott offically announcing the Victorian .NET Architects Users Group. Here’s a snippet from his announcement; “VDNAUG’s charter is to foster communication and educate .Net professionals focused on Solution/Application architectural design.We hope … Continue reading

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Coming soon: Creating a custom check-in policy for VSTS RC & TFS BETA 3

One of the things I need to develop this week are a number of custom check-in policies for use with Visual Studio 2005 Team System RC and Team Foundation Server Beta 3. I have downloaded the latest SDK from http://www.vsipdev.com/downloads/ which is for … Continue reading

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