Monthly Archives: January 2006

Upgrading to TFS RC – Errors with previous clients

John Lawrence posted an interesting article yesterday concerning the error you are most likely to get if you upgrade your Team Foundation Server to the upcoming Release Candidate and try to hit it with older versions of Team Explorer. I … Continue reading

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Continuous Integration Article on MSDN

A while ago I posted about my experiences with a Continuous Integration solution developed and blogged about by Khushboo Sharan and Kishore M N (both from VSTS team). Their solution has been working well now for nearly a month and … Continue reading

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Latest TFS Dogfood statistics – Over 500 users now

John Lawrence has posted the latest TFS Dogfood Stats on his blog for those of you interested in how Microsoft’s internal development TFS server is performing. One highlight that John talks about in his post is that they have now … Continue reading

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What’s new in the TFS RC?

Jeff Beehler’s been busy on his blog detailing a few of the major changes between TFS B3 and the upcoming Release Candidate. If you have downloaded the December CTP you may have seen a couple of these already. Here’s a … Continue reading

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Team Foundation Server RC due early February

Lead Program Manager on the VSTS Team, Jeff Beehler has posted an update on the expected release date of the Team Foundation Server Release Candidate. I looks like the first week or two in February is the most likely time … Continue reading

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VSTS Proof of Concept training completed

Well my VSTS Proof of Concept training at Microsoft has come to a close and it has been a full three days at the Microsoft Sammamish Campus (just south of Redmond) at the start of this week. The trainer, Mark … Continue reading

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Bound for Seattle

I’m writing this post while I sit in the Alaska Airlines gate lounge at LAX on my way up to Seattle for some VSTS training. It should be a great course and I’m really looking forward to it. I have … Continue reading

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How to add the Team Foundation assemblies to the .NET tab in the VS Add Reference dialog

For anyone working with the VSTS Extensibility Kit (part of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK), Buck Hodges has posted a very helpful batch file on his blog that automatically adds the Microsoft.TeamFoundation assemblies to the .NET tab in Visual Studio 2005. … Continue reading

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TFS January RC?

I just noticed the following update from Brian Harry on the MSDN Forums which I thought I would share in case people missed it. He makes no guarantees for a January RC but its nice to know what they’re working … Continue reading

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Warning – look out for the Y2K7 bug!

I was looking into some customisations for the Team Build server today and I happened across a very interesting post in the MSDN Forums that introduces us to the latest potentially civiliation-ending software bug! Yes the dreaded Y2K7 bug. Just … Continue reading

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