Monthly Archives: May 2006

This news really caught my eye this morning on the Vertigo Software’s Team System blog… You can now download Microsoft Team Explorer for free and you can use that to interface with CodePlex! “But the most exciting part of this announcement … Continue reading →

As someone that frequently installs, configures and administers TFS servers, the Team Foundation Server Administration Tool v1.0 is an absolutely fantastic tool. I’ve been a big fan of this tool as it passed through beta and I noticed this morning … Continue reading →

I hit a snag towards the end of last week writing a series of data driven web tests using VSTS. I had decided to use SQL Express to allow me to store the test data in an MDF file in … Continue reading →

Back in March I delivered a series of VSTS Kickstart Workshops around Australia to Microsoft partners in four of our state capital cities. Since then I have had numerous enquiries asking me if and when I might run these events … Continue reading →

Rob Caron announced a couple of days ago that Microsoft have release an updated version of the Team Foundation Installation guide. This update includes bug fixes and covers installing SQL Server 2005 SP1. You can find the updated installation guide here

I just read a very interesting post from Mitch Denny entitled Clearing a mailbox full of bugs with Team Foundation Server. In the post Mitch uses a number of third party add-ins for TFS including Conchango’s Scrum Process Template and … Continue reading →

I had an interesting problem yesterday while working on creating some coded data driven web tests in VSTS. My developer PC has SQL Server 2005 installed and Visual Studio Team Suite. I was considering creating the test data in my local … Continue reading →

Armed with the knowledge that TFS should be OK if you install SQL Server 2005 SP1 on the TFS server, I went ahead and installed SQL Server 2005 SP1 for a new installation of TFS I did over the weekend. … Continue reading →

I read an interesting post from John Lawrence this morning where he points us to a VS2005 template project that creates SOAP endpoints for many of the core TFS event notifications. The project is a creation of Conchango’s Howard van Rooijen and you … Continue reading →

Like Rob, I have had a few questions lately about installing SQL Sever 2005 SP1 on Team Foundation Server servers. While I have not done this myself yet, Rob has posted about it this morning. Here’s what he has to … Continue reading →