A nice case study from InnovaSystems

Brian Harry March 30, 2011 Mar 30, 2011 03/30/11

We’ve just completed a nice case study with InnovaSystems on their adoption of Team Foundation Server in order to achieve CMMI Level 3 compliance. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-.NET-Framework-4/InnovaSystems-International/Defense-Contractor-Earns-CMMI-L3-Rating-Raises-Productivity-by-Up-to-25-Percent/4000009464 Brian...

TFS Integration Platform Updated (Mar ‘11)

Brian Harry March 28, 2011 Mar 28, 2011 03/28/11

Last week, we released a new, tested, binary release of the integration platform (the source has been on CodePlex for a while).  This release primarily contains a bunch of bug fixes.  The bugs came from our internal use of server to server synchronization tools, customer reports and internal testing. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn....

Professional Team Foundation Server 2010

Brian Harry March 25, 2011 Mar 25, 2011 03/25/11

  A new book on Team Foundation server has just recently been released.  It’s an in-depth view of using the breadth of TFS 2010 capabilities and includes a lot of information on customizing and extending TFS. I know the authors well (2 of them are on our team :)) and I can’t think of a better group of people to write the ...

Mid-west visits by Ed Thomson

Brian Harry March 24, 2011 Mar 24, 2011 03/24/11

In early April, Ed Thomson, one of the TFS developers working on Team Explorer Everywhere will be making a tour through the mid-west US talking with customers and user groups.  If you are interested in learning more about TFS and Java or non-Windows development, I strongly encourage you to see if you can make it.  Ed’s a very ...

Discount ASP.net offers Urban Turtle add-on

Brian Harry March 24, 2011 Mar 24, 2011 03/24/11

As you may know Discount ASP.net has been offering hosted TFS for a while now.  They’ve just launched an add-on of Urban Turtle that provides a great SCRUM experience on top of TFS.  They are offering a free 30 day trial so it’s a great time for you to give it a spin.  Learn more about it here: http://www.discountasp...

Team Explorer 2010 SP1 Bug viewing build summary

Brian Harry March 22, 2011 Mar 22, 2011 03/22/11

The dangers of late breaking changes :(.  In the final weeks of 2010 SP1, we made a performance improvement for viewing build information from the build explorer.  Unfortunately, this was after the Beta and after our compatibility test pass.  The unfortunate result is that we missed a bug when you are using Team Explorer 2010 ...

Case Study on Team Foundation Server Project Server Integration Feature Pack

Brian Harry March 11, 2011 Mar 11, 2011 03/11/11

We’ve been working with some MSIT teams for many months on our integration between TFS and Project Server.  They started dogfooding it as soon as we could say “it’s working” with a straight face.  They’ve now run multiple projects with it and they’ve given us a ton of feedback.  We’ve ...