Archive for October, 2007
Users as Owners
This is one to file under the “duh” category. It’s a fairly simple and straightforward approach to working with users on a project and ensuring their participation. On large scale projects (this does not truly apply to agile because a strong agile team doesn’t suffer from this problem) it is typical for users to a) lose interested,
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VS2008 Beta 2 VPC from Microsoft is Expiring
Warning! If you downloaded the VS2008 Beta 2 VPC from MSDN, you are in for a nasty shock on November 1st, 2008! The VPC is unexpectedly expiring. Microsoft is attempting to get another one released with an updated expiration date. If you have production data in your VPC, or data that you really
New Tester Center at MSDN
Microsoft has launched a web site dedicated to the tester community. Although it seems to cater more to the technical tester (rather than the strictly black-box tester), it promises to have many
TFS and Software Configuration Management
I’ve posted a new column on FTPOnline showing some basic practices for using TFS for branching, merging and releasing software. You can view the article here. AKPC_IDS += "12,";
Thoughts on your software engineering process
In the time I have spent lecturing, teaching and working with Team System I have heard the following statement more times than I care to count, “Yeah, we know we have a problem, but we can’t get anyone to do anything about it.” This is a problem that isn’t so readily solved. A
Seattle Code Camp 2007
Hi everyone. This seems last minute but we had some technical issues (go figure). Seattle Code Camp will be held on November 17th and 18th [Updated date!] at the DigiPen Institute of Technology. In particular I’m looking for sessions on Team System and Tools and in general (they don’t have
Can I recover my source code after I use TfsDeleteProject?
Surprisingly, you can, at least in Visual Studio Team System 2005 (including SP1). If you’ve deleted your team project using TfsDeleteProject, the source code files are still actually there in the database, just not visible any longer. To recover the files, you’ll need to create a new team project
New Team System User Group
Several companies have gotten together to create a new Seattle Team System User Group! Currently there is really only one user group dedicated to .NET in the Seattle Area (King County actually since it meets at Microsoft on the east side), the .NET Developers Association. This is a great organization
a Warm Welcome & Brief Blog Intros
I’d like to extend a warm ‘welcome’ to those who are visiting our site for the first time (in other words, a ‘welcome’ to you all since our sites new and I’m sure it’s your first time!). We are pleased to have you. For some brief blog introductions - who
New Beginnings.
Why the new blog? Why the new web site? Why the new name? Let me explain. Over the past several years, I’ve dedicated my professional life to Visual Studio Team System. I was involved from the very first betas, contributed chapters to one of the first books on VSTS, wrote training content, contributed
New VSTS Book Released
To start off my inaugural post for Northwest Cadence, I am announcing the Second Edition of my book Pro Visual Studio Team System with Database Professionals. You can buy a copy of it at Amazon (Pro