An der Microsoft PDC (Professional Developer Conference) von letzter Woche in Los Angeles wurden viele neue Produkte und Technologien angekündigt, darunter sind Windows Azure, Windows 7, .NET Framework 4.0, Oslo und Visual Studio Team System 2010! Wer es nicht an die PDC geschafft hat, aber sich trotzdem...

After helping a few customers to install TFS SP1, I’d like to note some problems often occurring. The SP installation package has some problems in dual server configurations and throws an error while installing. To avoid this problems, I always run the command line TFSQuiesce to shutdown all activities...

Being the first is not always the best, especially if you want to be the first on a new software release ;-). So if you already want to install the Service Pack 1 for your Team System environment, I want to give you some hints to not getting troubles. Before installing SP1 make sure you run the Hotfix...

Hi, if you don't know it already, Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2008 and also the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (Just a week after the release of SQL Server 2008). To get more info and links to the download page go to Brian Harry's blog post .

Currently I'm looking at the Rosario CTP's, what's new and hot. So this post will hopefully be the first of a series about small enhancements which helps you in the daily work. Work Item Queries It's now possible to group your queries in folders. In VSTS 2008, I created/changed the queries...

The new release (Juli) of the Team Foundation Server Power Tools has been released this night. The new features are: UI for subscribing to TFS alerts! TFS Best Practices Analyzer support for SQL-Server 2008 Support for changing user's names Some improvements of the tfpt.exe You can download it here...

Are you interested in the Application Lifecyle Management topic combined with the Microsoft development products? Software development has changed over the past years. Many companies tried to implement their development processes with more or less success. The biggest problem is not the definition...

I'd like to collect some good links about Team System from the community and Microsoft. Please give me feedback if a link is broken, so I can update my list! This list will not be updated anymore! To be always up to date, please go to my delicious profile: http://delicious.com/nmueggler ...

Creating a new Team Project within Visual Studio / Team Explorer 2005 connected with a Team Foundation Server 2008 can cause in an error: Error: TF30170: The plugin Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.Portal failed during task SharePointPortal from group Portal. Message: The language id specified in...

Do you want to checkin your files from the Windows Explorer (Shell Integration) like with Subversion add-ins? Some people don't want or need a Visual Studio Team Explorer, because they are none Microsoft-based developers like Oracle DBA's. But you want to use Team Foundation Server as your source...

I decided to write a short post about licensing of Team Build Server environments because I was asked several times in the past. There's a good chapter in the Team System Licensing Guide which explains it in detail. If you want to run Static Code Analysis or automated Tests you need to install Visual...