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...

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...

After migrating my Trivadis posts to here, I will start writing new posts.

Share ConnectionStrings A customer of mine have a Visual Studio C# solution with more than one project which uses the same ConnectionString. So how can you define your ConnectionString(s) once and share them between projects? This is how my sample...

eScrum is a Scrum process template with a strong web management interface. It is developed by Microsoft and was released some times after Team Foundation Server 2005 as a separate download on their website. It took some time, but now they released version...

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...

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...

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...

As I normally blog about Team System and especially Team Foundation Server, maybe the question comes up, why am I posting about Sharepoint updates? The answer is quite easy. Because with each TFS installation, you also need at least a WSS installation...

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...

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...

I already posted about the PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 here . Last Saturday, they released a new version which includes some good additions: Enable / disable PowerCommands in options dialog Format document & Remove and Sort Usings on save...

Have you ever created a branch in the wrong directory and noticed it too late (after check-in)? For example, you create a branch under "$/Project/Main/" instead of "$/Project/Dev/". After you have realized your mistake, you go for...

The new version of the Teamprise add-in for Eclipse has released. Teamprise Explorer enables you to connect to the Team Foundation Server from within the Eclipse IDE. You can use source control, work item tracking, project reports and Ant / CruiseControl...

Have you heard from the Visual Studio Extension "PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008"? Microsoft has released some really cool extensions to the solution explorer: Collapse projects Copy/Paste Class Copy/Paste Reference Open containing folder...

This is my second post about errors which can occur while installing Team Foundation Server. If you find errors like this in your event log: Source: MSSQLSERVER Event ID: 18456 Description: Login failed for user 'NT...

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...

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...

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...

This is the first post about errors which can occur when installation TFS 2008. Event log entry information: Source: DCOM Event ID: 10016 User: domain\tfsservice Description: The application-specific permission...

If you're checking in source files that are associated with task work items the default action is set to "Resolve". This means that the work item is closed after the check in. But often you don't have such granular work items that they...

By running Team Foundation Server setup you will be asked if you like to enable notifications and therefore you need to enter a mail gateway and a from address. Maybe you don't know this information at the moment or you're not sure if you really...

I'm now working for a while with the Team System environment and for that installed & configured Team Foundation Server 2005 and 2008. But until recently I didn't know that there also was a Microsoft certification in this section (maybe not...

This post is an extension to my last post " Removing default entries from Infragistics UltraWinGrid RowFilterDropDown ". What if you want to sort the entries in the RowFilterDropDown by the underlaying column? By default the DropDown is sorted...

On top of the RowFilterDropDown list you alway get the default items (All, Custom, Blanks, NonBlanks) included. What if your customer don't like them or you want to disable the (Custom) dialog? Infragistics gives you the possibility to remove specific...