At DevReach 2009 (www.devreach.com) was announced the launch of a new focus group targeting the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2010. This focus group will deliver series of discussions until Visual Studio 2010 RTM in 22nd March, 2010. On 19th October Microsoft announced the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. This version is of […]
Application Lifecycle
Microsoft Announced Visual Studio 2010 Licensing
By Martin Kulov in Application Lifecycle No Comments
The new licensing schema is actually hotter topic than the new Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2. So – good bye Visual Studio Team System – welcome Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. Visual Studio 2010 RTM will be released on 22nd of March. Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 will also include Go Live license for all customers. […]
TFS for Small Teams
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Brian Harry finally shared a long kept secret. TFS Basic, that is going to be part of the VSTS 2010 release, is the replacement tool for Source Safe users. TFS Basic is the all-in-one development system that combines Version Control, Bug Tracking and Build Automation. The beauty of it is the new install experience. There […]
Migrating TFS 2008 Project Portal
By Martin Kulov in Application Lifecycle, Misc No Comments
I had a strange problem last week. I was trying to access the WSS portal site for one of our TFS projects. We migrated the TFS to a new domain and the portal site was working before that. However now I’ve got the lovely “404 NOT FOUND” message. More interestingly when I tried to create […]
Connect to TFS 2010 from VS2008
By Martin Kulov in Application Lifecycle, Misc 1 Comment
If try to connect to TFS 2010 instance from Visual Studio 2008 you will probably experience the following error message: Possible reasons for failure include: The Team Foundation Server name, port number or protocol is incorrect. The Team Foundation Server is offline. Password is expired or incorrect. The trick is that due to changes in […]
How TFS proxy works
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A little know fact is that you can install a proxy server for your TFS server. This is extremely helpful if you want to boost your remote TFS experience, or your build machine performance. The way the proxy works is that it caches all downloaded files in a cache folder, so your team does not […]
VS 2010 September CTP download
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Do you want to try the new branching features in the upcoming VS Team Foundation Server and .NET 4.0? Do you want to see the new WPF based editor in VS 2010? Do you want to try out the new historical debugger? These features and also many more are available for free trial download from […]
Microsoft BizSpark
By Martin Kulov in Application Lifecycle, Misc No Comments
Microsoft just recently released a program call BizSpark. The program is oriented to companies that are starting their own software product development or “service that will form a core piece of its current or intended business”. So if you are hosting company, web shop or outsourcing company – this one is not for you. I […]
MVP Summit 2008
By Martin Kulov in Application Lifecycle, Events No Comments
Last week it was the MVP Summit 2008 at Seattle. I had a chance to attend it also this year. Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie were answering questions during the keynote and we had a great three days with the VSTS product group. Many things to come in Rosario so make sure that you keep […]
TFS Times and Radio
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Paul Hacker is a VSTS MVP guy that started something very cool – a TFS Times magazine. He already have few issues published. Make sure you go and read them – it is a great resource of summarized information about VSTS with real world tips and tricks from VSTS MVPs. Make sure you subscribe so […]