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A few weeks ago I already posted about the fact that we have made great progress on the translation project at codeplex.I am proud to announce that we completed the first set of languages and we have a first release available for download at codeplex.The following languages are now available in addition to the default languages available from ...

Brian Harry’s announced this a while ago on his blog (here) and now the time is there to give you the first pointers to where we are in the Team System Web Access Translation effort. The last few weeks I have been working with MS Folks on this project. This project is trying to provide additional translations of the Visual studio Team ...

On e of the things only few people know about work item tracking is its ability to have HTML descriptions in your work item. With HTML, I mean that you can have rich editing capabilities, like colors, bold, underline, different fonts, bulleted lists and even hyperlinks.For this to work, you only need to change your work item type definition to ...

The past few days I have been quite busy with presenting 3 sessions at the MCT summit in Berlin.I must say that at first I was a little bit scared to do presentations for a group of Certified Trainers, since they are known for being a tough crowd to present to.But I must say I really enjoyed myself there. I never in my live started a presentation ...

For some time I get the following error dialogs when I open a set of workitems in Excel using the TFS addin The problem appeared to be caused by the fact that the Team Build integration process adds in a rule for a field called “Microsoft.VSTS.Build.FoundIn” even when the field is not in use for a work item type. And as you can guess ...

At info support we participate in the so called Techncal Adoption Program(TAP) for Visual Studio Team System ORCAS. This is where we work closely with Microsoft with the latest available bits on ORCAS and provide early feedback. With our software factory Endeavour we have a software product that closely integrates with Team Foundation server. ...

The past few weeks have been pretty busy for me. Not only was I working with some colleagues on a Robot challenge (where we finished third J, see here a movie with Woody in action  , and the post of my coleague Erik) , I also had to prepare for 3 sessions for the DevDays here in the Netherlands.At my session on "Practical Team ...

Just to summarize some great new cool things that are happening in the team system space.First of all with the introduction of Visual Studio “Orcas” unit testing will be part of the Professional edition.  This is something lots of people have been screaming for since the introduction of Team System and you can see that Microsoft ...

Check this out, a new release of the Team Foundation Power tools are out and powerful they are!A must have is the new embedded in visual studio Process template editor. Now you can finally change your work item type definitions without needing to edit XML anymore. What is even greater is that it does support a “connected” way of ...

Last week I gave five presentations at the Microsoft Developer days.   It took Microsoft some time to make them available for download, but I guess I understand why. It appears they removed everything from the slide deck that made you know I am a speaker from Info Support . They did add a sponsor slide for all platinum sponsors?!?. They ...