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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 ...

Today I had to upgrade several machines from the Beta or RC version of VSTS to the RTM version.You must manually uninstall all artifacts installed during the Beta period and that can be a daunting task. Therefore I created a script you can run to uninstall all of the stuff in one sweep. Just copy the following lines, place them in a command file ...

WOW, this is great news. You can read it on Brian Harry's blog, they shipped it today. Finally after all the work the last year we can start using the great new version of visual studio.I know I will be downloading it now and installing it. The next week I will post some stuff we learned during the TAP program that can help to work around some ...

This weekend we worked day and nights to do the migration of our Production TFS servers to Beta 2 of TFS ORCAS. And we can tell that it was a success! The upgrade is compared to the "old" install procedures really a breeze. The upgrade guide for you from a V1 TFS server is nothing more than the following steps:Upgrading a Visual Studio ...

First of all I want to make very clear that we hit this bug, but the chance you will hit it as well is very small. You can only run into this issue when you have a fake or customized build as we have. Let me explain what we ran into and when that could affect your installation as well.During our upgrade process last night and today we got ...

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. ...

Today I converted some of the projects I am working on to the BETA 1 version of ORCAS. (Yes you need to convert the projects again, for some reason the file format is changed againL) After overcoming this first hurdle, I wanted to run my unit tests as I normally do on my project using the Test View. There I got a second warning that my test files ...