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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 ...

Today I gave a session at SDC about Practical windows workflow foundation and a session on advanced activity development where I explained the way I build te WCF activities I published at codeplex. I promised to put up my slides and code samples on my blog, so here they are:slides for the Practical Workflow Foundation Session: heredemos:01- ...

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 ...

The past few days I have been working on Load and stress testing some workflow implementations that work with the WCF input activities I created (I published them at Codeplex for you to use as well http://www.codeplex.com/WCFWorkflow )This project has some very interesting non-functional requirements where we need to process more than 300.000 ...

Just got the word that the service packs for Visual Studio 2005 and Team Foundation Server are now available for download at the MSDN sites. You can download them here: Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Team Foundation Server SP1 Just as a note: Make sure you have enough disk space free before you install the Visual Studio SP, otherwise you might run ...

A few months ago I got an Email from Jack Greenfield who asked me to work with him on writing a whitepaper on software factories and how to enable this using visual studio team system.It took a lot of time and many conference calls with Jack and Erik Gundvaldson, but I can now announce that the whitepaper got published on MSDN!I am very pleased ...

Lately I have been doing some work on extending Team System. Therefore I installed the Visual Studio SDK that now also contains the Team System Extensibility kit. In this kit you can find a lot of samples on how to embrace and extend Team System. One of the samples contains code to learn more about extending the project Creation wizard and ...

It is really funny to see how artist can do their best to make websites look shiny, but don’t have a clue about engineering principles. I don’t know if anybody has noticed this as well but if you take a look at the process guidance website that Microsoft provides for MSF for Agile development you can see that the part that discusses ...

 Based on my previous post I got some questions regarding the events that Team System provides.   The main question is where did you obtain the list of events? The list of events that Team System provides can be found by a combination of steps. At first you can go to the following folder on your Team Foundation Server C:\Program ...

At the many talks I give on Team System I always get the same question when demonstrating the options available to define a load test for a web application in Visual Studio Team System.   Because I have a new Talk on team system next Wednesday I decided I needed to find the way to do this. After some searching around my Beta 3 and RC1 setup ...