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The past few weeks a lot of contributers have been extremely busy getting a first release out of the door of our Team System Web Access Translation project. I bloged about this initiative previously and I just wanted to give you a little update. We currently are working towards a release somewhere end of october, begin of november. We have ...

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 ...

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Last week at the MVP summit we got a great demo of the features that are in the just released power tools. One of them is the new TfsServerManager tool that you can use to look at your TFS server and it's overall health and performance. The tool can be found after installation in the ''Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 Power ...

It has only been a few days ago, when I gave some talks at the Visual Studio 2008 Launch event here in the Netherlands.(b.t.w you can download the slide deck of the presentations over here) Now the product is launched customers can start using the product and our integrated version of the Endeavour software factory. Where the adoption cycle for ...

Thursday I will be doing two sessions on Team system at the Visual studio 2008 launch event. One "Chalk & Talk" session and one session on "what is new in visual Studio Team System 2008".While the launch event is not even over, I just got the confirmation from the devdays organization that I will be doing two sessions this ...

Today I spend a fair amount of time figuring out why my visual studio solution appeared to be not bound to version control.I started visual studio, connected to the team foundation server and there browse in the version control explorer to the solution I wanted to open (I had to do some code reviews there).So I did a Get Latest version and after ...

Last night I gave a session for the DotNet user group VSTS track. The session is named "What's new in Visual Studio 2008 Team System"For those who attended (and of course anyone else interested) I have uploaded the slide deck here for your reference.Topics of the session are:•       Team Foundation ...

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