Dave's Team System Blog
Comments about Team System (VSTS, TFS, etc.), or whatever I see that I think is interesting.
Quick work around--“pending change that is not compatible”
On upgrading a VS 2008 project to VS 2010 beta 1, some of my unit tests didn’t upgrade fully. ...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 09/24/2009
Patterns and Practices: Developing SharePoint Applications
The Patterns and Practices team has just “finished” Developing SharePoint Applications. I’m sure...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 09/04/2009
Innovation/Showcase on Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight 3
Jeff Barnes has put together a series of afternoon talks about Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 09/04/2009
Microsoft Project and Team Foundation Integration Tip
I’m trying to sync a mpp file with a few thousand rows. I haven’t made assignments for...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 08/27/2009
Another day, another stupid Silverlight vs. Flash “Top 10” list.
There are a lot of stupid top 10 lists out here, and maybe we should leave writing them to David...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 08/21/2009
Channel 9 is really hip today
As if I’d know “hip” if we sat next to each other on the bus. Still, this was my first impression on...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 07/27/2009
Resources to help your development career “Thrive”
Over the last few years, I’ve had a lot of friends lose their jobs, have their companies disappear,...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 07/08/2009
patterns & practices Acceptance Test Engineering Guide reaches “Beta 2”
The P&P team is looking for feedback and avid readers of their Acceptance Test Engineering...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 07/01/2009
Upcoming Seminars and Events from RDA
(I’m back after a few weeks away. Nice to be back) RDA is giving an Azure deep dive on...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 06/11/2009
Scrum for Team System : Task Board Report database permission
One of the fine people over at EMC (nee Conchango) describes a permission you need to set to enable...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 05/11/2009
I made a video-how to use the TFS Administration Tool
I get a lot of questions about setup problems, and they're regularly related to a missing user...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 05/08/2009
For those of you in Florida, Jeff and Joe have great events coming up.
Jeff Barnes and Joe Healy are reprising the .NET Tiki Hut tour in Florida. Jeff has done some...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 05/07/2009
Notion Tools for Team System
The guys over at Notion Solutions released a set of tools that add some convenience to some typical...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 05/07/2009
Using Expression Blend’s forthcoming Sketchflow Feature for Requirements Elicitation and Prototyping
There are a number of tools people use for requirements elicitation—Visio, UML tools, PowerPoint,...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 05/05/2009
Brian Harry talks to the LinkedIn .NET Users (LIDNUG) Group Tomorrow
There’s a LiveMeeting tomorrow at...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 04/29/2009
Setting up a reporting site in SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition
I wanted to set up a load test reporting site, using the samples at...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 03/21/2009
Blank Team Project Admin page - Scrum for Team System
I hit a weird error with Scrum for Team System where a new installation didn’t show the “admin” page...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 03/18/2009
Seeing double on Database Edition 2008 “GDR”
I had a problem where some of the data menus had duplicate entries (like the following): It happens...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 03/16/2009
My Experience Running the VSTS 2010 CTP under Hyper-V
The VSTS 2010 CTP uses quite a bit of horsepower, and had been really sluggish under Virtual PC or...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 03/05/2009
Team Foundation Build Recipes Site
Grant Holliday was an MVP, but now he supports internal VSTS/TFS operations here at Microsoft. ...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 03/03/2009
Teams WIT Tools
I’m going to add this blog to my links on the left—I go out here often, and I frequently mail these...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 03/03/2009
When your web test recorder doesn’t show up
I typically run a 64-bit OS, so I occasionally see an issue with the Web Test Recorder explorer...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 03/02/2009
Atlanta Code Camp—March 14th
Steve Andrews and I both have sessions about VSTS in the upcoming Atlanta Code Camp. ...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 02/27/2009
Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, and Some of the Effects
Some of you might have seen an error like Could not load type...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 02/25/2009
New and Notable February 2009
Well, we had our first Atlanta Biztalk User Group meeting on February 10th, and I missed it—I just...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 02/25/2009
Some guy wrote a T-SQL Mandelbrot routine
Some guy sent a Mandelbrot routine in T-SQL to the DailyWTF...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 12/08/2008
The MSDN Developer Conference is coming…I'll be there
I'll be speaking on Oslo in one session ("A Lap Around 'Oslo'") and on VSTS 2010...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 10/31/2008
Fresh PDC Videos--Get 'Em
Yum! TL03 Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: Software Diagnostics and Quality for Services TL04...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 10/30/2008
RDA giving a seminar on Visual Studio Team System in Atlanta next week
I'll be talking about VSTS next week in the Microsoft Atlanta office with Steve Andrews (an MVP who...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 10/23/2008
Partner Training Offering: Leveraging Visual Studio Team System 2008
One of the local Southeastern training partners--Dunn Training--has a public enrollment class in...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 10/15/2008
Setting the %PathToWebRoot%
You can set this option locally for your ASP.NET Development Server-based web tests. Then, any...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 10/07/2008
bharry's WebLog : Preview of the next TFS Power Tools release
If you're subscribed to my blog, I think you should subscribe to Brian's--it's one of the most...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 10/02/2008
New VSTS Announcements
I can stop saying "Dev10" and "Rosario" now--the new terms are "Visual...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 09/30/2008
Web tests, unit tests, the ASP.NET Development Server, and Code Coverage
If you're using Windows Server 2008 and UAC, you may have had some difficulty getting the code...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 09/29/2008
TechDays '08 Atlanta
Glen Gordon is posting updates to the Chalk Talk Schedule for the TechDays '08 Event -...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 09/12/2008
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Licensing White Paper out
A new Visual Studio Team System 2008 Licensing white paper is out. Very few people get excited about...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 05/13/2008
Calling All Microsoft ProDev Partners In The US East Region
If you are a Microsoft Partner with a competency in building custom development solutions on the...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 04/22/2008
A couple of notes about installing TFS on Windows Server 2008
Brian Harry blogged about Installing TFS 2008 on Windows 2008, and referenced Etienne Tremblay's...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 04/13/2008
Looks like Chris Birmele has another blog--ALM focused
I noticed that my bud in Australia, Chris Birmele, has created a second blog that just focuses on...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 04/10/2008
Setting up Ruby on Rails with IIS 7.0 and Vista SP1
I have an interoperability demo that I'm working on, so I'm setting up Ruby so that I can connect...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 03/31/2008
Carl Rogers, Process Development Architect : TFS Adoption within EMEA – A Process Perspective
Carl Rogers looked into the deployment and use of TFS within Europe. He's put together some...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 03/09/2008
Guidance Automation Extensions and Guidance Automation Toolkit--February 2008 Release
Patterns and Practices has released the latest version of the Guidance Automation Extensions and...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 03/02/2008
One more cool thing about CodePlex
The SQL Server sample databases now live there: Microsoft SQL Server Community & Samples - Home...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 02/27/2008
Finally upgraded to 64-bits, with a few notes about virtualization
Well, I found an unexpected sliver of time. I'd been planning for a while to replace the 32-bit...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 02/23/2008
Aaron Hallberg : Team Build and 260+ Character Paths
I finally ran into this today--my build wouldn't execute because my path name was longer that 259...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 02/23/2008
Update your Visual Studio "Theme"
I picked Jeff Atwood's theme, increased the text editor font size to 12, and used Tomas Restrepo's...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 02/23/2008
New Database Edition Power Tools
The "Data Dude" team added an MSBuild-callable static code analysis feature, a data generation...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 02/15/2008
WCF Load Test - On CodePlex
I'm not a contributor to this project, but I have several customers who use the Test Edition of VSTS...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 01/26/2008
Windows Server 2008 Developer Center
I've met with some customers over the past year to discuss how to prepare developers and testers for...
Author: David Scruggs Date: 10/30/2007