To celebrate my 5 year anniversary of blogging, I gave this site a long overdue refresh over the weekend. While I've been publishing stuff on the Woodwardweb.com domain since 1999, that was initially just putting pages up with notepad and Dreamweaver.
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Now that TFS 2008 SP1 is here, time to create a version of the TFS installer media that just contains the bits with SP1 applied. This is essential for installations targeting SQL Server 2008, but also makes the installation process onto Windows Server 2008 much easier and any installation faster (otherwise you have to...
Continue ReadingThat's right folks, 2008 SP1 is now available for everyone to download. Get it while it's hot! Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (needed for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System client, including Team Explorer), (exe version) (iso image version) Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 (needed for the server, build...
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[](http://www.radiotfs.com/) In this first episode back from the summer break we talk about the features available in TFS Version Control and talk about some of the fundamental concepts that you should understand to make your life easier.
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[](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is32fWJJA-I) Since posting about Brian the Build Bunny, I have been getting a steady stream of emails from people who would like to know more about how it works. Team Foundation Server provides a mechanism by which you can subscribe to events when certain things happen.
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At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston today, Corey Steffen (General Manager of Teamprise and the guy that pays my wages) announced the public availability of Teamprise 3.1. This is a maintenance release free to everyone with a valid Teamprise 3.
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Over the years, I have tried many different approaches to software estimation. From the Ceiling and Weller method (look up to the ceiling, scratch your chin and say "Well-errr"), FITA analysis (Finger In The Air) through various variations (both formal and informal) of metric based estimation techniques to things like...
Continue ReadingMany people know that Team System and Team Foundation Server are incredibly extensible platforms. Mike Azocar (a fellow Team System MVP) has come up with a great idea to see up can come up with the coolest Team System add-on.
Continue Reading[](http://www.thomsonreuters.com/) I am proud to announce that Microsoft have just published a joint case study with us on the success Thomson Reuters have had using Team Foundation Server in a mixed development shop.
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I've been doing a lot of work with the Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview, and even recorded a podcast about it (also see Brian Harry's blog post for more details on TFS 2008 SP1 features). One out of the many new features introduced in TFS 2008 SP1 is the "Last Check-in" column in the source control explorer.
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