I've just got back into the office after a week and a bit on vacation and was pleased to see a few announcements have been made while I was off sunning myself. We will be making our Java API for TFS available for license later in the year We released 2.1.2 of Teamprise Client Suite The Java API thing just makes sense.
Continue Reading[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/WindowsLiveWriter/HelpinOrcastf.exe_BB18/Visual%20Studio%20Codename%20Orcas%20Command%20Prompt%5B2%5D.png)Ahh, in Beta 1 of the Team Explorer client, if you type "tf" in a Visual Studio command prompt, you get back help in the console, rather than a window popping up taking you to the...
Continue ReadingI wasn't at SD West this year, however I'd heard that Brian Harry was going to be doing an interesting keynote. Jack Vaughan has recently published some of his "take-aways" from Brian's presentation and it certainly looks like there was some good stuff in it. My favorite quote is:- “In version 1.
Continue Reading[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/images/admin_shell.ico) In Windows Vista, one of the first things I do on a new machine is create an "Admin Shell". The steps I do are as follows:- Copy the shortcut of your favorite command prompt (PowerShell or cmd.exe) Rename the shortcut "Admin Shell" or whatever you want.
Continue ReadingMickey Gousset has posted details of the new Team System training courses from Notion Solutions. What I think is very excited about this offering is that it is a proper "remote learning" initiative.
Continue ReadingSigh. Why do I only experience travel delays when I am coming home and never on the outbound journey? Last night, my first plane from New York to Belfast suffered a hydraulics failure. Luckily they had a spare airplane lying around that they then got cleaned up, filled up with gas etc and let us on.
Continue ReadingAs you may have seen elsewhere, the VSTS team will be available for you to talk with on Friday. This is a great opportunity to talk directly with the team, get answers direct from from the folks that know as well as pass along any feedback you might have.
Continue Reading[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/WindowsLiveWriter/VistaTopTipHowtogetTelnetBack_952B/vista%5B6%5D.png)When debugging network issues, I tend to fallback to good old telnet as a way of opening a port to a machine.
Continue ReadingThis is a follow-up to a post I made over a year ago. I'm popping over to the US for a couple of days this week and I am currently sat in Newark airport with the New York skyline out one window, and Ikea out the other.
Continue ReadingThose of you lucky enough to have an MSDN subscription can go download Beta 1 very shortly, according to the announcement it is available now (but it isn't showing up in my MSDN subscription yet) - I suspect that the lovely bits on on the way through the MSDN distribution pipe as we speak.
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