VSTS Diagram Zoom Tip
I am in a presentation at the moment and realised that the speakers don't know about this excellent tip that I learnt from Rob Burke but never seen it written down anywhere.
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Live @ VSLiive
I am in the pre-workshop conference VSTS for Everyone: Best Practices for the Whole Team. It is really interesting watching other people learning VSTS and also what common questions that they ask.
Continue ReadingTeamprise Preview 5
[](http://www.teamprise.com)Preview 5 of Teamprise is now available for registered users to download (registration is free). This release is compatible with Beta 3 and Beta 3 refresh of Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server.
Continue ReadingChicken or Beef?
If I were clever like Eric Sink or Bill Caputo, I'd be able to turn that catchy title in to a witty and insightful post about the software industry. But sadly for you, I'm not and (as witnessed in this blog) my writing skills are pretty awful.
Continue ReadingTeamprise Webcast
If you've been wondering what I have been up to lately, then make sure you sign up for the following MSDN Webcast:- MSDN Webcast: Accessing Visual Studio 2005 Team System Using the Teamprise Plug-In for Eclipse (Level 200).
Continue ReadingVSTS vs VSS - The Numbers
In my talk at the Belfast Launch Event, I gave some numbers of the differences that we had found when migrating our source from Visual Source Safe to Team Foundation Server Source Control. Since then I've had a couple of emails asking for them again, so I'm including them in this blog post for posterity.
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Netgear and Creative announce standalone Skype phones
[](http://tools.netgear.com/skype/)Like buses, you wait for ages then two come along at once. Following a wave of Skype announcements at CES, Creative have announced a new Skype phone.
Continue ReadingBill Caputo on Stubbornness
A nice post to start the day from Bill Caputo. I know he doesn't think of himself as an XP evangelist anymore, but I like to think of him as the _Pragmatic_ Evangelist.
Continue ReadingThe Guntlet
Buck Hodges recently posted about a problem with locks based on files types and shelving in VSTS Source Control. In the post he mentions a system called Gauntlet that is used internally in some teams at Microsoft. The Gauntlet system is very interesting to me.
Continue ReadingHow to rollback file state from before a check-in in VSTS
It's probably obvious this one, but it took me a minute to figure it out. In VSTS source control, file version numbers do not go 1,2,3,4.. but they are versioned by the changeset number that the change was in.
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