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Pre-caching your TFS Proxy

Pre-caching your TFS Proxy

The Team Foundation Server Version Control Proxy is a wonderful thing - despite the not so catchy name. It sits between a remote office and your Team Foundation Server Application Tier and caches requests for file downloads from that remote office so that the second person to request that version of that file will get...

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"You are not running Vista" Remote Desktop warning annoyance

"You are not running Vista" Remote Desktop warning annoyance

[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/WindowsLiveWriter/YouarenotrunningVistaRemoteDesktopwarnin_9654/Remote%20Desktop%20Connection%5B5%5D.png) When running Remote Desktop from Windows Vista I've been getting the following error popping up everytime I connect.

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Visualize your data with the Virtual Earth API

Visualize your data with the Virtual Earth API

At the recent MVP summit, I attended a Mash-up lounge event. It was a bit Web 2.0-ey, but basically they had a bunch of bean bags, fake palm trees, and members of the Windows Live team and some Virtual Earth MVP's around to help folks get up to speed with the Windows Live API's.

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Free (as in beer) Teamprise license for CodePlex users

Free (as in beer) Teamprise license for CodePlex users

Today, I am pleased to announce that Teamprise are offering complimentary licenses of the Teamprise client suite for anyone wanting to use Teamprise to connect to an open source project on CodePlex. If you want to take advantage of this offer, see the sign up page.

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Back from the MVP Summit

Back from the MVP Summit

I'm safely back from a fantastic week at the MVP Summit in Seattle / Redmond. The week itself was very enjoyable and packed with tons of useful information - thanks to Noah and the VSTS team for being our hosts for the week.

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VSTS Guidance Wiki

VSTS Guidance Wiki

I just found out about the following project going on at CodePlex out of the patterns and practices project which find a very interesting idea that I am going to try and find out if I can contribute to:- VSTSGuidance: http://www.codeplex.com/VSTSGuidance

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Teamprise 2.1 Released

Teamprise 2.1 Released

Yesterday we made version 2.1 of Teamprise publicly available. If you've previously installed Teamprise, then I recommend that you upgrade to this version as it includes a number of bug-fixes that while not critical are definitely useful. People who purchased a Teamprise Client Suite for Version 1 or 2.

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Teamprise Joins Eclipse Foundation

Teamprise Joins Eclipse Foundation

This afternoon at EclipseCon, Corey (my boss) announced that Teamprise has joined the Eclipse Foundation. This is exciting news for us and goes well with our status as a Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner - demonstrating our commitment to both platforms.

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Workspace 101: Working Folder Mappings

Workspace 101: Working Folder Mappings

So in my previous post, I introduced the concept of a TFS workspace. If you only have one TFS workspace then you might have so far been blissfully unaware that you had one.

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Workspace 101: An introduction to TFS Workspaces

Workspace 101: An introduction to TFS Workspaces

One of the concepts that people need to understand when they begin to work with Team Foundation Server Version Control is that of the Team Foundation Server (TFS) Workspace. So I thought I would write a series of blog-posts covering the basics of TFS workspaces, with this post being the first.

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