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INDC Talk: Top Ten Tips for Team Foundation Server

Martin Woodward
Date : 05 May, 2006
Categories :git tfs technology dotnet maker teamprise web programming personal

Thanks to everyone that came along to my talk at the 2006 Irish National Developers Conference yesterday. As it was Jedi Day, the session was appropriately aimed at being a deep-dive into some tips and tricks when using Team Foundation Server in the real world. As promised, here is the here is the slide deck (1.9 MB).

Live from the INDC in Dublin

Martin Woodward
Date : 03 May, 2006
Categories :dotnet web programming podcast personal

Tonight I had the pleasure of listening to Scott Guthrie talk about ASP.NET 2.0, Atlas and IIS 7.0 at the Keynote for the 1st Irish National Developers Conference.

28 Days Later...

Martin Woodward
Date : 02 May, 2006
Categories :tfs technology maker web

[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/blog/28dayslater.png)[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/blog/28dayslater.png)The time had to come. When I booted up VSTS after the May-Day holiday weekend I got a message warning me that I had 28 days left of my evaluation period.

TFS Top Tip #4: The Command Line Client is your friend.

Martin Woodward
Date : 28 Apr, 2006
Categories :git tfs technology dotnet maker teamprise web programming

If you are going to be doing more than the basic check-in / check-out options then it pays to get to know the command line client – tf. The command line client is actually the most flexible and powerful client to Team Foundation Version Control. For more information, consult the MSDN help documentation.

Bad Names

Martin Woodward
Date : 28 Apr, 2006
Categories :technology dotnet gadgets maker teamprise web

For those of you morning the loss of Monad as it henceforth becomes known as Windows PowerShell (it’s impossible to say that without putting some inflection into your voice to try and sound like a voice over for a cheesy advert) – we now have a new name to make fun of thanks to Nintendo renaming there next generation...

INDA Cork Talk

Martin Woodward
Date : 27 Apr, 2006
Categories :tfs technology books dotnet teamprise web personal

Tonight I spoke at the Cork INDA group. Despite the excellent weather outside loads of people turned up and sat in on a talk on Source Control, which shows true dedication (especially from the folks standing at the back).

Irish National Developers Conference

Martin Woodward
Date : 27 Apr, 2006
Categories :technology dotnet web

[](http://indc.wordpress.com/)If you are in or around Dublin next week (May 3rd & 4th 2006), then I would strongly encourage you to come along to the 2006 Irish National Developers Conference. This conference is being organised by local .NET development community, and is aimed squarely at the development community.

TFS Top Tip #3: Removing the Resolve Check-In Action from a Work Item

Martin Woodward
Date : 27 Apr, 2006
Categories :tfs technology

I don’t know about you, but I love associating my check-ins with work items using the Pending Changes view, it makes it so easy to maintain requirements traceability and helps me feel less guilty as I’m doing one more thing that I should have been doing for years.

TFS Top Tip #2: Changing the Logged In User

Martin Woodward
Date : 26 Apr, 2006
Categories :tfs technology teamprise web

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TFS Top Tip #1 - WIQL Seperators

Martin Woodward
Date : 25 Apr, 2006
Categories :tfs technology dotnet web programming

I thought I’d try and post some quick Top Tips for Team Foundation Server – in no particular order apart from as I think of them. Today, this came up in the forums so I thought I’d elaborate.

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