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Official Team Foundation Server FAQ.

Martin Woodward
Date : 21 Mar, 2006
Categories :tfs technology web

Just noticed there is now an official Team Foundaion Server FAQ page. Nice to see four of my projects have made it on to the interoperability list :-)

TFS RTM Upgrade Complete

Martin Woodward
Date : 21 Mar, 2006
Categories :tfs technology web personal

Well. That was rather painless. We've just completed the upgrade of our internal dogfooding instance of Team Foundation Server to the 180-day trial edition from the MSDN download site.

Another TFS RTM Install

Martin Woodward
Date : 20 Mar, 2006
Categories :tfs technology dotnet maker teamprise web programming

Quick post to say that I got an RTM version of Team Foundation Server installed inside a VPC over the weekend and it worked seamlessly (as we've come to expect - kudos to those involved). Once little caveat: don't attempt to install from media over a network share.

The Best Booth Question Ever

Martin Woodward
Date : 17 Mar, 2006
Categories :technology dotnet teamprise web personal

So, I was manning the booth yesterday in a freakishly tired state that I was almost hallucinating (I swear I saw another high ranking Microsoft person using Linux in a keynote). I'd got to the point where I'd said the same things so many times I couldn't remember if I was repeating myself to the same person or not.

I'm a Total Idiot

Martin Woodward
Date : 17 Mar, 2006
Categories :tfs books web programming personal

Usually, I am very good at the 24 hour clock. It comes from a childhood of setting the VCR because my parents just could never figure it out. However I turned up for my 9.30 flight this evening, only to find I had read my tickets wrong and it was actually 19.30.

Ireland Tour

Martin Woodward
Date : 16 Mar, 2006
Categories :tfs technology dotnet web programming

I've been living in Northern Ireland for over a year now however I've only been to Ireland once - and that was to get some cheap petrol as I was near the border. Next month I'm going to have a celebratory tour of the INDA user groups to talk about Team System now that it has been officially launched.

SD West Slide Deck

Martin Woodward
Date : 16 Mar, 2006
Categories :tfs technology teamprise web programming personal

If you were at my talk at SD West today, then this is the slide deck. However, if 8.30 am was a little early for you then don't worry - you didn't miss much and at least you have the slides now so you can still pretend you were there.

Upgrading TFS RC to RTM

Martin Woodward
Date : 16 Mar, 2006
Categories :tfs web

Well, the impending release of Team Foundation Server looks to be days away. The User Education team have posted the upgrade instructions. I'll post back to let folks know how we get on when we do the upgrade.

Foxe Basin

Martin Woodward
Date : 13 Mar, 2006
Categories :tfs technology maker web programming personal

According to the in flight map, I am currently 36000 feet above Baffin Bay, traveling at 550 Mph with mild amusement towards Foxe Bain. The temperature outside is a balmy -53 degrees Celsius.

Paste from Clipboard into Work Item Attachments Powertoy

Martin Woodward
Date : 07 Mar, 2006
Categories :tfs technology books teamprise web personal

James Manning has posted a suggestion for a powertoy to enable you to paste the contents on your clipboard into a work item as an attachment. Personally, I think this would be awesome, in conjunction with the standard windows Print Screen, or something more powerful like OneNote or WinSnap – it would make adding...

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