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VSTS Diagram Zoom Tip

Martin Woodward
Date : 30 Jan, 2006
Categories :tfs gadgets web

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.

Live @ VSLiive

Martin Woodward
Date : 30 Jan, 2006
Categories :tfs technology maker web programming

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.

Teamprise Preview 5

Martin Woodward
Date : 27 Jan, 2006
Categories :tfs technology maker teamprise web

[](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.

Chicken or Beef?

Martin Woodward
Date : 24 Jan, 2006
Categories :technology books maker teamprise web programming personal

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.

Teamprise Webcast

Martin Woodward
Date : 20 Jan, 2006
Categories :tfs technology teamprise web

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).

VSTS vs VSS - The Numbers

Martin Woodward
Date : 13 Jan, 2006
Categories :tfs technology web personal

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.

Netgear and Creative announce standalone Skype phones

Martin Woodward
Date : 12 Jan, 2006
Categories :technology dotnet gadgets maker web

[](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.

Bill Caputo on Stubbornness

Martin Woodward
Date : 11 Jan, 2006
Categories :web

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.

The Guntlet

Martin Woodward
Date : 10 Jan, 2006
Categories :git tfs technology dotnet maker web programming personal

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.

How to rollback file state from before a check-in in VSTS

Martin Woodward
Date : 10 Jan, 2006
Categories :git tfs technology maker web programming

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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