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Goodbye Teamprise, Hello Team Explorer Everywhere

Martin Woodward
Date : 21 Apr, 2010
Categories :tfs technology maker teamprise web programming podcast personal

In case you missed it, as part of Bob Muglia’s keynote announcing the launch of Visual Studio 2010 last week he also announced the launch of Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team Explorer Everywhere 2010.

Speaking at EclipseCon 2010

Martin Woodward
Date : 25 Mar, 2010
Categories :git tfs technology maker web programming personal

[](http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/) Tomorrow I will be making my making my maiden talk at EclipseCon in Santa Clara. I’ve been at the conference all week manning the Microsoft booth and sneaking along to sessions when possible. I have to say that I’ve really enjoyed my week here.

What’s in a Name?

Martin Woodward
Date : 02 Mar, 2010
Categories :tfs technology dotnet maker teamprise web programming

When the Teamprise technology was acquired by Microsoft, one of the first non-TFS 2010 feature things that we knew we needed to do was change the name. You’d think re-branding would be simple, just do a global search and replace for “Teamprise” and replace with the official Microsoft name – and then reformat...

Bulk Editing a Build Definition Workspace Mapping

Martin Woodward
Date : 23 Feb, 2010
Categories :git tfs technology maker teamprise web programming

This morning I was creating a new build definition for the Beta branch of the initial Microsoft release of the Teamprise acquired bits. Creating a new build definition in Visual Studio 2010 is remarkably easy, but we have a fairly complex workspace template.

Working for Microsoft, Three Months In

Martin Woodward
Date : 18 Feb, 2010
Categories :git tfs technology books teamprise web programming personal

This morning I got an email from HR congratulating me on completing my three month probationary period at Microsoft. I hadn’t realised I had a probation period (in fact I’m pretty sure I don’t, but as I passed I’m not going to rock the boat).

We are Hiring!

Martin Woodward
Date : 01 Feb, 2010
Categories :git tfs technology teamprise web personal

Since joining Microsoft it has been fantastic to see how committed everyone is to the technology that was acquired from Teamprise. When Microsoft purchased the Teamprise technology, they also hired all the developers (including me) and are investing heavily not just in the 2010 release but more importantly the...

Creating Custom Workflow Activities for TFS Build 2010

Martin Woodward
Date : 27 Nov, 2009
Categories :tfs technology maker web programming

Fellow Microsoft TFS Program Manager Jim Lamb has a good post detailing how to create a custom workflow activity in Team Foundation Build 2010 using the first of what I am sure will be many activities to stamp your assemblies with the build number.

To MSBuild or not to MSBuild

Martin Woodward
Date : 15 Nov, 2009
Categories :tfs technology books dotnet maker web programming podcast

That is the question that I am frequently asked by folks looking at the impact of Team Foundation Build moving to Windows Workflow 4.0 from MSBuild as the master build orchestration language in the TFS 2010 release. In general I would always think carefully about re-writing everything in WF 4.

New Team Foundation Sidekicks for Free

Martin Woodward
Date : 13 Nov, 2009
Categories :tfs web programming

In my inbox this morning I got news of another new version of the Team Foundation Sidekicks from Attrice. I recommended these tools to several people during the recent TechEd EMEA event in Berlin and so it is great to new tools being added all the time.

TechEd EMEA 2009 in Berlin

Martin Woodward
Date : 10 Nov, 2009
Categories :git tfs technology teamprise web

I’m at TechEd EMEA again this year after missing last year’s EMEA event due to illness. I’m busy working the Visual Studio area in the Technical Learning Centre as usual, but for the first time as Microsoft staff rather than an MVP. The show so far has been great.

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