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Hosted TFS for BizSpark Companies

Martin Woodward
Date : 03 Sep, 2009
Categories :tfs technology web podcast

[](http://www.saasmadeeasy.com/Pages/default.aspx) Fellow MVP Paul Hacker just dropped me a line to share a great offer his company is making available for BizSpark companies.

TFS 2010 API By Example: Introduction

Martin Woodward
Date : 26 Aug, 2009
Categories :tfs technology maker web programming

As I am exploring programming against TFS 2010, I usually build myself up a collection of code snippets that show me how to do various discrete operations. I thought it would be useful for me to post some of these to my blog so that others might benefit later.

CodePlex Open Source Wiki Engine

Martin Woodward
Date : 30 Jul, 2009
Categories :web programming

The clever folks over at CodePlex have recently released the code to the sites excellent wiki. As you would expect from CodePlex team, the code is available as a project on CodePlex at http://wikiplex.codeplex.com. Even better news is that the code has been released under the permissive MS-PL open source license.

Ed Blankenship on Using TFS

Martin Woodward
Date : 01 Jul, 2009
Categories :tfs technology web podcast

[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/bgervin/3320077849/in/set-72157614557110879/) Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with my good friend and fellow MVP Ed Blankenship to learn about the Team Foundation Server deployment in Infragistics.

Case Study: iGate standardizing on TFS

Martin Woodward
Date : 29 Jun, 2009
Categories :tfs technology dotnet teamprise web programming

[](http://www.igate.com/) TFS has a many strengths. Two of them that I particularly like talking about are it's performance over a wide area network and the strong IDE integration available for both .NET and Java developers (the latter via Teamprise of course).

Slotting into TFS 2010

Martin Woodward
Date : 15 Jun, 2009
Categories :git tfs technology maker web podcast personal

In TFS 2010 quite a few things have been fundamentally changed for the better, but from an end user point of view people hopefully won't notice. Things like hierarchical work items will very quickly because just how work items should work and people will scratch their heads when they go look at a TFS 2008 or TFS 2005...

Team Build Screensaver in WPF

Martin Woodward
Date : 11 Jun, 2009
Categories :tfs technology dotnet gadgets maker web programming

I recently stumbled across a handy Team Foundation Build screensaver created by Jim Liddell and wanted to share it as it seems very good. For my team build talks I created a Team Build Wallboard as a code sample, however Jim has created his own as a WPF based screensaver and it looks very nice.

Policy Override Email Alerts

Martin Woodward
Date : 10 Jun, 2009
Categories :tfs technology maker web programming personal

A guiding principle with Team Foundation Server is that all the flexibility of configuration and all the control should not get in the way of getting work done. For example, if you try to do a check-in that fails a defined check-in policy, you get the following warning.

My Current Podcasts

Martin Woodward
Date : 28 May, 2009
Categories :tfs technology dotnet gadgets maker teamprise web programming podcast personal

In the days before I worked for Teamprise, I had a 3 hour, 120 mile commute. Luckily, at that time a new thing called “podcasting” was starting to take off and so my travels were filled listening to the few podcasts that were available back then. We are talking pretty early in the history of podcasting.

TFS 2010 Beta 1 with Teamprise

Martin Woodward
Date : 21 May, 2009
Categories :tfs technology maker teamprise web programming podcast

Now that TFS 2010 Beta 1 is publically available, I thought it would make sense to share our plans with everyone. Teamprise has been working closely with Microsoft on the TFS 2010 release. First of all, can I quickly thank all the people at Microsoft who have been helping us so far.

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