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Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 and Work Item Web Access 2008 CTP's Available!

Service Pack 1 of the Team System Web Access tool is coming and the Community Technology Preview is ready for you to look at. Details about this release can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/hakane/archive/2008/04/09/what-s-new-in-tswa-2008-sp1.aspx 
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Tell Microsoft what to do!

... in regards to the next release of Visual Studio team System codename "Rosario".   That is correct. The Team System Product Group has posted a selection of Rosario specifications for you to review and provide feedback. They want to hear from
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TFS Times

For those that may not yet be aware of it, there is a monthly TFS Newsletter at http://www.tfstimes.com/news/. Look for an article from me on it before long.
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Web access for Team Foundation Server is now free!!

TeamPlain has been acquired by Microsoft and while you still have to have a TFS Client Access License (CAL) to connect to TFS, you no longer need to pay to have a web interface. See Brian Harry's post for more details.-OmarV
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Dallas Team System User Group

Do you live in the Dallas area and you are currently using or involved in any way with TFS or any of the Team Editions of Visual Studio? If you would like to be part of the Dallas VSTS User Group send me an email to president@ddnug.net and I will keep
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Tips for Fast Team Build Script Troubleshooting

By default, Team Builds perform a cleanup of the folder used by Team Build as the local workspace for the Build Type being executed. Then on top of that it actually deletes the workspace definition and as if that were not enough, the Source Control 'Get'
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Team System workspaces

As more of our clients adopt Team System, it has been quite common lately for me to talk about Team Foundation Version Control workspaces. I often find myself having the exact same conversation with different people as they are trying to get from or
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(Better) Switching Team Projects in MS Project

I knew there should be a better/more elegant way to do what I described in my last post (http://teamsystemrocks.com/blogs/omarv/archive/2006/02/16/686.aspx) Check out this post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=273633&SiteID=1
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Switching Team Projects in MS Project

I recently had a test Team Project to which I published the work items from a nicely organized MS Project project plan, I then created the real Team Project I was going to work on and when I tried to figure out a way switch Team Project... No luck! But
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Visual Studio Team System Song (Must See!)

Microsoft Korea has a rap song for Team System: http://www.microsoft.com/korea/events/ready2005/vs_song.asp   This is what it says: [Intro] The customer : "This won't work. Find me another." The owner : "Don’t have time? Then stay up all night
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If your Web Test does not do what it is supposed to do (Part 2)

In my Part 1 post I mentioned that Josh Christie had told me about two common problems with web tests and I detailed one of them. Well, I finally got around to tell you about the other one: The problem: During a Web Test Run you get an error like '$Hidden1__VIEWSTATE
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Visual Studio 2005 - Pre-Launch Pricing Promotion

With the upcoming release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft will be making some exciting new changes to Visual Studio and MSDN Subscriptions products and corresponding pricing and licensing. Join Jerry Flynn, Microsoft Developer Solution Specialist,
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If your Web Test does not do what it is supposed to do (Part 1)

I had an opportunity to chat with Josh Christie tonight at the MS office while the Dallas .Net User Group October meeting was taking place. He told me about a bug that will be in the final release of VS2005 and about a common problem that is hard
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Team Foundation Version Control: Get latest on checkout and more...

The product team had a good reason for not 'getting' the latest version of a file from the repository when you do a checkout operation, but if that's what you want, you can easily do it, Ed Hintz tells you how to do that and other interesting things in
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Performance Tools (Profiler) on Windows 2000

I had a conversation yesterday with John Cunningham and he mentioned a problem that I have not seen at all but I thought I'd share it along with the solution: Problem: You may get an error the first time you try to run the Profiler on Windows
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