April 2007 - Posts

• Transcript from today's VSTS Chat

  Today's chat was well attended, with many experts and well over a hundred guests. The quests came fast and furious, with some great answers given by the experts. It seems people are really anticipating Orcas (and Rosario) for those features that didn't make it into v1. I have captured the entire transcript (both expert and guest chats) in this PDF document. Note: this is the raw content, copied and pasted from the chat, so you are getting it "as is". Posted Friday, April 27, 2007 3:18 PM from Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQLblog, Team System

• Transcript from today's VSTS Chats

  Today's chats were well attended, with many experts and well over a hundred guests. The quests came fast and furious, with some great answers given by the experts. It seems people are really anticipating Orcas (and Rosario) for those features that didn't make it into v1. I have captured the entire transcripts (both expert and guest chats) in this PDF document (for the 10am PST chat) and this PDF document (for the 4pm PST chat). Note: this is the raw content, copied and pasted from each chat, so you are getting it "as is". Posted Friday, April 27, 2007 3:18 PM from Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQLblog, Team System

• Visual Studio Team System Chat – This Friday

  Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the in the Visual Studio code name “Orcas” Beta 1 releases for Team Suite and Team Foundation Server. Join the chat on Friday, April 27th, 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time | Add to Calendar | Additional Time Zones   Posted Sunday, April 22, 2007 8:43 PM from Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog | 0 Comments Filed under: SQLblog, Team System

• Visual Studio "Orcas" Beta 1 is out

  Yesterday, Microsoft's Developer Division (DevDiv) released beta 1 of Visual Studio "Orcas", which corresponds with the Connected Systems Division’s beta 1 release of the .NET Framework 3.5. Soma blogged this yesterday morning. Visual Studio "Orcas" enables developers and development teams to rapidly create Software + Services on the latest platforms, including the Web, Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and Windows Server "Longhorn". As usualy, one of the most common questions about Orcas is, "When will it ship?". Well, here's Microsoft's official/public timeline: Orcas Beta 1 will ship "Before TechEd Orlando in early June." - done! (see below) Orcas Beta 2 will ship "In the North American summer." Orcas RTM will ship "Before the end of the year." BTW you can download the ready-to-go VPC images here (Team Suite) and here (TFS) of Orcas. Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 11:45 AM from Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog | 1 Comments Filed under: SQLblog, Orcas, Team System

• New, simpler AdventureWorks sample database

  Trainers and presenters have been wanting a sample database that is less complex than AdventureWorks, but more interesting than Northwind. Thanks to my friends at SolidQ for letting me know about AdventureWorksLT (Light) ... (Click to see a larger view) You can download AdventureWorksLT from CodePlex or Microsoft. Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 10:46 AM from Tales from the Doghouse - SQLblog | 1 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, SQLblog

• Integrating Team Foundation Server with Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) 3.0

  Just to catch you up, Microsoft's Team Foundation Server v1.0 (released March 2006) only works with WSS 2.0. WSS 2.0 is the old version. WSS 3.0 is the new version, and launched with Microsoft Office 2007. It's full of great new features, but alas TFS won't integrate with it naturally. Even installing TFS SP1 won't get you there. Thanks to Brian Keller, a Technical Evangelist for Team System, who has published a document on how to integrate TFS with WSS 3.0. As Brian explains, keep in mind that this is a "release candidate" of guidance that will eventually be posted to MSDN. Now I've heard of a lot of things, but an RC of a guidance document? Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 10:20 PM from Tales from the Doghouse | 0 Comments Filed under: SQLblog;Team System