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• Attach to Web Server Macro for Visual Studio

  Last week I was doing a lot of ASP.NET debugging – tracing through Microsoft AJAX web service calls and was getting a little frustrated of the time lag for starting a site in debug mode; I remembered a Visual Studio macro for attaching to the worker Read More... Posted 24 June 2007 14:58 by howard.vanrooijen | 8 Comments Filed under: Team System, Tools, Visual Studio

• TFS Notification Web Services - Project Template v.1.2

  Over the past few weeks I've been getting more and more messages from people who can't seem to get v1.1 to work with Visual Studio 2005 SP1 . Fortuitously for them, a long train delay last night gave me the opportunity to make some fixes that Read More... Posted 14 June 2007 09:23 by howard.vanrooijen | 5 Comments Filed under: Team System, Tools, Web Services

• TFS Notification Web Services - Project Template v.1.1

  Shortly after the release of v1.0 I spotted a post from Pete Sheill , who said I had missed a couple of events and that I had included support for events that are no longer raised – or raised inconsistently. In this updated version I’ve added support Read More... Posted 25 June 2006 21:22 by howard.vanrooijen | 24 Comments Filed under: Team System, Tools, ASP.NET 2.0

• Visual Studio 2005 SDK and Scrum

  There's a really fascinating video up on Channel 9 about the Visual Studio 2005 SDK team, Phil Taylor talks about the product and his team's approach, using Scrum to enable them to deliver monthly CTP drops and larger releases every quarter to synchronise Read More... Posted 13 June 2006 23:50 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: Scrum, Team System, Scrum for Team System

• Team Foundation Server Notification Web Services: Visual Studio 2005 Project Template

  Team Foundation Server offers some extensibility through event notifications these can either be in the form of an email notification or a SOAP Endpoint. To register a notification subscription you have to use the BisSubscribe.exe tool (see http://blogs.msdn.com/psheill/archive/2006/02/01/522386.aspx Read More... Posted 29 April 2006 21:54 by howard.vanrooijen | 15 Comments Filed under: Team System, Tools, ASP.NET 2.0

• Scrum for Team System: Beta 3 "Done"

  Today marks the end of Sprint 6 of development for " Scrum for Team System ". This release is targeted against Team Foundation Server Release Candidate - it will not work on any previous version of Team Foundation Server. We've spent a lot of time improving Read More... Posted 06 March 2006 20:38 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Team System, Tools, Scrum for Team System

• Scrum Plug-in: Sprint 3 "Done"

  Today marks the end of the 3rd Sprint of development on the Scrum Plug-In for Visual Studio Team System. We're working towards getting a new release (Beta 2) out sometime on Monday. We've spent a lot of the past month improving the installer (see Stuart's Read More... Posted 09 December 2005 21:35 by howard.vanrooijen | 2 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Team System, Scrum for Team System

• Scrum Plug-in: Walkthrough Guides

  I created a series of screen capture walkthrough guides to show people on the Beta Program how to use the Scrum Plug-in for Team System. I will be making more available on the "General Discussion" area of the forum as soon as I have time. But I thought Read More... Posted 18 November 2005 16:16 by howard.vanrooijen | 2 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Team System

• Conchango Scrum plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: Beta 1 Released

  After a very busy couple of weeks we've got to a point where we're happy to release the first Beta of the Scrum Plug-in for Team System. This release is targetted at users running the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and a single server Read More... Posted 16 November 2005 17:14 by howard.vanrooijen | 16 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Team System

• Agile Software Development with Scrum for Team System: Beta Program

  As Colin has mentioned in his latest post , as soon as we've stabilized on Team System Beta 3 Refresh we'll start our beta program. If you would like to be part of it please email us at betascrum@conchango.com - and tell us a little bit about yourself Read More... Posted 03 November 2005 11:07 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Team System

• Agile Software Development with Scrum Podcast Series - Scrum FAQ Part 2

  A few weeks ago I managed to steal a couple of hours of Ken Schwabers' time and recorded a series of 10 minute podcasts where Ken answers some of the more frequently asked questions about the Scrum Process. The FAQ will ship, in written form, with the Read More... Posted 31 October 2005 10:09 by howard.vanrooijen | 2 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Team System, Podcast

• Agile Software Development with Scrum for Team System: Work Item Types

  In Team System the Work Item Type (WIT) is the currency of application – you use them to define your tasks, requirements, bugs etc… This data is stored in the Team Foundation Server data warehouse and can be queried either by using the Work Item Query Read More... Posted 27 October 2005 10:15 by howard.vanrooijen | 21 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Team System

• Agile Software Development with Scrum for Team System: Overview

  As we near the launch date for Visual Studio 2005 (and the Team System Beta 3 refresh) I thought it was about time I gave a progress update on the work Colin Bird , Stuart Preston , Susie Kablean and I have been doing on the “ Agile Software Development Read More... Posted 25 October 2005 14:23 by howard.vanrooijen | 4 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Team System

• Agile Software Development with Scrum Podcast Series - Scrum FAQ Part 1

  A few weeks ago I spent an afternoon trawling the Scrum Development Yahoo-Group and Google trying to collate a list of questions for the Scrum FAQ that will ship with the “ Agile Software Development with Scrum ” Visual Studio Team System plug-in that Read More... Posted 25 October 2005 13:55 by howard.vanrooijen | 3 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Team System, Podcast

• PDC: Geek Heaven ahoy!

  I'm off to PDC next along with Colin , Paulo and Mick (no blog!) . I’m pretty excited about learning more about WCF and WPF and all those session related to Team System (current and next). Must remember to fill out the PDC Bingo page before I go. Read More... Posted 09 September 2005 17:11 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Team System, Musings