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As I alluded to in an earlier blog post, I will be making a flying visit - literally, to the Agile Development Practices 2007 conference in Orlando on Thursday December 6th 2007 between 10am-11am, presenting the latest version of Scrum for Team System. The session will be a joint one with Cory Foy with a live demo of ...

It has been a busy time here at Conchango as we've been making plenty of changes to get Scrum for Team System working on Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server and also incorporating changes driven by community feedback and usage of the plugin on our own development projects. We should be ready to release after we ...

Do you get lost in the myriad of tools that congregate under the banner of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)? Perhaps you don't, but I do! Today David Reed pointed me at a resource on MSDN that does a good job of unmuddying the waters as regards these tools. Head to Visual Studio 2005 Team Editions Comparison for an explanation of the ...

This one comes up frequently in our development teams, especially those who have transitioned a project off VSS and into Team Foundation Server.  The question usually goes something like: "Someone has installed VS 2005 + Team Explorer on an existing Windows XP box.  They login using their domain credentials open VS 2005, they ...

Recently I was sent an email asking me for some advice on using TFS with the scrum for team systems plug-in for managing testing tasks and defect tracking on an agile project. I thought the answers might be useful to others, so I have posted them here:Basically I want to use VSTS / TFS (with the Conchango template) to manage functional testing as ...

Recently on this blog I mentioned in passing that I have been working for some considerable time now on a project with multiple SSIS developers. A few people asked me if I could give a rundown of how we went about this, any experiences of team development I could pass on, and any pitfalls that I had learnt about. That's what this ...

Paul Hacker wrote about a WorkItem date picker control for TFS:I have just made available a workitem control that will allow you pick a Date from a calendar rather than having to enter in a date freeform into workitems. I went as far as to create an msi for easier deployment (not that it’s really hard) . I have also included a read me and a ...

There are a few things that slow down development of MSBuild-based solutions with Visual Studio.  Typically MSBuild files are named with .proj, .properties or .targets extensions - so when you drag one of these files into the Visual Studio IDE there is no Intellisense. To get around this, go to Tools > Options > Text Editor > File ...

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 process and that I had rewritten in a couple of years ago to attach to multiple worker ...

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 have been long overdue since v1.1 was released almost a year ago. Changes in this release ...