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So, there’s been a bit of storm blowing through the part of the InterWeb that I inhabit recently – see http://blog.benday.com/archive/2009/07/27/23233.aspx for the low-down. I’ve seen these types of discussions countless times, both online and in the real world – the thing that wears me down the most is the seemingly constant assertion that ...

Now that Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1 are available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads, we’d like to announce our broad plans for Scrum for Team System. The next release of Scrum for Team System will be v3.0 and like the prior releases our aim is to ship as soon as possible after release of Team ...

A few support queries and tweets have come up recently about our support for 64-bit Sharepoint (WSS or MOSS) with Scrum for Team System v2.2 and TFS.  The crux of the issue seems to be the ability of the installer to detect the location of WSS as it is not looking in the correct place in the registry to support both 32 and 64-bit installers, ...

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 ...

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 ...