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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, ...

Microsoft released a new version of StyleCop - v4.3.1.3 last week and so we've just released a new compatible version of StyleCop for ReSharper. 

I've been working with Microsoft Blueprints for the last couple of weeks, to see if it's a suitable deployment vector for some of our reusable IP and Engineering Practices. Blueprints is part of the Software Factories vision, it evolves and includes the great work already done with the Guidance Automation Toolkit, the DSL Tools and Visual Studio ...

As part of work recently to improve how we test the Scrum for Team System template and tools across different platforms, we have discovered there are a few additional manual steps to take when you are installing the template in a distributed environment (i.e. you are using a remote WSS 3 or MOSS 2007 server to host your Team Project Portals). ...

As part of the release of version 2.2 we have extended support for SQL Server 2008 mainly around the Reporting Services. The “SQLServer2008Patcher” utility (included in the suite of tools installed with the SfTS template) will update the 2 reports, “Sprint Task Board” and “Sprint Task Board”, to make use of the ...

Version 2.2 of the Scrum for Team System process template contains a new reporting feature; the Report Slide Show tool. The slide show is installed by default along with the other components of the process template and allows you to display a selection of reports (using the report default parameter values) for a selection of team projects. To ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete. While I was on holiday Microsoft released a new version of Microsoft Source Analysis for C#, in the new version - 4.3 - it has been re-branded to it's original internal Microsoft name - StyleCop. There was a bit of a backlash against the initial release of Source Analysis - a few members of ...

A colleague of mine this week showed me his code coverage as being over 94% for his production code, which impressed me so much, it spurred me on to ensure that all code paths in my code from now on go blue instead of red when testing with Team coverage, using the Test driven .NET addin for visual studio 2008. Not sure what I'm on about, then ...

One of our new reports within the Scrum for Team System template is the Task Board report.  This report will show the current status of the work items link to the sprint. Most of the data for this report comes from the data warehouse, however to make this report and its drilldown report useful some of data needed to come from the transaction ...