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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 ...

It turns out that more of you than expected have access to Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server already and are desperate to evaluate Scrum for Team System v2.0 - so we changed our plans slightly to put out an early version for evaluation. We're hosting the download on our community forum.  You'll need to create an account to ...

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 ...

A patch has been released for those who are using Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) Beta 2, WPF project types and using Team Explorer as the selected source control plugin.  The issue manifested itself as a message prompting you to save when you build a WPF project (even if you had just done a save all). Get the patch here: ...

Visual Studio Rosario August 2007 CTP (including TFS) is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8450EFF5-24AD-44C3-AB91-1ED88EF2F4F0&displaylang=en.  As the installation/setup is not complete, only a VPC is being provided. Remember you will need a Base image.  If you downloaded any of the Orcas ...

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 ...

As those who are doing unit testing in Visual Studio Team System will know, it is not always the easiest thing to access the Test Run results after a build.  You have to expand the Result Details panel, click on the test results file and select a location on your local machine to download the results to before they can be ...

The following code will get the correct database and server name for the Team Foundation Server Work Item Tracking database. Note in the call to GetRegistrationEntries you can use any one of the following ...