Rob Caron

Developer-related topics and other stuff.

Receiving Notifications from Team Foundation Build

If you'd like to be more in touch with your Team Foundation Build server using something other than...

Author: RobCaron Date: 08/09/2006

Expiring Team Foundation Server Installations

As Brian Harry notes in his blog post below, we're getting close to the point where Team Foundation...

Author: RobCaron Date: 08/08/2006

TechEd 2006 US Team System PowerPoint Slides

While I was out on vacation, the PowerPoint slides from the Team System presentations held at TechEd...

Author: RobCaron Date: 08/08/2006

Power Toys for Visual Studio

If you haven't visited it, the Power Toys for Visual Studio site is the place to go for information...

Author: RobCaron Date: 08/07/2006

Dave Glover's Mini ITX Team Foundation Server

I've wanted to build a Mini ITX computer for a long time 'cause it looks like a lot of fun. Dave...

Author: RobCaron Date: 08/06/2006

Brian Keller - Technical Evangelist for Team System

A recent addition to the Visual Studio Team System family is Brian Keller, who used to be the...

Author: RobCaron Date: 08/05/2006

Teamprise 2.0 Preview Program

Martin Woodward has a post that shows off what's in store for Teamprise 2.0 (Martin Woodward:...

Author: RobCaron Date: 08/04/2006

InfoWorld Review: Team System Very Good

InfoWorld published a review of Visual Studio 2005 Team System by Tom Yager and gave it an 8.0 "Very...

Author: RobCaron Date: 08/04/2006

Team System Product Documentation July Update

Starting with the July product documentation update we just published (for details, see the Team...

Author: RobCaron Date: 08/04/2006

Randy Miller on Writing Scenarios

Randy Miller started a four-part series of posts on writing scenarios. The first post is about the...

Author: RobCaron Date: 08/02/2006

An Interview with Randy Miller

Paolo De Nictolis interviewed Randy Miller at The Agile Conference in Minneapolis for...

Author: RobCaron Date: 08/01/2006

August 2006 Team System Webcasts

Team Edition for Database Professionals Four-Part Series (Level 200) Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition...

Author: RobCaron Date: 08/01/2006

dnrTV: Adam Cogan on Team System

In this episode of dnrTV, Team System MVP Adam Cogan from SSW joins Carl Franklin for a video...

Author: RobCaron Date: 08/01/2006

TheServerSide.NET - Team System and Testing Today (Part 3)

The third installment of George Lawton's series of articles, VSTS and testing today, Part 3 - Are...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/31/2006

July Team Foundation Server Dogfooding Stats

See Brian Harry's post for the latest dogfooding statistics, which are simply phenomenal. These...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/31/2006

Visual Studio North Carolina

I'm near Durham, NC today preparing to fly back to Redmond, WA later this afternoon. Over the...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/31/2006

Deploying Team Foundation Server at Microsoft

Brian Harry posted a link to a new technical case study from Microsoft IT on deploying Team...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/31/2006

Sandcastle - Documenting Managed Class Libraries

If you've always wanted to create MSDN-like documentation for your managed class libraries, you'll...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/30/2006

Bodie

As noted earlier this week, vacation this year finds me on The Outer Banks of North Carolina, so I...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/27/2006

Currituck

As noted earlier this week, vacation this year finds me on The Outer Banks of North Carolina, so I...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/27/2006

Sumit Chawla Revives The Software Lifecycle Blog

This is good news! Sumit Chawla from Avanadae is reviving The Software Lifecycle Blog. Be sure to...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/26/2006

FTP Online: Team Edition for Database Pros

FTPOnline has an article by Peter Varhol about Team Edition for Database Pros (Data Dude and VS Team...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/26/2006

Customizing Work Items in Team Foundation Server

Somehow I missed it last month, but DevX had an article by Michael Jones on Customizing Work Items...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/26/2006

Free Download: MSDN Library

Starting with the May 2006 release, MSDN Library is freely available for download from Microsoft...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/26/2006

Hatteras

As noted in my last post, vacation this year finds me on The Outer Banks of North Carolina, so I...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/26/2006

Ocracoke

Vacation this year finds me on The Outer Banks of North Carolina, so I decided to visit the...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/26/2006

Accessing Team Foundation Server from Mac, UNIX or Linux through Eclipse

If you want to learn more about Teamprise and how it brings Team Foundation Server to the Eclipse...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/23/2006

July Partner Toolkit and Team Foundation Server Disc

Several people have commented on my blog post (New Team Foundation Server Partner Benefit) and sent...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/20/2006

ClustrMap for this Blog

For those who read this blog by RSS only, you may not have seen that I recently added a ClustrMap to...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/20/2006

Meet Microsoft's Ultimate Beta Tester

For more insight into dogfooding at Microsoft, see this article on BetaNews. BetaNews recently sat...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/19/2006

Using Team Foundation Server for Impact Analysis

David Lemphers blogged about a brainstorm he had recently to use Team Foundation Server to create...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/19/2006

Post Counting Adjustment

I just noticed that I botched my post counting back in April with post #833, which was numbered...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/18/2006

Microsoft Acquires Winternals Software

This is great news. I can't think of how many times I've used tools from the Sysinternals site to...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/18/2006

Teamprise V1.1 Released

Congratulations to Teamprise on releasing v1.1 of their flagship product! Here's the announcement...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/18/2006

Team System: A Platform for Software Development Innovation

David Lempher's recent blog post (Team Foundation Server...it's more platform than product!)...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/18/2006

Team System Rocks! Job Forum

If you enjoy using Team System for software development and you're currently in the market for a new...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/18/2006

Sachin Rekhi on Database Unit Testing

I don't know how popular the blogs from the Team Edition for Database Pros team have grown, so I...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/17/2006

Free Download: Virtual PC 2004 & 2007

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that Virtual PC is now available free of charge. Whether...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/15/2006

Continuous Integration Sample Refactored

Jeff Atwood of Vertigo Software took the trouble to refactor the continuous integration sample for...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/14/2006

Team System Training and Team Foundation Server Add-Ons

Brian Harry blogged about some of the cool stuff coming through the pipeline for Team System,...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/14/2006

Do you feel plucky?

Betsy Aoki introduces the concept of Plucky Project Management and its one and only management tool,...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/13/2006

Mike Gunderloy Reviews The Build Master

See Mike Gunderloy’s column (Making a Build) in MCP Magazine for a book review of Vincent Maraia's...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/13/2006

TechEd 2006 Strategic Briefings

At TechEd 2006, Steven Guggneheimer (General Manager. Application Platform & Development...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/13/2006

stpBA Storyboarding for Team System

Today, I received an e-mail from Badr Khan of stpSoft about stpBA Storyboarding for Microsoft Visual...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/12/2006

Updated Team Foundation Installation Guide

We just uploaded a new edition of the Team Foundation Installation Guide (v60711). This release...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/12/2006

A Question for Next Team Ed for Db Pros CTP

Thomas Murphy, Group Program Manager on Team Edition for Database Pros, needs your input on the next...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/11/2006

TheServerSide.NET on Teamprise

TheServerSide.NET has an article by Jack Vaughan on Teamprise, which provides client-side access to...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/11/2006

Microsoft is Today's Featured Wikipedia Article

The featured article on the main page of Wikipedia’s English site today is Microsoft. After...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/11/2006

Adding Technorati Tags

FYI – I’ve decided to start adding Technorati tags to my blog posts; fortunately,...

Author: RobCaron Date: 07/11/2006

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