Rob Caron

Developer-related topics and other stuff.

Product Feedback Center Now Part of Microsoft Connect

As noted by Marie Hagman on the Product Feedback Center blog back in November, we have been working...

Author: RobCaron Date: 06/08/2006

MSDN Wiki

MSDN Wiki! It’s live! https://msdnwiki.microsoft.com See Soma’s blog (Announcing the MSDN...

Author: RobCaron Date: 06/08/2006

It's Almost Ready

Coming Very, Very Soon 915

Author: RobCaron Date: 06/08/2006

First Look - Team Edition for Database Pros

Are you interested in taking a look at Team Edition for Database Professionals? Then go register for...

Author: RobCaron Date: 06/06/2006

A much-improved MSDN & TechNet Search that provides some advanced search filtering to make life...

Author: RobCaron Date: 06/06/2006

MSBuild Sidekick

From the people who brought you Team Foundation Version Control Sidekick (Attrice) now comes MSBuild...

Author: RobCaron Date: 06/06/2006

We Haven't Done This Before

Coming Soon 910

Author: RobCaron Date: 06/06/2006

It's Not a New Fangled Device

Coming Soon 908

Author: RobCaron Date: 06/04/2006

Team System VPC Available for MSDN Subscribers

The much-anticipated Team System VPC (a single-server, evaluation install of Team Foundation Server...

Author: RobCaron Date: 06/02/2006

Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System

I read on Jean-Luc David’s blog that Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Wrox) by...

Author: RobCaron Date: 06/02/2006

eWeek on Team Edition for Database Pros

There’s a great article by Darryl Taft on eWeek about the new Team Edition for Database Pros....

Author: RobCaron Date: 06/01/2006

An Intro to the Standard Annotation Language (SAL)

Earlier this month, security guru Michael Howard authored a brief introduction to the Standard...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/31/2006

Expanding the Suite

Today’s a big day for Team System! It was only two years ago when we announced a new integrated...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/31/2006

Deploying Web Applications from Team Foundation Build

Hats off to Rob Conery and his persistence in perfecting the recipe for deploying Web applications...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/30/2006

Error VSP1394 when Running Web or Load Tests From a Network Drive

Charles Sterling, a developer evangelist in Australia, has a post on his blog (Running Web or Load...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/30/2006

Team System MVPs Webcasting This Week

Team System MVP and author, Jean-Luc David, is presenting a Webcast tomorrow (MSDN Load and Web...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/30/2006

Team Projects and Source Code Control Patterns

For Team Foundation Server, some of the most frequently asked questions focus on setting-up team...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/29/2006

Ensuring Team Foundation Server Availability

I got an e-mail from Gloria asking, “My group is currently looking at the evaluation software...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/26/2006

Moving Prerelease Team Foundation Server

I’ve answered this question a couple of times in as many days, so it’s time to blog it....

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/26/2006

Seeking Experiences Implementing Team Foundation Server

A friend of mine is writing a book about Team Foundation Server. He’d like to speak with...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/26/2006

Team System Wins eWeek's 6th Annual Excellence Awards

The results are in for the Sixth Annual eWeek Excellence Awards and Team System wins the Application...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/25/2006

Team System TestRun Report Viewer

Rido built a utility for generating HTML reports from Team System TestRun results files (TRX files),...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/25/2006

Team Explorer for CodePlex

For the record, you can download Team Explorer free of charge for use with CodePlex. The download is...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/23/2006

patterns & practices Guidance Explorer

Last week I paid a visit to J.D. Meier over in patterns & practices to take a look at Guidance...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/23/2006

Team Foundation Server Setup Shirts Ship

It looks like the t-shirts we promised to the first 300 who provided feedback in our setup survey...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/23/2006

IIS 5.0 Isolation Mode and Team Foundation Server

It’s not mentioned in the Team Foundation Installation Guide yet, but be aware that Team...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/23/2006

Second Blog Anniversary

Two years ago, I started this blog with the intent that I would blog like nobody's reading. At that...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/20/2006

A Value-Up Paradigm

The first chapter from Sam Guckenheimer’s book (Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/19/2006

Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

Just an update to note that Sam Guckenheimer’s book, Software Engineering with Microsoft...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/18/2006

Guidelines for Test-Driven Development

After last year’s TDD Help Topic Flap, we asked Jeffrey Palermo to write an article on the...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/18/2006

Windows PowerShell Script to Create a Work Item

Alan Stevens blogged about a Windows PowerShell (fka Monad) script he made for creating a Team...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/18/2006

Interview with Team System MVP Richard Hundhausen

Catch Scott Swigart’s interview with Team System MVP and author Richard Hundhausen for Dr....

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/18/2006

Documentation Refreshed

On Wednesday, we refreshed the online product documentation for Visual Studio 2005. This refresh...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/18/2006

Clarification on the Upgrade Process

It has recently come to my attention that some people have misunderstood the purpose of the upgrade...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/17/2006

What's in SQL Server 2005 SP1?

As I’ve noted before (Team Foundation Server & SQL Server SP1) you should install SQL...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/17/2006

Team Foundation Server Admin Tool 1.0

As Joe Morel reports, the Team Foundation Server Administration Tool 1.0 (both binaries and source)...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/17/2006

More on CodePlex

Mary Jo Foley has more information about CodePlex (CodePlex in Beta!) over on Microsoft Watch....

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/16/2006

Sam Guckenheimer is Blogging

Sam Guckenheimer (RSS), Group Product Planner for Team System and recently published author, has...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/16/2006

CodePlex in Beta!

CodePlex, which is built on Team Foundation Server, just went live with a public beta today. During...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/15/2006

Tech·Ed 2006 Sold Out

I missed an e-mail I received on Friday that Tech·Ed 2006 is sold out. If you registered in...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/15/2006

DSL Tools: Model-Driven Development of .NET Enterprise Applications

There’s a new technical article on MSDN about using the Domain-Specific Language (DSL) tools,...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/15/2006

Hands on with Microsoft Team System

I received e-mail this morning from Tim Anderson of ITWriting.com announcing the publication of his...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/15/2006

Requirements Authoring Starter Kit

Are you looking for a way to easily (and cheaply) integrate requirements authoring into Visual...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/13/2006

Pro Visual Studio 2005 Team System by Jeff Levinson and David Nelson

Jeff Levinson advises me that the book he wrote with David Nelson, Pro Visual Studio 2005 Team...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/12/2006

Trying Office 2007 Beta 2

Yesterday, I took the plunge and installed Office 2007 (Beta 2) on my laptop. Just off the top of my...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/11/2006

Updated Team Foundation Installation Guide

We just posted an updated version of the Team Foundation Installation Guide. This release includes...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/10/2006

Visual Studio Team System Unit Testing for C++

Nick Wienholt wrote an article for Code Guru on Team System Unit Testing from the C++ perspective,...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/08/2006

Custom Load Test Reporting

Wen Ding also wrote an article for the June issue of MSDN Magazine on a custom reporting solution...

Author: RobCaron Date: 05/08/2006

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