With Service pack 1 for VS2008/TFS2008 & .NET 3.5 shipping a few weeks ago, it's now the turn of Team System Web Access 2008 to get the SP1 treatment. The team has been busy with a few new things for the SP1 release and I love the fact they have rolled what was previously known as WIWA (Work Item...

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Much like Mitch , I am putting the final touches to my presentations and session plans for TechEd Australia in Sydney this coming week. I have a busy week ahead as you can see from the schedule below but there's still plenty of time for catching up with friends and chatting about all things VSTS, IT...

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Good friend and QVSTSUG vice-president, William Bartholomew has updated the Search Work Items tool to work with both Visual Studio Team System 2005 and 2008. This handy tool allows you to quickly and easily search your work item store to find work items containing the search string. You can find out...

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I have recently rebuilt my laptop and as I reinstalled all my applications I took the opportunity to upgrade my anti virus from AVG 7.5 to their latest release v8.0. I installed Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite and then the Team Explorer without any problems. I then went into Team Explorer, clicked Add...

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Our next meeting of the Queensland VSTS Users Group, scheduled for 8am tomorrow morning [08/08/08 GMT+10], will be our first meeting to be webcast using Microsoft LiveMeeting and Microsoft Roundtable. "Scrum: It's all about Visibility, Honesty, Communication and Self Organisation." Presenter: James Brett...

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The July CTP of the Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR has just been released and is available for download now. Gert Drapers, Principal Development Manager - Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals at Microsoft Corp, summarises the most important changes: Project...

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The Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is being held in Los Angeles from 27th to 30th October this year and I have decided to make this my first PDC experience. As a regular at TechEd in the US and Australia over the past few years, I am looking forward to seeing what makes the PDC conference...

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For anyone thinking of heading to TechEd 2008 in Sydney, Australia in September. The early bird offer (save $250) finishes at the end of next week. You can register (before 27th June for the discount) by visiting the TechEd Australia web site. This year I'll be busy at TechEd delivering a 2-day pre-conference...

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Fellow Team System MVP, Mike Azocar, has decided to run a fantastic competition to see who can create the Coolest Team System Gadget ! Here's some information about the contest. Have you created a useful gadget for Team System? Do you have one in mind? I am looking for the coolest community built tool...

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Microsoft Learning are due to release two new courses on Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server in the next month or so and I have been engaged by Dimension Data Learning Solutions to deliver the first run of these courses around Australia for them. I expect the courses will be quite popular...

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