We take a look through recent developments in the TFS world and also dive into our growing mailbag. Thanks for the emails everyone, if you would like your email read out or have show ideas etc then please drop us a line on [email protected] or call +1 425 233-8379.
Play Now: Mailbag Episode
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Also, a couple of erratta:
- Immediately after the show was recording, Brian Keller published a VM for the Project Server integration with TFS. Talk about a speedy response to feedback
- When talking about Rollback and how this wasn't in the UI we mentioned it was in the command line. But we kinda said that it was in the power tools when in fact it now ships in the command line for TFS2010 (and rollback is a full concept on the server - just doesn't have a menu option anywhere in Visual Studio or Eclipse
In this episode we sat down for a chat with Jonathan Wanagel who is the Principal Development Manager over at CodePlex, Microsoft's open source project hosting site. We talk about what CodePlex is, how it uses Team Foundation Server under the hood and cover some of the agile practises that the CodePlex team uses to push out a new release of the site every three weeks.
Play Now: TFS at CodePlex
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For feedback contact [email protected] or call +1 425 233-8379.
In this episode we wanted to learn a little bit more about what it takes to run TFS over the internet.
Play Now: Running TFS Over The Internet
Looking round for people to speak to we realised that we had one of the experts in this area in our co-host, Paul Hacker. So Mickey and Martin interviewed Paul to talk about what it takes to provide a hosted TFS service over the Internet, the architectures that he uses and what problems he runs into day to day.
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For questions or feedback email [email protected]. If you want to leave us an audio comment call +1 425 233 8379 or email us a short mp3 file with your message.
In this episode we get the gang back together and catch up on whats been happening for the back 6 months or so.
Play Now: Getting the Band Back Together
For questions or feedback email [email protected]. If you want to leave us an audio comment call +1 425 233 8379 or email us a short mp3 file with your message.
Sorry for the break in the usual schedule of Radio TFS episodes, Martin talks a little about the reasons for this at the begging of this show.
Play Now: End of Year Fireside Chat With Jeff Beehler
We continue our tradition of wrapping up the year with a yuletide chat with Jeff Beehler, Chief of Staff for Visual Studio. This year we take a look at the progress with the Visual Studio 2010 Beta releases, the reasons behind the decision to release a public release candidate in the new year, the changes that have happened in the organization of the Visual Studio team in 2009 and look forward to 2010 when the new version of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server is due to be released.
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For questions or feedback email [email protected]. If you want to leave us an audio comment call +1 425 233 8379 or email us a short mp3 file with your message. See you again in the new year, 2010 looks like it is going to be an interesting one!
As you may have heard, as well as announcing the availablility of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 the Visual Studio team made some important announcements on Monday October 19th 2009 about Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server. We sat down with Doug Seven, Product Manager from the Visual Studio team, to take us through these announcements. Listen along as we learned about the news first hand.
Play Now: The Ultimate Announcement Show
As usual, for questions or feedback email [email protected]. If you want to leave us an audio comment call +1 425 233 8379 or email us a short mp3 file with your message.
Looking forward to hearing what everyone thinks about the exciting news and the new functionality in Beta 2.
 In this episode we have the whole gang back together so we take the opportunity to catch up and talk about our impressions of the Team System 2010 Beta so far.
Play Now: Random Beta 1 Stuff
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As usual, feedback to [email protected] - thanks for listening, and don't forget to subscribe to get all the latest shows first.
 In the concluding part of our little antipodean special, Martin calls Anthony Borton and talks about the user group community in Australia as well as what functionality is in Visual Studio Team System for Testers now and in the future.
Play Now: Team Test with Anthony Borton
Anthony Borton is the ALM Practice Lead for Enhance ALM Pty Ltd, an Australian consulting and training company specializing in Application Lifecycle Management and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System.
He has been working with Visual Studio Team System full-time since 2005. Anthony has worked with a variety of companies ranging in size from just 3 employees up to some of Australia’s largest companies and financial institutions.
Anthony is the lead Microsoft Technical Readiness Instructor in Australia for Microsoft Visual Studio and has presented at the Microsoft launch events for both VSTS2005 and VSTS2008. Anthony is a Microsoft MVP (Team System), a Certified Scrum Master and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. He is also the president of the Queensland VSTS users group and maintains a blog at http://www.myvstsblog.com
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As usual - feedback to [email protected].
In this episode we sit down and chat with William Batholomew about his and Martin's favourite topic - Team Foundation Build. Play Now: Team Build with William Batholomew
William is widely recognised as a leading Australian expert on the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) suite and is a Team System MVP. Over the last two years he has worked closely with Microsoft’s product team in the US, providing user feedback on the latest release of VSTS and suggestions about future versions. William is the Vice-President of the Queensland VSTS User Group and has presented at numerous Microsoft events throughout Australia. He is the co-author of Inside the Microsoft® Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build published by Microsoft Press. William works for Queensland-based business software solution company, TechnologyOne, where his primary focus is on improving developer productivity by implementing VSTS, focusing specifically on education, processes and tools. William can also be found occasionally blogging at http://blogs.teamsystemnotes.com. As usual, please send feedback to [email protected].
 In this episode we sit down and chat with Ed Blankenship about the use of Team Foundation Server at Infragistics. Ed has had some interesting challenges and experiences in running their TFS instance. Aditionally they have done some fairly advanced integration work which we discuss in detail. This is a double-length show, so hopefully plenty of stuff to enjoy if you are sunning yourself on a beach somewhere.
Ed is the Release Engineering Manager at Infragistics, makers of the world's leading presentation layer tools and components. He is also a Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio Team System.
Play Now: Using TFS with Ed Blankenship
As the Release Engineering Manager, he leads the Release Engineering Department which is responsible for automated builds, creating product installers, packaging source code for customers, source configuration management/version control, metrics, release management, work item tracking, licensing enforcement, and development of internal productivity tools. The department also is responsible for TFS Operations & Maintenance.
Ed has been a technical editor for the Wrox Silverlight 1.0, Silverlight 2 Developer's Guide, and Silverlight 2 Bible books, author of numerous articles, and has spoken at various user groups, events, and conferences.
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As usual send any feedback to [email protected].
 In this episode we sit down with Grant Holliday and talk about how Microsoft uses Team Foundation Server internally. Grant is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts of Visual Studio Team System Foundation Server. Prior to joining Microsoft Grant was a consultant at Readify and Team System MVP based in Canberra Australia. In this role Grant was one of the key architects for the first Team System Foundation Server Hosting offering in the World. As a Program Manger on the Team Foundation Server team Grant is currently on the team that supports, optimizes, onboards and promotes TFS for Microsoft's internal customers. Play Now: Dogfooding TFS
Links from the show: Special thanks to Dr Tiki from Tiki Bar TV for his cameo appearance midway through the show. As usual send feedback and show ideas to [email protected].
 This week Mickey and Martin sit down to talk about their experiences at TechEd 2009 North America and the recent release of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1. Thanks to The Coach for recording an introduction to the show, and thanks to Steve Andrews for having his microphone handy to record it.
Play Now: The Beta 1 Show
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We've got some interesting guests lined up over the next few weeks and lots of stuff to talk about now that TFS Beta 1 is available. If you have anything that you would particularly like us to focus on then contact us at [email protected]
 In this episode Paul and Martin sit down with Brian Randell and talk about his two major passions in technology life, Team Foundation Server and Virtualization.
Play Now: Virtualizing Team Foundation Server
Brian A. Randell is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, LLC. For over 20 years, Brian has been building software solutions and educating his fellow developers. Brian spends his time teaching Microsoft technologies to developers, working with new and emerging technologies like Visual Studio Team System 2008, and consulting worldwide for Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, state and local governments, and small businesses. Brian enjoys helping people get the most out of their software. He does this through training for Pluralsight, and speaking at events such as VSLive!, Tech·Ed, and the PDC. In addition, Brian shares through the written word. Brian currently writes the Team System column for MSDN Magazine. He is the author and lead instructor of Pluralsight's Applied Team System and Applied Windows SharePoint Services courses.
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Next week Mickey and I will be with Brian at Tech·Ed North America. We are hoping to sit down and chat with a few people while we are there. If you have anyone in particular you would like us to talk to or topics that you would like us to address then contact us at [email protected]
In this episode Martin called Doug Seven and Daniel Norwood to talk about the work Quest are doing to provide Oracle support inside Visual Studio team System 2010. Doug Seven is a Senior Product Manager for Visual Studio Team System at Microsoft focused on technical advocacy of Team System as an ALM solution and Daniel Norwood is a Product Manager for Quest Software.
Play Now: Oracle Support for Visual Studio Team System
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Don't forget to check out the TeamFuze website for more information and to get involved.
 In this months episode Martin spent a very pleasent evening with Steven Borg founder of Northwest Cadence and recorded the chat they had about adopting Team System in the real world.
Steven Borg is the founder of Northwest Cadence, a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner focused on Visual Studio Team System. He was selected as a VSTS MVP in the first round back in 2005, and has been a Team System MVP even since. He’s little ‘a’ agile, and big on understanding what makes successful development teams tick. If you’re coming out to TechEd, be sure to head out a day early for his pre-con covering 5 ways real companies have gotten the most out of Team System. Visit his blog at http://blog.nwcadence.com to learn more!
Play Now: Adopting Team System with Steven Borg
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Also, a huge thanks to Michael Ruminer for lending Martin his fancy Marantz audio recorder which made this show possible.
This month we talk about what it takes to access TFS over the internet.
Play Now: Remotely TFS
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As usual please send any feedback to [email protected]. Remember to let us know if you prefer interview shows or shows like this where we talk between ourselves and bore each other with minutiae. Otherwise we'll probably continue to mix up both types.
 In this episode we sit down for the last time of 2008 and have a relaxed chat with Jeff Beehler, Team System Chief of Staff. We discuss the history of Team System, how the teams in Microsoft go about shipping the Team System product and Jeff throws in some teasers about what will be coming along in the near future.
Play Now: A Chat with Jeff Beehler, Team System Chief of Staff
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As usual please send any feedback to [email protected]. We didn't get chance to pick a competition winner from Show #14 so we will do that next episode. Have a good New Year everyone, see you in 2009!
In this weeks episode, we have a chat to catch up after our past few Road to Rosario specials and talk about some of the announcements from PDC 2008 that got us excited.
Play Now: PDC 2008 Highlights
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Finally, towards the end of the podcast we talked about the new Teamprise Remote Accelerator and Martin offered the following competition:
"In 100 words or less, tell us an imaginative way that you would use the Teamprise Remote Accelerator"
Send entries to [email protected] before December 12th. Paul and Mickey will pick a winner who will receive a copy of the Remote Accelerator (worth $99) free of charge.
In this week's "Road to Rosario" special, we get to sit down and chat with Dr James A. Whittaker about software testing and how Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 Test will change the paradigm for software testing tools.
James Whittaker has spent his career in software testing. He was an early thought leader in model-based testing where his PhD dissertation from the University of Tennessee became a standard reference on the subject. While a professor at Florida Tech, he founded the world’s largest academic software testing research center and helped make testing a degree track for undergraduates. Before he left Florida Tech, his research group had grown to over 60 students and faculty and had secured over $12 million in research awards and contracts. During his tenure at FIT he wrote How to Break Software and the series follow-ups How to Break Software Security (with Hugh Thompson) and How to Break Web Software (with Mike Andrews). His research team also developed the highly acclaimed runtime fault injection tool Holodeck. Dr. Whittaker currently works at Microsoft as a Software Architect for Visual Studio Team System where he is busy transforming his testing ideas into tools and techniques for developers and testers. He dreams of a future in which software just works. Links from the show:
As always, you can subscribe to the show in iTunes or Zune using the RSS Feed, or you can listen to the show using the direct link below: Play Now: James Whittaker on VSTS 2010 Test
If you have any questions or comments about the show or for any of our Road to Rosario series then please send email to [email protected].
In this second of our special Road to Rosario series we talk with Cameron Skinner about the re-birth of the Architecture tools coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010. Cameron Skinner joined Microsoft in 2005 and is currently a product unit manager on the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) team. He is responsible for overseeing the Team Edition – Architect product line. Prior to Microsoft, Cameron was the CTO and chief architect of application development tools for Embarcadero Technologies. Earlier in his career, he served as CTO for Advanced Software Technologies. In his limited spare time, Cameron enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, and playing his acoustic bass. Links from the show: If you are interested in this interview and would like to see the tools in action, then also be sure to check out the Channel 9 interview with Cameron that has recently been posted. Direct Link to the Show
As usual, if you have any question or comments about these special shows then please send them to [email protected].
We're very lucky to have been granted privaledged access into the Team System team as they prepare to show us what they have been working on for the next version of Team System which has the codename of "Rosario" but will have the official name of Visual Studio Team System 2010 when it is released. PDC will be the event where they really start talking and showing us early builds of Rosario. But we are going to be giving you the inside track here, for free, over the next few weeks on RadioTFS in our special "Road to Rosario" series.
First can we thank Chuck Sterling at Microsoft who is the community lead for Team System, and has been doing all the hard work tracking down our guests for us.
In this show we talk with Habib Haydarian about the great new features coming up in the VSTS 2010 Development.
Habib is a Lead Program manager on the VSTS Development group. His main responsibilities include the Visual Studio debugger, profiler, code coverage and pretty much anything related to troubleshooting and diagnosing applications. He joined Microsoft in 2000 and has been in Developer Division ever since. Before joining Microsoft, Habib studied computer science at the Australian National University in Canberra. While not at work, Habib spends his time playing with robots, shooting hoops or chasing that elusive Yellowfin. One of his favorite possessions is a Washington state license plate with the label "RUNTIME".
Also, as you may have heard, Microsoft recently announced the fantastic news that from October 1st 2008, ANYONE that has purchased Team System Development Edition or the Database Professional Edition with software assurance will get the other product included for free. That means that if you have a MSDN premium subscription with the development edition (like many people do who had MSDN universal before that) then you will be able to download and install the Database professional edition - today, for free. Equally, if you have DataDude, you can get the Development Edition for free.
For more information about the database professional side of the product, have a listen to Episode #9 with Gert Drapers. In this show we concentrate on the other parts of the product.
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You can listen to the show direct here - spot the parts where we had prepared a script! We'll not be doing that again As usual, if you have any question, comments of feedback then leave a comment or send an email to [email protected]
In this episode, we sit down and take a long hard look at Check-in Polcies in Team Foundation Server. What are they, how do you create your own and most imporantly when you should and shouldn't use them.
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As usual, if you have any question, comments of feedback then leave a comment or send an email to [email protected]
In this first episode back from the summer break we talk about the features available in TFS Version Control and talk about some of the fundamental concepts that you should understand to make your life easier. Don't forget to stay tuned all the way to the end when Martin offers up a brainteaser for everyone and Paul goes crazy and offers a FULL copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite to a lucky listener drawn at random who provides a correct answer to [email protected] before the end of August 2008. If that is not enough for you, Mickey is running a competition over at Team System Rocks where you could win a years MSDN Premium Subscription with Visual Studio Team Suite. Some links from this show: Don't forget that you can subscribe to the show using the RSS Feed in iTunes or Zune ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/radiotfs), you can also listen to the show direct using this link ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/radiotfs/~5/356228001/radiotfs_008.mp3). For feedback or suggestions for futures shows please contact us at [email protected] or leave a comment.
In this episode we have a discussion on the features available in Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition. Some links from this episode:
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If you have any questions or comments about the show or future show suggestions then please contact us at [email protected].
In this episode we talk about many of the new features in the beta release of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2008, Service Pack 1. Links from the episode are: Click here for a direct link to this episodeIf you have any questions that you would like answered, or if you have
any comments and feedback about the show then please contact us at [email protected].
In this episode we attempt to answer some of the common questions we hear people ask about Team System including:
- What is Team System?
- Which edition is right for me?
- Why can't I find Team Foundation Server on MSDN?
- What is Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition?
- Is VSTS 2005 compatible with TFS 2008?
- Why can't I see Team Foundation Server when I install Team Suite?
- What are my options for migrating from my old system(s) to TFS?
- Can I use TFS with VB6, .NET 1.1, Eclipse etc?
- What is a Team Project - how should it be scoped?
- I deleted a file locally, I do a "Get Latest" and TFS doesn't download it - why?
As well as the usual sprinkling of tangents along the way.
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If you have any questions that you would like answered, or if you have any comments and feedback about the show then please contact us at [email protected].
In this episode we take a look at Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition. We cover the functionality that was included in the 2005 release as well as talk about the new features in 2008 and have the usual sprinkling of tangental discussions along the way.
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Below are some of the links mentioned in the show.
If you have any questions that you would like answered, or if you have any comments and feedback about the show then please contact us at [email protected].
RadioTFS is back, and with some fresh changes. First change is, we've added a third host: Martin Woodward. Don't know who Martin is and want to? Then go listen to our latest podcast, RadioTFS Show #2 - What's new in TFS 2008 and Should You Upgrade.
Next change is, the RSS feed is different. So if you are using the old RSS feed, you won't see the new show. Click here to get the latest RSS Feed.
Click here for a direct link to the latest show.
We are looking for feedback and for listener questions. So if you have any feedback on the show, what you like and don't like, things you would like us to cover, anything, send that feedback to [email protected]. Also, we are looking for listener questions that we can answer during the podcast. So send those to us as well at [email protected].
We are looking at trying to do this bi-monthly, but given that all three of us have hectic schedules, as well as Martin lives in another country, don't hate us if we don't hit that schedule every time. I'm not sure what the topic of the next podcast will be, but look for it in a couple of weeks.
Paul Hacker (editor-in-chief of TFSTimes.com) and Mickey Gousset have decided to try something new. We've created a podcast called Radio TFS where we wax eloquently (or ramble on, take your pick) about all things Team System and Team Foundation Server. For our first edition, we talk about us a little bit, and focus a good bit on Team Build.
You'll be able to tell when you listen to it that everything is completely unscripted. We did some minimal planning, but wanted to keep it kind of natural. Also, we are using Skype to do this, as Paul and I live across the country from each other. As such, my audio is a little low. We'll see what we can do to fix that at some point, but remember, this is a bootstrap operation.
The one thing I did find from this, and I think Paul will agree, is that it was a lot of fun. Twenty minutes had passed before I realized it. Paul and I are going to try and crank these out on at least a monthly basis, and possibly even more frequently.
So, go give the podcast a listen, and then email us and tell us what you think. Let us know what you liked and didn't like, or any Team System topics you would like to cover in the future. Heck, let us know if you'd be interested in being interviewed for the show.
Link to Episode 1
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