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Extensibility and Power Toys

We were talking about TFS extensibility and VSTS power tools the other night at our VSTSUG meeting and I thought I would post some links up. (Plus I said to everyone that I would!) 

Extensibility

VS2005 SDK Feb 2006
TechNet Article (Dec 2005)
Fresh MSDN article on CI (March 2006) 
CI Using Team Foundation Build (MSDN)

Free VSTS Power Tools

TFS Admin Tool
Project Server Connector for VSTS

This is just a quick start. I will update this post as appropriate. Thanks all.

March VSTSUG Announcement

For an early heads up, the next VSTSUG meeting is going to be held on Thursday 23rd March. Same time and place. Check out the website for more details.

I am very happy to announce that Jeff Beehler, lead program manager of VSTS will be one of our speakers for the evening. Exact content is being finalised so I will let everyone know when I have the details. Whatever it is, Jeff's the man so you know it's gonna be cool!
Also, Queenslander Anthony Borton is in Melbourne doing some VSTS partner training and he will also be doing a session on Work Item Tracking so all in all, it should be a great meeting!

There will be reminders going out closer to the date so I hope to see you all there!

February VSTSUG Wrap

We had our Feb meeting earlier tonight and unfortunately our speaker Karl had to cancel his presentation at the last minute. The session rolled on quite well with the die hard VSTS community coming along and we had a good yak about all things Team Foundation Server RC, extensibility and I gave away most of my goodies!

Huge thanks to everyone who came tonight. You guys rock! I will do some follow up posts with the information we talked about regarding extensibility and power tools for VSTS.

I will also have details of our March meeting coming up shortly and it's going to be a biggin'!!!

VS2005 SDK Latest Release

The February release of the VS2005 SDK is now available from the VSIP Member download area. Grab it for all your VSTS extensibilty needs.

The download is around the 166MB mark.

Go Greg!

Great news! Greg Low has been selected to join the RD program!

Congratulations Greg. Very well deserved.

VSTSUG Reminder

Just a quick reminder about this Thursday's VSTSUG meeting. Please let me know by today if you are coming along so I can finalise numbers.

We are kicking off at 6pm with Karl Kopp from WDG sharing his TFS experiences and the Dev'Garten initiative, followed by a TFS extensibility discussion. Pizza and drinks are provided and I might have some nice giveaways aswell!

All the info is on our website so check it out.

Thanks all. See you there!

TFS Version Control Summary

TFS RC - First Impressions

So I have now become one of the many that has upgraded to TFS RC and I must say the process was really painless and easy (Your right Martin, it's no fun anymore!) . Following the install and upgrade guide made it a peice of cake so make sure you have a read of them before doing either. You can get an updated version of the install guide here (via Rob).

Great job to all involved in getting the RC out and also kudos on the doco supplied.

And don't forget to fill out the survey! T-Shirts may await if your quick enough.....

TFS RC released!

VSTSUG on Business Victoria

VSTSUG session info is also now on the Business Victoria website. Check out the CITC events page here.

I have also nearly confirmed speakers for our March meeting so stay tuned!!