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The new Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools, March 2008 edition, may cause 1722 error when installing. There is many possible reasons for that, however one I had can be easily eliminated. First of all you should get log file. Easiest way is to run command line: msiexec /i tfpt.msi /le log.txt All errors that happened during installation will be logged into the file. If you are lucky enough to have the same problem (if having problems can be a sort of luck), your log file will be like that: === Logging started: 23/06/2008 09:06:02 === Error 1722.There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action...

While one accepts that the cloud is here to stay, whether Mesh or Google\s Web 2.0 offerings, there are certain issues that need to be addressed that are as important as the technical ones (which i am still working on). So just to kick off a discussion some questions. 1. we know Mesh will sync data to your local device giving you control over your information, which is a legal necessity most places. Can't go to the IRS and say it rained and the cloud washed away my data :-) so will all cloud based information have this local mirror capability. 2. In most countries ISPs are now obliged to hand over client information if asked by the authorities under certain anti terrorist and other national security provisions. Would this apply to business...

Hi everyone sorry for a late start after creating this blog - needed to get the wheels spinning a bit. why my technical blog, on an asp.net site - ASP is not really my speciality (at the moment that is Groove Virtual Office). I post on that subject here http://ashokhingorani.blogspot.com/ This blog is about something specific - new developments ideally - mostly related to Mesh like architecture - though none of us will really be using Mesh itself till after the October release - no teasers no betas - how boring. What i loved about Groove was that we partners were invited to jump in with both feet and really contribute to the development. but these are early days for Mesh like computing - i say mesh like because there are other products out there...

Here are some notes and a list of questions and answers regarding the TFS Reporting architecture. I gave a presentation at this month's Dallas Visual Studio Team System user group. The topic was TFS Reporting but what we really covered was the TFS reporting architecture. We’ll probably follow-up with a second session of “Effective TFS Reporting” to include demos and the meaning of some of the most used TFS reports. I strongly believe that the TFS Reporting architecture includes several areas that should be understood to effectively and efficiently deliver standard and custom reports. So here are some high points for the benefit of others looking for answers. The TFS Warehouse We avoid reporting on the operational store because it slows down...

"Surrender, we are many, you are few. We won't lay down our weapons, you want them? Come get them! The Persians arrows will blot out the sun. Better this way, we will fight in the shadow." The movie ‘300’ is like a big punch in the stomach and you have no time to fall. In '300', you see a comic book story that meets the entrepreneurship that meets the world history about the legendary battle of Thermopylae during the year of 480 BC where only 300 Spartans fought against millions of Persians for the future of Greece. Nobody knows exactly how many were really involved in the war; but everyone agreed: It was few against many! Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, the movie in its first week generated USD 70 millions in...

Compañer@s : El miércoles 7 de mayo tuve la oportunidad de brindar una charla en la comunidad de desarrolladores de .net de Guatemala titulada "Team System 2008". Durante la charla se presentaron los nuevos paradigmas de la ingeniería de software, como se están encaminando los procesos de gestión y administración de proyectos de software, vimos conceptos como Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) , Value Up Software Process entre otros. Para las personas que no pudieron estar presentes y para los que estuvieron presentes les comparto las presentaciones y demos de "Team System 2008". Presentacion 1 Presentacion 2 Demos Saludos Carlos A. Lone Etiquetas de Technorati: VSTS 2008 , Team System ,...

Just what I was looking for - a list of all the URLs to the VPC-parts, easy to add to a download manager. Steve got the links from Martin Danner and I'm passing the links on :) Martin Danner has passed along a list of the URLs to use to download the TFS/VSTS 2008 Trial VPC using Free Download Manager .  Just copy the list and paste (using Ctrl+Shift+V) into Free Download Manager then wait... This VPC includes Office 2007 SP1, all Windows Updates and the December 2007 power tools.  It also contains 38 hands-on labs for your learning pleasure.  The VPC is set to expire on Dec. 31, 2008.   http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/7/3/d73b91d4-6daa-4da6-8635-3f10a1b918db/en_visual_studio_team_system_2008_team_suite_and_tfs_rtm_vpc_march2008...

Requirements Management is something very near to my heart. So, is Team System. Wouldn't you know that there is now a white paper out from Microsoft that talks about both!!! Read More...

I've been demonstrating the capabilities of Visual Studio Team System recently in a series of tech briefings. In addition to what is available today, I've been showing some of what the future might hold using the November 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP) of code name "Rosario" . Unfortunately, about a week ago the Visual Studio preview time-bombed and my demos became far less compelling. Actually, the CTP wasn't really scheduled to be obsolete yet and legally it can be extended for continued investigation or, in my case, demonstrations. I did the time honored trick of setting the clock of the Virtual PC's host back to a time before the expiration and managed to keep the demos alive. At some point we can expect...

I'm working with a client this week to set up Continuous Integration for their development environment. They're a small shop who are using Visual Studio 2008 Professional, and don't intend to upgrade to Team Suite or Team Edition any time soon. The build environment would therefore be running CruiseControl.NET , not Team Foundation Server. They're not doing unit testing at the moment, but that's something that's being added as part of the project, so the question because whether to use MSTest, which is built into VS2008 Pro, or another unit test framework like NUnit or MbUnit or csUnit or abcUnit or xyzUnit or whatever. They were leaning toward MSTest because it's built in and has the basic functionality one needs...