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Team Foundation Server with Richard Fennell

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Posted by: host	Monday, May 07, 2007 8:16 AM
When: Wednesday 19th September 2007, doors open 6:00pm, meeting starts 6:30pm Where: BAWA, Filton, Bristol (see FAQ for directions and a map) - Ground floor, room 4 What: Team Foundation Server - the answer to all project management problems ? Who: Richard Fennell, Founding Director of Black Marble, a Microsoft Gold partner based in Yorkshire Why: Because Team Foundation Server is Microsoft's flagship source repository and work and bug tracking software and because Richard Fennell is a real developer whose honest and direct speaking style is a breath of fresh air for anyone jaded with marketing speeches. How do I sign up for this meeting: Send an email to meetings at dotnetdevnet.com and quote your user name and the September meeting Abstract: (Richard is using both sessions to present Team Foundation Server) Team Foundation Server - the answer to all project management problems? Sick of SourceSafe? Is Microsoft's Team Foundation Server the answer to all your problems? In this seminar I will cover the key components and usage of TFS, installation issues, the range of third party tools available and how to write your own tools using the API. The seminar will include demos of cool addins and tips drawn from bitter experience as well as a discussion as to how best to create a continuous integration environment with TFS via the API. I will also look at the changes to TFS in the upcoming ORCAS release. About Richard: Richard Fennell is a founding Director of Black Marble, a Microsoft Gold partner based in Yorkshire. He is a regular speaker at community events, speaking at DDD3 on Testing, DDD4 on Continuous Integration, as well as variety of user groups and free events run by his company. He has a degree in Computer Science, is a Member of the BCS, a Chartered IT professional and Chartered Engineer as well as holding MCSD.NET and MCAD accreditations. Richard has over 20 years experience in the IT industry as both an IT administrator and a software developer and so is able to address a wide variety of software related issues.

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Re: Team Foundation Server with Richard Fennell	By mrplatypus on Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:40 AM
Please may I sign up for this meeting?

Re: Team Foundation Server with Richard Fennell	By mrplatypus on Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:41 AM
Please may I sign up for this meeting?

Re: Team Foundation Server with Richard Fennell	By admin on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:07 PM
Dave, You need to send an email to meetings at dotnetdevnet to register for a meeting. Guy

Good timing!	By j3r3m7 on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:18 PM
Looking forward to this talk as I'm currently wrestling with TFS creating a continuous integration server and could do with some pointers.

Re: Team Foundation Server with Richard Fennell

By admin on Thursday, September 20, 2007 6:44 PM

Thanks once again to Richard for an excellent, well presented and information packed session. Very good job.

Here is the link for the opening slides:-

http://www.dotnetdevnet.com/Downloads/Meetings/2007/September/DotNetDevNetSeptember.pdf

Here is the link for Richard's Team Foundation Server slides:-

http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/ConferencePapers/Bristol%20.NET%20Developer%20Network%20Presentation%20-%20Team%20Foundation%20Server.pptx

Guy

Re: Team Foundation Server with Richard Fennell	By timjroberts on Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:18 PM
Since this was the first meeting that I have attended, I would just like to say thanks to Guy for organising the event - it must take a lot of preparation, and also to Richard for putting on a great show. I am no longer a user-group newbie - and it's even taken me a while to get there: http://www.timjroberts.com/index.php?entry=entry070920-082159 Thanks again guys.

Re: Team Foundation Server with Richard Fennell	By jose on Friday, September 21, 2007 5:50 PM
Hi, I tried the link for the PowerPoint but got a 404. Anyone else got this? Jose

Re: Team Foundation Server with Richard Fennell	By admin on Friday, September 21, 2007 6:58 PM
Jose, Yes, it's a problem. I'm working on it... Guy

Re: Team Foundation Server with Richard Fennell	By admin on Saturday, September 22, 2007 3:21 PM
Ok, the link I gave above is for a PPTX that doesn't exist - it is actually a PPT so the correct link is:- http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/ConferencePapers/Bristol%20.NET%20Developer%20Network%20Presentation%20-%20Team%20Foundation%20Server.ppt Guy

Re: Team Foundation Server with Richard Fennell	By jose on Sunday, September 23, 2007 3:20 PM
Perfect. Thanks Guy. Jose

Re: Team Foundation Server with Richard Fennell

By j3r3m7 on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 11:31 AM

Golden nugget from this meeting for me was the details on TFS addons and tools, specifically the VSTS Web Access application which somehow manages to be a lot more useable than the winform version build into Visual Studio. (e.g. you can search work items and bugs by keyword from the homepage)

If you are coming to TFS from Jira, Bugzilla, Trac or any other bug tracking systems the web interface of VST Web Acces is a breath of fresh air.. and it's free (as in donuts) from MS.