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One of the nice new feature of TFS11 is that you get a third option for what to do with your build output Don’t copy output anywhere – good for CI builds that nobody will ever consume, just used to run tests Drop to a UNC share e.g. \server1drops – the default and used 9 times out 10 The new one - drop to source control e.g. $/myproject/drops. The advantage of this new third option is your build agents can place the files they create in a location that can be accessed by any TFS client i.e. in the source control repository. A user no longer needs to be on a VPN or corporate LAN to be able to see a UNC share. ...

It was announced overnight that TEE is now free. What does this mean? It means if you do not have to buy TEE as some extra software if you already have a TFS CAL. This removed a barrier to adoption for developers who work in heterogeneous systems, there is no extra cost to integrate Eclipse as well a Visual Studio with TFS . If you want to find out more about TEE why not come Black Marble’s free webinar I am delivering on the 19th? ...

I recently did a guest post for the VSTS UK Team Blog on Team Explorer Everywhere. On the 19th of March I will be doing a free webinar on the same subject. To register for this event please see the Black Marble web site.

I have proposed a session for DDD South West, why don’t you?

When you install TEE11 Beta in Eclipse you will notice their are two Team Explorer windows Team Explorer 2010 – The old style window Team Explorer – The new VS11 style window This is an artefact of the beta as TEE transitions to the new VS UI. I would recommend you use the new one as this will be the experience going forward. I certainly would not recommend having both open as I have shown in this screenshot ...

Background Whilst at the Microsoft MVP summit there are a number of MVP2MVP sessions, these are similar to DDD style sessions with MVPs presenting as opposed to Microsoft staff. One I found really interesting was one by Richard Banks based on his post on using GIT with TFS. Now this was a usage of source control tools I had not considered, a mixture of Git and TFS (or could be Git to SVN, similar tools are available) ...

Today, as well as the new VS11 Beta bits from Microsoft, the ALM Rangers also shipped best practice guidance to get you started with the beta. This is a project I am very proud to have been involved with. The full details of the supporting guidance shipped can be found here

The big news today is is that Microsoft released the VS11 Beta, part of which is Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE). (Oh they also release something called Windows 8 too – whatever that is) Whilst upgrading my TEE instance in Eclipse (Indigo) I hit the same gotcha as I had when I originally installed TEE (in Eclipse is in your ‘c:programs files’). On Windows, if UAC is enabled you have to run Eclipse as administrator to do the plug-in else you get the error message. ...

I have an unlocked Hauwei E585 MIFI that I use around europe, avoiding roaming charges for my UK mobile contract. I buy a local pay as you go SIM for the appropriate country and off I go. I thought I would try the same here in the USA, where I am for the MVP Summit. I bought a T-Mobile data SIM, but it did not work so well. Basically the issue is one of aerials it seems. The E585 does not have the aerials it needs to connect for data in the USA, best it can do is a 2G connection, and even this seems to have issues, as mentioned in this post, that you need a phone SIM and not a data SIM. The bottom line seems to be the E585 is 2100MHz/900MHz UMTS only, AT&T are 850Mhz UMTS, T-Mobile will work on EDGE (2G) only. Verizon is CDMA. So it just just not going to work. ...

There is a good discussion of the new TFS 11 announcements in the new Radio TFS podcast