Monthly Archives: July 2007

Announcing Hosted TFS

Finally, we’re able to announce the project that I’ve been working on for the past few months.
Readify are proud to be the world’s first commercial hosted team foundation server provider.
TFS Now
We’re still making some final adjustments, but keep an eye on the blog (feed) as we reveal the features of the service over the coming [...]

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Available!

Get it while it’s hot!

Download: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx
Soma’s announcement of VS2008 beta2, .NET 3.5 beta2 and Silverlight 1.0 RC
Rob Caron’s post on the renaming of SKUs

The new SKU names:

Visual Studio Team System 2008
Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Team Suite
Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Architecture Edition
Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Development Edition [...]

PowerShell: Email a log file

PowerShell has access to the complete .NET Framework, so the easiest way to send an email is just the way you would do it in .NET, using the System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient class.
You can do it as simply as this:
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient(”localhost” ;) $smtp.Send(”from@yourdomain.com”, “recipient@theirdomain.com”, “subject here”, “body here” ;)
If you want more control over the message contents, you [...]

Canberra VSTS User Group Website

After more than 6 months of procrastination since I started the group, I finally got around to setting up an official web site for the Canberra VSTS User Group. Go link!
http://canberra.oztfs.com/
On the site, you can find the upcoming meetings and slide deck presentations from past meetings.