Exceptions are technology specific and therefore not suitable to cross the service boundary of SOA compliant services. Another anomaly we identified is that all exceptions, with the exception of FaultException fault the communication channel, resulting in unhappy proxies as a recover and retry is not possible.

Ever wondered if and how identities are carried from service to service?
Unable to make much progress on VSTS due to the build bug we are investigating, we recently had a discussion around the identity topic. At the time I believed that writing a quick prototype may not be such a bad thing and here is the brief story for those interested.

This is the start of a mini series during which the next generation TFS codename "Rosario" will be reviewed.

We also preview the tons of great new stuff that are included in TFS Orcas SP1 (TFS 2008 SP1).

Summarising good practice from the field … this paper examines typical implementation and usage challenges in the Team Foundation Server environment and summarises practical, in-the-field solutions and/or recommendations by MVPs and consultants in the field.

In many, if not most, SDLC and ALM environments that we have encountered, there is usually very little planning in terms of the team environment and the technology used to support the SDLC and ALM environments. Consequently, decisions are typically based on spontaneous decisions or on a comfort zone, i.e. "we have done it this way for years, why change?"

The results are usually a non-functional SDLC and ALM environment, team frustration and counter productivity. This document is an attempt to simplify, consolidate and encourage the planning of the team structure and the version control environments.

There is a lot more to plan and consider, but we have decided to focus our initial investigation on the topics covered herein as a starting point to promote planning and getting started with a known and valuable SDLC and ALM foundation.

The scope of this document is primarily focused on steps 2 and 4 of the "Version Control" of the "0202 Microsoft Team System Planning" quick reference poster, covering team project, solution, source code, workspace and dependency planning starting with an introduction of options and concluding with the hypothetical company X proposal.