Well I am back from my honeymoon and I have a HUGE amount of email and blog posts to wade through to see what I have missed in the past few weeks.

Team Foundation Server Beta 3 has been out for a few weeks now and scanning the blogs shows that quite a few people have installed the product now and almost all are completely positive towards the progress the VSTS team have made from earlier builds.

I was reading a post by Eric Lee where he talks about the plans for integration between Team Foundation Server and VS2003. This will be of particular interest as many organisations gradually transition from vs2003 over to VS2005. He is a snippet of what Eric has to say;

“The integration between Team Foundation Server is MSSCCI + a little bit.  This little bit allows Team Foundation Server to provide functionality like work item integration, check-in policy, etc. …  After Team Foundation Server finalizes in Q1 2006, the development team will focus on porting some aspects of the Team Foundation Server Object Model to .NET 1.1.  Doing this will allow us to provide integration between Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio 2003.  This integration will be done only through MSSCCI…  Team Explorer is not being ported to VS 2003, so customers won’t have work items, reports, build, etc.  For that they will have to use the stand alone Team Explorer (which in turn means they will have to install .NET 2.0).”

Read the complete post on his blog here.

Expect to see quite a few more posts as I wade through the backlog over the next fews days.