Brian Harry's Blog

TeamSpec by Personify Design is Shipping

January 24, 2008 Jan 24, 2008 01/24/08

Brian Harry

Managing requirements is a hot topic with software development teams these days.  I get a lot of questions from people about how to use TFS to manage requirements.  When we think about requirements management, we break it into two parts - Elicitation/Capture and Analysis/Traceability.  Today TFS really has no feature for ...

New features to understand branching/merging

January 16, 2008 Jan 16, 2008 01/16/08

Brian Harry

Back around the Holidays I promised 3 "surveys" but I actually only described 2 of them.  I've finally gotten around to writing up the 3rd one. In our next release, we are building a slew of new features designed to make managing branching and merging simpler.  Right now I'm focused on features to help you understand what branches ...

Checking your TFS Version and Extending Trials

January 15, 2008 Jan 15, 2008 01/15/08

Brian Harry

Update: With Team Foundation Server 2010, you no longer need to download and run the TFSVersionDetection.exe tool as this functionality is baked into the Team Foundation Server administration console. See this post for more detail: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2010/05/07/extending-trials-of-tfs-2010.aspx As with Team Foundation ...

How do I upgrade to TFS 2008?

January 15, 2008 Jan 15, 2008 01/15/08

Brian Harry

Now that Team Foundation Server 2008 keys/media/downloads are available, I'm seeing lots more questions about various scenarios.  I'm going to try to capture all of the less obvious issue here: You have TFS 2008 Trial Edition installed and you want to upgrade to TFS Standard Edition You need to go to Add/Remove programs and ...

Koders announces search support for Team Foundation Server

January 15, 2008 Jan 15, 2008 01/15/08

Brian Harry

Koders, a popular development search tool, has announced support for searching Team Foundation Servers.  In addition to the ability to index your source, work items, etc, they have a Visual Studio plugin that enables access from within Visual Studio and integration in the Team System Web Access that enables it from within the Team System ...

Jan '08 DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

January 9, 2008 Jan 9, 2008 01/9/08

Brian Harry

This month we passed 1 billion rows in the local version table!  By any measure – that’s a big database!  The local version table keeps track of what versions of each file have been downloaded into every workspace.  Files and Folders crossed 200 million and at the current rate of growth, I expect the Merge History ...

TFS SDK

January 9, 2008 Jan 9, 2008 01/9/08

Brian Harry

There has been a lot of confusion lately because the TFS SDK was erroneously removed from the VS SDK.  We are working to get it put back into the VS 2008 VS SDK.  Until then, you can use the VS 2005 SDK - which still contains the TFS SDK docs.  There were very few object model API changes in TFS 2008 so the TFS 2005 docs are 99...

New TFS Times Edition

January 2, 2008 Jan 2, 2008 01/2/08

Brian Harry

Paul Hacker has started a new monthly Team Foundation Server newsletter that focuses on a topic each month and solicits articles from experts in the area.  He has just published his January 2008 Edition - focusing on TFS Build.  You'll find tons of tips and tricks and references to add-on tools to make working with Team Build a snap...