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Feb '08 DevDiv TFS Dogfood Statistics
If you follow my dogfood statistics, you’ll notice that some of the numbers at the bottom are up quite a bit. The +200 recent user bump represents the increase in usage as we approach the completion of the roll out of TFS to the entire division. At this point I'm expecting the roll out to be done within 4 - 6 weeks. There’s been a corresponding increase in Local copies. We’ve also seen significant jumps in merge history as we do more and more of our large tree merges in TFS. The biggest jump is in downloads (almost 2X). This is due to the build lab ramping up....
eScrum and TFS 2008
I've gotten several questions how about whether or not the eScrum add-on works with TFS 2008. I've contacted the people who wrote that code and gotten the answer. Here is what I heard: The existing eScrum MSDN release is compatible with TFS 2008, although the application’s web.config will need to be updated for the scenario where the web service and TFS 2008 are installed on the same machine. This change is required in order to override the existing TFS client assemblies bindings from version 8 to version 9. The required web.config update for this scenario is as follows: ·&n...
The TFS SDK Docs are back
Due to a snafu, the TFS docs were inadvertently removed from the VS2008 SDK. The situation has been remedied. You will find the latest version of the TFS SDK docs here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb130146.aspx. Many of you probably never noticed - all the better :) However I did get quite a few inquiries about it. Thanks for your patience.Brian
Installing TFS 2008 on Windows 2008
Our dear friend Etienne has written up his experiences installing TFS 2008 on Windows 2008. It's definitely more complex than installing it on Windows 2003. The issues revolve around our uncertainty of the status of WSS on Windows 2008 at the time we were shipping TFS 2008. Etienne's blog post details the steps he went through to get it installed and working. Learning from what he has done can save you time and trouble until we get a chance to simplify the experience. The thing Etienne didn't cover, that I expect many customers will face, is upgrading a Windows 2003 server with TFS on it t...
All Team System Web Access Languages are Available!
We have now completed shipping all of the localized versions of Team System Web Access. You can now access your Team System data using the Team System Web Access web interface in 9 different languages. Team System Web Access supports popular browsers, including Internet Explorer and FireFox. Because of the broader usage of TSWA well beyond the main dev team, I believe having localized versions is even more important than having localized versions of VS itself. I'm thrilled that we can provide these as part of the VS 2008 product cycle. All of these will work against either a TFS 2005...
French and German Team System Web Access have shipped
On Thursday I announced that the Japanese version of Team System Web Access (TSWA) was available. Today, I have the pleasure of announcing that both the German and French versions are now available. I know these two are going to be quite popular because we had several customers contact us asking for permission to localize it themselves. Now we got an official localized version of both. The remaining localized releases are on their way. Enjoy! Brian
Some good screencasts
Terry Clancy has some very nice screen casts on his blog. They are worth checking out if you have interest in these areas. Brian
A new spec on conflict resolution is available
We've gotten feedback that branching, merging and conflict resolution are too complicted today. We are making a series of improvements in our next version of TFS to address these issues. The new history spec we released a couple of months ago demonstrated one piece of our plan - allowing you to easily track a change across branches back to the original checkin that introduced it. Today, we released a new resolve spec that covers improvements to conflict resoluton. Our resove design is intended to address the following issues: Here's a screen shot of the new modeless conflict resolution ...
The Japanese version of Team System Web Access is available
Today we released the Japanese version of the Team System Web Access Power Tool. Long ago, I announced that we would be releasing localized version of TSWA with the VS 2008 products. Well, today it is becoming a reality. Over the next few weeks, we will be releasing the other localized versions - in total, I think, there will be 8 or 9. They are the same languages VS is localized in - so if you can get a localized VS, you can get a matching TSWA. As they are released, I'll blog about them so that you know where to find them. This build corresponds to the functionality in the December...