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How do I upgrade to TFS 2008?
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 click Change/Uninstall on your TFS installation. This will display a dialog in which you should click on "Upgrade". You can then enter a new product key. If you bought full packaged product (and actually got media) you will have the key you need in th...
Koders announces search support for Team Foundation Server
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 web experience. Check it out! · TSWA + Koders code search screencast: http://www.koders.com/corp/products/pro/demos/tfswa/ · Koders Pro for .NET Develop...
Jan '08 DevDiv Dogfood Statistics
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 table will pass 1 billion rows within months and probably pass the size of the local version table well before the end of the year. As we continue down the path of full adoption of TFS for all new development in DevDiv, the server usage continues to grow – both as...
TFS SDK
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% accurate. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb130146(VS.80).aspx Brian
New TFS Times Edition
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. I hope you enjoy reading it! http://www.tfstimes.com/news/ Brian
Some great new TFS add-ons
Mitch Denny has been hard at work publishing the source to a bunch of TFS add-ons he's been working on. Read about them on his blog links below and us know how useful they are to you... TFS File Sharer - Mimics SourceSafe like file sharing. TFS Continuous Integrator - A TFS 2005 based continuous integration solution. Of course, it's built in if you are using TFS 2008. TFS Dependency replicator - A tool to make changes in the source tree when certain events occur (like copying files when a build completes). TFS Build Virtualizer - Rather than having one physical machine for each team or build server co...
December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!
Today we released the first version of the Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools. This new release is primarily intended for use with a VS 2008 client. All VS integrated components with this new release will only integrate with VS 2008. Power Tool features in this release require that the Team Explorer 2008 be installed. Those features that do not integrate directly with Visual Studio (e.g. command line tools) can easily be used in concert with VS 2005 development. The TFS 2005 Power Tools are still available for the VS 2005 client. Download URLs Power Tools: http://msdn2....
Changing what drive TFS databases are on
I got a question recently about how to change what drive the TFS SQL databases are installed on. It seemed like a question many people might want the answer to, so I decided to post about it. The first thing the poster noticed was that they changed the default database location in SQL Server Management Studio and it had no effect on where the TFS databases were created when he installed TFS. This is because that setting is a UI setting for SQL Server Management Studio only and does not affect where databases are programatically created (using the CREATE DATABASE TSQL statement). The recommended way to...
Survey Season
In this season of the greatest survey of all (your holiday wish list), we seem to be brimming with surveys. I posted about on on the language change tool last week. Today I have another one to tell you about. Our Admin and ops team is trying to get a picture of the variety of ways that people have their TFS installations configured. Read Chris's blog post on what we are doing and why and please take the attached survey if you have a few minutes. Doing this will help make sure we are testing and supporting the configurations that are most important to you. I can't remember what it is ...