Brian Harry's Blog

Pretty cool TFS add-on

November 7, 2006 Nov 7, 2006 11/7/06

Brian Harry

I just got mail informing me that Attrice has released a new version of their TFS add-on called TFS Sidekick.  It is a VS plugin that adds some interesting new features, including... The ability to edit build definitions more easily inside Team Explorer. An option to have the history window track the selection in the source control ...

Revenge of the training that won't die

November 3, 2006 Nov 3, 2006 11/3/06

Brian Harry

I have to start by apologizing profusely for how this whole training thing has gone.  Personnally, I feel like an idiot for how many times we've said the training would be ready and then it wasn't or made it available only to take it away again.  It's been really painful.  Part of the problem has been the way the training effort...

Visual Studio Hotfixes are Available!

November 1, 2006 Nov 1, 2006 11/1/06

Brian Harry

I'm incredibly pleased to announce that the first batch of Visual Studio and .NET Framework Hotfixes (we call them QFE's - Quick Fix from Engineering) is available.  They are posted on connect.microsoft.com.  It will require you to register but then you can puruse the available fixes, read the details of the problems they address and...

Updated look for TreeDiff

October 31, 2006 Oct 31, 2006 10/31/06

Brian Harry

Well, among other things, it's now called Folder Diff :) We've been doing a lot of work on Folder Diff as part of incorporating it into the Orcas release of TFS.  Some key new features include: An improved look (I think :), you can be the judge though). A summery bar that lists counts of differences A filter dialog that allows choosing ...

Moving your TFS SharePoint site

October 30, 2006 Oct 30, 2006 10/30/06

Brian Harry

We've gotten tons of requests since we shipped TFS v1.0 from customers who want more flexibility with the configuration of the SharePoint server that TFS uses.  Some want to use a SharePoint web farm that they already have.  Others want to use a pre-existing web site.  And still others want to change the port # or not have a ...

Update on "Some days"…

October 28, 2006 Oct 28, 2006 10/28/06

Brian Harry

The wheels have been turning on my promise to investigate making hot fixes more widely available.  It hasn't unfurled quite the way I had pictured but I'm still pretty happy with the result.  The hot fixes with be made available through http://connect.microsoft.com and downloading them will require registration so that we have some ...

October DevDiv TFS Dogfood Statistics

October 27, 2006 Oct 27, 2006 10/27/06

Brian Harry

A lot has been happening this last month.  We've pretty much locked down TFS2005 SP1 and have been making good progress on the Orcas release.  A couple of weeks ago I posted about the performance improvements coming in Orcas - the picture there only continues to get better as we continue to find small things to tune.  In the ...

New TFS – Project Server Connector available

October 26, 2006 Oct 26, 2006 10/26/06

Brian Harry

Around Beta1 of TFS V1 we created a "sample" to demonstrate how to connect TFS to Project Server and synchronize task information.  It was a pretty basic sample and required a lot of work to turn it into a solution.  Further, as TFS evolved through the rest of the V1 cycle we didn't keep the sample up to date - yielding even more ...

A new VSTS tag for Channel 9

October 7, 2006 Oct 7, 2006 10/7/06

Brian Harry

We recently added a tag to Channel 9 so you can easily find all of your favorite VSTS videos/interviews.  Check it out at https://channel9.msdn.com/tags/VSTSBrian...

Orcas Version Control Performance Improvements

October 6, 2006 Oct 6, 2006 10/6/06

Brian Harry

I'm heading to Disney World for the week in the morning so I may not be blogging too much next week (we'll see what my wife has to say about it :)) Today I was reviewing some results from some performance work we are doing for Version Control in the Orcas release.  We are also doing some work for Work Item Tracking but don't have full ...