Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
August 29, 2006Aug 29, 200608/29/06Aaron Hallberg, a developer working on Team Build, has taken the plunge and started a blog. Those of you who frequent the MSDN Team Build forum will probably recognize the name. You now have a blog to go with the name!
After getting post #1 out of the way,
August 29, 2006Aug 29, 200608/29/06Last week, the folks at Vertigo Software wrote a couple of really good posts involving Team Build.
The first one, written by Jeff Atwood, is about building projects that have code shared from a different team project. The crux of the problem is that in v1 Team Build doesn’t allow mappings in the Workspace.xml file to span team projects.
August 28, 2006Aug 28, 200608/28/06The VSTS User Education blog announced new MSDN content on using and customizing Team Build. Check it out!
New Team Foundation Build Customization Content on MSDN
We are adding new content on explaining Team Founadation Build customization targets and tasks.
Check out the following topics on MSDN:
Understanding Team Foundation Configuration Files
Customizable Team Foundation Build Targets
Customizable Team Foundation Build Properties
Team Foundation Build Tasks
Additionally, a walkthrough that explains how to build a Visual Studio setup project in Team Foundation Build is posted at:
Using Team Build to Build a Visual Studio Setup Project
August 28, 2006Aug 28, 200608/28/06Carl Daniel (code) and Robert Downey (code) each wrote and posted code to show the changesets between two labels in TFS version control. They each took the same basic approach: call QueryLabels() to get the set of items in each label,
August 24, 2006Aug 24, 200608/24/06For three years I worked on Team Foundation Server Version Control. Most of my contributions were to the version control object model, the tf.exe command line, and general infrastructure. After v1 shipped in March, we reorganized the TFS organization.
Version 1 of TFS Team Build was developed by a small team in India,
August 23, 2006Aug 23, 200608/23/06A check-in policy to require a comment has always been a frequent request. Jeff Atwood has posted a convenient installation package (.msi) for James Manning’s check-in policy to require a comment.
Installing the Check for Comments Check-In Policy
In a previous entry on adding a new check-in policy,
August 23, 2006Aug 23, 200608/23/06As some customers have found out the hard way, the TFS release candidates have started to expire without warning at the end of the 6 month (180 days) period. The TFS trial edition (RTM) will start to expire next month, again without warning.
August 17, 2006Aug 17, 200608/17/06I’ve written before about putting files directly into Outlook to make them securely available at work and at home. Part of the reason for that is to have documents that just contain my thoughts on changes we should make, features we should consider,
August 17, 2006Aug 17, 200608/17/06I tried using an RSS aggregator, but it didn’t fit the way that I wanted to work. All of the feeds are trapped on the machine running the aggregator. I wanted to be able to get to them from work and home.
August 16, 2006Aug 16, 200608/16/06Build systems need to do all sorts of things, from updating web sites to deploying databases. Often, the tasks needed to do these things are available, but finding them can be a challenge. I’ve collected links to various MSBuild task collections that you can plug into your Team Build scripts.
