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If you haven't seen the new TreeDiff, you can see a screen shot in Brian Harry's post about the new release.  It provides a VSS-style project difference tool that allows you not only to see what's changed but also reconcile changes.Tan Phan, a developer on the version control client team, has written a post describing how to customize the Tree...

Mario Rodriguez, a program manager on TFS version control, is seeking your input on what you need in the way of checkin policies for a future power toys release.  An example might be a policy that wraps another policy to provide path filtering to more precisely control what files are subject to a particular checkin policy.Please leav...

Aaron Hallberg wrote a great post explaining how to build precompiled web sites with Team Build.  The problem is that building them does not, by default, produce precompiled websites where all of the code is in dlls and removed from the ASP.NET source files. Team Build and aspnet_compiler.exe ... Because Team Build typically compiles solu...

This has come up before on the forums, but I don't think I've ever posted about it here.  Today I saw a reference to the TFS Workspace Gotcha! post in today's Team System Rocks VSTS Links roundup.  There's a command to deal with the problem, but it's not obvious.Here's the post. I have been working with a team that has recently migra...

If you are interested in the TFS reporting feature, you may want to check out the sample reports in the zip file attached to the following blog post. Sample Team System Reports This attachment contains a variety of samples, experiments and untested reports for use with the Team Foundation Data warehouse. There is a brief overview document describin...

Rob Caron mentioned that the SDK documentation is now on the MSDN web site.  That SDK documentation includes the Team Foundation Server API documentation.  Last year I pointed out where to find the version control documentation in the massive download that is the VS SDK, but you don't need to do that now.So, the good news is that the docu...

[UPDATE 8/9/07]  I fixed the broken link to the power tools page.Brian Harry announced the latest release of the Team Foundation Power Toys in the post, New TFS Power Toys Available!.  In his post he gives a quick description of each of the new commands and the major enhancements.One of the most important aspects of this release is that t...

I ran two searches on CodePlex to see what folks are developing for TFS.  One search was for "TFS" and the other was for "Team Foundation," which I hope would be enough to catch them all.  The second search only yielded one additional project (Time Tracker).It's always cool to see what folks come up with.  Highly-motivated individual...

As soon as folks start using Team Build, especially with some sort of continuous integration support, several issues pop up regarding the integration with work item tracking, including how not to have bad builds listed and how not to have every build from every build type listed.When TFS is installed, work item tracking adds a subscription, via bis...

If you you're interested in adding a custom logger to your build process in Team Build, Aaron walks you through the steps you need to know. Adding Custom Loggers to Team Build Yesterday we looked at using tasks to add customized build steps during a build.  Today I'd like to show you how to add a customized logger.