October 2006 | Buck Hodges

Moving the TFS SharePoint site to another server

Buck HodgesOctober 30, 2006Oct 30, 200610/30/06

Brian Harry talks about the documentation on how to move your TFS SharePoint installation to a different server. It's important to note that he calls this out as not being a trivial undertaking, so you'll want to be extremely cautious. Moving your TFS SharePoint site We've gotten tons of requests since we shipped TFS v1.0 from customers ...

A checkin policy to detect that the build is broken in a CI environment

Buck HodgesOctober 26, 2006Oct 26, 200610/26/06

One important aspect of Continuous Integration is getting notification that the build is broken. One common way is via a desktop notification from an application like TfsAlert that listens for events (or polls if there isn't a TFS-style event notification mechanism).Ideally, the build or unit test break would be noticed as soon as ...

Getting desktop notifications for TFS events

Buck HodgesOctober 26, 2006Oct 26, 200610/26/06

Clark Sell has created a home on CodePlex for a useful desktop notification tool called TfsAlert. TfsAlert is a .Net 3.0 smart client which monitors for user selected TFS events and will display a balloon window in the Windows TaskBar Notification Area. It is built on top of WCF where you can subscribe to any TFS event you feel fit. It's ...

Visual Studio Team System Chat – Wednesday, Nov. 8th

Buck HodgesOctober 25, 2006Oct 25, 200610/25/06

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP). November 8, 200610:00 - 11:00 A.M. Pacific TimeAdditional ...

Project Server 2003 – Team Foundation connector released

Buck HodgesOctober 25, 2006Oct 25, 200610/25/06

This was released today. Here's the announcement from the GotDotNet workspace. ANNOUNCING THE VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM - PROJECT SERVER CONNECTOR! We are pleased to announce general availability of the Project Server 2003 – Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2005 Connector application. The Connector can be downloaded here...

Updated list of continuous integration tools for TFS

Buck HodgesOctober 22, 2006Oct 22, 200610/22/06

I've updated my post More continuous integration with Team Build to include tools released after that post was written.tags: tfs, team foundation server, team build...

An Introduction to Team Foundation Server Version Control from a Visual SourceSafe User’s Perspective

Buck HodgesOctober 20, 2006Oct 20, 200610/20/06

Steven St. Jean has just posted a great document that helps users make the move to Team Foundation Server's version control. While his goal is to help VSS users, this document will help users moving from a lot of other source control systems as well, such as Star Team. He includes lots of screen shots.I'd highly recommend this to ...

Team System Virtual PC image, including Team Foundation Server

Buck HodgesOctober 20, 2006Oct 20, 200610/20/06

Someone recently asked me whether there is a VPC image available for Team System and Team Foundation. There is one available to MSDN subscribers in the download area. It’s under Developer Tools -> Visual Studio 2005 -> English -> Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Trial Edition (For Evaluation Only).Earlier versions of ...

Assigning work items for failed builds

Buck HodgesOctober 17, 2006Oct 17, 200610/17/06

Steven St. Jean has written a nice post about how to assign to a particular person the work item that's created for a failed build. When he talks about the name for the Assigned To field, it must match the name that's displayed in work item tracking. WIT shows the display name for a user, rather than the shorter domain login (aka ...

Creating a new server from an old one: Beware of the InstanceId