March 2007

Configuring Team Foundation Server to use fully-qualified domain names

March 31, 2007 Mar 31, 2007 03/31/07

Buck Hodges

This week the following question came up. I've seen this come up before, and there are probably forum threads on it, but I figured I'd post it here. Bill Essary provided the answer to the question. As always, keep notes on what you do so that you can undo it if necessary. Question Is there a way to configure TFS to use ...

Better integrating other build tools into your build

March 30, 2007 Mar 30, 2007 03/30/07

Buck Hodges

Aaron Hallberg wrote a great post today showing how to use a custom task to better integrate other build tools, such as devenv (aka Visual Studio), as part of your build in Team Build. Building Non-MSBuild Projects With Team Build Building non-MSBuild projects in Team Build has never been a particularly nice experience... You can ...

Version Control Server blog: Orcas destroy feature, merging with labels

March 30, 2007 Mar 30, 2007 03/30/07

Buck Hodges

The Version Control Server blog has shown some signs of life. Bill Tutt has written a couple of posts. The first one is about the Orcas version control feature that lots of customers have requested: destroy. The destroy command, which is only available from the tf.exe command line, will permanently remove the specified files ...

Stop piling on when the build breaks: Build checkin policy for Continuous Integration in Orcas

March 28, 2007 Mar 28, 2007 03/28/07

Buck Hodges

Last fall, Clark Sell wrote a blog post called Stop, the build is broken!! that introduced a checkin policy that reported errors when the build was broken. If you are using continuous integration where every checkin starts a build, you want folks to stop and fix build breaks when they occur, rather than pile on more checkins and ...

Orcas: Unit testing to be available in Visual Studio Professional

March 27, 2007 Mar 27, 2007 03/27/07

Buck Hodges

Naysawn Naderi wrote a post today stating that many of the unit test features in Team System will be included in Visual Studio Professional in Orcas. Here's the entire post, but I've highlighted part below that I think you'll want to read and perhaps provide feedback to the team as to your opinion. If folks want this, you may want ...

Outlook 2007: Viewing all RSS feeds in a single folder like an RSS “inbox”

March 27, 2007 Mar 27, 2007 03/27/07

Buck Hodges

Since I've started using Outlook 2007 to manage my RSS feeds, I've wanted to have all of the posts show up in a folder, much like new mail shows in up the inbox. I don't like have to scroll through the list of folders and visit each one containing an unread post. It's just too tedious unless you have only a couple of ...

VSTS profiler: Installing only the command line tool

March 26, 2007 Mar 26, 2007 03/26/07

Buck Hodges

I'm posting this mostly to remind myself of where it is. This came across on the internal VSTS discussion alias today. Visual Studio Profiler has a standalone installation: look for vs_profiler.exe in the Visual Studio installation CD/DVD. Installing that package allows users to collect, analyze and report performance data from ...

How to get a complimentary copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition

March 26, 2007 Mar 26, 2007 03/26/07

Buck Hodges

According to the following Microsoft web page, you can get a complimentary VS 2005 Standard Edition by attending "labcasts." You'll have to go to the web page and read the rules, etc. I thought I'd pass this along, since I stumbled across it tonight. The Mouse is Mightier than the Sword Defy All Challenges With Microsoft Visual ...

VSTS future releases: Orcas, Rosario, and Power Tools

March 26, 2007 Mar 26, 2007 03/26/07

Buck Hodges

A new high-level roadmap for Orcas, Rosario, and Power Tools is now available. The Visual Studio Team System Future Releases web page covers these topics at varying levels of detail, with the greatest amount detail being supplied for Orcas, of course. The Orcas TFS information is basically the same as what we've published before. ...

Web interface now available for TFS: Microsoft acquires TeamPlain

March 26, 2007 Mar 26, 2007 03/26/07

Buck Hodges

We have never had a web interface for Team Foundation Server work item tracking, much to the astonishment of our customers. Well, there's a fix for that now. And you can download it today (see below for details). Brian Harry wrote a post this morning about the acquisition of TeamPlain. Microsoft Acquires TeamPlain! Today we are ...

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