Jason Prickett, a developer on Team Build, has written some very nice posts. All of these posts only work with Team Build Orcas. The first one shows a very cool Vista sidebar which Jason has fiddled with a while back as a side project and finally got around to finishing it off and making it available. His post has a screenshot as ...
Aaron Hallberg took a month off after the birth of his daughter, Stella. Now that he's back, he's got a couple of interesting posts. The first one applies to TFS 2005 (aka v1) and shows you how to pass custom properties to each solution that you build. It's something that a lot of folks have needed to be able to do, but the solution wi...
Jeff Beehler announced the initial release of guidance on using branching and merging with your development process with TFS. This has been a pretty popular request from folks. Branching guidance now available I'm extremely excited to announce the availability of Branching guidance for Team Foundation Server. This was a collaborative ...
As Jeff Beehler points out, we shipped TFS one year ago today. In the intervening time, we reorganized and completed the TFS development work on Orcas (minus a few design change requests (DCRs)), which you can try out in the March Orcas CTP (since it's based on TFS code from January, not everything is in there, such as build scheduling). ...
In Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2005 (v1), the communication from the application tier (AT) to the build computer used .NET remoting. This was the only component in Team Foundation Server that used .NET remoting, as all other communication used web services (see Team Foundation Server Security Architecture). As part of the .NET ...
Fairly often, someone asks for the ability to see the pending changes in the system from within Visual Studio. Running "tf status /user:* $/ /r" (or whatever you want) just isn't appealing to everyone. Ognjen Bajic posted about Ekobit's new free VS add-in that will allow you to view the pending changes in the system from within Visual Studio...
The interview, which contains a demo, has finally been posted (you may remember it being mentioned in December). I'd like to say thanks to Brian Keller for doing this! Continuous Integration with Team Build “Orcas” Jim Lamb and Buck Hodges on the Team Foundation Server team show off the new Continuous Integration support they ar...
Martin Woodward of Team[rise announced the Ant and Java-based CruiseControl support for Team Foundation version control in his post on the release of Teamprise 2.1. There's lots of good stuff in there, but this stuck out at me in particular. If you are using TFS and Java, this is a great addition. They've even ...
If you have a version control proxy at a remote site and you wish to have Team Build use the version control proxy, you'll need to modify the registry of the account that's running the build service on the build computer. Here's what you'll need to put into the registry. You'll need to change "someproxy" to your proxy's name. Also...
I don't travel much. It's been almost exactly a year since I was in Redmond. In March 2006, Ed Hintz and I gave a presentation on version control.This time Jim Lamb and I are here to learn about some of the internal build systems as part of our planning for the future. Well, Jim's here to party with the PMs as well. I just g...
