September 2007

Team System Web Access for TFS 2008 CTP released

September 21, 2007 Sep 21, 2007 09/21/07

Buck Hodges

[UPDATE] The final version is now available. Team System Web Access for TFS 2008 Power Tool CTP is now available! For TFS 2008, TSWA will continue to be a power tool through the TFS 2008 release. For the release after that, it will be a part of the regular product. The final release of the TSWA for TFS 2008 power tool...

Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

September 21, 2007 Sep 21, 2007 09/21/07

Buck Hodges

[UPDATE 12/21/07] The build notification tool has now become part of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008! It has new features and quite a few fixes (not to mention that it's a signed binary), so I've removed the attachment from this post. We would have loved to have included in TFS 2008 a build notification tray applet along the lines...

TFS 2008: Controlling the number of threads used in uploading and downloading files

September 17, 2007 Sep 17, 2007 09/17/07

Buck Hodges

The TFS version control client object model normally uses up to eight threads from the thread pool to upload or download files. This same mechanism is also used in pending adds: Files are opened to determine whether they are binary or text, so batches are sent to the server while other batches are being examined on disk. It also ...

Changing TFS email notifications to link to Team System Web Access

September 14, 2007 Sep 14, 2007 09/14/07

Buck Hodges

Neno Loje has written a blog post that shows you the steps to change the links in the TFS work item alert emails into links to work items in TSWA. The standard links point you to a read-only page, which is not nearly as useful.Check it out! Changing TFS email notifications to link to Team System Web AccessTechnorati tags: tfs, team ...

VSTS 2005 and 2008: Building Database Projects with Team Build

September 11, 2007 Sep 11, 2007 09/11/07

Buck Hodges

Jon Liperi, a tester on Team Build, has put together the post below that explains a number of the issues around using Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (DBPro) with TFS Build. Jon previously worked on the DBPro team, so he knows his way around it quite well. Here are the issues that he covers. This ...

We need your help: Patches to apply to TFS 2008 beta 2

September 10, 2007 Sep 10, 2007 09/10/07

Buck Hodges

Brian has written a post, Practicing servicing for TFS 2008, with links to six patches. We need your help in installing these patches and letting us know what issues you run into. The goal is to make servicing TFS 2008 better than it was with TFS 2005. Folks using web projects under version control in Visual Studio will ...

Dave McKinstry on Build in TFS 2008

September 6, 2007 Sep 6, 2007 09/6/07

Buck Hodges

Dave McKinstry has written a couple of posts on his experiences with Team Build in TFS 2008. In Introduction to Team Build 2008 for Team Build 2005 Users, he goes over the major new features and how certain things like handling workspace mappings are improved over TFS 2005. His post includes screenshots and more. It's a great...

Buck Hodges

September 2007 - Buck Hodges

Team System Web Access for TFS 2008 CTP released

Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

TFS 2008: Controlling the number of threads used in uploading and downloading files

Changing TFS email notifications to link to Team System Web Access

VSTS 2005 and 2008: Building Database Projects with Team Build

We need your help: Patches to apply to TFS 2008 beta 2

Dave McKinstry on Build in TFS 2008

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