September 2007 | Buck Hodges

Team System Web Access for TFS 2008 CTP released

Buck HodgesSeptember 21, 2007Sep 21, 200709/21/07

[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

Buck HodgesSeptember 21, 2007Sep 21, 200709/21/07

[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

Buck HodgesSeptember 17, 2007Sep 17, 200709/17/07

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

Buck HodgesSeptember 14, 2007Sep 14, 200709/14/07

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

Buck HodgesSeptember 11, 2007Sep 11, 200709/11/07

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

Buck HodgesSeptember 10, 2007Sep 10, 200709/10/07

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

Buck HodgesSeptember 6, 2007Sep 6, 200709/6/07

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...

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