The first version of Windows Live Writer is now available. I've been using the betas for a long time, and I think it's a great application (and it's free). I use it to write all of my blog posts. If it weren't for Live Writer, I wouldn't have written nearly so many blog posts. Windows Live Writer: Out of Beta Thank you to everyon...
Sara Ford has a Visual Studio Tip of the Day series going. I thought I'd publish some tips on using Team System Web Access, and this is the first. I don't think I'll be able to do a tip per day. Calling it a "TSWA tip a few times a week" just doesn't sound that great. So I'll just leave it as TSWA Tips. In the regular Team E...
Yesterday, Soma announced that VS 2008 and TFS 2008 ship this month. Prior to that, we had only said it would ship by the end of this year. It's going to be an exciting month. Not long after TFS 2008 ships, we're going to ship the final version of the Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool, and it includes a few new features. I'l...
I last mentioned TFSBuildLab back in August when it reached beta 2. Peter Blomqvist and Mathias Olausson have now released 1.0. For those of you who aren't going to move to TFS 2008 in the near future (it ships by the end of this year), you'll want to look into this. I also posted a list of CI solutions for TFS 2005 about a year a...
I wanted to learn about the memory allocation profiling feature that is available VSTS 2008. While the profiler was also in VSTS 2005, the profiler will now also profile memory usage in addition to performance. A very good place to start is Ian Huff's blog. He's written a number of posts about the profiler. To use profiling on a...
[UPDATE 10/10/2007] MSDN has been updated with a new set of files with the naming issue corrected (see forum post). It may take a few days for it to propogate to all of the MSDN servers. ***** Reid, a customer, sent me email about a problem with using the Visual Studio 2005 Team System SP1 VPC image from...
Jeff Beehler has announced that we have now published guidance for operations. In addition to all of the great information in there, it provides a great summary of TFS links (see the bottom of the article in particular). Operations Guidance for TFS The Team System Rangers have done it again. Their mission is the accelerate adoption of...
[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 will...
[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 of C...
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 uses ei...
