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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 foundation...

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 information a...

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 notice fix...

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 comp...

I mentioned TFSBuildLab a month ago when it hit beta 1.  Peter Blomqvist and Mathias Olausson have been hard at work and have now released beta 2.  They expect to hit 1.0 in the near future.  If you are looking for features like continuous integration and scheduled builds in TFS 2005, you'll want to give this a try. What is ne...

We discovered and fixed several issues that blocked some users from upgrading from TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 Beta 2.  You can get the instructions and download the two updated executables at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C4015D2F-2383-4270-9AAD-97129590F31D&displaylang=en. Overview SYMPTOMSWhen you upgrade a Microsof...

Grant Holliday asked for an explanation of how a Web Access URL should be constructed to for a file in TFS version control, similar to the work item links explained in the TSWA 2005 FAQ.  Hakan responded with the details, which are shown below. http://[TeamSystemWebAccessSite]/UI/Pages/Scc/ViewSource.aspx?scc-item=[ItemData] Item...

I wanted to highlight the TSWA for TFS 2005 FAQ since it contains good information, including how to switch between Windows authentication and forms authentication, turning off forms authentication, and how to construct the URL to a work item using the work item's ID.Visual Studio Team System Web Access FAQ Technorati tag...

A few times over the last several months, the question has come up regarding how to determine whether a file on disk that is being edited is different that what is checked into TFS version control.  Folks looking at the PendingChange object have asked about the difference between the two hash value properties. If you query for the pendin...

Aaron Hallberg has a written a great post on one of the new extensibility mechanisms we've added to the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets file that forms the backbone of the msbuild process (it's imported by every tfsbuild.proj file and contains all of the targets and properties).  Aaron shows you how to have a different target called for...