February 2008

TSWA: Providing multiple languages in a single installation

February 17, 2008 Feb 17, 2008 02/17/08

Buck Hodges

Ed Blankenship asked a question recently regarding having multiple languages supported by the same TSWA instance. Hakan provided the answer, and both of them blogged it. Please note that this is not a supported configuration (i.e., that means we didn't test it, it could cause problems with uninstalling, etc.).Technorati Tags: team ...

Setting up Source Server for TFS Builds

February 16, 2008 Feb 16, 2008 02/16/08

Buck Hodges

Jelle Druyts has posted a document describing how to set up source server for Team Foundation Build. If you don't know what it is, read the MSDN magazine article that is the first link in his post.Check it out! Setting up Source Server for TFS Builds I've read about symbol servers and source servers before (in John Robbins' ...

Team Foundation Build 2008 API documentation

February 13, 2008 Feb 13, 2008 02/13/08

Buck Hodges

The documentation for the team build 2008 object model is now available as a CHM file. Later this year, I'm told that the MSDN web site will be updated. http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/f/8/5f872c2e-4221-410b-b86e-4c3cd831b0c4/Team Foundation Build Managed Reference.chm After you download it you will need to right click it, ...

HTTP 502 error when the server tries to connect to the build agent to start a build

February 6, 2008 Feb 6, 2008 02/6/08

Buck Hodges

The following came up a couple of weeks ago, and I thought it would be worth posting for anyone else who hits the same or a similar problem. When I try to do a build using TFS Build I get this error: TF215085: An error occurred while connecting to Agent \Shopping Catalog\Nightly Build: The request failed with HTTP status 502: Bad ...

Now available for TSWA 2008: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish

February 5, 2008 Feb 5, 2008 02/5/08

Buck Hodges

The final set of localized versions of the Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool is now available. Here is a list of links to all of the localized releases of TSWA. We're always interested in what you think about the localizations, too. If there are ways we can improve it, we would like to incorporate that feedback into TSWA...

MSBuild by Example

February 5, 2008 Feb 5, 2008 02/5/08

Buck Hodges

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi's book, Deploying .NET Applications, contains a chapter on MSBuild. While I knew about the chapter in the book, I didn't realize that the chapter on MSBuild was available online until Eugene Zakhareyev mentioned it. If you are looking for a good way to get started with MSBuild, MSBuild: By Example is a good place ...

Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Project (WDP) is now available

February 4, 2008 Feb 4, 2008 02/4/08

Buck Hodges

The new Web Deployment Project that was released as a power tool for VS 2005 did not work with VS 2008. Now there is a release of WDP that works with VS 2008. If you were using the old one, be sure to get this important update. Announcing RTW version of Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects (WDP) In December 2007, we had ...

Updated post on how to filter checkin emails by paths

February 2, 2008 Feb 2, 2008 02/2/08

Buck Hodges

I've made a significant update to the following post: Adding a path filter to a CheckinEvent subscription using bissubscribe. The reason is that the paths supplied by the server aren't consistently cased while XPath is case-sensitive. The result is that your subscriptions that filter based on paths will not work reliably without ...

Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008: French and German are now available

February 2, 2008 Feb 2, 2008 02/2/08

Buck Hodges

A couple of days ago, we released TSWA in Japanese. French and German became available yesterday. We'll be releasing more over the coming days.Technorati Tags: team system web access,team foundation server,vsts 2008...

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