William Bartholomew, former VSTS MVP and author of the book Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, recently joined Microsoft. He's written a great post on the handful of steps you need to follow if you want to build .NET 4.0 applications with TFS 2008: Building .NET 4.0 Applications Using Team Build ...
Earlier, I wrote a post explaining where to find TFS Basic. Someone asked a set of questions about TFS Basic, and I thought I’d post the answers here. What features are in TFS Basic 2010? Brian’s post describes a bit of the feature differences and also shows the installation process. It’s really much easier to talk about f...
[UPDATE 2/10/2010] You can now get the official Visual Studio 2010 Licensing whitepaper, which also covers TFS, Lab, and IntelliTrace. That is the best resource for understanding the licensing. Another big piece of news with the release of VS and TFS 2010 betas yesterday is the changes to TFS licensing for 2010 that make it ev...
TFS Basic is not a separate download. It’s just a choice in the TFS configuration wizard. So to get TFS Basic, you download the regular Team Foundation Server installation, either 32-bit or 64-bit (yes, TFS now supports 64-bit Windows natively), and then run setup.exe. After the MSI (installation phase that more or less just copie...
With Soma's announcement today, Visual Studio and TFS 2010 Beta 2 are now available for download for MSDN subscribers. The most exciting part of the TFS 2010 Beta 2 release is the debut of TFS Basic. Brian Harry describes TFS Basic in detail in a post called TFS 2010 for SourceSafe Users. Don't think about it as just for SourceSaf...
Win7 is awesome, so today I put Windows 7 Professional on my Dell Mini 9. This is the third laptop on which I’ve installed Win7, and every time it puts a smile on my face. The installation works well and generally most devices work after installation, minimizing time spent fiddling with drivers. The few devices that don&rsqu...
If you are in the Microsoft BizSpark program, you now have access to discounted TFS hosting from SaaS Made Easy. Paul Hacker, a VSTS MVP, posted the announcement on his blog earlier this week. He also provides some info on BizSpark, which is a fantastic program for startups. BizSpark Hosted TFS I would like to announce that SaaS Ma...
Dennis Stone, a tester on Team Test, has posted a great walkthrough of using the new test impact feature of 2010. If you aren't familiar with test impact, it's a feature that tells you which tests execute the code you've changed in a checkin. Rather than run all of the tests, you can run only the tests that test the code you changed. ...
Beta 1 for TFS 2010, along with VS and VSTS, is now available to MSDN subscribers and will be available for broad download shortly. Be sure to check out the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 First Look site to see what’s in this release, as well as the documentation on MSDN. Brian has written posts on TFS 2010 features in administration and ...
SQL 2008 SP1 has just been released, and we've gotten a couple of questions about whether it is supported with with Team Foundation Server 2008. We tested SQL 2008 SP1 with both the original release of TFS 2008 and TFS 2008 SP1, and we do fully support using it with either release of TFS 2008.[UPDATE 4/14/2009] If you are installing TFS...
