April 2010

TFS 2010 Power Tools are now available!

April 23, 2010 Apr 23, 2010 04/23/10

Buck Hodges

Here is the first full release of Power Tools for TFS 2010! Previously we had released versions for beta 2 and RC. With this release the focus was to have parity with the 2008 power tools and fix bugs. We’ll be adding new power tools in the next release (no date yet). TFS Build Extension Power Tool is an ...

How to see the TFS server calls made by the client

April 23, 2010 Apr 23, 2010 04/23/10

Buck Hodges

Back in 2006 I wrote a post about a performance dialog that lets you see all of the calls made by the client. It works with Visual Studio (devenv.exe), TFS command line (tf.exe), TCM command line (tcm.exe), Test Manager (mtm.exe), etc. It’s still in the product in 2010, and it’s as useful as ever if you are writing code that talks ...

TFS 2010 has shipped!

April 14, 2010 Apr 14, 2010 04/14/10

Buck Hodges

Monday was the official launch for the TFS and VS 2010 releases! I highly recommend upgrading from TFS 2005 or TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. The number of new features in TFS 2010 is very long, and there are lots of posts on them. One of the most exciting is that you can install TFS on a client OS (e.g., Windows 7) using SQL Express ...

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