Years ago, I posted an msbuild task to run tests without test lists for VSTS 2005. That functionality made it into VSTS 2008. Then Pierre Greborio added support for test categories. That test category capability is now available in VS 2010. Using test categories is now the preferred way of running groups of tests, and you no...
UPDATE [6/12/2010] The patch is now available on MSDN Code Gallery here. You must install it after you complete the MSI setup portion (the files need to be on the machine and registered in Windows first) and before the upgrade wizard (it’s the upgrade process, not setup that needs to be patched). -- We discovered a c...
Phil Hodgson, a developers on TFS, published a new whitepaper that explains how to customize and get the most out of your dashboards in TFS 2010. Check it out! Customizing Team Foundation Server Project Portals Phil Hodgson, Microsoft Corporation May 2010 This article describes important concepts about project portals for Microsoft...
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 exciting ...
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 to TFS, an...
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 2008....
I’ve posted before about TFS licensing, and the official whitepaper was finally released last week. The document covers Team Foundation Server as well as all of Visual Studio.Visual Studio 2010 Licensing WhitepaperTechnorati Tags: visual studio 2010,team foundation server 2010,vs,tfs
If you are using Outlook 2010 Beta, you probably need this fix because all of your emails are huge. It was killing me (and a bunch of other folks internally). It is fixed in the recent RC, but most people don’t have access (it’s not a public RC). The Office team has just posted a fix for this issue for folks using the ...
While I don’t have a comprehensive list, I do want to point out these four changes in particular because these classes are fundamental to the API. If you have written code with the Beta 2 client API, here are the changes you will need to be aware of to use the RC client API. [UPDATE 2/12/10] Jim Lamb has posted updated TFS ...
Several folks have run into a problem after uninstalling VS 2010 Beta 2 and installing VS 2010 RC. When VS 2010 runs, you get an error message like the following. Team Foundation Error Could not load type ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServerBase’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundationClient, Versi...
