Nick Kirchem, who works on the TFS web access team, recently answered a question on how email subscriptions on checkin alerts. The question was, how do I subscribe to checkin alerts not under a particular folder? Here’s how to do it. bissubscribe /eventType CheckinEvent /address someone@domain.com /deliveryType EmailHtml /server http...
[UPDATE 9/13/13] You can now use the web UI to delete a team project. [UPDATE 5/14/13] Updated the URLs and version of VS (used to say preview) The question came up as to how to delete a team project in the Team Foundation Service (TFService). When I first tried it, it didn’t work. Then I realized it’s the one case where ...
With the build conference last week, I got a Twitter account and started following the comments and responding to questions. I’m @tfsbuck...
Brian posted about the cumulative update for TFS (the TFS SKU, not the client/VS) back in June. After it was released we learned of a couple of bugs in it, including one where upgrades would not work in certain cases. Last Thursday, we re-released it with all of the known bugs fixed. We understand where we went wrong, and we ...
Today the .NET team is releasing a cumulative update patch. This has all of the QFEs up until a couple of months ago rolled into one patch. Included as part of that is a patch for WPF that improves the performance of the Windows Workflow Designer as well as a hang that a number of folks have hit. I had a few customers try it out, ...
[UPDATE 7/19/2011] Stephen pointed me to his article covering this and more in February issue of MSDN Magazine, and I recommend it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg598924.aspx.We hit this recently, so I thought I’d post this email from Chad, a developer on version control, for anyone else who may have missed this ...
The fine folks who write documentation for our product are woefully outnumbered. Every month they release updates to the docs, adding new topics and enhancing existing ones. You can find the latest set of updates described on their blog...
Ewald Hofman, an ALM MVP, has written a great series of blog posts on Team Build in Team Foundation Server 2010. The 2010 release introduces Windows Workflow as the overall orchestrator of the build process. Ewald walks you through quite a few topics related to this and the other new features. Check it out...
Do you want to be part of a team of talented developers and build great software? Here’s your chance to join the TFS team. In addition to development positions in Redmond (work item tracking client team), I have openings on our development team here in North Carolina. Please follow one of the links to apply online...
Have you ever tried to debug an issue in old binaries and you don’t remember which version of the source they correspond to? Have you debugged without symbols because no one saved them? Here’s how to make your life easier.One of the great features in Team Foundation Server 2010 Build is the ability to have your builds ...
