Buck Hodges
Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
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Visual Studio Team System 2010 Week on Channel 9!
Brian Keller has recorded a series of interviews, some of which include demos, that are being published on Channel 9. You can find them at Visual Studio Team System 2010 Week on Channel 9. Some of the videos have already been posted. Be sure to check the page periodically or subscribe to the RSS feed to keep up with them as they come out. The week of September 29th is Visual Studio Team System 2010 week on Channel 9! We'll have 20 videos going live this week featuring interviews with the Visual Studio Team System product team including several screencast demonstrations of the latest ...
CodePlex launches support for TortoiseSVN
The CodePlex team has announced that CodePlex now supports TortoiseSVN "natively." In their blog post they explain that they are running the SVNBridge on their server, so there's no need to install anything on the client other than TortoiseSVN.Technorati Tags: team foundation server,subversion,svn,tortoise,codeplex
Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 is now available!
We've now released the final version of TSWA 2008 SP1, which had previously been released as a community technology preview (CTP). There are some fantastic new features in this release, including the ability for users without CALs to create work items. Also, this release includes 10 languages: Japanese, Korean, Spanish, German, French, English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Russian, and Italian. All 10 languages are included in the download. Since the installation package includes all ten languages, you may wonder why you can choose the language on the download web page. It turns out t...
Automation with MSBuild 3.5 and Team Build 2008 recording is now available
Charles Sterling announced a new interactive forum called MVP TV earlier this month. The first event was Automation with MSBuild 3.5 and Team Build 2008. Now the recording for this event is available. The debut of MVP TV Attendance: 92 attendees Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | 9:00am – 10:00am (PDT, Redmond time) Public: This Product Group Interaction is public and open to All MVPs and all World Wide public audiences. All the Interaction of the MSDN Chats but with the richer experience of Live meeting and hosted by the recognized world technology leaders –the Visual Studio...
July 2008 release of the power tools for TFS 2008 is now available
The download is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00803636-1d16-4df1-8a3d-ef1ad4f4bbab&displaylang=en. Brian recently wrote a post about the new features: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/07/08/july-08-tfs-power-tool-preview.aspx. This release also includes some bug fixes to the build notification app. Enjoy!Technorati tags: team foundation server 2008, tfs, tfs power tools
TSWA tip: How to use the new TSWA template URL feature (initial value URL)
One of the new features we've added to TSWA for the SP1 release is the ability to create URLs that are effectively work item templates by virtue of the fact that they have the values for the work items embedded in the URL itself. Since constructing these URLs manually is really painful, we have an icon on the work item editor when you are creating a new work item that creates the URL and places it in the Windows clipboard. Bring up the new work item form, fill in whatever values you want to get automatically set each time you use the URL, and then click the "globe with chain link" icon below the Save button. ...
Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 CTP and Work Item Web Access 2008 CTP are now available
Hakan has announced the availability of the new TSWA community technology preview (CTP) in his post, What's New in TSWA 2008 SP1. Personally, I would say this release is beta quality or better, so don't let the CTP designation scare you too much. Also released is the first CTP release of what we are calling Work Item Web Access (WIWA). You may recall that we published a spec for it recently, referring to it as a "bug submission portal." WIWA provides you with the ability to have folks create work items and view work items they have created without needing a client access license (CAL) for 2008....
Spec available for “Codename TFS Bug Submission Portal”
Hakan Eskici, program manager for Team System Web Access, has posted the spec for a new power tool that's based on TSWA that is designed to help customers comply with the new licensing changes in TFS 2008 while getting the most out of the product. Please read this, as well as the other Rosario specs, and give us your feedback. Spec available for "Codename TFS Bug Submission Portal" We've published the spec for the "Codename TFS bug submission portal" power tool on Rosario Specs website (1). Note (1): Although it appears on Rosario specs website, this is a power tool for TFS 2008 (Orcas). Here's...
Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server – now in Russian
Jeff Beehler has pointed out that Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server has now been translated into Russian. It's great to see it, and I'm sure it's the product of a lot of hard work.