Buck Hodges
Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
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Now available for TSWA 2008: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish
The final set of localized versions of the Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool is now available. Here is a list of links to all of the localized releases of TSWA. We're always interested in what you think about the localizations, too. If there are ways we can improve it, we would like to incorporate that feedback into TSWA as part of Rosario. Enjoy!Technorati Tags: team foundation server, team system web access 2008, vsts
MSBuild by Example
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi's book, Deploying .NET Applications, contains a chapter on MSBuild. While I knew about the chapter in the book, I didn't realize that the chapter on MSBuild was available online until Eugene Zakhareyev mentioned it. If you are looking for a good way to get started with MSBuild, MSBuild: By Example is a good place to start. MSBuild: By Example Even if you have experience using an XML task-based build tool, such as Ant or NAnt, MSBuild is significantly different. In fact, MSBuild is different not only in execution but also in syntax. Therefore, to really get a feel for MSBuild, y...
Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Project (WDP) is now available
The new Web Deployment Project that was released as a power tool for VS 2005 did not work with VS 2008. Now there is a release of WDP that works with VS 2008. If you were using the old one, be sure to get this important update. Announcing RTW version of Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects (WDP) In December 2007, we had released Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of VS 2008 Web Deployment Projects... Thanks a ton to all of you in the community for being so active in adopting and trying the CTP versions of WDP... Since the December CTP we have been monitoring the blogs, MS Connect...
Updated post on how to filter checkin emails by paths
I've made a significant update to the following post: Adding a path filter to a CheckinEvent subscription using bissubscribe. The reason is that the paths supplied by the server aren't consistently cased while XPath is case-sensitive. The result is that your subscriptions that filter based on paths will not work reliably without additional complexity, unfortunately.Technorati Tags: team foundation server,version control,bissubscribe
Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008: French and German are now available
A couple of days ago, we released TSWA in Japanese. French and German became available yesterday. We'll be releasing more over the coming days.Technorati Tags: team system web access,team foundation server,vsts 2008
TFSBuild.com: Build “recipes”
Grant Holliday has set up a great site for Team Build users to be able to contribute and find "recipes" to use in their builds. Check it out! TFSBuild.com Build Recipes Launched Filed under: TFSBuild.com, Team Foundation Server — Grant Holliday @ 6:32 pm I’ve been thinking for a while that there’s not a lot of guidance out there on how to get Visual Studio Team Foundation Build (aka Team Build) doing more than just a compile. My first crazy thought was that I should write a book - then I got scared when I mapped out the chapters and realised how much effort would be required an...
Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 in Japanese is now available
Part of our plan for the TSWA 2008 Power Tool is to release localized versions. Japanese is the first language to become available. Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Korean are currently planned for release over the next month.Here's the download page in Japanese, along with a link to it. Team System Web Access (以前の TeamPlain) は、Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server の Web インターフェイスツールです。 概要 team system web access 2008
TSWA: Hakan now has a blog
Hakan Eskici is the program manager for Team System Web Access. He's now blogging, and his first post provides some history on how TeamPlain became TSWA. A little bit about myself and Web Access Some of you might already know that I'm the Program Manager on the Web Access team in Team Foundation Server product group. In March 2007, Microsoft acquired the company I had founded with Ahmet Akkas back in 2001. Ahmet, Serkan (one of our senior developers) and I, along with our families, moved to beautiful North Carolina in June 2007 and started to work in Microsoft's Raleigh office. The story starts i...
Team Foundation Power Tools for Team Foundation Server 2008 available now!
Earlier today, we released the first version of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008! I want to highlight the build notification application. This tool alerts you when a build is started or completed. If the build breaks, you'll know immediately. I posted a preview of the build notification app back in September. Based on feedback, we have fixed bugs (e.g., it now properly handles the user logging out or shutting down on Vista) and made improvements (e.g., you can now disable servers in the options dialog that you don't want). See the preview post for more screenshots and details on how it w...