Buck Hodges
Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)
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Team Foundation Power Tools version 1.2 (aka TFS Power Toys)
We are happy to announce the release of version 1.2 of Team Foundation Power Tools (formerly known as Power Toys). This version includes some bug fixes to previous power tools, support for Vista, and adds the following new functionality: Please note that the Process Template Editor has some additional pre-requisites, they are identified on the download page. The Power Tools MSDN Forum is available for discussing issues and requesting enhancements. NOTE: If you go to the download page tonight, you may still see the old one. There are still some MSDN servers that haven't...
Radius: reporting tool from 90 Degree Software
Ameya recently wrote about the new Radius tool from 90 Degree Software. I stumbled across a new Channel 9 video demonstration of it: Radius: What. How. Why. If you use or are interested in the reporting feature of TFS, this may be helpful. Technorati tags: tfs, team foundation, reporting
CodePlex: Vote on the features and fixes you’d like to see
The CodePlex team has posted about the latest update to CodePlex and encourage you to vote on what you'd like to see in upcoming releases. CodePlex is uses provides a hosted version of Team Foundation Server. New CodePlex Version! I know this is a few days late, but as of Jan 30th we are running a new version of CodePlex! Some of the highlight features are: More importantly, the features we added have addressed 143 user votes! Thanks to everyone for telling us what is important to you. Don't forget to keep voting, because we need to know what you want in the upcoming versions: http://www...
A quick guide to fixing problems after installing Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Neno Loje, an MVP, recently posted about dealing with HTTP 503 or 403 errors after installing TFS SP1. Now Brian Harry has written post that should serve as a quick guide to fixing the common problems that occur when installing TFS SP1. See Problems installing TFS SP1 for a table that shows each issue, its impact, and how to deal with it. If you are wondering whether you should install the service pack, Brian posted the list of issues fixed here and here.Technorati tags: tfs, team foundation, service pack 1, sp1, tf30059
You can schedule builds in Orcas
When we posted the Orcas Team Build Continuous Integration Spec, you may have noticed that there was no support for scheduling builds. We implemented build scheduling as a Design Change Request (DCR). That meant that we had to present a justification for the feature, a spec, and how long it would take to implement and test. By the time we had the DCR meeting we were nearly done with it. That made the conversation about the effort involved go a little more smoothly, since we could talk about it largely in the past tense. Here is an edited version of what Jim Lamb, our PM, put together for t...
How many people do we have working on Orcas?
Lorenzo Barbieri, an MVP, pointed out the Orcas splash screen spec that's been posted. I'm guessing that's one of those things that leads to people believing we have an infinite supply of people to develop products, leading to comments like, "I can't believe you still can't do X!" X is everything from viewing labels in history to rolling back changes to assigning work items to groups of people to continuous integration (wait, we've got that in Orcas :-). Here are some excerpts. The Splash Screen typifies some of the worst aspects of the Visual Studio User Experience...
Visual Studio Team System chat on Wednesday Feb. 7
On Wednesday, join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP). Join the chat on Wednesday, February 7th, 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time. Add to Calendar Additional Time Zones
Generating documentation from code with Team Build
Brian Keller replied to an internal email thread discussing generating documentation from code as part of a build. If you are looking to do the same, these links should be helpful. Here's what Brian wrote. I just wanted to point out that there are several MSBuild targets available for Sandcastle which should make it pretty straightforward to integrate with Team Build. I was actually at one of my customer’s offices yesterday and they were showing me that they had integrated Sandcastle with their build process and it looked quite good. I haven’t tried using these targets yet so I can’t...
TeamCity support for Team Foundation Server
As part of their "Early Access Program," the folks at JetBrains have posted a build of TeamCity that contains support for TFS version control. They are looking for feedback, so give it a try and let 'em know what you think. TeamCity EAP (Latest) Current build: 3654 released Jan 30, 2007 | Download | Changes This version of TeamCity will contain many additional features comparing with TeamCity 1.2 as well as improvements of existing functionality.To name a few: tags: tfs, team foundation server, teamcity, jetbrains