Bijan Javidi announced the release of TFS Branching Guide 2.0 on CodePlex. Check it out and be sure to send them your feedback on it. They are always looking for ways to enhance and make it even more useful. TFS Branching Guide 2.0 Welcome to the Team Foundation Server Branching Guidance Community Site! The purpose of this project...
In the past I've written posts on tools for TFS on CodePlex. I'm happy to say that there are now too many to show in a post. I'd encourage you to take a look using this query for TFS on CodePlex. A couple of people have sent me email about new tools for TFS on CodePlex, and I thought I'd mention them. here. TeamReview The first one i...
If you install Service Pack 1 for .NET 3.5 on the server (application tier) without also installing Service Pack 1 for TFS 2008, you will not be able to view permissions in version control. None of your data has been lost. What has happened is that the code in ASP.NET that serializes the permission data on the server does not work prope...
One of the new features available in TFS 2008 SP1 is that a TSWA URL can be configured in the server so that checkin notification emails will have links to the Team System Web Access page for the changeset, which allows you to see the diffs for each of the changes. You can find the documentation for this feature at How to: Configure Work Item Hype...
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 the...
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
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, Engli...
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...
A year ago I wrote a blog post about a new check-in policy that we added in build for TFS 2008 to prevent "piling on" when the build is broken in continuous integration environment. That post has all of the details on how it works and even the code showing you how it was implemented.Now Richard Hundhausen has a video on how to make effective ...
Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition. In addition, discuss what's new for these editions for Visual Studio 2008. Add to Calendar April 9, 2008 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time Addi...
