Martin Woodward write that Teamprise 3.0 has now been released! If you want the equivalent of Team Explorer integrated into Eclipse on any platform or need a client from Linux or Mac, you'll definitely want to check out Teamprise. Here's a quick bullet list of features that I lifted from his post. I'm particularly happy to see the new ...
Jelle Druyts has posted a document describing how to set up source server for Team Foundation Build. If you don't know what it is, read the MSDN magazine article that is the first link in his post.Check it out! Setting up Source Server for TFS Builds I've read about symbol servers and source servers before (in John Robbins' excellent De...
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 additio...
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, ...
Ben Ryan, a developer on the version control team, has written a couple of posts about the offline feature introduced in Team Foundation Server 2008 Version Control. The first one in particular answers some questions that have come up. When and how does my solution go "offline"? TFS 2008 adds improved support for "offline" scenarios. ...
Martin Woodward has a posted a great set of slides from a presentation he did on what's new in TFS 2008. After going through all of the features other than build, he spends more than half of the slides on the build features of TFS 2008 (aka Team Build). I highly recommend taking a look at the slides, particularly if you haven't paid clo...
[UPDATE] The final version is now available. Team System Web Access for TFS 2008 Power Tool CTP is now available! For TFS 2008, TSWA will continue to be a power tool through the TFS 2008 release. For the release after that, it will be a part of the regular product. The final release of the TSWA for TFS 2008 power tool will...
The TFS version control client object model normally uses up to eight threads from the thread pool to upload or download files. This same mechanism is also used in pending adds: Files are opened to determine whether they are binary or text, so batches are sent to the server while other batches are being examined on disk. It also uses ei...
A few times over the last several months, the question has come up regarding how to determine whether a file on disk that is being edited is different that what is checked into TFS version control. Folks looking at the PendingChange object have asked about the difference between the two hash value properties. If you query for the pendin...
In TFS 2005 running help from tf.exe popped up the MSDN help browser. That was a bit lame, but we didn't allocate the time to do it right. That's been fixed in TFS 2008. Running tf.exe /? produces a list of commands, and tf someCommand /? produces detailed help on that command. Here are a couple of examples. These two commands a...
