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As Jeff Beehler points out, we shipped TFS one year ago today. In the intervening time, we reorganized and completed the TFS development work on Orcas (minus a few design change requests (DCRs)), which you can try out in the March Orcas CTP (since it's based on TFS code from January, not everything is in there, such as build scheduling). ...
In Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2005 (v1), the communication from the application tier (AT) to the build computer used .NET remoting. This was the only component in Team Foundation Server that used .NET remoting, as all other communication used web services (see Team Foundation Server Security Architecture). As part of the .NET ...
If you have a version control proxy at a remote site and you wish to have Team Build use the version control proxy, you'll need to modify the registry of the account that's running the build service on the build computer. Here's what you'll need to put into the registry. You'll need to change "someproxy" to your proxy's name. Also...
I don't travel much. It's been almost exactly a year since I was in Redmond. In March 2006, Ed Hintz and I gave a presentation on version control.This time Jim Lamb and I are here to learn about some of the internal build systems as part of our planning for the future. Well, Jim's here to party with the PMs as well. I just g...
Eric Lee of Counterpunch Software (former Softie) has started posting about Orcas features in the March CTP.First, he goes through a list of new features with some screenshots. A Baker's Dozen of New Features in Orcas There is nothing like having a new version of Visual Studio to play around with :) Not that Visual Studio 2005 is all that old, but...
The Visual Studio 4.0 SDK was released today. Here's the announcement. On behalf of the VS Tools Ecosystem team, we are pleased to announce that after months of hard work, we have completed shipping the VS SDK 4.0 RTM release! We have done tons of work to make this release friendly to developers who are new to Visual Studio extensibility. It...
Here's the announcement. Please download the TFS Virtual PC image and let us know what you think. Except for build scheduling, this CTP contains all of the new Team Build features, including continuous integration. We are excited to announce that the Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” March 2007 CTP is now available publicly&n...
The WorkspaceMapping.xml file is one of the files generated when creating a new build type. Those of you who've had to customize a build are probably familiar with the TfsBuild.proj file, which is the top-level file used to orchestrate the build.The WorkspaceMapping.xml file is used by one of the custom tasks to create the TFS workspace that ...
Below are highlights from the Feb. 7 VSTS MSDN Chat (the full transcript is attached to the bottom of this post). I hadn't participated in one in a quite a while. We got quite a few questions, and there were lots of folks from the product team on hand to answer the questions. Keep an eye out for the next one. General JMan...
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...