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May 14, 2008
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TSWA tip: How to use the new TSWA template URL feature (initial value URL)

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

One of the new features we've added to TSWA for the SP1 release is the ability to create URLs that are effectively work item templates by virtue of the fact that they have the values for the work items embedded in the URL itself. Since constructing these URLs manually is really painful, we have an icon on the work item editor when you are creating ...

Team Foundation ServerTeam System Web AccessTSWA Tip
Apr 9, 2008
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Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 CTP and Work Item Web Access 2008 CTP are now available

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Hakan has announced the availability of the new TSWA community technology preview (CTP) in his post, What's New in TSWA 2008 SP1.  Personally, I would say this release is beta quality or better, so don't let the CTP designation scare you too much. Also released is the first CTP release of what we are calling Work Item Web Access (WIWA). ...

Team Foundation ServerVSTSWork Item Tracking
Mar 28, 2008
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Spec available for “Codename TFS Bug Submission Portal”

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Hakan Eskici, program manager for Team System Web Access, has posted the spec for a new power tool that's based on TSWA that is designed to help customers comply with the new licensing changes in TFS 2008 while getting the most out of the product.  Please read this, as well as the other Rosario specs, and give us your feedback. Spec ...

Team Foundation ServerWork Item TrackingTeam System Web Access
Mar 20, 2008
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How Do I: Use the Builds Check-in Policy?

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

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 ...

Team Foundation ServerSource ControlTeam Build
Mar 20, 2008
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Visual Studio Team System Chat: April 9

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

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 ...

Team Foundation ServerSource ControlTeam Build
Mar 19, 2008
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Teamprise 3.0 Ships!

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

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 ...

Team Foundation ServerSource ControlTeam Build
Mar 18, 2008
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Account used to install TFS must have read permission to Active Directory

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

We've seen a couple of customers run into a rare problem where the account being used to set up a new Team Foundation server does not have read access to Active Directory (this does not apply to the workgroup edition of TFS).  Vasu Sankaran, developer on the TFS identity management system, explains the error below. When Team Foundation ...

Team Foundation Server
Mar 18, 2008
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MSBuild project analysis tool: BuildCop

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Jelle Druyts has created an interesting tool and made it available on CodePlex. Just Released: BuildCop v1.0! It is with great pleasure that I'm finally ready to release another open source tool on CodePlex: BuildCop. BuildCop is a tool that analyzes MSBuild project files (interactively or during e.g. a daily build) according to a customizable ...

Team Foundation ServerTeam BuildMSBuild
Feb 17, 2008
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TSWA: Providing multiple languages in a single installation

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Ed Blankenship asked a question recently regarding having multiple languages supported by the same TSWA instance. Hakan provided the answer, and both of them blogged it. Please note that this is not a supported configuration (i.e., that means we didn't test it, it could cause problems with uninstalling, etc.).Technorati Tags: team foundation...

Team Foundation ServerTeam System Web AccessTSWA Tip