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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...

Aaron Hallberg has a written a great post on one of the new extensibility mechanisms we've added to the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets file that forms the backbone of the msbuild process (it's imported by every tfsbuild.proj file and contains all of the targets and properties).  Aaron shows you how to have a different target called for...

Patrick Carnahan, a developer on Team Build, put together the following guide to the basic, as well as a few advanced, features of Team Build in TFS 2008.  It's a great way to get started with continuous integration and other features in TFS 2008. Team Build – Continuous Integration One of the new and most compelling features of Team Foun...

I don't often post about reporting.  My last post was about sample reports for TFS from a year ago. If you are trying to understand it or just get more out of it, there are now more resources to help you.  On Friday (Aug. 10, 2007), a new article on TFS reporting became available for downloading. Creating and Customizing TFS...

I ran across the following post by James Dawson and thought it may be of interest to folks trying to do CI with TFS 2005.  Of course, you'll find CI as part of the product in TFS 2008. TeamBuild Plug-in for CruiseControl.NET I've been meaning to write this post for a couple of months now as a follow-up to a session that Colin and I gave...

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...

In either TFS 2005 or TFS 2008, you can delete the test results published against a build (How to: Publish Test Results).  However, discovering this feature may be difficult, and I didn't find it on MSDN in a quick search of the docs. What you'll need to do is to bring up the build details (aka the build report) in Visual Studio.  Then ex...

We changed the build agent setup such that the default presented in the setup GUI is to use Network Service as the build service account.  One big advantage of doing this is that the Network Service account doesn't have a password that expires, removing one annoying administrative issue. Once you install the build agent, you need to add the s...

Matt Mitrik, program managers for the TFS migration and synchronization toolkit, wants to know which version control systems are most important for them to focus on.  Go here and vote now. What migration tools are you looking for? I've heard plenty of requests for tools to migrate data from competitor products to TFS, and I'm trying to fin...

[UPDATE 7/31/2007]  I've updated the link with the main MSDN page for TSWA.  There's also an FAQ now. We have just released Team System Web Access power tool for TFS 2005!  You can download it now. Team System Web Access (formerly known as TeamPlain) is a Web interface to Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server. Fe...