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Brian Keller mentioned that the transcript of the Sept. 6th chat is now available. Team System "Chat" transcript now available It looks like the the transcript from our September 6th "Chat" on MSDN is now available. It was great meeting everyone who could make it - we had nearly 150 people during the live session which is simply incredible! Team Sy...

Occasionally the question of whether to use the TeamFoundationServerFactory.GetServer() method or the TeamFoundationServer constructor comes up, and someone recently asked this question on an internal list.  The answer depends on the needs of the application that you are writing.  In this post, I'll discuss the main differences betwe...

Bernardo Heynemann wrote a nice pair of posts on using Team Build to build and deploy web projects.  While he uses the recently-released continuous integration tool from Notion Solutions (Team CI), there are a number of continuous integration tools for Team Build. Team Build 101 (Part 1 of 2) Team Build 101 (Part 2 of 2) Today we engaged in&nb...

Aaron Hallberg plans to periodically post descriptions and examples of some of the more relevant Team Build web service methods.  There's no good source for this information currently.  Even the Team Build API documentation recently published on MSDN won't help you much, as I described here.  If you have particular methods you'd like...

If you haven't seen the new TreeDiff, you can see a screen shot in Brian Harry's post about the new release.  It provides a VSS-style project difference tool that allows you not only to see what's changed but also reconcile changes.Tan Phan, a developer on the version control client team, has written a post describing how to customize the Tree...

Mario Rodriguez, a program manager on TFS version control, is seeking your input on what you need in the way of checkin policies for a future power toys release.  An example might be a policy that wraps another policy to provide path filtering to more precisely control what files are subject to a particular checkin policy.Please leav...

Aaron Hallberg wrote a great post explaining how to build precompiled web sites with Team Build.  The problem is that building them does not, by default, produce precompiled websites where all of the code is in dlls and removed from the ASP.NET source files. Team Build and aspnet_compiler.exe ... Because Team Build typically compiles solu...

This has come up before on the forums, but I don't think I've ever posted about it here.  Today I saw a reference to the TFS Workspace Gotcha! post in today's Team System Rocks VSTS Links roundup.  There's a command to deal with the problem, but it's not obvious.Here's the post. I have been working with a team that has recently migra...

If you are interested in the TFS reporting feature, you may want to check out the sample reports in the zip file attached to the following blog post. Sample Team System Reports This attachment contains a variety of samples, experiments and untested reports for use with the Team Foundation Data warehouse. There is a brief overview document describin...

Rob Caron mentioned that the SDK documentation is now on the MSDN web site.  That SDK documentation includes the Team Foundation Server API documentation.  Last year I pointed out where to find the version control documentation in the massive download that is the VS SDK, but you don't need to do that now.So, the good news is that the docu...