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[UPDATE 8/9/07]  I fixed the broken link to the power tools page.Brian Harry announced the latest release of the Team Foundation Power Toys in the post, New TFS Power Toys Available!.  In his post he gives a quick description of each of the new commands and the major enhancements.One of the most important aspects of this release is that t...

I ran two searches on CodePlex to see what folks are developing for TFS.  One search was for "TFS" and the other was for "Team Foundation," which I hope would be enough to catch them all.  The second search only yielded one additional project (Time Tracker).It's always cool to see what folks come up with.  Highly-motivated individual...

As soon as folks start using Team Build, especially with some sort of continuous integration support, several issues pop up regarding the integration with work item tracking, including how not to have bad builds listed and how not to have every build from every build type listed.When TFS is installed, work item tracking adds a subscription, via bis...

If you you're interested in adding a custom logger to your build process in Team Build, Aaron walks you through the steps you need to know. Adding Custom Loggers to Team Build Yesterday we looked at using tasks to add customized build steps during a build.  Today I'd like to show you how to add a customized logger.

I saw Rob Caron mention this new MSDN article, and it's a topic that comes up relatively frequently.  If you've wanted to know more about different strategies for organizing your branches, this article provides a nice overview and links for you to dig deeper.  Another link that may interest you is an article on branching models mentioned ...

Aaron Hallberg, a developer working on Team Build, has taken the plunge and started a blog.  Those of you who frequent the MSDN Team Build forum will probably recognize the name.  You now have a blog to go with the name!After getting post #1 out of the way, Aaron shows you how to insert custom build step from a custom task.  The...

Last week, the folks at Vertigo Software wrote a couple of really good posts involving Team Build.The first one, written by Jeff Atwood, is about building projects that have code shared from a different team project.  The crux of the problem is that in v1 Team Build doesn't allow mappings in the Workspace.xml file to span team projects.&n...

The VSTS User Education blog announced new MSDN content on using and customizing Team Build.  Check it out!New Team Foundation Build Customization Content on MSDN We are adding new content on explaining Team Founadation Build customization targets and tasks. Check out the following topics on MSDN: Understanding Team Foundation Configuration F...

Carl Daniel (code) and Robert Downey (code) each wrote and posted code to show the changesets between two labels in TFS version control.  They each took the same basic approach: call QueryLabels() to get the set of items in each label, find the highest changeset version for each set of items, and then call QueryHistory() with the range of vers...

For three years I worked on Team Foundation Server Version Control.  Most of my contributions were to the version control object model, the tf.exe command line, and general infrastructure.  After v1 shipped in March, we reorganized the TFS organization. Version 1 of TFS Team Build was developed by a small team in India, led by Gautam.&nbs...