Back in April, Mariano Szklanny posted a tip on how to get intellisense in VS when editing the XML for a work item type. If you’re editing work item types, you will find useful having Intellisense in Visual Studio 2005:
Earlier, I mentioned Jeff Atwood's continuous integration approach. Here are a couple more approaches.Sondre Bjellås has decided to write his own continuous integration system for Team Build back in May (Making a Team System Automation Framework). It is called Automaton, and it's available on CodePlex. Automaton is a Continuous In...
Eric Charran has written a nice post on dealing with ClickOnce manifests in Team Build. Building a ClickOnce Manifest File with Team Foundation Services Team Build Issue: When building a ClickOnce application using Team Foundation Build Services, the goal is to modify the details contained within the .application deployment manifest file to conform...
Jeff Atwood started out with the continuous integration with MSDN CI sample for Team Build. Then he made improvements to it and posted it as a A Kinder, Gentler Continuous Integration service for Team Foundation Server. You can use Abhinaba's build notification tools to keep track of how it's going. A Kinder, Gentler Continuous Int...
Abhinaba Basu posted his second Team Build power toy build notification app. Previously he had posted a Team Build RSS feed power toy. Today he posted his desktop notification app, which he calls BuildTicker. Team Build Ticker: parting gift I had blogged earlier about the BuildTicker tool which sits on the system tray and notifies ...
There's a document in the Visual Studio 2005 SDK that describes the extensibility points in Team Build. I have the April release of the SDK, so it's located at C:\Program Files\Visual Studio 2005 SDK\2006.04\VisualStudioTeamSystemIntegration\Team Build\Team Build Extensibility.doc. The SDK is a huge download, so I'm attaching the document to ...
In the forum post Getting Latest Version Error (TF30063), a user was getting the error message "TF30063: You are not authorized to access Microsoft-IIS/6.0" when getting files from version control. I asked a bunch of questions, which the user answered, but that didn't really help. The user end up figuring it out. It turns out...
Bill Essary provided the following as a work around for using a Team Foundation Server email notifications with an SMTP server that requires a user name and password. TFS does not directly support using a username and password to connect to an SMTP server but it is possible to work around this limitation by using an SMTP virtual server on the TFS A...
I've written about our experiences using the version control caching proxy server before, but I thought I'd post a screenshot that nicely shows the difference in bandwidth utilization. Before I do that, we were recently having a serious problem with our local caching proxy server being slow and sometimes not responding. Robert Horvick looked ...
Here's a handy tip if you find yourself needing to disassociate or unbind a Microsoft Project (.mpp) or Microsoft Excel (.xls) file from a Team Foundation Server, perhaps because you changed the name of the server, the server no longer exists, etc.Microsoft ProjectYogita Manghnani, a PM for TFS, posted the following process in the Team Fo...
