As you’ve seen from Brian’s post and a bunch of others, Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 RC are now available. One of the consistent pain points in upgrading from one version of TFS to the next has been in upgrading the process for a team project. With TFS 2012, we’ve taken our first steps toward making it...
Ivan Popek has been spending a lot of time lately digging into TFS 11. He has written a series of posts on the APIs for teams in TFS 11, and he explains the burn down chart trend lines. Follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/tfsbuck...
Jim Szubryt has written a post listing the perf counters available in all versions of TFS and calls out the new ones in TFS 11. Check it out if you are looking at the performance of your server. New Perfmon Counters With TFS 11 Beta Whether you are a small company running TFS or a large Enterprise there may come a time for you too where ...
Duat, a developer on Team Foundation Build, has written a blog post on how to resolve post-upgrade issues with your build workflow if your 2010 build workflow uses custom workflow activities that use the TFS client object model. Your custom assemblies need update, or else, redirecting Loading your custom assemblies in the TFS 11 build service ...
Philip wrote a simple app to list the work items associated with the changesets for a given path, and it’s in some ways an enhanced update of Naren’s post. Given an URL to a collection and a server path (e.g., $/myproject/coolthing), it will list the work items that are associated with the most recent 25 checkins. This sample ...
Philip, a dev on version control, recently helped with a question on how to get the TFS objects we use in our UI. I thought I’d post since others may find it useful. We recently had a request from a customer for a VS add-in that would be able to access the same TfsTeamProjectCollection and VersionControlServer objects that our own UI ...
Nick Kirchem, who works on the TFS web access team, recently answered a question on how email subscriptions on checkin alerts. The question was, how do I subscribe to checkin alerts not under a particular folder? Here’s how to do it. bissubscribe /eventType CheckinEvent /address someone@domain.com /deliveryType EmailHtml /server http...
[UPDATE 9/13/13] You can now use the web UI to delete a team project. [UPDATE 5/14/13] Updated the URLs and version of VS (used to say preview) The question came up as to how to delete a team project in the Team Foundation Service (TFService). When I first tried it, it didn’t work. Then I realized it’s the one case where ...
Today the .NET team is releasing a cumulative update patch. This has all of the QFEs up until a couple of months ago rolled into one patch. Included as part of that is a patch for WPF that improves the performance of the Windows Workflow Designer as well as a hang that a number of folks have hit. I had a few customers try it out, ...
The fine folks who write documentation for our product are woefully outnumbered. Every month they release updates to the docs, adding new topics and enhancing existing ones. You can find the latest set of updates described on their blog...
