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How would you prioritize features for MSBuild?

Buck HodgesNovember 18, 2007Nov 18, 200711/18/07

Dan Moseley, a developer on the MSBuild team, wants to know how you would prioritize features for the next version of MSBuild by asking, How would you spend $100 on MSBuild? The release of Visual Studio 2008 is imminent, which means the product teams are beginning to work on the future, and he posts about some of the features that they ...

TFS 2008 ships this month

Buck HodgesNovember 6, 2007Nov 6, 200711/6/07

Yesterday, Soma announced that VS 2008 and TFS 2008 ship this month. Prior to that, we had only said it would ship by the end of this year. It's going to be an exciting month. Not long after TFS 2008 ships, we're going to ship the final version of the Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool, and it includes a few new features. ...

Using VSTS 2008 memory allocation profiling

Buck HodgesOctober 9, 2007Oct 9, 200710/9/07

I wanted to learn about the memory allocation profiling feature that is available VSTS 2008. While the profiler was also in VSTS 2005, the profiler will now also profile memory usage in addition to performance. A very good place to start is Ian Huff's blog. He's written a number of posts about the profiler. To use profiling...

Extracting the Visual Studio 2005 Team System SP1 VPC image

Buck HodgesOctober 8, 2007Oct 8, 200710/8/07

[UPDATE 10/10/2007] MSDN has been updated with a new set of files with the naming issue corrected (see forum post). It may take a few days for it to propogate to all of the MSDN servers. ***** Reid, a customer, sent me email about a problem with using the Visual Studio 2005 Team System SP1 VPC image...

Operations Guidance for TFS

Buck HodgesOctober 2, 2007Oct 2, 200710/2/07

Jeff Beehler has announced that we have now published guidance for operations. In addition to all of the great information in there, it provides a great summary of TFS links (see the bottom of the article in particular). Operations Guidance for TFS The Team System Rangers have done it again. Their mission is the accelerate ...

Team System Web Access for TFS 2008 CTP released

Buck HodgesSeptember 21, 2007Sep 21, 200709/21/07

[UPDATE] The final version is now available. Team System Web Access for TFS 2008 Power Tool CTP is now available! For TFS 2008, TSWA will continue to be a power tool through the TFS 2008 release. For the release after that, it will be a part of the regular product. The final release of the TSWA for TFS 2008 power tool...

Deleting test results from a build

Buck HodgesAugust 2, 2007Aug 2, 200708/2/07

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. ...

Team System Web Access (formerly TeamPlain) power tools release is now available!

Buck HodgesJuly 30, 2007Jul 30, 200707/30/07

[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...

Team Foundation Server 2008 Beta 2: Summary of links to Team Build information

Buck HodgesJuly 26, 2007Jul 26, 200707/26/07

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, including Team Foundation Server 2008, is now available for download. As mentioned in Soma's post, Beta 2, unlike beta 1, includes the "go live" provision in the license, meaning that you can use it in production. We've been using TFS 2008 beta 2 on our main internal dogfood server now for the last two ...

Adding Team System Web Access to the mix

Buck HodgesJuly 26, 2007Jul 26, 200707/26/07

A year ago I became the dev lead for Team Build. As of this month, I'm now also the dev lead for Team System Web Access (TSWA), which is the name of the group that resulted from our earlier acquisition of devBiz Solutions, makers of TeamPlain Web Access. Hakan, Ahmet, and Serkan have joined our team in North Carolina, relocating ...

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