Invited to present at MS TFS All Hands meeting Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 While in Redmond last week I was invited to attend and present at the TFS All Hands meeting. What a lot of brain power in one place (actually 2 places; North Carolina and Redmond.) I guess they usually ... Invited to present at MS TFS All Hands meeting 0 0 0
Branched history working in Visual Studio 2010 using TFS Server 2... terje, January 1, 0001 Visual Studio 2010 (beta 2) can be connected to an existing TFS 2008 Server. Much of the new great stuff is then not available, quite naturally. But I was quite positively surprised that some stuff I had ... Branched history working in Visual Studio 2010 using TFS Server 2... 0 0 1
New version of TFS Work Item Manager / Project Dashboard with Ite... Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 Today Telerik released our Beta 2 version of our FREE and popular Work Item Manager and Project Dashboard Tooling. There are a bunch of bug fixes (it was a Beta 1 after all) that have been made and one ... New version of TFS Work Item Manager / Project Dashboard with Ite... 0 0 4
Why Team Foundation Server did not work for us Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 Between 2nd October and 18th October my current team was using Team Foundation Server for source control and integration. On Sunday I merged the changes from TFS back into our old subversion repository, ... Why Team Foundation Server did not work for us 0 0 1
Simplicity comes to the Visual Studio 2010 SKUs and its about tim... Jim Duffy, January 1, 0001 Before I can get into the meat of this post I need to make sure you’re up to date on a couple items: Item 1: In case you missed the news yesterday, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released for download. ... Simplicity comes to the Visual Studio 2010 SKUs and its about tim... 0 0 0
TFS 2010 Beta2 Install & Configure Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 I was going to blog the AWESOME new install and configure for TFS 2010 Beta2 but Martin beat me to it. If you have tried to install TFS in the past, you will definitely appreciate the simplicity and reliability ... TFS 2010 Beta2 Install & Configure 0 0 0
Team Foundation Server Build Properties David Williams, January 1, 0001 I have often attempted to find TFS build properties that can be used in build scripts. This seems to be difficult to find via Google, so I am documenting this here. 1. Aaron Hallberg has an entry listing ... Team Foundation Server Build Properties 0 0 1
Configuring Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server on Vista in... Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Configuring Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server on Vista in 12 minutesAs Microsoft have separated Install with configuration, so I have separated my posts! You will need TFS2010 installed ... Configuring Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server on Vista in... 0 0 3
Installing Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server on Windows V... Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Installing Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server on Windows Vista in 3 minutesNew in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to install TFS on XP, Vista and Windows 7. You can use SQL 2008 Express, ... Installing Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server on Windows V... 0 0 18
SharePoint Conference 2009: Product Maturity and the Developer St... andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 Day 1 of the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 is almost over. The conference is impressive. There are over 7400 people in attendance, a number that represents 92% growth over last year and which tops ... SharePoint Conference 2009: Product Maturity and the Developer St... 0 0 1
Where is the Team System? Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 Folks with MSDN Subscriber licenses going to grab the latest version of VS2010 may wonder ‘Where is Team System? Team Suite? Team Developer? Team Architect?’ They are gone! Does that mean that MS is getting ... Where is the Team System? 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 now available &nda... Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 I am not the biggest fan of Mondays but today is different. Today is a good day. Today we announced the availability of Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and revealed the official launch date: Visual Studio ... Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 now available &nda... 0 0 1
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 available for Download on MSDN Subscrib... Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 Also, notice the new product versions: Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Professional Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Premium Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Ultimate Microsoft® Visual Studio® Test Elements ... Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 available for Download on MSDN Subscrib... 0 0 0
Remove Local Accounts from Welcome screen in Server 2K8 Matt deClercq, January 1, 0001 I build quite a few virtual machines and usually I set them up as a domain controller so I can enjoy the wonderous use of AD (Active Directory). This was a problem for my latest one which was going to ... Remove Local Accounts from Welcome screen in Server 2K8 0 0 1
Getting Ready for VSTS 2010 Beta 2 with “Go Live” Lic... Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 Brian Keller, Technical Evangelist for Visual Studio Team System just blogged about the “very soon” release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 which will have a “Go Live” license. That means you will receive ... Getting Ready for VSTS 2010 Beta 2 with “Go Live” Lic... 0 0 1
Team Foundation Server 2008: Thoughts and installation planning ... enriquelima, January 1, 0001 Over the last couple of weeks I have dedicated quite some time to knowing Team Foundation Server (from here on out referred to as TFS) and the interaction between it and Visual Studio Team System/Team ... Team Foundation Server 2008: Thoughts and installation planning ... 0 0 1
TFS - View all pending changes for all users MikeParks, January 1, 0001 Team Foundation Server allows you to see who has what file checked out at any time. If you would like to see a list of files that any TFS User has checked out, follow the steps below: Open Visual Studio ... TFS - View all pending changes for all users 0 0 6
TFS - Undelete File or Folder MikeParks, January 1, 0001 If you ever need to undelete a file/folder in TFS, here's how you can do it. I found a couple of people who didn't know this feature existed so I figured I'd throw a blog up about it. Open Visual Studio ... TFS - Undelete File or Folder 0 0 5
TFS Auto Shelving MikeParks, January 1, 0001 For Visual Studio 2010 / TFS 2010 please see: http://geekswithblogs.net/M... In one of our meetings the other day a few developers ... TFS Auto Shelving 0 0 5
Prototype Cobwebs Chris Eargle, January 1, 0001 I was tasked with taking this small project stored in TFS and compiling it for delivery to a stakeholder. It’s really nothing more than a prototype, and I will be building the full-fledged product. Of ... Prototype Cobwebs 0 0 0
Size Matters: WorkItem Attachments Jon Dalberg, January 1, 0001 Workitems in TFS have a handy feature that allows you to attach files to them. Notice the size column? It's not obvious but there is a size limit to attachments. The default setting is to allow documents ... Size Matters: WorkItem Attachments 0 0 0
No more new technologies, please... Thomas Weller, January 1, 0001 As a freelance software developer, I am regularly asked in interviews if I am familiar with a certain technology or product like e.g. TFS, ASP.NET 2.0, WPF or Oracle 10g or whatever. This is of course ... No more new technologies, please... 0 0 5
TFS 2008 Get Latest Automatically , January 1, 0001 Issue: Ensure your code is the latest before a check out. Not working with the latest code often creates a confusing situation for a developers trying to debug misbehaving code. Furthermore, it becomes ... TFS 2008 Get Latest Automatically 0 0 2
How To Expose TFS 2008 Work Items using Web Access , January 1, 0001 Issue: We wanted to exposes work items, bugs, etc. to the customer without exposing all the other Web Access Tabs such as Source, Documents, and Builds. Solution: Team System Web Access SP1 Team System ... How To Expose TFS 2008 Work Items using Web Access 0 0 0
Telerik Work Item Manager is LIVE (and Free) Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 Imaginet Resources Corp. has been working with Telerik to help them optimize their Application Lifecycle Management processes. As part of this, we have built some tools to address some specific pain points ... Telerik Work Item Manager is LIVE (and Free) 0 0 4
Team Build 2008 and Satellite Assemblies Vincent Grondin, January 1, 0001 Running unit tests after a successful build with Team Build 2008 can be a tricky thing.... especially when you test your localization using satellite assemblies. Out of the box this cannot be done in Team ... Team Build 2008 and Satellite Assemblies 0 0 0
Let’s Build A Dev Shop (Part 1 of n) Lee Brandt, January 1, 0001 I have been thinking about this for a while now. I speak around the Midwest about Behavior-Driven Development and as I poll groups of developers there is one thing I notice: there are a lot of things that ... Let’s Build A Dev Shop (Part 1 of n) 0 0 1
Visual Studio TFS Work Item Search Plugin MikeParks, January 1, 0001 If you're accessing work items in Team Foundation Server from the Visual Studio IDE, you will end up using this plugin more than you might think. I'm surprised they only have 3194 downloads. It basically ... Visual Studio TFS Work Item Search Plugin 0 0 1
Add Solution from VS 2008 to Team Foundation Server 2010 yairsegal, January 1, 0001 So I have recently converted all my server to Windows Server 2008 64 bit. I came to find out that only Team Foundation 2010 beta 1 is available in a 64 bit version. I have successfully installed it and ... Add Solution from VS 2008 to Team Foundation Server 2010 0 0 1
Automatically login to CodePlex/TFS in Windows 7 Blair Leduc, January 1, 0001 If you have or are part of a project on CodePlex, you know how annoying the TFS login screen is every time you start Visual Studio 2008. This really got to me. So much so that I sat down to figure out ... Automatically login to CodePlex/TFS in Windows 7 0 0 1
Windows CE Chat Transcript (August 25, 2009) Bruce Eitman, January 1, 0001 For those of you who missed the chat today, here is the raw transcript. By raw, I mean that I copied and pasted the discussion without any edits. This is divided into two parts, the top part is the answers ... Windows CE Chat Transcript (August 25, 2009) 0 0 0
Using Delegates in Rhino Mocks With the .Do Statement Anne Bougie, January 1, 0001 I use Rhino Mocks pretty much exclusively for mocking and testing. I find that there really isn't anything that I've wanted to do that I haven't been able to figure out how to accomplish with Rhino Mocks. ... Using Delegates in Rhino Mocks With the .Do Statement 0 0 1
Speaking at MS TechDays Canada 2009 in Winnipeg Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 I’ll be presenting at TechDays Canada 2009 in Winnipeg! I’ll be presenting: Better Software Change and Configuration Management Using TFS A critical factor in getting the most out of Team Foundation Server ... Speaking at MS TechDays Canada 2009 in Winnipeg 0 0 0
TFS - Deploying To Multiple Environments Using Team Build MikeParks, January 1, 0001 Using TFS and Team Build to deploy to Development, Integration, QA, Stage, Pre Production, or any other testing servers you have can be quite a bit of a challenge sometimes. I haven't really found a lot ... TFS - Deploying To Multiple Environments Using Team Build 0 0 1
SharePoint 2010 Cheat Sheet New Features and Highlights Harish Pavithran, January 1, 0001 In my last blog I talked about the new site around SharePoint 2010 and the sneak peak videos. I got a chace to watch them and here are my notes: SharePoint 2010 Feature Highlights: New User Interface including ... SharePoint 2010 Cheat Sheet New Features and Highlights 0 0 1
Team Build - Deploying To Multiple Environments MikeParks, January 1, 0001 Using TFS and Team Build to deploy to Development, Integration, QA, Stage, Pre Production, or any other testing servers you have can be quite a bit of a challenge sometimes. I haven't really found a lot ... Team Build - Deploying To Multiple Environments 0 0 0
Response to A Deleted Response to a TFS Blog Post Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 <rant> Recently a friend of mine wrote a post about having his comments deleted from a post. It has caused a bit of a controversy because both of them are MVPs. http://flux88.com/blog/a-de... ... Response to A Deleted Response to a TFS Blog Post 0 0 4
BizTalk: Naming Conventions for BizTalk Solutions Leonid Ganeline, January 1, 0001 I'm keeping the last, up-to-date version of the Naming Conventions on the Microsoft TechNet site. Version 3.1 2012-05-14Version 3.0 2011-12-26 [Added a Namespace term, it simplifies everything. Extracted ... BizTalk: Naming Conventions for BizTalk Solutions 0 0 6
A perfect match TFS and DLR Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: A perfect match TFS and DLR I have always been annoyed with the mechanics of the Team Foundation Server check-in policies. I understand the limitations, but having to have a specific policy ... A perfect match TFS and DLR 0 0 3
Content Migration using SAF SAF, January 1, 0001 SAF contains 6 ready-to-use Actions that allow the Exporting and Importing of : - List Items - Lists - Webs The 3 pairs of Actions that allow you to do this, are namely : - ExportListItem & ImportListItem ... Content Migration using SAF 0 0 0
SAF is released! SAF, January 1, 0001 At Last! Finally, we have released the SharePoint Action Framework (SAF) on CodePlex!! Please take a look at : http://saf.codeplex.com . Now that I can take a minute, I just wanted to spend a bit of time ... SAF is released! 0 0 0
Log Elmah errors in Team Foundation Server Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Log Elmah errors in Team Foundation ServerI am not sure if this is a good idea, but I was bored one day and decided to add a TFS Error Log provider for Elmah. There are 2 ways you can do this. ... Log Elmah errors in Team Foundation Server 0 0 1
List all files changed under an Iteration Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: List all files changed under an IterationI was asked by a colleague to provide a list of all files that were changed under a particular iteration. Rather than delving into the data, I made a ... List all files changed under an Iteration 0 0 0
Clarification on SQL Server license included with TFS 2008 Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 I wasn’t 100% sure myself so I clarified with MS that the restricted license of SQL Server standard that comes with Team Foundation Server 2008 is limited to SQL Server 2005 standard. In short, even though ... Clarification on SQL Server license included with TFS 2008 0 0 1
9 little new things in Expression Blend 3 Timmy Kokke, January 1, 0001 When working on some projects and articles in Expression Blend 3 I noticed a few differences with Blend 2 right away. Here are 9 improvements and new features I really like or enjoy having now. 1. Expression ... 9 little new things in Expression Blend 3 0 0 7
Silverlight 3 downloads Timmy Kokke, January 1, 0001 Below is a list of downloads for Silverlight 3. It includes all necessary downloads together. The majority are new updates and releases since the Silverlight 3 release. A few are older releases but should ... Silverlight 3 downloads 0 0 6
Team System 2010 seminar - New features - and a storytelling appr... terje, January 1, 0001 We have run 10 seminars with myself, Mikael Nitell and Jakob Ehn on TFS 2008 during the last two years. These seminars were made from the point of our company's experience with the TFS system. We debated ... Team System 2010 seminar - New features - and a storytelling appr... 0 0 0
Use Cases, User Stories and Scenarios - what are they - and how d... terje, January 1, 0001 All these three terms are used to describe the behavior of an application. They come from different process methodologies, and have different meanings, characteristics and are intended to be used differently. ... Use Cases, User Stories and Scenarios - what are they - and how d... 0 0 2
Sometimes things happen, and everything stops terje, January 1, 0001 When I started blogging I made a decision to concentrate on technical stuff. I would not write about personal things, not about what happened in my everyday life, not about my social life, not about personal ... Sometimes things happen, and everything stops 0 0 0
TFS and branching plundberg, January 1, 0001 TFS (Team Foundation Server) seems to have some very peculiar ideas regarding branching. Previously, I've used the branching feature, and it's worked just fine. But today, it went absolutely crazy with ... TFS and branching 0 0 2