The New Team Explorer in TFS 11

re: The New Team Explorer in TFS 11

cgmt — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:58:20 GMT

How do you customize the team explorer home page. I would like to add some links?

re: The New Team Explorer in TFS 11

dharmesh.shah — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:31:53 GMT

Hi Jim and Brian,

Regarding your question for generating Release Notes, as Brian Harry suggested, it should be easy to add a new field using process editor. Additionally, I think you might would like to have a look at tfschangelog.codeplex.com

This application allows users to automate generating release notes on demand and from command prompt. At this stage, this application is tested against TFS 2010 and soon we will test it against TFS 2011 as well.

TFSChangeLog is designed to work against any type of work item and because it supports XSLT 2.0, users can easily translate output from XML into HTML (or other formats). Thus they can apply their filters and styles to generate well formatted release notes.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,

Dharmesh Shah.

re: The New Team Explorer in TFS 11

Brian Harry MS — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:29:29 GMT

There really aren't significant advancements in that area in TFS 11. However, we have started to make some investments post TFS 11. You'll likely see some early previews of that in 3-6 months. Yes, I know it's weird to be talking about post TFS 11 when we haven't even shipped the TFS 11 Beta yet. Having a service is really changing the way we think about the release cycle. I'll blog about some of these changes so you can get a better understanding.

Brian

re: The New Team Explorer in TFS 11

Jim — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:06:43 GMT

WIll the new version have any further enhancements for deployment? One of our biggest problems with TFS is that we can get it to the build stage, but then trying to get our web app/database deployed to all of our customer sites and keep them upgraded is a nightmare for us. Deployment within your own network seems pretty easy with TFS, I just wish it was that easy on customer networks as well.

re: The New Team Explorer in TFS 11

Brian Harry MS — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:12:33 GMT

We don't have a built in release notes field. It would be easy enough though, to use the process template editor to customize your work item definition to have a release notes field.

Brian

re: The New Team Explorer in TFS 11

Jim — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:02:17 GMT

Does TFS2011 have the ability to enter Release Notes. Sometimes there are work items, that you don't want to be a part of release notes. Also, it would be nice if there was a separate section in a work item for adding a release note. Typically, you want to add additional detail for a release note that you want to be able to package with the product.

re: The New Team Explorer in TFS 11

Carl — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:23:38 GMT

I agree 100% with Neil Hughes, this is not a question of going back but implementing new, useful and badly needed features, thanks Neil, I could not have said it better myself, all the points are spot on. Why is it possible to create folders for work items and not build??? If the workflow is an improvement I will stick with MSBuild project for as long as possible. I am not a MS basher but sometime I wonder why you guys don't see these things...

re: The New Team Explorer in TFS 11

Ed Holloway — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:01:46 GMT

Hey Nic,

In TFS 11 Beta we are adding support for unattended build (controllers & agents) for on-premise TFS servers (but not Hosted TFS).

We don't have any docs available yet, but we will try to get a blog post (or similar) out in the Beta timeframe.

-Ed

re: The New Team Explorer in TFS 11

Nic — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:33:34 GMT

Hi Brian,

Can you please advise to what detail the unattended install will be supported?

- Does it also cover configuring the build and test controllers and agents?

- Does it cover configuring against the TfsPreview server?

- Is it included in the developer preview or do I need to wait for a later release for it?

- Are there any details on how to perform unattended setups? E.g. sample XML files or something?

Thanks very much,

Nic

re: The New Team Explorer in TFS 11

Walahdir — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:57:04 GMT

Hi Brian,

Nice post. Curious to know what the red button next to the refresh button on team explorer home is for? Is it to disconnect to TFS or to stop the current request being processed by TFS?

Thanks, Walahdir