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VSTS 2008 TFS Power Tools Released

Girish's Blog — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:39:36 GMT

A new set of Power Tools for TFS 2008 has been released. This is a good one that I have been waiting

VSTS 2008 TFS Power Tools Released

Noticias externas — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:36:43 GMT

A new set of Power Tools for TFS 2008 has been released. This is a good one that I have been waiting

Team Foundation Power Tools for Team Foundation Server 2008 available now!

Buck Hodges — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:54:36 GMT

Earlier today, we released the first version of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 ! I want to highlight

Team Foundation Power Tools for Team Foundation Server 2008 available now!

Noticias externas — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:37:59 GMT

Earlier today, we released the first version of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 ! I want to highlight

Rilasciati i Power Tools per Team Foundation Server 2008

Around and About .NET World — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:38:43 GMT

Rilasciati i Power Tools per Team Foundation Server 2008

TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 delivered for Christmas

Craig Bailey Link Blog — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:14:48 GMT

Brian Harry announces the release of the TFS 3008 Power Tools . Download here . There's a new MSSCCI

[TFS] Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools Released !!!

El Bruno — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:15:34 GMT

Buenas una vez migrados todos los entornos de desarrollo a Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 , y con el server

[TFS] Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools Released !!!

El Bruno — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:15:38 GMT

Buenas una vez migrados todos los entornos de desarrollo a Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 , y con el server

[TFS] Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools Released !!!

El Bruno — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:15:48 GMT

Buenas una vez migrados todos los entornos de desarrollo a Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 , y con el server

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

Keith Hill — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:55:38 GMT

Nice set of features but still no PowerShell cmdlets and/or providers for version control. Sniff, sniff. :-(

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

Jonas — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:08:27 GMT

Great job on the power tools.

Any update on the TFSServerManager you wrote about back in January?

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

bharry — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:56:19 GMT

Re: Powershell...

No, I'm afraid not yet. We've recently started collecting our thoughts on what Powershell commandlets for TFS might look like. We are thinking maybe we can get something either in the next Power Tools release or the one after. No commitment at this point just hopes :)

Brian

Team Foundation ServerのPower Tool

寝ても覚めても.NET（？） — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:18:41 GMT

早くもTFS2008のPower Toolが公開されているみたいですね。 Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

Andrew — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:02:32 GMT

TThe build notification is bugged. I dont get any notifications if a build is queued or started only when it finishes. Also If a build finishes and you right click on the links at the bottom of the notification it throws up an error !!!

VSTS 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:05:55 GMT

I would like to write my own write up on this but the post from Brian Harry has already done that. Brian

VSTS 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools

Noticias externas — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:40:09 GMT

I would like to write my own write up on this but the post from Brian Harry has already done that. Brian

VSTS Links - 12/28/2007

Team System News — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:56:47 GMT

Brian Randell on New VSTS 2008 VPCs are available now. Manish Sharma on Part 4 - Customization VSTS Process...

TFS 2008 Power Tools: Open in Windows Explorer

MSF, VSTS and TFS tales... — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:40:37 GMT

TFS 2008 Power Tools were released some days ago (you can download the setup here). The package includes...

Première version des PowerTools pour Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio Team System — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:18:29 GMT

Brian Harry vient d’annoncer sur son blog la première version des Power Tools pour Visual Studio Team

TFS Power Tools for VS 2008

Mikael Söderström — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:13:20 GMT

If you haven´t noticed, Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools have been released

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

bharry — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:30:27 GMT

Jonas, I've been giving out previews to people to try out for me. If you are interested, send me an email at bharry@microsoft.com and I will send it to you.

Brian

Team Foundation Power Tools for TFS 2008 now available!

Noticias externas — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:57:42 GMT

More news from my post-Christmas inbox... the December 07 release of the Team Foundation Server Power

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

buckh — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:50:46 GMT

Andrew, what is the error message that you are seeing? Are you using the final (RTM) release of the server rather than a beta?

Buck

[TFS] Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools Released !!!

El Bruno — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:31:54 GMT

Buenas una vez migrados todos los entornos de desarrollo a Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, y con...

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

Steven Smith — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:22:25 GMT

Does the tray app have any sounds available? I'm in love with CCTray (for CruiseControl.NET), which lets me set up sounds for Fixed, Successful, Broken, and Still Broken. The build server at the office has speakers and lets the whole team know whenever the build fails (or succeeds). If this isn't there, are there plans for it?

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

bharry — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:13:03 GMT

No it doesn't have sound right now. It sounds like a great feature idea. I'll pass it on to Buck and see what he thinks.

Brian

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

buckh — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:02:21 GMT

We talked about having sounds due to CCTray's support, but we cut it for time. We'll be looking into it for a future release.

Thanks for the feedback.

Buck

Poznámky k TFS 2008 Power Tools

BonzBlog Michaela Juřka — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:35:35 GMT

Power Tools pro TFS jsou tradičně zejména věci, které se z časových důvodů nestihly dát do řádného vydání

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

StevenIBSI — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:39:59 GMT

Can the new MSSCCI Provider be used on a workstation with VS2008 Beta 2 installed or is VS2008 RTM required? A user who still had vs 2008 Beta 2 installed reported an installation error "TfsMsscciprovider.dll failed to register..."

Also can the new PowerTools be installed and used with TFS 2008 Beta 2 and VS2008 Beta 2? The installation completed without errors but when I looked at the Team menu in VS2008 Beta2 it still didn't have the "Process Editor" menu option.

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

StevenIBSI — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:46:45 GMT

Ahh the process editor is now at the top of the Tools menu....

"Making it more discoverable by moving it to the VS Tools menu"

I guess its only more discoverable if you didn't know where it used to be :)

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

bharry — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:01:05 GMT

I believe the new MSSCCI provider requires the released version of Team Explorer. I don't believe it will work with Beta 2.

I haven't tried the Power Tools with VS Beta 2 but I'd be surprised if it worked.

Brian

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

StevenIBSI — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:18:53 GMT

When I have the Build Notification Trap app running I am not able to shut down windows xp. After I exit Build Notification Trap app I am able to shut down again. anyone else getting that? I am on XP Pro against a TFS 2008 Beta 2 server.

Also I only get the toast occasionally although the build status seems correct always.

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

buckh — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:33:38 GMT

Steven, we found an issue like that with Vista and fixed it before shipping it in the Dec. 2007 power tool release. Does this happen with the exe from that release?

Buck

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

Tomas Scott — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:57:38 GMT

How does the Template work??

We have made a Custom Control that reads the option list (ALLOWEDVALUES) from a database since we have a lot of projects (over 20) and some fields are custom to each of them. We now tried to use the Template functionality to get default values, but it does not work for our Custom Control. The custom control is a simple ComboBox with string values, so it is just the same as the built-in, but the source of the data is different. When using the Template Editor, everything seems fine, but the data is not stored in the Template file (the xml file). When adding an xml "record" to this file to try to see if it is the editor or the "saving" that does not work it seems like neither of them does. How can we get information about how to solve this??

Thanks in advance!

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

bharry — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:37:05 GMT

The Process Template Editor does not currently support custom controls. You have to edit the XML by hand. We are hoping to have an update for the Process Template Editor that does next month.

However, the support for custom controls won't help you with rules. The rules should be applied on the fields, not the forms and if you are storing your data elsewhere, I don't see how that will help you. The ALLOWEDVALUES rule isn't extensible for you to tell it where to find the data.

I'm not sure I'm answering your question, but I'm not 100% sure what it is. It it is "How do I use the Process Template Editor to add a custom control to a work item form?", then the answer is you can't today but I hope you will be able to in March. If it is something else, then I'm afraid I didn't understand it.

Brian

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

Ananda — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:17:34 GMT

If you add the path to the installed power tools folder to your path environment variable, you can integrate the commands into windows explorer using this reg file:

BEGIN FILE-->

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TFS_Rollback...]

@="TFS Rollback..."

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TFS_Rollback...\command]

@="c:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe /k \"cd %1 && tfpt rollback && pause\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TFS_Tree_Clean]

@="TFS Tree Clean"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TFS_Tree_Clean\command]

@="C:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe /k \"cd %1 && tfpt treeclean -delete && pause\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TFS_Tree_Clean_(list_only)]

@="TFS Tree Clean (list only)"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TFS_Tree_Clean_(list_only)\command]

@="C:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe /k \"cd %1 && tfpt treeclean && pause\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TFS_Undo_Unchanged_Files]

@="TFS Undo Unchanged Files"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\TFS_Undo_Unchanged_Files\command]

@="C:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe /k \"cd %1 && tfpt uu && pause\""

<--(END FILE)

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

Sten-Åke Werner — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:53:11 GMT

In the SDK documents (included in the TFS Power Tools installation) a zip-file with solutions for the custom control examples is mentioned but I can’t find it. Missing or am I missing something?

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

Hakan Eskici — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:10:04 GMT

Sten-Åke,

I think you're referring to the SDK for enabling work item custom controls in Team System Web Access (TSWA).

That SDK is not included in the TFS Power Tools release, it's actually in TSWA 2008 download:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c568fba9-3a62-4781-83c6-fdfe79750207&displaylang=en

Once you install TSWA, the SDK docs as well as the code samples will be placed in the "SDK" directory under Team System Web Access 2008 installation folder.

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

John Ciliberti — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:14:55 GMT

These power tools look great.

The big design flaw of TFS is the limitation in the number of Team Projects you can create. This limitation is aggravated by the number and complexity of work item types in your process template.

After I did a bit of snooping I have noticed that if I create a work item type in TFS, additional columns are added to the database.

When I use the Destroy Work Item Type feature from the Power Tools, will the columns be deleted as well as the data?

re: December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

bharry — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:11:04 GMT

I can't remember if the columns go away when you delete the work item type or not. I know there is a way to delete the excess columns, I just can't remember whether it is an explicit step or automatic.

Brian