March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

March 2008 TFS Power Tools now available

Jeff Beehler's Blog — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:35:55 GMT

Check out Brian Harry’s post on the latest release of the increasingly popular (and increasingly valuable),

March 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Jason Barile - Microsoft in Raleigh, NC — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:25:32 GMT

Brian Harry has blogged all the details , so I won't repeat them all here.  In particular, I know

[TFS] TFS PowerTools de Marzo disponible para descarga

El Bruno — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:37:32 GMT

Buenas, cómo bien nos comentaban la semana pasada en el MVP Summit en Seattle, ya está disponible para

[TFS] TFS PowerTools de Marzo disponible para descarga

El Bruno — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:37:55 GMT

Buenas, cómo bien nos comentaban la semana pasada en el MVP Summit en Seattle, ya está disponible para

[TFS] TFS PowerTools de Marzo disponible para descarga

El Bruno — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:40:14 GMT

Buenas, cómo bien nos comentaban la semana pasada en el MVP Summit en Seattle, ya está disponible para

March 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Team System News — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:13:26 GMT

Brian Harry has just announced that the March 2008 Team Foundation Power Tools have been released: We've...

March 2008 TFS Power Tools now available

Maor David — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:17:44 GMT

Brian Harry has just announced that the March 2008 Team Foundation Power Tools have been released : We've

Rilasciati i nuovi Power Tool per TFS... e questa volta sono VERAMENTE uno spettacolo!!!

Normal people bore me! — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:30:31 GMT

Rilasciati i nuovi Power Tool per TFS... e questa volta sono VERAMENTE uno spettacolo!!!

Team Foundation Server Power Tools - March 2008

Willy-Peter Schaub's Cave of Chamomile Simplicity — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:38:57 GMT

The new release of the power tools is finally release and alive as per Brian's post . Download it

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

James — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:38:05 GMT

Hi, I only installed the December release a couple of days ago! How should I go about installing this version? Do I need to uninstall the previous version before running this MSI?

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

bharry — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:10:47 GMT

Yes, just uninstall the December release (using Add/Remove Programs) and install the March release. That's what I did on my machine - it was pretty straight forward.

Brian

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Mark Sowul — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:18:34 GMT

"Support for 64-bit Sharepoint farms - Due to an unfortunate oversight in TFS 2008, our WSS installation tool does not support 64-bit Sharepoint. We are rectifying this oversight with this new release of the TFS Power Tools."

So what does this mean for 64-bit compatibility? Now is it just the TFS web services that need to go on a 32-bit machine?

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

bharry — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:26:03 GMT

I believe so, yes. The Application Tier Web Services must still run on a 32-bit OS. The database components and, now with the new Power Tools release, the Sharepoint components can run on a 64-bit OS. We'll be addressing this issue with the AT web services in our next release.

Brian

{TFS.2008} Team Foundation Power Tools y mas

Fer Antivero — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:36:02 GMT

Recién salido del horno y colgado en la web de microsoft, nos encontramos con Team Foundation Power Tools y con un plus...

Nová edice TFS Power Tools se zajímavými novinkami

BonzBlog Michaela Juřka — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:27:17 GMT

Brian Harry na svém blogu uveřejnil informace o nové edici Power Tools pro TFS, která je ke stažení zde

VSTS Resources

Ahmed Salijee — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:48:10 GMT

At the VSTS event I promised to post the various links to resources. Documents etc ALM Assessment VSTS

Nouvelle version des PowerTools Team Foundation Server

Visual Studio Team System — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:54:54 GMT

Les PowerTools de mars sont disponibles en téléchargement depuis quelques jours. Voici les liens. TFS

Process editor - Preview Form does not work with a custom control.

Bertrand Huard — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:56:55 GMT

Process editor allow to select custom controls installed you machine but the preview button does not work.

Message that "Form must contain at least on control" appears

Putting an X on the preview form would have been a better implementation.

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

bharry — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:55:33 GMT

Thank you for the feedback. I'll ask someone to look into it.

Brian

Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1

bharry's WebLog — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:20:40 GMT

The stream of new stuff coming out for VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 continues! - see my recent post on an update

Ausblick auf TFS 2008 SP1

Jürgen Gutsch — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:15:42 GMT

Brian Harry hat einen interessanten Ausblick auf das Service Pack 1 des TFS 2008 veröffentlicht: Team

Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

The Liquidator — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:16:12 GMT

I love the power tools available for VS 2008 TFS - they add an incredible number of features and functions

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Jim Horn — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:22 GMT

Very cool stuff. I've been awaiting the addition of the server manager client since the first screenshots you posted.

Coolness aside, I do seem to be having a problem with the latest release. My "Find in Source Control" windows are not working properly. The status and wildcard dialogs are permanently fixed with a height of 43 pixels. I've deleted the UISettings.Config file in the TFS cache directory to no avail. When the dialogs are displayed, they flash to full height and then shrink. The resizer handle will only let me change the width. I'm using 64 bit Vista with dual monitors. The prior version worked as expected. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Mark Sowul — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:01:54 GMT

Try double-clicking the title bars; it's a long shot, but I had a similar issue with some kind of dialog in VS, which was caused because it was in an incorrect pseudo-maximized state (maximized so you couldn't resize it, but not really maximized and taking up the whole screen). If you're on Vista you will notice the title bar and taskbar are opaque in this situation.

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Mark Sowul — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:02:19 GMT

Ah, just saw that you can resize the width. Well, I've no idea then.

Team System Link Love - 9

.NETicated — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:33:01 GMT

Just checked the reports in FeedDemon, and I think it's only fair that if you haven't blogged

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Andrey — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:16:37 GMT

Brian, when can we expect TFSServerMonitor component ?

Thanks.

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

j77hua — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:22:00 GMT

Glad we have "delete global list" feature available now!

but where is the command (tfpt destroygl) located?

j77hua

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

bharry — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:32:14 GMT

Download and install the March Power Tools. You will find it under the Power Tools folder under Program Files.

Brian

Les Power Tools pour TFS 2008 : ce que vous avez peut-être raté

Kangoo's Blog — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:52:53 GMT

Annoncée il y a déjà quelques temps par Eric , d'après le post officiel de Brian Harry , cette nouvelle

Les Power Tools pour TFS 2008 : ce que vous avez peut-être raté

Kangoo's Blog — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:53:53 GMT

Annoncée il y a déjà quelques temps par Eric , d'après le post officiel de Brian Harry , cette nouvelle

bharry's WebLog : March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Dating — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:40:28 GMT

We've just released a new version of the TFS Power Tools.&#160; This new Power Tool release will work only with the VS/Team Explorer 2008 client (but against either a TFS 2005 or TFS 2008 server).&#160; If you haven't taken the time to upgrade

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

saritha poosa — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:32:19 GMT

Hi,

I got the following error, after installing power tools Package Load failure: package 'Microsoft.Teamfoundation.powerTools.Tfptpackage, Microsoft.Visualstudio.Teamfoundation.PowerTools, version=9.0.1.0, culture=neutral, publickeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' has failed to load properly. i tried this 'denenv /resetskippkgs' to re-enable package loading. but didnt help.

bharry's WebLog : March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Weddings — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:04:07 GMT

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

jmo1217 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:55:25 GMT

The 64-bit Extension installer is failing for me. Do I need to install the Power Tools on our SharePoint server?

2008 年 3 月版 Team Foundation Server Power Tools がリリースされました

bharry's WebLog — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:17:42 GMT

つい先ほど、新しいバージョンの TFS Power Tools がリリースされました。この Power Tools の新リリースは、VS/チームエクスプローラ 2008 クライアント (および TFS

Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 プレビュー

bharry's WebLog — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:31:05 GMT

VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 のための新機能が次々に登場しています ( TFS Power Tools の更新 (英語) に関する最近の記事をお読みください)。ここで、TFS 2008 SP1 の新機能についてお話しましょう。ベータ版のリリースも近づいています

[TFS] TFS PowerTools de Marzo disponible para descarga

El Bruno — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:01:24 GMT

Buenas, cómo bien nos comentaban la semana pasada en el MVP Summit en Seattle, ya está disponible para...

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Gerald Parish — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:34:40 GMT

I just tried to install the 64b version of the TFS extensions, and I get an error saying that "No templates for SharePoint extensions werer uploaded to the server running Windows SharePoint Services, stsadm.exe returned the following error -1" the only thing found in the log file is

"Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action _DE1E6A03_E64C_438D_B605_2008FF195BA1, location: C:\Program Files\Team Foundation Server 2008 Sharepoint Extensions x64 Power Tool\Tools\TfsConfigWss.exe, command: uploadtemplates

=== Logging stopped: 8/25/2008 12:27:58 ==="

We have a MOSS 2007 SP1 with Infrastructure update aplied.

Thought ?

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Bill Essary [MSFT] — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:01:22 GMT

Gerald,

That error message is telling you that the TfsConfigWss.exe custom action has failed to successfully run the SharePoint stsadm.exe command to upload TFS site templates. I can reproduce the problem on my 64-bit SharePoint machine when the SharePoint Central Administration application is not healthy. For me, the fix was to update the server farm credentials: stsadm.exe -o updatefarmcredentials -identitytype "NetworkService". That not only brought content back into the SharePoint Central Administration app (Start->Program Files->Administrative Tools->SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration), but it also allowed the 64-bit TFS WSS installation succeed since stsadm.exe was able to use the SharePoint admin features to upload site templates.

Bill

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Brian H. Madsen — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:24:17 GMT

Hi Brian,

sorry to hassle you with a somewhat similar problem as to what Gerald Parish had.

I get the same error returned from the installer, but my event log shows that "something" is attempting to log onto the SQL server as Anonymous Login:

i cleared the event log and ran the installer again and it's definitely the installer that's causing the error.

By on earth would it attempt to log on anonymously? i'm logged in as a domain user with local administrator access.

There's 4 errors in the event viewer for that.

I have a Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) MOSS Environment with two other Windows 2008 (64-bit) instances, one for sql server and one for reporting server.

the TFS application tier sits on a Windows 2003 32-bit (virtualised) server as there still isn't full 64-bit support.

Anyways, exactly the same error as Gerald. I tried your fix and update the farm credentials, but then everything MOSS related fell over as the NetworkService doesnt' have access to the SQL Server box. This is as i said a dual server setup.

Regards,

Brian H. Madsen

Microsoft MVP Visual Developer ASP.Net

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Aaron.Block — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:24:55 GMT

Hi Brian,

Could you e-mail me your entire event log at ablock[~at~]nospam.microsoft.com?

(where [~at~]=@ and "nospam." is removed)

Thanks,

--Aaron

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Brian H. Madsen — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:14:47 GMT

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for that (if i recall correctly your a PM for the TFS team?).

Will ship through the event log asap.

Many thanks,

Brian

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Brian H. Madsen — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:51:44 GMT

Hey Brian - it's Brian from above again.

I've had Aaron Block help me out for the last 2-3 weeks with this problem and he's been most helpful.

What i found out was that it is a failure to the stsadm command that makes it roll back the install - however, it actually installed the extensions for me.

the only things it didn't install was the templates and tfsredirect.aspx.

to get those files you just open up the "LAYOUTS" folder while installing - once tfsredirect.aspx has been dropped in there you take a copy and put it into another folder (the rollback will remove this).

to get the templates - well that's a different issue as you can't..but, somebody really nice out on the interweb has somehow managed to either convert the WSS 2.0 ones to WSS 3.0, or found them somewhere, and uploaded them to their blog. Now i cannot remember exactly where i found them, but i've uploaded them to my own blog as well.

Secondly, i had a couple of other failures - such as SP1 didn't install properly. Re-installed that and voila, things are now running.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/archive/2008/10/09/team-system-web-access-error-client-found-response-content-type-of-but-expected-text-xml-the-request-failed-with-an-empty-response.aspx

I had other problems as well which TSWA 9.1 + a re-install of SP1 fixed for me..

there's a link at the bottom of that post for the WSS 3.0 templates.

Just install them manually and it should be happy to go :)

thanks to Aaron Block and the guys from OZTFS.com (australian TFS mailing list) for their help in helping me to sort out my problems (well, with TFS that is).

p.s. sorry for the long comment

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

bharry — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:35:55 GMT

I'm glad you've been able to get everything working.

Brian

Error "Form must contain at least 1 control"

jorisp — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:51:28 GMT

I got the same error Bertrand had.

It seems the Process Editor does not support the wicc to use an absolute path to the DLL.

"..\..\..\..\..\..\..\..\Dir\To\Control.dll" works, but "C:\Dir\To\Control.dll" or even "\Dir\To\Control.dll" doesn't.

I consider this a (minor) bug in the Process Editor, although the workaround is simple enough.

Cheers,

Joris

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

bharry — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:40:08 GMT

Thanks for letting us know. We'll look into it.

Brian

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Stéphane — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:29:28 GMT

I have an issue when using Multi-value with the work Item Templates. The value of the Multi-value control won't save in the template.

Is there a work around or a way to modify the custom control to achieve compatibility?

Thanks

re: March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Hayder Casey (MSFT) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:30:56 GMT

Stéphane, the issue with WIT Template/Multi-Value control is that the Wit template only consider field changes when the control itself is focused. However the MVC is somewhat hacked and the control itself doesnt have the focus when the values is changed (rather the Drop down control has the focus).

Workaround is to capture a workitem that has the value that you need.

This is on my plate to fix the control on codeplex.