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New VSS Converter on the way

TFS Migration Blog — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:18:06 GMT

It's been a while since I've blogged here, but that doesn't mean we haven't been busy in the migration

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Mark Sowul — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:21:29 GMT

Wow, mighty impressive list for a service pack, especially since it's only been a few months.

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

David Russell — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:05:01 GMT

Any chance we can get more source control actions to appear in the Edit pane's context menu? Only 'Annotate' is shown in this menu atm.

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Klaus Enevoldsen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:56:21 GMT

Wow, that is amazing! Great job! I'm looking forward to seeing it in action. A new CTP of Rosario would be great too... :-)

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

jus — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:34:05 GMT

Wow, great job!

Quick question: Installing TFS on a domain controller is still not supported with SP1? If not, will this be possible in Rosario?

Ausblick auf TFS 2008 SP1

Jürgen Gutsch — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:30:57 GMT

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

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

davidacoder — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:24:15 GMT

All sounds really excellent.

I just have a small point: Any chance to make the Add Files dialog pick up the platform shell style? I.e. on Vista have an add file dialog that looks like the "normal" Vista add file dialog, including the Links, Search etc?

Preview du Service Pack 1 de TFS 2008

Kangoo's Blog — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:14:54 GMT

Les annonces autour de Team System vont bon train en ce moment ! Après l'annonce des nouveaux power tools

Preview du Service Pack 1 de TFS 2008

Kangoo's Blog — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:15:42 GMT

Les annonces autour de Team System vont bon train en ce moment ! Après l'annonce des nouveaux power tools

Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Maor David — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:19:25 GMT

Brian Harry just posted about the many new impressive features and changes coming out in TFS 2008 service

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Pr0fess0rX — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:44:21 GMT

I think still somethings missing

1- Delete Workitmes: sometimes we create worktime by mistake and we want to delete it and this is unavailable

2- Undo Pending Check-out for another user from gui it's available from the command tf.exe why don't you add it to the gui

thank you

Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1

Luis Fraile — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:12:10 GMT

Pues si, parece que ya se acerca, por ahora, Brian Harry ha publicado las mejoras/arreglos, que traerá

Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1

Luis Fraile — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:12:20 GMT

Pues si, parece que ya se acerca, por ahora, Brian Harry ha publicado las mejoras/arreglos, que traerá

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

ramonduraes — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:38:20 GMT

Hi Brian,

News very good!

I would like to see the project a possibility

to include any description of workitem.

Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1 Imminent

Willy-Peter Schaub's Cave of Chamomile Simplicity — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:55:41 GMT

Read all about it on Barry's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/04/28/team-foundation

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Steve Porter — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:48:14 GMT

Wow, that's pretty amazing for a service pack. Good Job!

Ta.

Steve Porter

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dstanley — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:53:35 GMT

In reference to the "# of projects per sever" issues, are these server side or client side changes? I am just wondering if people using 2005 Team Explorer to connect to 2008 TFS will see these improvements?

【ブログ記事紹介】Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 について

長沢智治のライフサイクルブログ — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:51:13 GMT

こんにちは。すべに GW の休暇に入られている方もいらっしゃると思います（私はカレンダー通りの予定です）。さて、先日日本語化をお伝えした Brian Harry のブログに Team Foundation

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Jonathan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:45:14 GMT

Sounds good, glad to see some move on 2008 as that makes it a bit easier for the future.

"Drag & Drop - We've added the ability to drag files/folders from Windows Explorer (and other file drop sources) into the Source Control Explorer to add them. This ties in well with the new Add to Source Control experience"

I drag and drop already ? This functionality is already in TFS ?

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Paul Lemke — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:31:23 GMT

I'd love to see a feature that allows a "baseless" merge through the GUI and not via the command line. I have some in-experienced users who can't seem to figure out why they can't merge two unrelated branches.

TFS Send Mail for Team Explorer

Teams WIT Tools — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:06:29 GMT

As Brian Harry noted in his Blog , Orcas SP1 will have the ability to email a list of work items from

Visual Studio Team System Service Pack 1

Knowledge, Insight, Action; In that order! — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:54:51 GMT

You've heard me say it before and you'll hear me say it again: We ain't done! Take a look at Brian Harry's

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Tom Janssen — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:01:15 GMT

Great features - no doubt - but last SP1 was a nightmare for many of us. What improvements can I expect on the deployment side of SP1?

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:02:08 GMT

I know the last service pack (TFS 2005 SP1) was a real problem. The VS/VSTS service pack also had issues but the TFS one was much worse.

We are working very hard to make sure this service pack is much smoother. The TFS problems stemmed from it being the first time we had to support installing on an active server. We didn't get the procedure correct and that was aggravated by the fact that we were still changing the process well after the SP1 Beta. The result was that if people were using your server while you were upgrading it, the install likely failed and left you in a wedged state.

This time, we are well ahead of the game and think we have all of that worked out. Also, we are testing that scenario thoroughly. I am optimistic we will not have a repeat of that issue.

Another issue people had was extremely long install times (particularly for VS/VSTS). There were a few reasons for this (although I'm not an expert in the issues). First among them was the size of the service pack - it was very big. Second was the fact that it was all or nothing - you had to download the whole thing whether you needed it or not. There were also some performance problems in the patching process. The net was that we heard reports of some people experiencing installs of up to 10 hours.

We have done some work on these issues but I wish I could say that the SP1 would be small and quick to install. It's not. It's actually bigger than the last one. However, we have improved many things. For one, the SP is somewhat componentized and will only download patches for components you have installed. We also believe we have licked the performance issues. We have been running performance tests on it and are seeing install times in the neighborhood of 40 minutes, max. That's still not very fast but hopefully no one will experience multi-hour installs.

In the end all I can do is assure you we are working hard not to repeat the experience from last time. I really hope enough people will try to install the Beta and give us some good feedback to make sure we aren't missing anything.

Brian

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bharry — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:11:22 GMT

David, I believe we did add more source control operations to the right click menu. I don't have SP1 with me right now so I can't check. I'll have someone follow up.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:30:21 GMT

Klaus, we just shipped a new Rosario CTP a few weeks ago. Some people blogged about it but I did not. I wanted to wait until after the SP1 Beta wave of news before starting on some Rosario posts. You can find the CTP here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2008/04/11/april-rosario-ctp-now-available.aspx

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:32:29 GMT

jus, In SP1, TFS still cannot be installed on a domain controller.

I believe that is going to remain to be true in Rosario. We have a ton of setup work to do in Rosario and I don't think this will make it. If people really think that's something we must do, you can start a write-in campaign and if there is enough interest we'll look at doing it.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:33:45 GMT

davidacoder,

I don't believe we can pick up the platform style. These dialogs are not based on the platform ones due to the amount of customization we had to do. That said, I'll forward your request on to the team and see what they think.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:37:06 GMT

Pr0fess0rX,

Both of those features are in the TFS Power Tools. You can download the latest release and use them now!

http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/04/21/march-08-team-foundation-server-power-tools-released.aspx

The work item delete functionality is only available via the command line. Do a tfpt help to see the options.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:39:49 GMT

dstanley,

The improvements in # of projects per server are both client and server side. The reduction in amount of metadata sent to the client is a server side change. The improvement in server connect time is a client side change.

You can install either one or both - there's no protocol breaking change. Installing the server one is more important but installing both will give you a maximum improvement.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:41:48 GMT

Jonathan,

Hmm, I'm not sure is we are talking about the same thing. The Team Explorer support drag & drop for work item queries and Sharepoint documents in TFS 2008. However, the Source Control Explorer didn't support it. SP1 adds support for it.

Let me know if you are seeing something different.

Brian

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bharry — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:42:52 GMT

Paul,

Yes, we very much want to add baseless merge support to the GUI. That feature is coming in Rosario along with a host of other improvements for managing branching and merging.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Chad — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:32:14 GMT

Hi David,

Yes we did add a few more commands to the editor context menu. The menu now contains:

View History

Compare...

Annotate

-------

Check Out

-------

Check In

We're trying to add useful commands to the context menu without letting it grow out of control like File->Source Control.

-Chad

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Philip — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:09:53 GMT

Hi davidacoder,

The new Add dialog is not a standard open file dialog because of the amount of customziation we needed to do. For example, our file browser will filter out items already in version control so it's easy to see what's a candidate for addition. It might be possible to subclass an open file dialog to put all the extra controls around it, but probably not to get the filtering to work. This does result in a few minor limitations but we think that it's a good tradeoff, given how much easier it is now to add files and folders to source control.

Thanks

Philip

Team System Link Love - 9

.NETicated — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:31:52 GMT

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

В скором времени обещают Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1

Дмитрий Лапшин — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:24:35 GMT

Ждать Rosario нам еще долго - в лучшем случае до 2010 года. Между тем, есть ряд возможных улучшений как

Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1

Visual Studio Team System — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:43:42 GMT

Pues si amigos Brian Harry ha publicado en su blog hace algunos días atras un preview de las actualizaciónes

Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1

El blog de Francisco Fagas — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:02:41 GMT

Pues si amigos Brian Harry ha publicado en su blog hace algunos días atras un preview de las actualizaciónes

Where's the TfsBuild.proj file for this Definition?

Jason Prickett's Blog — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:58:05 GMT

In Team Build 2005, the "definition" of the build was the same as the TfsBuild.proj file. However,

Orcas SP1 TFS Build Changes

Aaron Hallberg — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:16:16 GMT

Brian Harry put up a post on the improvements that will be available in the upcoming Team Foundation

[TFS] Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1, lo que mas me gusto (que es todo)

El Bruno — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:54:48 GMT

Buenas, después de un par de días de vacaciones por fin veo que puedo escribir de algo que vimos en el

[TFS] Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1, lo que mas me gusto (que es todo)

El Bruno — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:54:53 GMT

Buenas, después de un par de días de vacaciones por fin veo que puedo escribir de algo que vimos en el

[TFS] Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1, lo que mas me gusto (que es todo)

El Bruno — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:54:58 GMT

Buenas, después de un par de días de vacaciones por fin veo que puedo escribir de algo que vimos en el

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

mikeycooper — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:04:09 GMT

"Reduce build log noise - Eliminate "noise" created by project to project references. Now you will only get 1 message about each."

Will this only reduce the BuildLog.txt output or will the number of build steps in the GUI output also be reduced (the GetTargetPath, GetNativeManifest, and GetCopyToOutputDirectoryItems target steps we're currently having to delete from the SQL backend to make the build logs usuable).

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

buckh — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:51:46 GMT

mikeycooper, this will only affect the number of build steps in the GUI output.

Buck

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buckh — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:52:50 GMT

mikeycooper, I should also state that the output in the GUI is driven by the build steps in the SQL, so it's ultimately due to the reduction in the number of build steps being stored.

Buck

[TFS] Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1, mails everywhere !!!

El Bruno — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:49:02 GMT

Buenas, ayer comenté un poco algunas de las novedades que más me gustaban para el Service Pack 1 de Team

[TFS] Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1, mails everywhere !!!

El Bruno — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:49:09 GMT

Buenas, ayer comenté un poco algunas de las novedades que más me gustaban para el Service Pack 1 de Team

[TFS] Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1, mails everywhere !!!

El Bruno — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:49:22 GMT

Buenas, ayer comenté un poco algunas de las novedades que más me gustaban para el Service Pack 1 de Team

VSTS Links - 05/07/2008

Team System News — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:56:24 GMT

MRod on External Team Foundation Server Tools. Brian Harry on Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview....

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justin — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:28:19 GMT

Our dev team is looking to switch version control systems and consolidate build and work item tracking under TFS. The one sticking point is that offline support and support for non-solution based projects (delphi) is poor. If the source control dialog in Team Explorer could report on which files in a project are out of date, modified, not in source control and missing locally, we could make the switch! I would think that more developers running SVN or other VCS would be more willing to run something like TFS if it functioned more like a traditional VCS. thanks.

VSTS 2008 Team Foundation Server (TFS) – SP1 Preview

The Liquidator — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:42:23 GMT

Brian Harry recently put up this blog post on what is coming in TFS 2008 SP1. There are some very useful

In vista anche l'SP1 di Team Foundation Server 2008

Around and About .NET World — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:56:05 GMT

In vista anche l'SP1 di Team Foundation Server 2008

VS2008 SP1 and .NET FX Beta Performance Improvements

(Semi) Official Developer Division Performance Engineering blog — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:59:02 GMT

You probably already saw Soma’s Blog on the Beta for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 . If you

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta

Community Blogs — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:21:26 GMT

Earlier today we shipped a public beta of our upcoming .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 releases.  These

Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 på vei

Geir Morten Allum's MS application platform hvor, hva, når, hvorfor, osv... — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:40:29 GMT

TFS 2008 SP1 er på vei og en beta er snart klar. Meste parten av det som legges i SP'en er forbedringer

VS2008 & .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta

Сергей Лутай — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:14:13 GMT

Вышла SP1 Beta для VS2008 и .Net Framework 3.5. Более детально можно прочитать в блоге Scott Guthrie

SP1 available for VS 2008, .NET 3.5, VS 2008 Express and TFS 2008

Leon Meijer's Weblog — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:48:27 GMT

SP1 available for VS 2008, .NET 3.5, VS 2008 Express and TFS 2008

Not just a service pack (VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1)

WF Community Bloggers — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:06:29 GMT

Microsoft has rolled out the beta of SP1 for .NET Framework version 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Now don't

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is live!

Jason Barile - Microsoft in Raleigh, NC — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:34:53 GMT

The Beta release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is live and available for download!  For users of Team

Visual Studio 2008/.NET Framework 3.5 서비스팩1 "베타”

bkchung's WebLog — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:31:51 GMT

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (정보) Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5

Team Foundation Server SP1 Beta now available

Abdelhamid's Blog — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:59:43 GMT

It has been a long time since I have posted on this blog; one of the reasons for the long absence was

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Esdee — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:58:18 GMT

One thing that irritates me most when undoing checkout is the lack of compare/diff right-click menu item support for the undo-checkout item.

i always want to make sure i'm undoing changes i don't really need....

any way this be addressed in some/future SPx?

Thanks

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:57:35 GMT

Where are you looking for the right click menu? I just looked in mine (admittedly SP1), I see a compare option in the solution explorer, the pending changes window and the source control explorer.

Brian

VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 SP1 Beta is now available

bharry's WebLog — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:18:29 GMT

Sorry for being a bit late to the game...  I should have posted yesterday but I've been drowning. 

VS 2008 / .NET 3.5 SP1 (Beta) - Awesome Mega Ultra Super Edition

James Manning's blog — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:18:56 GMT

Don't be fooled - despite being tagged Beta, this actually isn't a Google product.  I kid, I kid!

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Todd — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:26:05 GMT

Aside from 'when it's done,' is there a rough guesstimate as to the GA date of this Service pack?

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:01:49 GMT

Unfortunately, no. However, you can surmise from the fact that we are only taking feedback through the end of May that it's not too far away. I expect it will be sometime this summer.

Brian

Visual Studio 2008 和 .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta

Joycode@Ab110.com — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:50:46 GMT

【原文地址】 Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta 【原文发表日期】 Monday, May 12, 2008 9

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Cliff — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:56:01 GMT

One thing I would like to see is this:

If you use code generation and generate project files as well as code files there is no easy way to "add to source control" files that get added into the project file.

If files are added through the VS interface they get "added" to Source Control.

If files are added directly to the CSPROJ file but not through the interface just "appear" in the project folder but when you right-click them they do not have a "add to source control" option and there is no "add to source control" at the folder or project level either.

It's a real pain. I generate a DAL using Codesmith which may add 20 class files to various folders under a project. When I reload the project after the generation they are all sat there without a "+" next to them. I can't right-click and add them to SC either. I have to go into SC Browser and browse through every folder.

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

benryan — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:23:16 GMT

I agree that such a feature would be useful, and I am adding this to our list of features to consider for future releases of TFS.

The new 'Add Files to Source Control' feature in Source Control Explorer is much improved in SP1. You may be able to use it to select a high level folder and just apply the necessary filters to get the list of files to add that you are interested in.

Another workaround is to use the Power Tools' 'tfpt online' to have it search yout workspace and pend adds for new files.

Thanks,

Ben Ryan

TFS Version Control Client team

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Man — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:45:18 GMT

Is there a way, or a feature in TFS2008 that allows you to query the TFS backend data storage for a list of latest resources/assets that were modified since 1. a given date, 2. a label name was applied, 3. the date of a specified changeset number?

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Man — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:59:38 GMT

One of the beautiful things w/ CI is that a build can be fired automatically whenever a check-in event has occured. However, this build will only retrieve the new and modified resources from TFS to carry its task. This works for the most part. However, is there a way to get a list of deleted resources since the last successful build? Thanks.

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

buckh — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:17:56 GMT

Man, there's no simple query that you can run to get that information.

What problem are you trying to solve?

Buck

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

buckh — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:19:22 GMT

Man, my comment applies to the CI question you had regarding items deleted since the last build.

As far as your first question goes, you could use the history command (tf history).

Buck

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:15:19 GMT

The best way to get both of these is with the Folder Compare functionality. You can use tf diff on the command-line or select the folder in the Source Control Explorer and choose Compare. In both cases, you can specify the two versions to compare (using change set, label, etc). It will show you files add, deleted and changed.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Man — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:05:35 GMT

Thanks Buck and Brian for your suggestions. I apolgize for not posting earlier one additional criteria. Is it possible to do this programatically?

Ideally, I'd like to be able to have my CI build detect which file(s) were deleted since the last successful build and purge the file(s) from a designated location.

Thanks.

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:52:59 GMT

The only two ways I can think of would be to do a QueryItems/QueryLabel/Etc at the two versions and compare the file lists yourself or to use the command line and parse the output.

Brian

Quelques informations sur Visual Studio Team System 2008 SP1 beta

Visual Studio Team System — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:05:06 GMT

Le Service Pack 1 de Visual Studio 2008 est actuellement en beta et en anglais. Il sera disponible prochainement

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Alin Dumitrescu — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:18:27 GMT

Are there any features in the SP1 that makes database projects deployments more streamlined? The way it is right now, the scripts created during build cannot be applied on any other database other then the one used during the build.

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Alin Dumitrescu — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:18:32 GMT

Are there any features in the SP1 that make database projects deployments more streamlined? The way it is right now, the scripts created during build cannot be applied on any other database other then the one used during the build.

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

gertd — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:30:02 GMT

SP1 will not change the way database project generate deployment scripts. The build engine is based on a difference based build engine, that runs at build time. This is why we are generating the checks inside teh script to make sure you do not coinsidently deploy the escript to the wrong target database and damage something.

The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR release, which currently is in CTP, changes this by separating out build and deployment in such a way that you can deploy the output of build multiple times.

-GertD

http://blogs.msdn.com/gertd

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta

Readed By Wrocław NUG members — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:24:56 GMT

Earlier today we shipped a public beta of our upcoming .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 releases. These servicing

Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 プレビュー

bharry's WebLog — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:32:14 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

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Jeff Cutsinger — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:57:53 GMT

Any plans for edit-merge-commit?

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Drew — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:20:20 GMT

Definitely appreciate the enhanced word integration and the drag and drop file Explorer.

VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 SP1 Beta の公開を開始

bharry's WebLog — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:37:07 GMT

少し遅れてしまい申し訳ありません。昨日のうちに投稿するはずだったのですが、ゲームにはまってしまいまして...。既にご存知かと思いますが、2008 SP1 Beta をリリースしました。ぜひお試しいただき、フィードバックをお寄せくださいますようよろしくお願いいたします。TFS

[TFS] Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1, mails everywhere !!!

El Bruno — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:57:00 GMT

Buenas, ayer comenté un poco algunas de las novedades que más me gustaban para el Service Pack 1 de...

[TFS] Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1, lo que mas me gusto (todo)

El Bruno — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:57:58 GMT

Buenas, después de un par de días de vacaciones por fin veo que puedo escribir de algo que vimos en...

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 TFS Features im Überblick

Christian Binder's Weblog — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:11:27 GMT

Mit VS SP1 gibt es auch neue TFS Features, hauptsächlich im Version Control Bereich, z.B Drag&Drop

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Kevin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:07:34 GMT

Can I use the new VSS Converter if I only want to convert VSS 6.0 to TFS 2005? The old one has so many bugs and I want to use the new version, but we are not ready to go with Studio 2008 just yet.

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:08:53 GMT

Yes, the new converter should work against a TFS 2005 server. You will, however, need to install Team Explorer 2008 on the machine you are running the converter on.

Brian

Änderungen am TFS des Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Thommy Mewes — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:26:42 GMT

Brian hat ein paar der Neuerungen und Änderungen zusammengetragen, die mit dem Service Pack 1 für Visual Studio 2008 ausgeliefert werden. U.a. finden sich dort so nette Kleinigkeiten wie die Unterstützung für den SQL Server 2008 und

Änderungen im Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Thommy Mewes — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:38:03 GMT

Änderungen im Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Thommy Mewes — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:24:45 GMT

TFS 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 are RTM

Grant Holliday's blog — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:23:40 GMT

Following the release of SQL Server 2008 last week comes the final SP1 release of the following products

VS/VSTS/TFS/.NET 3.5 SP1 is shipping!

bharry's WebLog — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:31:21 GMT

Following on the release last week of SQLServer 2008 , we are proud to announce the release of Visual

Visual Studio 2008, .NET 2.5 and TFS 2008 Service Pack 1 released

Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Blog - by Neno Loje — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:31:27 GMT

Service Packs for VSTS/TFS do not only contain bug fixes, but quite a few nice new features as you can

SP1 laine on käes - VS2008, .Net 3.5, TFS

Iga lahendus tekitab uusi probleeme ehk alati võib leida veel ühe bugi. — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:20:50 GMT

Mõned hetked tagasi tuli välja pressiteade , et Microsoft on välja lasknud Visual Studio 2008 SP1, .Net

Service Pack 1 released this morning

Ozzie Rules Blogging — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:40:54 GMT

Practically old news now but: ·  Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 (133mb | TFS Installation Guide

Visual Studio 2008 / .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is RTM

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:09:16 GMT

Hey kids, moms, and dads...what time is? Service Pack 1 Day for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5! And

Random Thoughts on Visual Studio 2008 SP1

John Robbins' Blog — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:31:49 GMT

As the world knows, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is out so start your download engines. I've installed it on

Mehr zu VS 2008 & .NET 3.5 SP1

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Nachdem meine Ankündigung gestern eher spartanisch ausgefallen ist, möchte ich heute noch ein paar Links

[Info] Visual Studio 2008 SP 1 リリース

松崎剛ブログ (Tsuyoshi Matsuzaki Blog) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:43:51 GMT

こんにちは。 Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Service Pack 1), および .NET Framework 3.5　SP1 がリリースされました。 http://www.microsoft.com/japan/msdn/vstudio/downloads/sp/vs2008/sp1/

.NET 3.5 SP1, VS/VSTS 2008 SP1 og TFS 2008 SP1 er frigivet

Martin Pamdeth's blog om Microsofts Application Lifecycle Management værktøjer — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:46:06 GMT

Nu er sommerferien overstået for mit vedkommende ... så er det jo rart at komme tilbage, netop som vi

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bryantb — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:13:33 GMT

Where can I configure the 'Send Selection in Mail' feature? We use Lotus Notes so creating an email in Outlook isn't very helpful.

Performance improvements in Service Pack 1 for VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5

(Semi) Official Developer Division Performance Engineering blog — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:21:06 GMT

We just announced the release of Service Pack 1 for VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 . A major push for this release

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Adrian Lewis — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:25:50 GMT

I just installed TFS 2008 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1, but I still don't see the features such as Checkin Date/Time column, Local Path as link, Ribbon support in Excel ... did these not make it into the final release?

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:27:48 GMT

They definitely made the release. Something else must be wrong. It sounds like somehow Team Explorer did not get updated on your system. Start by looking in the VS about box and make sure is says VS was updated. If that looks like it was, then we'll have to start looking around for TFS assemblies and see if some of them did not get updated.

Brian

TFS 2008 SP1 Released

Hakan Eskici — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:43:28 GMT

Few days ago, Brian Harry announced the availability of Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1 along

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Ted. — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:45:55 GMT

Experiencing sporadic connection failures when getting latest, checking in/out, merging. TFS 2008 SP1 is the first release (i've been through them all) I have ever had these sporadic connection failures in, they are pretty rare (only 3 or 4 times in an office of 25 users in the past few days) but they happen, and when they do, as soon as you retry the action it succeeds. So some sort of locking I would guess is occurring that never did before.

VSTS/TFS2008 Service Pack 1 - Nugget #3 (Source Explorer Enhancements)

Willy-Peter Schaub's Cave of Chamomile Simplicity — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:03:33 GMT

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/08/15/vsts-tfs2008-service-pack-1-nugget-2-office

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Adrian Lewis — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:20:23 GMT

OK I understand - but it's a little irritating! I did a fresh install of Team Suite, and the first thing it says is "now go and check for updates" so I did, and I installed SP1. THEN I actually ran VS, and realised that Team Explorer is not included (why not?!), and so I had to download it and install it, and of course it hadn't been patched to SP1. So having spent a full day yesterday downloading and installing SP1, I just spent another two hours re-installing it just to patch Team Explorer!

Can I suggest that someone somewhere who may be reading this addresses this situation? Firstly, it seems very strange that Team Suite doesn't include Team Explorer by default. Secondly, if there's a good reason that it doesn't, then at least the download could be ready-patched for SP1? Or is there maybe a way to connect to TFS and download Team Explorer from your local TFS Server, ready patched? Without having to load the installation media into the server?

Ade

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:57:33 GMT

Adrian, I understand. The good news is that for our next release Team Explorer is already integrated into all of the Team Edition client products. The reason it is not now is that when TFS first shipped (in early 2006), it shipped about 3-4 months after the Team Edition client products did - so we couldn't integrate the setups. We wanted to do it in TFS 2008 but that was a short product cycle release and our setup team was busy improving the server setup. For our next release, it has been addressed.

I'll look into whether or not there's any way to make it easier in the interim.

Thanks for your feedback,

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:59:20 GMT

Ted, this is the first I've heard of that. Please send me email at bharry@microsoft.com so that I can have someone contact you to understand what might be causing this.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

davidacoder — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:08:44 GMT

I know this is probably not going to happen, but still:

Any chance that you can release an out of band iso for the VS 2008 SP1 client products, with Team Explorer integrated?

In general, VS setup experience declines over time. Even at RTM it was kind of cumbersome to have two installs (VS and Team Explorer), but now we reached the point again where it is getting completly out of hand: First, VS, then Team Explorer, then SP1, then Database Edition GDR (well, soon, I guess). That takes up soooo much time. I think you really should move to a model where you provide always up to date slipstreamed media on MSDN. Devs always reinstall stuff, and that would provide so much relieve in terms of time required.

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:53:06 GMT

Yeah, we've seen this phenomenon for the last couple of releases - where over time more and more components have to be installed. We would like to do something about it.

I don't think a slipstreamed VS with Team Explorer integrated can really happen. In TFS 2008 SP we enabled slipstreaming of the server and are working on getting a "pre-slipstreamed" copy available for download.

The VS team is currently testing slipstreaming of the VS install. If it works, they will publish how to do it. I don't know that they will upload a pre-slipstreamed version, but at least you could slipstream it yourself once and then share that around your org. If it happens I'll write about it.

Brian

Migrating from SourceSafe to Team Foundation Server

Shai Raiten — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:30:18 GMT

Migrating from SourceSafe to Team Foundation Server Looking to migrate your existing Visual Source Safe

Les SP1 de Visual Studio 2008 sont disponibles

Visual Studio Team System — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:48:57 GMT

Au cours du mois d'août, nous avons annoncé la sortie du SP1 des éditions clientes de Visual Studio,

When I Met SP1 for Visual Studio & TFS 2008

Shai Raiten — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:43:19 GMT

When I Met SP1 for Visual Studio & TFS 2008 If you didn’t know about VS2008 SP1 read bharry's

Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Bug fixes

bharry's WebLog — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:43:45 GMT

I promised I'd publish the list of Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 bug fixes and here they are. 

Team Explorer Policy checking plugin

SumanB — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:07:37 GMT

Hoping that you can direct me to the right person. In our organization we have developed a plugin for TFS(TFS2005 & VSTS 2005 and VSTS 2008) to automatically merge code to the parent branch whenever a check-in happens in the child branch in the source code. We are facing a few problems on this.

1. After making the proper registry entries, users still need to go to <Team Project><Right-click>->Team Project settings->Source Control->Check-in Policy tab & click Add to get a list of available Check-in policies and add the ones we have developed. Now I am a TFS Administrator and I have visibility to the Souce Control menu item but for others who are not TFS admin, they see the Source Control menu item disabled. Obviously I cannot make everybody a TFS admin to make the plugin work ? What am I doing wrong ? Is there an automated step, so while the MSI installer installs the plugin, it directly adds the plugin into the check-in policies list ?

2. We have VS2005 and VS2008 installed in our machines. The VS2005(used VS2005 SDK APIs - inherited from PolicyBase class as suggested in the documentations) plugin does not load in VS2008. If we use VS2008 SDK APIs, that plugin loads in VS2008. So do we deploy 2 versions of the same plugin, one for VS2005 and 1 for VS2008 ?

We are stuck with both this issues. Any help will be appreciated.

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:13:44 GMT

1) I'm not sure what you are seeing here. Checkin policies need to be installed on every client but they only need to be configured in the Team Project Settings -> Source Control -> Check-in Policies one time by the project administrator and they apply to everyone who uses the project. You do have to do it once for every project that you want the checkin policy to apply to but still only one time for each.

2) Yes, unfortunately you will have to deploy 2 versions to the clients - one build against the 2005 object model and one against the 2008 object model.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

SumanB — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:02:23 GMT

Thanks Brian.

I have another issue. I ported our TFS 2005 to another hardware - with SQL 2005/WSS 2 w/ SP3 & TFS 2005, all in one machine. Then

Upgraded to TFS 2008 - Team portals still working

Installed VS 2008

Upgraded the DB to SQL 2008

Applied TFS SP1 - Team portals were not upgraded to WSS 3.0 as suggested in different posts. And I have this error of "Web Part Error: A Web Part or Web Form Control on this Web Part Page cannot be displayed or imported because it is not registered on this site as safe." - I know this was an issue with .NET Fx 3.5 with SP1, but I thought TFS 2008 SP1 is supposed to fix it. Whats the worksaround ?

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:54:27 GMT

The TFS SP1 doesn’t fix WSS2’s issue – you need to uninstall 3.5 SP1 or get the 3.5 SP1 HotFix (not sure that’s available yet).

Also, there is no TFS process that will update WSS2 to WSS3 – you’ll need to do that. Finally, if VS is on the box, it needs to have the client VS 2008 SP1 as well.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

SumanB — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:48:25 GMT

Thanks Brian for the clarification. Would you know if there is an ETA for the HotFix ?

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:31:50 GMT

I'm told that it's been signed off on and is in the process of being posted. It should be available any day.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Marcus Ontiveros — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:18:34 GMT

Hi,

I have installed the TFS sp1 RTM from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9E40A5B6-DA41-43A2-A06D-3CEE196BFE3D&displaylang=en

I haven't noticed any changes to the environment. I have tried to use one of the features noted in the above dialog (drag and drop from WE), but I am not able to. The install went through with no problems and the add remove programs on the app tier shows the SP1 ENU for tfs 2008.

Am I missing something?

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:17:25 GMT

You will also need to install VS 2008 SP1 on your client. I suspect missing that is the problem.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 support projects of VStudio 2005?

Mary Torigoe — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:08:38 GMT

Hi, I´m new in TFS. Is Team Foundation Server 2008 supports the projects developted in VStudio 2005?

Tks in advance.

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 support projects of VStudio 2005?

Mary Torigoe — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:23:35 GMT

Continue...

We have projects in VS2005 without Team Foundation, so we need to know if Team Foundation Server 2008 can supports the VS2005 projects ?

Also if possible to support the project in VS2000?

Again, tks in the advance.

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

SumanB — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:12:53 GMT

Hi Brian...

Would you know if the 3.5 SP1 HotFix for WSS 2.0 is available now or the link to the download ? I searched but could not get anything.

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:31:34 GMT

Mary, yes TFS can store projects for any version of VS. If you use VS2005, you will probably want to install Team Explorer 2005 to access it. If you use and older version of VS, you will want to install Team Explorer 2008 and the latest download of the TFS MSSCCI provider.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Ed Psyk - MSFT — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:51:06 GMT

Suman, the 3.5 SP1 fix will be in a GDR being worked on now. I believe it will be released by the end of December.

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

rbirkby — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:55:19 GMT

VSS Converter 2008 SP1 problems:

1) Our 10-year old database looses the first 9.5 year of history as we did a refactoring (lots of moves) half a year ago.

2) When files are shared (linked) at different times, only the original file contains the full history. The history of the shared versions begin at the point they were linked. This is contrary to the historical view in VSS. What should happen is that as long as the parent folder hierarchy exists, the shared file creation epoc should be as close to the original file creation as possible, not fixed to link time. There is no analogy to links in TFS, therefore it's pointless to begin historical records at a VSS link time.

3) I once got strange '(Committed by ...)' comments. All other migration attempts this 'Committed by' comment wasn't created and the commit user was marked properly as the commit user in TFS.

4) A way to turn off Incremental update would be useful - currently, replying with 'N' when asked whether to perform an Incremental update just exits the converter.

5) A better way to default users that have no relevant domain account (ie users that left the company a decade ago) would be useful. It would be nice for TFS to support a non-domain, readonly, historical username for this purpose.

Are you re-investing in VSS Converter for Rosario?

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Pei — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:48:04 GMT

Rbirkby,

Thank you for your feedback. Here are answers to some of your questions:

2) You are right about 'share'. Since TFs doesn't have a corresponding action to 'Share', we broadcast 'edit' to all linked files to simulate it. This way, at least the file contents are preserved and projects are buildable. However, as you mentioned the previous history of linked files are lost.

3) VSSConverter was not able to checkin the change using the original committer. This may caused by permission settings for the user. In this case, VSSConverter will use runner as the changeset committer and pend the original VSS comitter name in the changeset comments.

4) VSSConverter uses checkin comment of the root folder to store mapping information for a migration session. VSSConverter believes user runs the same migration session again if it detects the mapping information is unchanged. That's why it prompt you for incremental update to avoid duplicated migration.

5) You are right about this. In fact, TFS will create a readonly internal user for logging purpose only. But this occurs only when there are no existing domain or tfs users with the same name.

You can post here(http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsgeneral/threads/) if you have further questions.

Thanks,

Pei

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

BryanK — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:13:14 GMT

Using TFS2008 SP1, is there any way to specify a checkin comment when using the tf branch /checkin option?

If I use tf branch without /checkin and then tf checkin, I can specify a comment, but I don't want to do that because when using /checkin I can create a branch in 20 seconds instead of 10 minutes without it.

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:08:44 GMT

You can use /comment to specifiy a comment with tf branch /checkin.

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

BryanK — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:15:03 GMT

That's what I thought too, but when I try to use it, I get the error "Unrecognized command option 'comment'.".

Please help me find the new API

philosophil — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:43:40 GMT

You mention, "Download files to a stream" API. However after installing SP1, I don't see any new API related to this. I still only see DownloadFile.

The DLL version is 9.0.30729.1 The SDK documentation on the web doesn't seem to indicate some other method for the PendingChange class either.

Can you please point me toward some documentation to get streamed files?

Thanks

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:08:22 GMT

It's the method:

public Stream DownloadFile()

on class

Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.Item

Brian

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

Rajee — Sat, 09 May 2009 08:05:23 GMT

After Installing the TFS 2008 SP1:

Sharepoint server is down and i got this error

1. Background synchronization with Active Directory was aborted before completion. Synchronization will restart when the Team Foundation Server restarts.

2. One or more errors occurred when Team Foundation Server attempted to synchronize with the following Active Directory identity: Contributors. Number of errors that occurred:

re: Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview

bharry — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:12:20 GMT

Rajee, that's not really enough for me to figure out what could be wrong. Is there more info in the event log? I'd recommend running the TFS Best Practices Analyzer (BPA). You'll find the latest version in the Oct 2008 version of the TFS Power Tools.

Brian