July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:43:31 GMT

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re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

Jonas — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:49:30 GMT

These new power tools are looking good as always but I would like to know if you have an update on the TFS Server Manager?

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

Dave — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:28:58 GMT

We have just created our own SCOM pack. Looking forward to this release and great work with the TFS Alerts!

Power Tools 2008 CTP Juillet

Noham Choulant — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:36:35 GMT

Bonjour à toutes et à tous Voila c'est annoncé la nouvelle version vient d'arriver. Si l'on ce souvient

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

bharry — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:40:12 GMT

No, there's not TFSServerManager update in this release. Is there something, in particular, you are looking for?

Brian

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

ramonduraes — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:26:01 GMT

I would like to see a simple way to configure all mail sent and references to use the links TSWA to view more info.

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

bharry — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:48:42 GMT

Get TFS 2008 SP1 - I believe we updated all the links to use TSWA if you have it (you just need to register it with your TFS server). The beta of SP1 is available now and the final release will be later this summer.

Brian

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

J Lee — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:03:19 GMT

Can't wait for the new power tools, especially the process editor bug fixes. The inability to use the minimumsize attribute in WiTs have been driving me nuts. :) A new feature that would be great is the ability to rename team projects and delete WiT fields without deleting all related Work Items....even though I know this will be difficult to implement. ;)

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

Sven Cipido — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:26:34 GMT

Great news. Especially the UI for subscribing to TFS events. I had already develop my first fast app for this. But it was a first version which needed some improvements. No need to develop it further now :-)

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

bharry — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:53:10 GMT

We didn't do a ton to the Process Template Editor this time but I confirmed that we fixed that bug. Here's a list of bugs we fixed in the PTE. I realize the titles are only slightly helpful :(

PTE: Support destroygl

PTE: Unable to use delete key in name or description field

Process Editor crashes VS on creating a new work item type if WIT file of that name exists

Process Editor: Opening a Process template with more than 3 deep folder structure corrupts the WSSTasks.xml

PTE: "Save As" is not working for WIT designer.

PTE: Deleting Iteration7 field from Dev10 WIT crashes VS

PTE: Exception when trying to save a process template using the Save As option

PTE: MQTask - Installer installs PTE DLLs in the GAC

PTE: Validation rule for custom attributes is limited

Grouping Conditional Clauses in Work Item Queries

Ed Blankenship — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:13:53 GMT

So, I came across something pretty interesting when I was making a work item query today that I've wondered

Management Pack for Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Girish's Blog — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:25:56 GMT

There is a Management Pack (MP) for TFS currently in beta. This is referred to in Brian Harry's blog

Upgrading Team Foundation Power Tools

Grant Holliday's blog — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:26:06 GMT

If you have a previous release of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Power Tools (TFS

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

Jesus Jimenez — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:10:38 GMT

Hi Brian,

That's cool, you're working hard to give us a lot of new and improved power tools. :D

Regarding to the TFS Alerts Power Tool (which I think it's a very cool power tool), Will it work against TFS 2005 or it's just for TFS 2008?

Best regards,

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

bharry — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:35:08 GMT

It will work against a TFS 2005 server but will require a VS 2008 client.

Brian

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

Jesus Jimenez — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:21:53 GMT

Thanks for the info, I'll be waiting to test them once they came out.

Jesus

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

pnjacket — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:48:37 GMT

One thing I think a good addition to the Power tools installation is adding power tools path to the PATH global variable. Typing the long path to execute it is really painful for occasional use of the command line tool.

I actually threw this at one of the forums before, but it did not seem to grab any attention. Maybe I put this on a wrong place. Having said this, can you tell me what the proper way is to request small feature request like this?

btw, the original request is posted on http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3160926&SiteID=1

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

bharry — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:27:38 GMT

I have forwarded your request to the developers. Thank you,

Brian

Ждем июльских TFS Power Tools

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TFS Power Tools (July) - A glimpse of what is coming!

Willy-Peter Schaub's Cave of Chamomile Simplicity — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:29:13 GMT

The new forthcoming TFS Power Tools will make their appearance in July. Have a look at Brian’s

July '08 Power Tools are available!

bharry's WebLog — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:44:44 GMT

You can download them here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00803636-1d16-4df1-8a3d-ef1ad4f4bbab&displaylang=en

Team Foundation Server July 2008 Power Tools Released

Team System News — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:12:45 GMT

I just found out the Team Foundation Server July 2008 Power Tools have been released.   For...

お知らせ | TFS 2008 Power Tools - July 2008

長沢智治のライフサイクルブログ — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:11:31 GMT

こんにちは。Team Foundation Server 2008 の Power Tools の最新版が公開されました。 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00803636-1d16-4df1-8a3d-ef1ad4f4bbab&DisplayLang=en

July 2008 release of the power tools for TFS 2008 is now available

Buck Hodges — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:34:03 GMT

The download is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00803636-1d16-4df1-8a3d-ef1ad4f4bbab&displaylang=en

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools - July 2008 Release

邱英瑞's (Jacky Chiou) blog — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:43:59 GMT

The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools is a set of enhancements, tools

TFS July Powertools Released!

Willy-Peter Schaub's Cave of Chamomile Simplicity — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:23:22 GMT

The latest power tools release can be found here: TFS July 2008 Power Tools .  See BHarry’s

TFS July Powertools Team - You are "heroes"!

Willy-Peter Schaub's Cave of Chamomile Simplicity — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:20:20 GMT

As per Brian's blog , the enhancements in the July power tools pack are phenomenal. BUT ... just

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

Franky Gee — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:22:48 GMT

I'm missing the Project-name in de Build Notification Tool.

We have a company-convention in naming the Build Definitions (eg: Continuous Build). With the Notification Tool, I cannot see for which project a build was queued/started/finished. Maybe an new feature in de september-version?

cheers

TFS July '08 Power Tools are available!

Daniel Sack — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:47:18 GMT

TFS July '08 Power Tools are available!

TFS Power Tools Juli 08 Release is out now

Nicolas Müggler — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:20:33 GMT

The new release (Juli) of the Team Foundation Server Power Tools has been released this night. The new

Prevista de las herramientas para TFS este mes: Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools

Blog de andygon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:18:45 GMT

Nos estamos preparando para liberar la próxima versión de Team Foundation Server Power Tool en más o

Power Tools - July 2008 Released

Yura Fedoseev — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:05:01 GMT

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools - July 2008 Re

Visual Studio TFS Power Tools July 2008 Released

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Visual Studio TFS Power Tools July 2008 Released

July '08 TFS Power Tools Released

ZaydKara — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:46:26 GMT

The latest TFS Power Tools has been released download from here. See Brian Harry's blog who gives

New Power Tool for handling display name change in TFS

Teams WIT Tools — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:20:37 GMT

In an earlier post , Dan had posted the details on how a display name change in Windows or Active Directory

Une nouvelle version des TFS Power tools est disponible

Michel Perfetti [Miiitch] — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:37:56 GMT

Brian Harry l'indique sur son blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/07/16/july-08-power-tools-are-available.aspx

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

bharry — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:06:59 GMT

Franky, I see what you mean about the project name in the build notification tool. Thanks for the feedback. I'll pass it on to the devs and see if there is anything they can do about it.

Brian

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

Jason Young — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:58:49 GMT

Too be honest, I can't believe how buggy the Process Template Editor is. When importing files into the portal it insists on placing files under "Wss\Templates" even though all other content for MS standard templates is expected under "Windows SharePoint Services Folder". It has repeatedly imported some files twice which causes a validation error when uploading to the server. After performing an import I am asked if I would like to reload at which point visual studio crashes. If I then re-open the template I get an error stating "The path is not of a legal form", yet the template passes validation when uploading to the server.

Looks like I'm going to have to write up a quick script to scan a directory and populate this by hand....

Les Powertools Team System de juillet disponibles

Visual Studio Team System — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:08:18 GMT

Brian Harry vient d’annoncer la sortie des « Powertools » de juillet. Les principales nouveautés concernent

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

Bill Essary — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:31:53 GMT

Thanks for reporting the issues you are seeing with the Process Template Editor. We have logged bugs to track the issues. I agree that the default location for imported files should be the same as the default for the shipping templates - Windows SharePoint Services Folder. I'm not sure where the WSS\templates came from, but that and the fact that you cannot actually change the import location are bugs that we are now tracking. We have looked at the duplicate file import problem. We have found one possible repro for that issue, but we have to actually manually delete/manage the contents of the WSS\templates folder to trigger the condition. We'll look at getting that problem fixed. I think the original intent was to have the contents of the WSS\templates subdirectory transparently managed for you by the tool. There is little logic in place to handle cases where the folder contents are managed outside the control of the tool.

Please keep providing feedback and we will keep trying to make it better. Power Tool forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=930&SiteID=1

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re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

Jason Young — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:14:45 GMT

Thanks for looking into the issues guys, thats great news. Ussually I would post these as bugs properly, just short on time at the moment.

Thanks!!!

VSTS 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools - July 2008 Release

Maor David — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:00:20 GMT

The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools is a set of enhancements, tools

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

Peter Moresi — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:03:53 GMT

This is a fantastic update. Thanks!!!

A tool to create Work Item expressions & manage subscriptions

Naren's Blog — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:15:29 GMT

Update on 7/29/2008: A much more powerful and integrated tool is released now as Power Tools. Check out

FAQ on VSTS subscriptions and common problems

Naren's Blog — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:17:38 GMT

I was collecting links & pointers to answer common questions in forums related to TFS eventing and

Powertool to easily create notification alerts for workitems, source control and build items

Naren's Blog — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:20:49 GMT

Last piece of powertool I worked on before leaving TFS is the integrated tool to easily create notification

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

Joan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:17:17 GMT

Please forgive my tardy entry to this item, I'm just getting started with the implementation of TFS in a team of 10.

I've been looking into the alert mechanism and the Alert Editor is a nice addition. However, I can't find a way to save an alert in this editor.

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

michaeldfox2 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:07:59 GMT

I have implemented the alerts notification, but it simply does not work. I fill out the forms carefully, entering the email address to send to, and nothing happens.

Michael Fox

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

bharry — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:41:34 GMT

Is it possible that you have not configured your TFS server for sending mail? You need to configure it to point at an SMTP server. Look in the TFS web.config file and see if you see the configured mail server settings there.

Brian

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

Mike G — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:36:20 GMT

Brian,

I have been able to set some Alerts using the Team Web Access and a couple on my workstation. However, I am having a problem with other team members not being able to save alerts. I am unsure of any permissions needed to edit alerts, but I believe that I have all my permissions set correctly (they're almost wide open in terms of if you're in our dev domain group you have access to the complete project).

What happens is that when an alert is made a user can configure it, close the screen, come back to the alert, but once refresh is clicked it either wipes out a new alert or undoes the edits for an updated alert.

Is there something I'm missing?!

Mike G.

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

bharry — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:38:41 GMT

That certainly sounds weird. I'm going to forward this to someone on my team to follow up with you and see if we can figure out what is going wrong.

Brian

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

Hakan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:58:03 GMT

Mike G,

I'd appreciate if you can contact me so we can investigate the issue you're having:

http://blogs.msdn.com/hakane/contact.aspx

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

Matt R — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:21:30 GMT

Brian -

A co-worker and I just ran across this issue today, and then found this workaround on the MSDN forums: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsgeneral/thread/1dc5874d-7b10-4ab4-8b2a-ae5e0d57ce38.

This solution is a bit of a hack, but it worked for me. Any word on if/when this will be fixed?

Thanks,

Matt

re: July '08 TFS Power Tool Preview

bharry — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:29:31 GMT

I knew the persistence model for the alert editor is wierd but I didn't know it was causing that many problems. Let me have someone on my team look into it and see if we can't make it better for the next update.

Brian