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July '08 Power Tools are available!

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

You can read all about them in the preview I wrote a couple of weeks ago: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/07/08/july-08-tfs-power-tool-preview.aspx

This is the first release of the Power Tools that we did some limited pre-release testing with our MVPs.  It was very valuable because they helped find a few bugs that would have otherwise been in the release.  The Team System Web Access update and the SCOM management pack are still in the works and should be available shortly.  Also, for those of you looking for an eScrum update for TFS 2008, it's getting close to being ready too.

Although it's not as big a release as Dec or Mar, the feedback so far has been very positive.  We've started development on the next set already.  I hope to have them available in the Sept/Oct timeframe.  I'm building one of them myself and I'm really psyched about it.  I think you are really going to love this release.  I'll give you a preview some time in the next month or so.  Until then, enjoy the latest release and let us know what you think!

Brian

Published Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:44 PM by bharry

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:02 PM by Pregnant Man » July ‘08 Power Tools are available!

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# お知らせ | TFS 2008 Power Tools - July 2008

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:11 PM by 長沢智治のライフサイクルブログ

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

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:57 PM by Josh

Feature Request:

Is there any chance of supporting MSI version upgrades with the next version, rather than having to Uninstall and Reinstall?

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:43 AM by Daniel

Feature Request:

The new UI for the alerts is great!

Is it possible to implement it to have an alert to specific file extensions eg: .config

BR

Daniel

# TFS Power Tools Juli 08 Release is out now

Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:20 AM by Nicolas Müggler

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

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:50 AM by Nicolas Müggler

Hi Brian

I'm not sure, but is there is an offical feedback channel for the Power Tools?

My question is, if you could add a condition to the Power Tools setup which not only checks if already an older installation is on the machine, but also has the ability to remove the old one. This would be nice!

Thanks

Nicolas

# bharry's WebLog : July '08 Power Tools are available!

Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:24 AM by Shake to Develop

Oh, how we just love getting new Team System Power Tools!  Grab ‘em while they’re hot!  Details

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:49 AM by bharry

Yes, the official feedback channel is the forums.  I should have included a link: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=930&SiteID=1

It looks like we have a couple of votes for an installer that automatically upgrades rather than requiring uninstall/install.  I will look into it.  However, I'll say that one of our simplifying assumptions with Power Tools is that we can make the setup dramatically simpler than for our commercial products.  The uninstall/install pattern was part of this simplification.  However, as I said, I'll look into it and see if there's something we can do to improve it.

Brian

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:13 PM by Steven Nagy

Loving the new alerts functionality. only thing is it crashs VS the very first time you use it and you right click the empty content pain. Otherwise, fantastic! Loving the right-click 'Alert on change' functionality, except it doesn't let you specify the email address at that point, so this errors for me currently.

# Une nouvelle version des TFS Power tools est disponible

Friday, July 18, 2008 3:37 AM by Michel Perfetti [Miiitch]

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 Power Tools are available!

Friday, July 18, 2008 7:50 AM by bharry

Daniel,

It's possible to write an XPath query that will enable alerts only on certain file extensions but the tool doesn't have a template for it.

Here's the XPath query for it:

'Artifacts/Artifact[starts-with(translate(@ServerItem, "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"), \"$/<server path>\")]' <> null AND 'Artifacts/Artifact[starts-with(substring(translate(@ServerItem, \"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\", \"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\"), 1 + string-length(@ServerItem) - string-length(\".cs\")), \".cs\")]

Just replace "$/<server path>" with the path you want to search under and the two occurances of ".cs" with the extension you want to look for.

I don't have the tool in front of me so I can't check if it will work if you edit the XPath directly.  If not, you can use the bissubscribe command line tool:

bissubscribe /eventType CheckinEvent /address <email address>  /server <servername> /deliveryType EmailHtml /filter "'Artifacts/Artifact[starts-with(translate(@ServerItem, "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"), \"$/<server path>\")]' <> null AND 'Artifacts/Artifact[starts-with(substring(translate(@ServerItem, \"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\", \"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\"), 1 + string-length(@ServerItem) - string-length(\".cs\")), \".cs\")]' <> null"

We will add this as one of the templates for the next Power Tool releases.

Thanks,

Brian

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Friday, July 18, 2008 9:29 AM by bharry

Steven, I'm glad you are liking it.  The right click bug has been reported a couple of times now (that was quick :) and will be fixed for the next release.

The "quick" sign up dialogs use your email address that TFS gets from Windows/Active Directory.  It may be that you don't have an email address configured there.  If you can save the alert, you can go back to the alerts editor and change the email address.

Can you give me more detail on the exact error you are getting?

Brian

# Les Powertools Team System de juillet disponibles

Friday, July 18, 2008 4:08 PM by Visual Studio Team System

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

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:34 PM by Miguel Madero

Brian:

We need a "go offline button" and a "look for offline changes" option.

There are lots of scenarios where we need to do it.  

1. We are working on the office in our laptop, have 3 instances of VS open with different solutions, then you just gotta take it, go visit a customer and keep working where you left. Right now you would have to close and reopen all the solutions, to start working offline.

2. We are connected, but want to work offline because you dont want to checkout the items at the moment (and probably cause locks). There are two reasons this would happen a) it might be faster to work offline, b) probably we dont want to TFS to mark files as check-out/add/delete because we're just inspecting something, but dont want to create Shelve or Branch.

3. We changed some items outside of VS.

Other people might provide additional escenarios.

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 8:57 AM by Prasad

Whats the Workitem Template all about?

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:08 AM by bharry

Work item templates give you the ability to pre-fill out many of the fields on a work item and save the partially filled out form as a template.  You can then create work items that start with those pre-filled fields and just enter the additional data.  It can be a time saver, particularly in orgs that like to have a lot of required fields.

Brian

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Monday, July 28, 2008 9:02 AM by bharry

Miguel,

Understood.  Thanks for the feedback.  I have captured it.

Brian

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 7:04 AM by Dave Clarke

Hi

I see you mention an update for eScrum, excellent! When and what can we expect to see in the next eScrum release?

With Conchango's Scrum for Team System / Scrum Dashboard also available (plus Team Plain) there are now other web interface based offerings available. We want to make a decision which will be a good Scrum platform moving forward.

thanks

Dave

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

Sunday, August 03, 2008 12:43 PM by Denis Pasechnik

Скачать можно вот отсюда http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00803636-1d16-4df1-8a3d-ef1ad4f4bbab&amp;displaylang=en

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Tuesday, August 05, 2008 1:53 PM by Brian Bridges

Regarding Steven Nagy's post from 7/17 about an error when using the right-click "Alert on Change" operation...we see that too and can't find a workaround.

The error message is: TF50219:  The e-mail address was not set correctly.  Parameter name: preferences".  It won't let us save the query in order to edit it later to fix it.  And we're in a large corporation and updating Active Directory with e-mail addresses would take some time to accomplish... :)  This is a great feature, though, we hope to make use of it!

-Brian

# re: TF50219

Monday, August 25, 2008 7:09 PM by spdygnlz

We also would like to use this, but are running into the same problem.  

# re: eScrum

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:30 AM by Dave Clarke

Anymore updates on the next version of eScrum Brian?

thanks

Dave

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:36 AM by bharry

Thanks for pinging me.  I've just posted an entry about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/09/17/belated-announcement-of-an-update-to-the-escrum-process-template.aspx

Brian

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Sunday, September 21, 2008 7:45 PM by bharry

Regarding the problem with alerts.  That has been fixed for our next Power Tools release.  It should be out in about a month or so.  I'll be publishing a blog post about it soon.

Brian

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Monday, September 22, 2008 5:19 AM by Tomas Scott

Hello Brian!

I have just packed the July Power Tools for distribution to our TFS users internally. I just want to know how far away the next Power Tools are - if I should wait for them. Every third month have been the releases so far, so October will be the next, or?

Will it in that case be late or early October? I just need an indication, not anything as a promise.

Thank!

Tomas Scott

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Monday, September 22, 2008 7:51 AM by bharry

I'm preparing a blog post on it as we speak :).  We are targeting mid-late October.  Over the next week, we'll be taking stock of what's left to do and making sure we are still on track for that time period.

Brian

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Wednesday, October 08, 2008 3:48 PM by Greg Douglas

Hey Brian,

Any more information on the TFS SCOM mgmt pack?

Greg

# re: July '08 Power Tools are available!

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 3:35 PM by bharry

It's been taking a little longer than we thought it would.  It's looking like we are going to take a couple of more weeks.  It turns out that the publishing process for SCOM packs is a pretty involved process.

Brian

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