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Friday, September 29, 2006 11:00 PM

Adding a path filter to a CheckinEvent subscription using bissubscribe

This week, a couple of people asked ( forum post 1 and forum post 2 ) how to subscribe to the CheckinEvent notification when there's a checkin under a particular tree. The first person wanted to filter by path in order to kick off continuous integration.
Posted by buckh | 3 Comments
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:28 AM

SP1 beta is now available

For Team Build users, I'll spare you the suspense and tell you that there are no meaningful changes in Team Build itself in SP1. There are changes in other parts of the system, though, that will be of some benefit. Version control users will get a number
Posted by buckh | 0 Comments
Monday, September 25, 2006 11:15 AM

How to measure performance using the web service performance dialog

You may have read about the Team Foundation activity log, which is a database table containing the web service requests executed by the server ( turning it on , interesting queries , and more interesting queries ). You may have also seen posts about turning
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
Saturday, September 23, 2006 9:00 AM

Documentation error results in a build that never ends when building setup projects (.vdproj)

There's an error in the MSDN documentation on how to build Visual Studio setup projects with Team Build, which several customers have hit now (see this Team Build MSDN forum question ). The result is that the build hangs; it never returns. The reason
Posted by buckh | 3 Comments
Saturday, September 23, 2006 12:11 AM

How to determine whether tests passed and building a specific version

Aaron Hallberg has written a couple of posts about Team Build that started with questions from users. The first deals with how to determine, from code, whether tests passed. Determining Whether Tests Passed in Team Build In a forum post a while back,
Posted by buckh | 0 Comments
Monday, September 18, 2006 11:33 PM

VC API: CheckIn() may return 0

Back in March, I wrote a post called How to check in changes on behalf of other users . Among other things, you'll find the documentation comments for the Workspace . CheckIn() method, which you'll notice is now on MSDN. While that and How to validate
Posted by buckh | 6 Comments
Friday, September 15, 2006 8:45 AM

Sept. 6th Team System chat transcript is now available

Brian Keller mentioned that the transcript of the Sept. 6th chat is now available. Team System "Chat" transcript now available It looks like the the transcript from our September 6th "Chat" on MSDN is now available . It was great meeting everyone who
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Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:30 PM

TFS API: How to choose between TeamFoundationServerFactory.GetServer() and the TeamFoundationServer constructor

Occasionally the question of whether to use the TeamFoundationServerFactory . GetServer() method or the TeamFoundationServer constructor comes up, and someone recently asked this question on an internal list. The answer depends on the needs of the application
Posted by buckh | 6 Comments
Thursday, September 14, 2006 4:00 PM

Building web projects with Team Build

Bernardo Heynemann wrote a nice pair of posts on using Team Build to build and deploy web projects. While he uses the recently-released continuous integration tool from Notion Solutions ( Team CI ), there are a number of continuous integration tools for
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:30 AM

Team Build API: GetBuildUri() and GetBuildDetails()

Aaron Hallberg plans to periodically post descriptions and examples of some of the more relevant Team Build web service methods. There's no good source for this information currently. Even the Team Build API documentation recently published on MSDN won't
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:40 PM

Customizing the new TreeDiff power toy

If you haven't seen the new TreeDiff, you can see a screen shot in Brian Harry's post about the new release . It provides a VSS-style project difference tool that allows you not only to see what's changed but also reconcile changes. Tan Phan , a developer
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:30 PM

What do you want in the way of power toy checkin policies?

Mario Rodriguez , a program manager on TFS version control, is seeking your input on what you need in the way of checkin policies for a future power toys release. An example might be a policy that wraps another policy to provide path filtering to more
Posted by buckh | 0 Comments
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 12:04 AM

Getting web sites precompiled with Team Build

Aaron Hallberg wrote a great post explaining how to build precompiled web sites with Team Build. The problem is that building them does not, by default, produce precompiled websites where all of the code is in dlls and removed from the ASP.NET source
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:15 AM

How to handle "The path X is already mapped in workspace Y"

This has come up before on the forums, but I don't think I've ever posted about it here. Today I saw a reference to the TFS Workspace Gotcha! post in today's Team System Rocks VSTS Links roundup . There's a command to deal with the problem, but it's not
Posted by buckh | 3 Comments
Saturday, September 09, 2006 8:00 AM

Sample reports that use the TFS reporting feature

If you are interested in the TFS reporting feature, you may want to check out the sample reports in the zip file attached to the following blog post. Sample Team System Reports This attachment contains a variety of samples, experiments and untested reports
Posted by buckh | 9 Comments
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Friday, September 08, 2006 9:15 PM

TFS API documentation is now on the MSDN web site

Rob Caron mentioned that the SDK documentation is now on the MSDN web site . That SDK documentation includes the Team Foundation Server API documentation . Last year I pointed out where to find the version control documentation in the massive download
Posted by buckh | 4 Comments
Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:15 PM

More power: New power toy release (tfpt) includes VSS-style project difference!

[UPDATE 8/9/07] I fixed the broken link to the power tools page. Brian Harry announced the latest release of the Team Foundation Power Toys in the post, New TFS Power Toys Available! . In his post he gives a quick description of each of the new commands
Posted by buckh | 10 Comments
Thursday, September 07, 2006 8:00 AM

TFS tools on CodePlex

I ran two searches on CodePlex to see what folks are developing for TFS. One search was for "TFS" and the other was for "Team Foundation," which I hope would be enough to catch them all. The second search only yielded one additional project (Time Tracker).
Posted by buckh | 11 Comments
Tuesday, September 05, 2006 7:30 PM

Filtering the builds listed in work item tracking

As soon as folks start using Team Build, especially with some sort of continuous integration support , several issues pop up regarding the integration with work item tracking, including how not to have bad builds listed and how not to have every build
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
Monday, September 04, 2006 8:00 AM

Writing custom loggers for use with Team Build

If you you're interested in adding a custom logger to your build process in Team Build, Aaron walks you through the steps you need to know. Adding Custom Loggers to Team Build Yesterday we looked at using tasks to add customized build steps during a build.
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Friday, September 01, 2006 5:00 PM

MSDN chat with the VSTS product team

Visual Studio Team System Chat Come and join members from the the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in the Visual Studio Architect, Developer and Tester editions as well as Team Foundation Server. There will be experts
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Friday, September 01, 2006 9:58 AM

Branching and merging strategies

I saw Rob Caron mention this new MSDN article , and it's a topic that comes up relatively frequently. If you've wanted to know more about different strategies for organizing your branches, this article provides a nice overview and links for you to dig
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
 
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