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Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:12 PM

TeamCity support for Team Foundation Server

As part of their "Early Access Program," the folks at JetBrains have posted a build of TeamCity that contains support for TFS version control. They are looking for feedback, so give it a try and let 'em know what you think. TeamCity EAP (Latest) Current
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Monday, January 29, 2007 8:55 PM

Extending the Windows Vista grace period to 120 days

Jeff Atwood has written a post on how to extend the Vista grace period to 120 days. It turns out that you can extend it three times for 30 days each, giving you up to 120 days when you count the original 30-day grace period. It seems like a great way
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Saturday, January 27, 2007 2:18 PM

"Way behind the combination of Nant/CruiseControl.Net"

I was reading through some customer feedback about VSTS and TFS. There were a lot of positive comments in there. I was looking for the negatives, though, because I want to know where we're missing the mark (perhaps by miles). This is one that really resonated
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Friday, January 26, 2007 12:35 AM

Using FinalBuilder with Team Foundation Build

Via Richard Hundhausen , I learned that the folks at FinalBuilder posted an article on their web site about how to get FinalBuilder working with Team Build via FinalBuilder's custom MSBuild task. If you use FinalBuilder, you may want to check that out.
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 5:24 PM

Tabbed windows for remote desktop connections

Shortly after I wrote about Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 client , Blake Handler sent me email about a CodePlex project called Terminals . Terminals is a neat application that hosts RDC sessions in tabs. One of the options in the Terminals connection
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:04 PM

Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 client

Last month, the Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 client was released. It has some nice new features in it, which I've listed below. Being able to log into a machine on a private network without having to use a VPN sounds really cool (TS Gateway servers),
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 11:34 AM

Internal TFS server database maintenance

Brian posted these answers in a comment to a question on his January dogfood statistics post . These may be of interest to folks out there, particularly those running larger-sized Team Foundation Server installations. 1) What is the current size of our
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:44 PM

Incremental gets with Team Build and the list of files that changed

After you learn five things about Aaron that you didn't know , he'll show you how to do an incremental get without necessarily doing an incremental build. Doing an Incremental Get in Team Build In Team Build v1.0, it is not possible, without some trickeration,
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Friday, January 12, 2007 9:44 AM

TFSBuildManager - project on CodePlex

Lorenzo Barbieri wrote about a tool on CodePlex called TFSBuildManager . I didn't know about this one. It's a tool written by Dudu Shmaya . The CodePlex project page has the following about the project. TFSBuildManager TFSBuildManager is a utility to
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:56 PM

John Robbins' approach to working offline with Team Foundation Server

John Robbins has written a post called Working Offline with TFS . In it, he describes his approach to using Visual Studio when not connected to the Team Foundation Server. As many of you know, the server information is stored in the .sln file, and VS
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 1:32 AM

Five things about me

Martin Woodward tagged me with that blogging game that's going around where you post five things that people don't generally know about you and then tag five more people. Okay, I have to admit it seems kind of fun, so I'll do my part to keep it going.
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 11:32 PM

TFS Version Control Server Team blog is alive

Chandru, a developer on the TFS version control server, has written the first post on the Version Control Server Team blog . I helped Craig Harry, development lead for TFS version control platform, set this blog up a while back, so I'm excited to see
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 9:09 PM

Orcas Team Build Continuous Integration spec is now available

Back in early December, I wrote the post, More on the Orcas features for Team Build , that described many of the new features that we are adding for Orcas, elaborating on what Brian Harry had written in his TFS Roadmap post. I'm very happy to say that
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 8:43 PM

How to deal with the Y2K7 problem -- file versions and AssemblyInfoTask

If you use the AssemblyInfoTask to stamp the version numbers for your assemblies that you build with MSBuild as part of your Team Build process, you may run into the "Y2K7" problem. The version number is stored as a 16-bit (yes, 16 not 32) unsigned integer.
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 5:05 PM

Beeps from bullets

Way back near the beginning of development of TFS version control, which was called Hatteras back then, we sent email to the team manually when we checked in. So I would typically write my checkin comment in Outlook, which was using Microsoft Word as
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:30 PM

IE Add-in for filing bugs in TFS for web pages

Rob Caron wrote about the post Automatically raise bugs from IE on the Microsoft Developer Tools UK Sales Team blog . Here's the text of the post, and there's a screen shot on the GotDotNet page. Have you ever been in a position where someone raises a
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