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Saturday, March 31, 2007 11:00 AM

Configuring Team Foundation Server to use fully-qualified domain names

This week the following question came up. I've seen this come up before, and there are probably forum threads on it, but I figured I'd post it here. Bill Essary provided the answer to the question. As always, keep notes on what you do so that you can
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Friday, March 30, 2007 9:42 PM

Better integrating other build tools into your build

Aaron Hallberg wrote a great post today showing how to use a custom task to better integrate other build tools, such as devenv (aka Visual Studio), as part of your build in Team Build. Building Non-MSBuild Projects With Team Build Building non-MSBuild
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Friday, March 30, 2007 9:09 PM

Version Control Server blog: Orcas destroy feature, merging with labels

The Version Control Server blog has shown some signs of life. Bill Tutt has written a couple of posts. The first one is about the Orcas version control feature that lots of customers have requested: destroy. The destroy command, which is only available
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 7:08 PM

Stop piling on when the build breaks: Build checkin policy for Continuous Integration in Orcas

Last fall, Clark Sell wrote a blog post called Stop, the build is broken!! that introduced a checkin policy that reported errors when the build was broken. If you are using continuous integration where every checkin starts a build, you want folks to stop
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:00 PM

Orcas: Unit testing to be available in Visual Studio Professional

Naysawn Naderi wrote a post today stating that many of the unit test features in Team System will be included in Visual Studio Professional in Orcas. Here's the entire post, but I've highlighted part below that I think you'll want to read and perhaps
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:53 AM

Outlook 2007: Viewing all RSS feeds in a single folder like an RSS "inbox"

Since I've started using Outlook 2007 to manage my RSS feeds, I've wanted to have all of the posts show up in a folder, much like new mail shows in up the inbox. I don't like have to scroll through the list of folders and visit each one containing an
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Monday, March 26, 2007 11:05 PM

VSTS profiler: Installing only the command line tool

I'm posting this mostly to remind myself of where it is. This came across on the internal VSTS discussion alias today. Visual Studio Profiler has a standalone installation: look for vs_profiler.exe in the Visual Studio installation CD/DVD. Installing
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Monday, March 26, 2007 7:20 PM

How to get a complimentary copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition

According to the following Microsoft web page, you can get a complimentary VS 2005 Standard Edition by attending "labcasts." You'll have to go to the web page and read the rules, etc. I thought I'd pass this along, since I stumbled across it tonight.
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Monday, March 26, 2007 3:10 PM

VSTS future releases: Orcas, Rosario, and Power Tools

A new high-level roadmap for Orcas, Rosario, and Power Tools is now available. The Visual Studio Team System Future Releases web page covers these topics at varying levels of detail, with the greatest amount detail being supplied for Orcas, of course.
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Monday, March 26, 2007 12:18 PM

Web interface now available for TFS: Microsoft acquires TeamPlain

We have never had a web interface for Team Foundation Server work item tracking, much to the astonishment of our customers. Well, there's a fix for that now. And you can download it today (see below for details). Brian Harry wrote a post this morning
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:48 PM

Vista sidebar build monitor and PowerShell scripts for Team Build Orcas

Jason Prickett , a developer on Team Build, has written some very nice posts. All of these posts only work with Team Build Orcas. The first one shows a very cool Vista sidebar which Jason has fiddled with a while back as a side project and finally got
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:01 PM

Aaron's back and has new posts on Team Build

Aaron Hallberg took a month off after the birth of his daughter, Stella . Now that he's back, he's got a couple of interesting posts. The first one applies to TFS 2005 (aka v1) and shows you how to pass custom properties to each solution that you build.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:46 PM

Guidance on using branches in TFS version control

Jeff Beehler announced the initial release of guidance on using branching and merging with your development process with TFS. This has been a pretty popular request from folks. Branching guidance now available I'm extremely excited to announce the availability
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 11:18 AM

TFS shipped one year ago today!

As Jeff Beehler points out , we shipped TFS one year ago today. In the intervening time, we reorganized and completed the TFS development work on Orcas (minus a few design change requests (DCRs)), which you can try out in the March Orcas CTP (since it's
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Friday, March 16, 2007 4:47 PM

Orcas Team Build: WCF web services replace .NET remoting

In Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2005 (v1), the communication from the application tier (AT) to the build computer used .NET remoting. This was the only component in Team Foundation Server that used .NET remoting, as all other communication used
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:08 PM

New add-in: Viewing other users' pending changes from within Visual Studio

Fairly often, someone asks for the ability to see the pending changes in the system from within Visual Studio. Running "tf status /user:* $/ /r" (or whatever you want) just isn't appealing to everyone. Ognjen Bajic posted about Ekobit's new free VS add-in
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:59 PM

Channel 9 interview and demo of Orcas Team Build

The interview, which contains a demo, has finally been posted (you may remember it being mentioned in December ). I'd like to say thanks to Brian Keller for doing this! Continuous Integration with Team Build “Orcas” Jim Lamb and Buck Hodges on the Team
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Monday, March 12, 2007 10:18 PM

Accessing Team Foundation version control from Ant and Java-based CruiseControl

Martin Woodward of Team[rise announced the Ant and Java-based CruiseControl support for Team Foundation version control in his post on the release of Teamprise 2.1. There's lots of good stuff in there, but this stuck out at me in particular. If you are
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 11:26 PM

Configuring the build to use the version control proxy

If you have a version control proxy at a remote site and you wish to have Team Build use the version control proxy, you'll need to modify the registry of the account that's running the build service on the build computer. Here's what you'll need to put
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 11:02 PM

I'm in Redmond

I don't travel much. It's been almost exactly a year since I was in Redmond. In March 2006, Ed Hintz and I gave a presentation on version control . This time Jim Lamb and I are here to learn about some of the internal build systems as part of our planning
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 10:50 PM

TFS Workspaces: 2005 and Orcas

Martin Woodward has done a great job explaining workspaces and working folder mappings in a pair of recent posts. For those who are new to TFS or haven't taken the time to think about the concepts and uses, it's a good idea to read them. Workspace 101:
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 10:47 PM

TFS migration toolkit spec posted

The Team Foundation Server migration toolkit spec has been published. Particularly if you are interested in writing version control or work item tracking conversion tools, be sure to check it out and give them feedback. tags: tfs , team foundation , migration
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Friday, March 02, 2007 10:19 PM

Eric Lee's Orcas Team Build Screencasts

Eric Lee of Counterpunch Software (former Softie) has started posting about Orcas features in the March CTP . First, he goes through a list of new features with some screenshots. A Baker's Dozen of New Features in Orcas There is nothing like having a
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:28 PM

How to enable a checkin policy via the version control API

I recently needed to test a new checkin policy that I wrote. In order to do that, I needed to enable a checkin policy for the unit test's team project using the version control API. I was a little surprised when it wasn't quite as obvious as I had hoped,
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:13 PM

Visual Studio 4.0 SDK is now available (includes updates to TFS extensibility documentation)

The Visual Studio 4.0 SDK was released today. Here's the announcement. On behalf of the VS Tools Ecosystem team, we are pleased to announce that after months of hard work, we have completed shipping the VS SDK 4.0 RTM release! We have done tons of work
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