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April 2007 - Posts

Friday, April 27, 2007 10:04 PM

Update to "How to run tests in a build without test metadata files and test lists (.vsmdi files)": Test Categories

Pierre Greborio , a developer over in MSTV, has contributed a great new feature to the power tool task that allows you to run tests without .vsmdi files: test categories. Those of you who have used NUnit are probably familiar with the Category attribute
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Friday, April 27, 2007 9:05 PM

Guidance for Structuring Team Projects in TFS 2005

Brian Keller points out that Doug Neumann's Guidance for Structuring Team Projects is now available on the Microsoft Team Foundation Server Branching Guidance CodePlex project. Guidance for Structuring Team Projects - Doug Neumann - Microsoft Corporation
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:23 PM

Using an ASP.NET TFS data source

Kannan Sundararajan has written a couple of posts on how to use TFS as an ASP.NET data source. If you are interested in displaying TFS data in ASP.NET-driven web pages, you'll want to check it out. First he shows you how to build the data source and gives
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Monday, April 23, 2007 11:04 AM

Orcas Beta 1 has shipped - summary of Team Build beta 1 features and links

As you probably already know, Orcas Beta 1 has shipped. Internally, the product team is focused on finding and fixing bugs for beta 2 (and has been for nearly a month now). The release includes a Virtual PC image with all of Visual Studio Team System
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Monday, April 23, 2007 10:16 AM

Visual Studio Team System chat - April 27, 2007 (this Friday)

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the in the Visual
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Monday, April 23, 2007 10:12 AM

TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit pre-release published on CodePlex

Matt Mitrik , the program manager for the TFS migration tools, has announced the availability of the first pre-release version of the Team Foundation Server migration and synchronization toolkit. If you are looking into how to migrate away from a different
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Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:32 PM

How quaint: 1,000,000 files and 10,000 changesets

I wrote posts when we hit 1,000,000 files (Nov. 18, 2005) and 10,000 changesets (Sept. 26, 2005) on the DevDiv server. When you look at the April 2007 statistics (April 18, 2007) for that server, we're at 77,658,652 files and 204,556 changesets. Clearly,
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:51 PM

VSTS Testing: Using Fiddler to record VSTS web tests

Sean Lumley , a developer on the VSTS web test team, has written a series of posts on using a new version of Fiddler to record web tests. Sean worked with Eric Lawrence, who developed Fiddler, to incorporate new features that make this process much easier
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:17 PM

Configuring Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

[UPDATE 7/26/07] Final guidance is now available . Brian Keller has posted information on how to get WSS 3.0 to work with TFS 2005, which has been a very popular request. This approach has been designed such that the server will still be serviceable after
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 8:39 PM

TFS tools on CodePlex (April '07)

Sébastien Monteil, C# MVP, sent me email about a tool on CodePlex called Fissum , which is a tray app that shows your work items. That reminded me that back in September I wrote a post listing the tools for Team Foundation Server on CodePlex . So I thought
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 10:03 PM

VSTS International Survey

Aldo Donetti, lead PM on the VSTS globalization team, sent out email today about the newly released VSTS International Surveys. These complement the previously released English language survey. There are both language-specific and some country-specific
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