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Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:32 PM

TFSBuildLab beta 2 for TFS 2005

I mentioned TFSBuildLab a month ago when it hit beta 1. Peter Blomqvist and Mathias Olausson have been hard at work and have now released beta 2. They expect to hit 1.0 in the near future. If you are looking for features like continuous integration and
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 4:36 PM

TFS 2008 Beta 2 upgrade fixes are now available

We discovered and fixed several issues that blocked some users from upgrading from TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 Beta 2. You can get the instructions and download the two updated executables at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C4015D2F-2383-4270-9AAD-97129590F31D&displaylang=en
Posted by buckh | 3 Comments
Thursday, August 23, 2007 11:58 PM

How to construct the Team System Web Access 2005 URL to a file in version control

Grant Holliday asked for an explanation of how a Web Access URL should be constructed to for a file in TFS version control, similar to the work item links explained in the TSWA 2005 FAQ . Hakan responded with the details, which are shown below. http://
Posted by buckh | 4 Comments
Friday, August 17, 2007 9:53 PM

Team System Web Access for TFS 2005 FAQ

I wanted to highlight the TSWA for TFS 2005 FAQ since it contains good information, including how to switch between Windows authentication and forms authentication, turning off forms authentication, and how to construct the URL to a work item using the
Posted by buckh | 9 Comments
Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:01 PM

TFS API: Determining if an edited file has changed

A few times over the last several months, the question has come up regarding how to determine whether a file on disk that is being edited is different that what is checked into TFS version control. Folks looking at the PendingChange object have asked
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:02 PM

TFS 2008: Calling custom targets and documentation for the beta 2 object model

Aaron Hallberg has a written a great post on one of the new extensibility mechanisms we've added to the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets file that forms the backbone of the msbuild process (it's imported by every tfsbuild.proj file and contains
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:16 PM

TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

Patrick Carnahan, a developer on Team Build, put together the following guide to the basic, as well as a few advanced, features of Team Build in TFS 2008. It's a great way to get started with continuous integration and other features in TFS 2008. Team
Posted by buckh | 15 Comments
Saturday, August 11, 2007 9:22 PM

Download: Creating and Customizing TFS Reports

I don't often post about reporting. My last post was about sample reports for TFS from a year ago. If you are trying to understand it or just get more out of it, there are now more resources to help you. On Friday (Aug. 10, 2007), a new article on TFS
Posted by buckh | 4 Comments
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:46 PM

Using CruiseControl.NET to trigger TFS 2005 builds for continuous integration

I ran across the following post by James Dawson and thought it may be of interest to folks trying to do CI with TFS 2005. Of course, you'll find CI as part of the product in TFS 2008 . TeamBuild Plug-in for CruiseControl.NET I've been meaning to write
Posted by buckh | 3 Comments
Friday, August 03, 2007 1:00 PM

TFS 2008: Command line help for tf.exe now prints to the console

In TFS 2005 running help from tf.exe popped up the MSDN help browser. That was a bit lame, but we didn't allocate the time to do it right. That's been fixed in TFS 2008. Running tf.exe /? produces a list of commands, and tf someCommand /? produces detailed
Posted by buckh | 6 Comments
Thursday, August 02, 2007 11:00 PM

Team System Web Access: Workaround for installation problem on a non-English Windows OS

[UPDATE 8/8/07] There is now a KB article on this issue. Hakan posted the following on Brian Harry's blog in response to a customer report about encountering the following issue when installing the new Team System Web Access release on German, French,
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:51 PM

Deleting test results from a build

In either TFS 2005 or TFS 2008, you can delete the test results published against a build ( How to: Publish Test Results ). However, discovering this feature may be difficult, and I didn't find it on MSDN in a quick search of the docs. What you'll need
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:16 AM

TFS 2008 beta 2: How to add a Network Service account to the Build Services group

We changed the build agent setup such that the default presented in the setup GUI is to use Network Service as the build service account. One big advantage of doing this is that the Network Service account doesn't have a password that expires, removing
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 12:09 AM

Vote for your favorite version control system to migrate to TFS

Matt Mitrik , program managers for the TFS migration and synchronization toolkit , wants to know which version control systems are most important for them to focus on. Go here and vote now. What migration tools are you looking for? I've heard plenty of
Posted by buckh | 0 Comments
 
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