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Friday, September 21, 2007 11:55 PM

Team System Web Access for TFS 2008 CTP released

[UPDATE] The final version is now available . Team System Web Access for TFS 2008 Power Tool CTP is now available ! For TFS 2008, TSWA will continue to be a power tool through the TFS 2008 release. For the release after that, it will be a part of the
Posted by buckh | 11 Comments
Friday, September 21, 2007 12:00 AM

Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

[UPDATE 12/21/07] The build notification tool has now become part of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 ! It has new features and quite a few fixes (not to mention that it's a signed binary), so I've removed the attachment from this post. We would have
Posted by buckh | 38 Comments
Monday, September 17, 2007 10:04 PM

TFS 2008: Controlling the number of threads used in uploading and downloading files

The TFS version control client object model normally uses up to eight threads from the thread pool to upload or download files. This same mechanism is also used in pending adds: Files are opened to determine whether they are binary or text, so batches
Posted by buckh | 5 Comments
Friday, September 14, 2007 11:50 PM

Changing TFS email notifications to link to Team System Web Access

Neno Loje has written a blog post that shows you the steps to change the links in the TFS work item alert emails into links to work items in TSWA. The standard links point you to a read-only page, which is not nearly as useful. Check it out! Changing
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 7:40 PM

VSTS 2005 and 2008: Building Database Projects with Team Build

Jon Liperi, a tester on Team Build, has put together the post below that explains a number of the issues around using Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (DBPro) with TFS Build. Jon previously worked on the DBPro team, so he knows his
Posted by buckh | 13 Comments
Monday, September 10, 2007 9:47 AM

We need your help: Patches to apply to TFS 2008 beta 2

Brian has written a post, Practicing servicing for TFS 2008 , with links to six patches. We need your help in installing these patches and letting us know what issues you run into. The goal is to make servicing TFS 2008 better than it was with TFS 2005.
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:31 PM

Dave McKinstry on Build in TFS 2008

Dave McKinstry has written a couple of posts on his experiences with Team Build in TFS 2008. In Introduction to Team Build 2008 for Team Build 2005 Users , he goes over the major new features and how certain things like handling workspace mappings are
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
 
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