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Friday, December 21, 2007 9:54 PM

Team Foundation Power Tools for Team Foundation Server 2008 available now!

Earlier today, we released the first version of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 ! I want to highlight the build notification application. This tool alerts you when a build is started or completed. If the build breaks, you'll know immediately. I posted
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:35 PM

MSBuild Sidekick V2 beta

Eugene Zakhareyev has released a beta of the second version of MSBuild Sidekick. This version adds some unique features, including visualizing the build targets. If you've ever had to pick up someone else's msbuild project files, you'll really appreciate
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 8:52 PM

How offline mode works in TFS 2008 version control

Ben Ryan , a developer on the version control team, has written a couple of posts about the offline feature introduced in Team Foundation Server 2008 Version Control. The first one in particular answers some questions that have come up. When and how does
Posted by buckh | 6 Comments
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 8:00 AM

WiX to be included in the Visual Studio "Rosario" release

Rob Mensching has written a post about the WiX toolset being included with the Rosario release of Visual Studio Team System. WiX is part of the toolset used to create the installation packages for Visual Studio, as well as being one of the first open
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Monday, December 03, 2007 6:32 PM

Building Ant projects with Team Foundation Build

Martin Woodward has written a post on using Ant within Team Build 2008 and 2005. He includes an initial release of the binaries and documentation. This is great for the folks using Java with TFS! Building Ant projects from Team Build With the recent release
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
Monday, December 03, 2007 9:00 AM

Web Deployment Projects (WDP) for Visual Studio 2008 CTP

[UPDATE 2/3/08] The final version is now available . I know a lot of folks have used web deployment projects (WDP) with Team Build. The WDP release for VS 2005 does not work with 2008. The web developer team has just released a Community Technology Preview
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Saturday, December 01, 2007 10:50 AM

Video on the new features in Team Foundation Build 2008

There's a great new video on the MSDN web site by Richard Hundhausen that goes over the new features in Team Foundation Build 2008. It's one of the featured videos this week. The video covers the major new features and provides a great introduction to
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