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Monday, May 18, 2009 10:19 PM

TFS 2010 Beta 1: Don’t run initial configuration from the administration console (MMC)

Beta 1 for TFS 2010, along with VS and VSTS, is now available to MSDN subscribers and will be available for broad download shortly.  Be sure to check out the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 First Look site to see what’s in this release, as well as the
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 10:49 AM

TFS 2008 supports SQL 2008 SP1

SQL 2008 SP1 has just been released, and we've gotten a couple of questions about whether it is supported with with Team Foundation Server 2008.  We tested SQL 2008 SP1 with both the original release of TFS 2008 and TFS 2008 SP1, and we do fully
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Sunday, March 22, 2009 9:52 AM

Sorting by multiple columns in work item tracking

Recently I was showing someone the results of a bug query and sorting by more than one column in work item tracking in Team Explorer. When the person said he didn't realize that feature existed, I decided it would be worth posting. This also works in
Posted by buckh | 6 Comments
Monday, February 09, 2009 10:50 PM

Why the CheckInEvent doesn't list all of the files in a changeset

I recently received a question from someone about the CheckInEvent. We subscribe to the Notify event using the BisSubscribe tool. Basically we have many applications that share some projects, but as TFS has no mechanism for sharing we have written our
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
Friday, February 06, 2009 2:00 PM

New book on MSBuild and Team Foundation Build

There is now a book dedicated to MSBuild and Team Foundation Build.  The book is written by Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi and William Bartholomew .  Sayed has written about MSBuild before, both in books and MSDN Magazine articles, and William is a Team
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
Friday, February 06, 2009 12:38 AM

Fix for TFS Build 2008 SP1 to speed up your builds

Quite a few folks have reported longer build times and noticed that the build details view has a lot more output in it, and as a result of the extra output being logged, the builds are slower.  Aaron has written a post about a hotfix to speed up
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
Friday, February 06, 2009 12:26 AM

Team System site overhauled

Sharon Elkins has written a post about the newly-redesigned Team System web site . She has some details on the transformation, but one thing that stands out is the page reduction. It's got about 75% fewer pages, which means a bunch of old stuff is gone.
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Monday, January 26, 2009 6:22 PM

How to determine the latest changeset in your workspace

When you run get for your entire workspace without any argument, you are requesting that the server give you the latest set of files.  Later you might wonder what changeset was used in that get.  To figure that out, you can use the following
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
Saturday, December 20, 2008 1:25 PM

TFS Branching Guide 2.0 released

Bijan Javidi announced the release of TFS Branching Guide 2.0 on CodePlex.  Check it out and be sure to send them your feedback on it.  They are always looking for ways to enhance and make it even more useful. TFS Branching Guide 2.0 Welcome
Posted by buckh | 4 Comments
Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:00 AM

Using Team Foundation Build with BizTalk and SSIS projects

Unfortunately there are several types of projects that do not work natively with MSBuild. Jim Lamb , program manager for Team Build, has put together a few posts with pointers on how to get these to work with Team Build. Project System Compatibility with
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:00 AM

Tools for TFS on CodePlex: TeamReview and Info Kiosk

In the past I've written posts on tools for TFS on CodePlex . I'm happy to say that there are now too many to show in a post. I'd encourage you to take a look using this query for TFS on CodePlex . A couple of people have sent me email about new tools
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:00 AM

New blog by the Team Foundation Server global support team

The fine folks that support our customers have started a new blog: Developer Support Team Foundation Server . With posts by Trevor Hancock, Jim Saunders, and others on topics ranging from issues with TFS to the BPA (Best Practices Analyzer), you'll want
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Monday, October 20, 2008 4:00 PM

Why is the TFS 2008 version control security dialog blank?

If you install Service Pack 1 for .NET 3.5 on the server (application tier) without also installing Service Pack 1 for TFS 2008, you will not be able to view permissions in version control. None of your data has been lost. What has happened is that the
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
Monday, October 20, 2008 8:00 AM

TFS 2008 SP1: New setting to delete a build without deleting the build label

We've heard from a few customers that they would prefer not to have the build labels deleted when builds are deleted. In Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 we added a feature to control whether build labels are deleted when the build is deleted. This feature
Posted by buckh | 4 Comments
Sunday, October 19, 2008 4:19 PM

TFS Build 2010: Build summary screen shots

The build summary view (sometimes called the build report) in TFS 2005 and 2008 leaves a lot to be desired.  We wanted to rework it in TFS 2008 but lacked the time.  Well, we've completely revamped it for TFS 2010. Chris Burrows has posted screen
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