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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:33 PM

July 2008 release of the power tools for TFS 2008 is now available

The download is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00803636-1d16-4df1-8a3d-ef1ad4f4bbab&displaylang=en . Brian recently wrote a post about the new features: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/07/08/july-08-tfs-power-tool-preview.aspx
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:20 PM

How Do I: Use the Builds Check-in Policy?

A year ago I wrote a blog post about a new check-in policy that we added in build for TFS 2008 to prevent "piling on" when the build is broken in continuous integration environment.  That post has all of the details on how it works and
Posted by buckh | 3 Comments
Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:32 PM

Visual Studio Team System Chat: April 9

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition. In addition, discuss what's new for these editions
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:00 AM

Teamprise 3.0 Ships!

Martin Woodward write that Teamprise 3.0 has now been released! If you want the equivalent of Team Explorer integrated into Eclipse on any platform or need a client from Linux or Mac, you'll definitely want to check out Teamprise. Here's a quick bullet
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 9:43 PM

Setting up Source Server for TFS Builds

Jelle Druyts has posted a document describing how to set up source server for Team Foundation Build.  If you don't know what it is, read the MSDN magazine article that is the first link in his post. Check it out! Setting up Source Server for TFS
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
Saturday, February 02, 2008 9:31 PM

Updated post on how to filter checkin emails by paths

I've made a significant update to the following post: Adding a path filter to a CheckinEvent subscription using bissubscribe .  The reason is that the paths supplied by the server aren't consistently cased while XPath is case-sensitive.  The
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
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 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 | 4 Comments
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:54 PM

Martin Woodward's presentation on what's new in TFS 2008

Martin Woodward has a posted a great set of slides from a presentation he did on what's new in TFS 2008. After going through all of the features other than build, he spends more than half of the slides on the build features of TFS 2008 (aka Team Build).
Posted by buckh | 3 Comments
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
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
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
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
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
Thursday, July 26, 2007 6:19 PM

Team Foundation Server 2008 Beta 2: Summary of links to Team Build information

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, including Team Foundation Server 2008, is now available for download . As mentioned in Soma's post , Beta 2, unlike beta 1, includes the "go live" provision in the license, meaning that you can use it in production. We've been
Posted by buckh | 14 Comments
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