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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:33 PM

Building .NET 4.0 Apps with Team Foundation Build 2008

William Bartholomew , former VSTS MVP and author of the book Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build , recently joined Microsoft.  He's written a great post on the handful of steps you need to follow if you want
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:29 PM

Using Test Impact in VSTS 2010

Dennis Stone , a tester on Team Test, has posted a great walkthrough of using the new test impact feature of 2010.  If you aren't familiar with test impact, it's a feature that tells you which tests execute the code you've changed in a checkin. 
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Monday, March 30, 2009 12:58 PM

Debug your build with MSBuild Sidekick v2.3

The folks at Attrice have released a new version of their MSBuild Sidekick , and it now includes a visual debugger for msbuild.  If you've ever tried to debug a build process, you know how tedious it can be and will want to check this out. MSBuild
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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Sunday, October 19, 2008 1:00 PM

MSBuild Extensions Pack now available

Mike Fourie has released the first version of MSBuild Extensions Pack on CodePlex . This is a great collection of quality tasks for MSBuild that you can also use in Team Foundation Build. The MSBuild Extension Pack is the successor to the FreeToDev MSBuild
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 5:29 PM

Pre-checkin validation tool for Team Foundation Build 2008: TFS Check-in Validation Tool

Mohammad Jalloul, a developer on the Developer Division Engineering team, has released a new tool on CodePlex called TFS Check-in Validation Tool .  This tool provides the ability to have a checkin validating by a build prior to being checked in. 
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 11:34 AM

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Week on Channel 9!

Brian Keller has recorded a series of interviews, some of which include demos, that are being published on Channel 9. You can find them at Visual Studio Team System 2010 Week on Channel 9. Some of the videos have already been posted. Be sure to check
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:56 PM

Automation with MSBuild 3.5 and Team Build 2008 recording is now available

Charles Sterling announced a new interactive forum called MVP TV earlier this month. The first event was Automation with MSBuild 3.5 and Team Build 2008 . Now the recording for this event is available. The debut of MVP TV Attendance: 92 attendees Thursday,
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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
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