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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:47 PM

TSWA tip: How to use the new TSWA template URL feature (initial value URL)

One of the new features we've added to TSWA for the SP1 release is the ability to create URLs that are effectively work item templates by virtue of the fact that they have the values for the work items embedded in the URL itself. Since constructing these
Posted by buckh | 0 Comments
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:56 PM

Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 CTP and Work Item Web Access 2008 CTP are now available

Hakan has announced the availability of the new TSWA community technology preview (CTP) in his post, What's New in TSWA 2008 SP1 . Personally, I would say this release is beta quality or better, so don't let the CTP designation scare you too much. Also
Posted by buckh | 26 Comments
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:55 AM

Team Foundation Build 2008 API documentation

The documentation for the team build 2008 object model is now available as a CHM file. Later this year, I'm told that the MSDN web site will be updated. http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/f/8/5f872c2e-4221-410b-b86e-4c3cd831b0c4/Team Foundation
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Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:40 AM

Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 in Japanese is now available

Part of our plan for the TSWA 2008 Power Tool is to release localized versions. Japanese is the first language to become available. Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Korean are currently planned for release over the next month. Here's the
Posted by buckh | 3 Comments
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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Friday, November 30, 2007 8:28 PM

Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool is now available

Today we have released the final version of the Team System Web Access (TSWA) 2008 power tool ! Team System Web Access provides a web interface to Team Foundation Server 2008. Here's a list of feature changes. Of course, we also fixed a number of bugs.
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Monday, November 26, 2007 2:05 PM

TSWA tip: Copy a bug to quickly file a new bug in an area related to the original

Like Team Explorer, Team System Web Access does not support work item templates yet (though you can get a power tool work item template add-in for Team Explorer 2005 -- look for power tools for TFS 2008 in December). However, you can use the "Create Copy
Posted by buckh | 2 Comments
Monday, November 12, 2007 8:00 AM

TSWA tip: Send an email with a work item or query results

Let's say you're going through your bugs and want to ask someone a question about one of them. You can use Team System Web Access to send that person an email containing all of the work item's information and a link to it. To email a work item, open the
Posted by buckh | 8 Comments
Thursday, November 08, 2007 11:17 PM

TSWA tip: Search bugs and reports

Have you ever wanted a quick way to find the bugs containing some word? Team System Web Access comes to your rescue. In the upper left corner underneath the team project selector, there is a search box. Type in a word and hit Enter. If you want to search
Posted by buckh | 3 Comments
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:39 PM

TSWA tip: Bulk edit

Sara Ford has a Visual Studio Tip of the Day series going. I thought I'd publish some tips on using Team System Web Access, and this is the first. I don't think I'll be able to do a tip per day. Calling it a "TSWA tip a few times a week" just doesn't
Posted by buckh | 7 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 | 29 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 | 12 Comments
Friday, August 17, 2007 9:53 PM

Team System Web Access for TFS 2005 FAQ

I wanted to highlight the TSWA for TFS 2005 FAQ since it contains good information, including how to switch between Windows authentication and forms authentication, turning off forms authentication, and how to construct the URL to a work item using the
Posted by buckh | 9 Comments
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:16 PM

TFS 2008: A basic guide to Team Build 2008

Patrick Carnahan, a developer on Team Build, put together the following guide to the basic, as well as a few advanced, features of Team Build in TFS 2008. It's a great way to get started with continuous integration and other features in TFS 2008. Team
Posted by buckh | 17 Comments
Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:51 PM

Deleting test results from a build

In either TFS 2005 or TFS 2008, you can delete the test results published against a build ( How to: Publish Test Results ). However, discovering this feature may be difficult, and I didn't find it on MSDN in a quick search of the docs. What you'll need
Posted by buckh | 1 Comments
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