Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

Mark — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:05:12 GMT

When I attempt to run this I get the following error:

System.IO.FileLoadException was unhandled

Message: Could not load file or assembly 'BuildNotification, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. Strong name validation failed. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8013141A)

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

buckh — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:42:46 GMT

Thanks for letting me know. I've updated the post with a binary that is not delay signed. Sorry about that!

Buck

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

Richard Murillo — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:49:30 GMT

Fantastic tool! Thanks Buck!

Preview de Power Tool para TFS 2008: herramienta de system tray para resultados de builds

Luis Fraile — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:05:25 GMT

Pues nada, aquí os pongo para que le deis un vistazo al blog de Buck Hodges que anuncia una nueva Power

Preview de Power Tool para TFS 2008: herramienta de system tray para resultados de builds

Luis Fraile — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:05:49 GMT

Pues nada, aquí os pongo para que le deis un vistazo al blog de Buck Hodges que anuncia una nueva Power

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

Luis Fraile — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:11:56 GMT

Some little problem with it, first time I ran it, I had my Team Explorer 2008 connected to a TFS 2005 instance, so it tried to connect to that instance, I closed the system tray tool (selecting "Close permantly") I started VS 2008, connect to a 2008 instance, launch the build notification tool, but it stills tries to connect to the previous TFS 2005 instance:(

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

buckh — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:57:50 GMT

Luis, I think what's happening is that the tray app connects to all of the registered servers. Thus, you are seeing it connect to both the 2008 and the 2005 server. However, if I've not understood this correctly, please let me know.

Buck

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

Luis Fraile — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:12:56 GMT

Hi Buck, so the poblem is with my Team Explorer 2008 B2 :( it started failing recently, and I tried to repair but still failing when connecting to builds, so maybe I will need to reinstall it :(

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

Buck Hodges — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:48:48 GMT

You may want to look at the event log on the application tier to see if there are any errors or warnings that would provide some insight into the problem.

Buck

VSTS Links - 09/25/2007

Team System News — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:18:56 GMT

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Continuous Integration tray tool for TFS

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Check out the new tray tool for monitoring Team Builds on Buck's blog. It's just a preview at this point

Continuous Integration tray tool for TFS

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Check out the new tray tool for monitoring Team Builds on Buck's blog. It's just a preview at

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Integration tray tool for TFS

Still trying re-inventing the wheel

CruiseControl.NET user — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:44:49 GMT

CC.NET works fine, yet MS still likes to try to reinvent the wheel. Great job on doing something that was done 5 years ago!

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

rbirkby — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:39:38 GMT

Tray?

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/09/10/54831.aspx

This must be a bug ;-)

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

Gert C. — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:25:46 GMT

I know its probably a lame request, but is there any chance of a scaled-down-to-TFS-2005 release?

We are 3-6 months from going to TFS 2008, so giving our developers this feature would be appreciated.

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

buckh — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:31:16 GMT

rbirkby, thanks! We'll have to clean that up. ;-)

Buck

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

buckh — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:39:03 GMT

Gert, unfortunately the schedule doesn't permit doing that. However, there are a couple of options for notifications with TFS 2005.

http://blogs.msdn.com/abhinaba/archive/2006/08/09/693234.aspx

http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=TfsAlert

Buck

Team Foundation Server Power Tools - nový release

BonzBlog Michaela Juřka — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:57:31 GMT

Brian Harry, tedy ikona Team Foundation Serveru, píše na svém blogu o novém zářijovém vydání Power Tools

TFS 2008 : Notification des builds

Visual Studio Team System — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:57:02 GMT

Vous avez maintenant à votre disposition un outil pour notifier les Builds via des “tickers”. Son installation

Using VSTS 2008 memory allocation profiling

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Preview: Build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

Christian Binder's Weblog — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:54:28 GMT

Buck Hodges Development Lead für TFS Build stellt das Notification Applet Power Tool für TFS 2008 vor.

Preview: Build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

Noticias externas — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:33:23 GMT

Buck Hodges Development Lead für TFS Build stellt das Notification Applet Power Tool für TFS 2008 vor

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

Gabriel Lozano-Moran — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:23:27 GMT

Why don't put this project on CodePlex? I have installed this on several computers and one of the side-effects of this version is that I cannot "Restart" the computers. When we want to restart them we have to close the application first.

Another issue is that when you close it and choose for the option "Close for now", the next time you log on to Windows it will open the folder "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio..." instead of running the application.

Please not that the users that run this tool are not local administrators as I believe this might cause these issues.

When can we expect a new release?

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

buckh — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:48:44 GMT

Gabriel, thanks for reporting these issues. We reproduced and fixed the restart issue (also happens with log off) on Vista.

We weren't able to reproduce the second issue, so it may have been fixed by other changes since September.

A new version of this tool will be included in the upcoming Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools release (slated for this month).

Buck

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

Buck Hodges — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:54:26 GMT

Earlier today, we released the first version of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 ! I want to highlight

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

Noticias externas — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:37:58 GMT

Earlier today, we released the first version of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 ! I want to highlight

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

Buck Hodges — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:34:11 GMT

The download is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00803636-1d16-4df1-8a3d-ef1ad4f4bbab&displaylang=en

Problems with Build Notification Icon

Mal — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:31:44 GMT

G'day, We've recently installed Visual Studio 2008 with TFS 2008 and the power tools. Initially it was all working great but recently the build notification seems to not be working. The notification icon in the taskbar/tray displays without either a green tick or red cross (it seems to have 3 little arrows above it like you get before connecting to a server). Choosing View Build Status reveals no info on the builds even though they are selected in the build notification options (ie the server and builds are visible there). The build is working on the server itself and it does send a confirmation email on completion. Our machines are running XP and are on a domain that doesn't have internet connectivity if that makes any difference, and we've also disabled windows firewall. I'm sure it only involves a tweak somewhere to get it working again but I'm all out of ideas...any suggestions (or even explanations of the mechanism it uses) would be much appreciated. Thanks!

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

Mal — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:18:23 GMT

Re the problem above we've installed the July 08 power tools release and thats fixed it. Cheers :)

It works but it's not always reliable

Glen Weaver — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:34:24 GMT

Members of my team have installed the recently-released (July 2008) Power Tools and are trying to use the build notification tray. Unfortunately we sometimes don't get told about broken builds.

Through other means (such as email) we learn about the broken build, check the tray (it's still green), and get details (it's showing the status of builds made hours ago rather than the most recent ones for each project).

If I deselect some of the projects, I get the most recent build. I can then go add the other projects again and get the most recent build information...for now...but it may be out of date again soon.

Any way to fix this?

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

Mal — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:08:28 GMT

Are you running the .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta or VS2008 Service Pack 1 Beta by chance? We found the build notification didn't fully behave itself again until we'd rolled back to a pre SP1 beta stage...

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

Glen Weaver — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:36:27 GMT

Yes, we're running SP1 beta for .net 3.5 and vs2008. Guess we'll have to wait to use this tool.

Visibility of next scheduled build

jd — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:14:00 GMT

Is it possible to view the next scheduled build task in advanced?

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

buckh — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:31:01 GMT

JD, unfortunately we don't currently have the ability to show the next scheduled build. It's something we'll try to add in the future.

Buck

Icon status does not update.

Sucharith — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:18:52 GMT

I have the July edition of Power tools and have the latest framework and Visual studio 2008 with SP1 installed. The BuildNotification.exe file version is 9.0.20919.0 and has a 7/14/2008 date. I seems to have the same problem that I donot see any notifications and the build status is old. it refreshes only when the application is restarted. Is there a fix?

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

buckh — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:28:35 GMT

Sucharith, sorry for the incovenience. Yes, there is a bug in the July release when combined with SP1. We have fixed this for the upcoming release, which is targeted for this month. See Brian's post for more info on this next release: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/10/01/preview-of-the-next-tfs-power-tools-release.aspx.

Buck

re: Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

Mr B — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:20:55 GMT

Take a look at http://agilepractice.blogspot.com/2009/02/buildwatcher-continuously-keeping-eye.html. It shows an application that continuously watches all your Team Foundation projects.