Hakan Eskici

Team System Web Access (TSWA) 2008 SP1 Available

Ed Hintz, Dev Lead for Team System Web Access, has recently announced the availability of TSWA 2008 SP1 power tool. See Ed's blog post for the list of new features in this release: http://blogs.msdn.com/edhintz/archive/2008/08/29/team-system-web-access-2008-sp1-power-tool.aspx

Pointing notification email links to TSWA

One of the new features in TFS 2008 SP1 is the ability to point the links in notification emails to TSWA viewers. Currently, this only works with version control checkin notification emails.   See the following KB article for details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/95676

TFS 2008 SP1 Released

Few days ago, Brian Harry announced the availability of Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1 along with VS, VSTS and .NET 3.5 service packs. These service packs not only come with fixes and patches, but also with a lot of new features.   What's

CTPs for Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 and Work Item Web Access Released today

We have just shipped the Community Technology Preview releases for Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool and Work Item Web Access 2008 Power Tool. Please note that these are "preview" releases and it is not recommended to use them in a production

What's New in TSWA 2008 SP1

Here's a quick summary of the new features in the CTP release for Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 : Single instance with multiple languages A single instance of TSWA now supports multiple languages. By default, the UI language is based on the user's browser

What is Work Item Web Access (WIWA)?

WIWA is a Web UI that allows using some work item tracking features even if the user doesn’t have a Client Access License (CAL). It’s based on TSWA, but provided as a separate download. WIWA simply enables 3 core “file-a-bug” scenarios stated in the TFS

Anniversary of devBiz acquisition

Today marks the first anniversary of Microsoft's acquisition of devBiz - a small software company I've founded with Ahmet Akkas many years ago . Since Ahmet, Serkan and I have joined Microsoft a year ago, we all have been working on Team System Web Access

Spec available for "Codename TFS Bug Submission Portal"

We've published the spec for the "Codename TFS bug submission portal" power tool on Rosario Specs website (1). Note (1): Although it appears on Rosario specs website, this is a power tool for TFS 2008 (Orcas). Here's some background: Team Foundation Server

Serving all languages of TSWA from a single server

As a response to a question asked by Ed Blankenship of Infragistics , Inc., we've been exploring the possibility of serving all languages of TSWA from a single server. The question was how to make the following possible: http:// tswa.example.local >

Team System Web Access available in 8 languages (CHS, CHT, DEU, ESN, FRA, ITA, JPN, KOR)

For the past week, we have been releasing localized versions of Team System Web Access 2008 power tool. Today, all the languages are available to download. You can go to the TSWA 2008 English download page and change the language, or use the direct links

Koders + TSWA Integration

Koders is a code search tool that can index source code from many different sources, including Team Foundation Server and Visual Source Safe. It also integrates with Visual Studio and Team System Web Access seamlessly. Koders and TSWA integration screencas

Team System Web Access 2008 Documentation

There's a decent amount of documentation for Team System Web Access on MSDN that includes installation, usage and getting started topics: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb892990.aspx As a reference, Web Access 2008 download is available at:

A little bit about myself and Web Access

Some of you might already know that I'm the Program Manager on the Web Access team in Team Foundation Server product group. In March 2007, Microsoft acquired the company I had founded with Ahmet Akkas back in 2001. Ahmet, Serkan (one of our senior developers)