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Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:07 AM

Mining Work Items for Opportunities to Improve Your Engineering Process

One of the things I spend a lot of time doing as a test manager is mining for interesting data in our work item tracking system (TFS of course).  For example, this morning, I went through a query of bugs that had been resolved as “won’t fix” but
Posted by JasonBa | 1 Comments
Monday, June 01, 2009 10:34 PM

Help! Files in my bin directory are automatically added to source control!

You’re pulling your hair out.  Any file saved to the bin directory (even log files and temporary files you generate) end up getting added to source code control.  You’re getting more frustrated by the minute, especially when you try to build
Posted by JasonBa | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:13 AM

Make Sure You Reinstall VS 2008 SP1 After Installing Team Explorer

If you installed Team Explorer into Visual Studio after you applied Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, you’ll need to re-apply the service pack.  If you don’t, then you’ll be running an unsupported “mixed mode” installation, meaning the core Visual
Posted by JasonBa | 4 Comments
Friday, December 12, 2008 12:32 PM

Check out the new VSTS Community Website on MSDN

We've just launched a new page on MSDN to help give some visibility to the great contributions from the VSTS community.  Check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts2008/bb964396.aspx .
Posted by JasonBa | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:40 AM

TFS Build Tweeter renamed

TFS Build Tweeter has been renamed to TFS Build Monitor to better refelct its purpose. This cool community project can send out alerts for TFS Build events via Twitter or light up a USB powered " build light ". Visit the project's page on Codeplex for
Posted by JasonBa | 2 Comments
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:21 AM

NotAtPDC - A Conference for the Rest of Us

If you're like me, you're sitting at your desk working today instead of attending PDC '08 .  Luckily, sessions are available from Channel9 24 hours after each event (tags: PDC 2008 , PDC08 ), so you can still get all the scoop.  First up for
Posted by JasonBa | 2 Comments
Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:13 AM

Preview of next TFS Power Tools Release

Chances are you’ve already heard about this, but if you don’t read Brian Harry’s blog regularly, this is one post you don’t want to miss .  Brian has posted some screenshots and details about our upcoming TFS Power Tools release.  This isn’t
Posted by JasonBa | 1 Comments
Monday, September 22, 2008 9:34 AM

BuildTweeter - TFS Build Publisher for Twitter

If you’re looking for even more ways to get pinged by your build server, check out release v0.1 of BuildTweeter on CodePlex.  It’s a handy little Windows service that monitors build events and build quality change events and will post them to the
Posted by JasonBa | 3 Comments
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:41 AM

Dot Net Rocks episode 373 is all about TFS 2008

I should probably listen to the whole episode before blogging this :)  DNR Episode 373 was just posted, and it features Brian Randell and Martin Woodward talking about all the goodness in TFS 2008.  Now stop reading my blog and go listen!
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:21 AM

Why "Get Latest" sometimes doesn't...

I've seen quite a bit of angst from new TFS users over the "Get Latest Version" behavior in Team Foundation Server source code control, so I think it's worth a bit of discussion. The most common issue people report is that issuing the "Get
Posted by JasonBa | 4 Comments
Monday, August 11, 2008 9:38 PM

TFS Installation and Administration guides updated for VS 2008 SP1

With today's release of VS 2008 SP1 (including Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1), we've updated the Installation and Administration guides for TFS. If you are planning to deploy TFS SP1, please download and review these versions of the guides before proceeding.
Posted by JasonBa | 1 Comments
Monday, May 12, 2008 3:28 PM

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is live!

The Beta release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is live and available for download!  For users of Team Foundation Server, there are 2 downloads: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Beta) Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1 (Beta) The
Posted by JasonBa | 5 Comments
Friday, April 25, 2008 9:42 PM

For review: New docs for moving a TFS server from one hardware configuration to another

The VSTS User Education team has posted a draft of updated documentation for the topic "Moving Team Foundation Server From One Configuration To Another" for public review. An undocumented change to the RenameDT command essentially invalidated the docs
Posted by JasonBa | 2 Comments
Monday, April 21, 2008 3:25 PM

March 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Brian Harry has blogged all the details , so I won't repeat them all here.  In particular, I know several of you have been pinging us for tool to configure 64-bit Sharepoint for TFS 2008, so, you'll be happy to know that this has been included as
Posted by JasonBa | 3 Comments
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 8:13 PM

Can your version control system hold 236 million files?

Brian Harry has blogged our current TFS dogfood server statistics (our internal deployment of Team Foundation Server). Some of the numbers continue to amaze me. For example, we currently have over 236 million files stored on the server! In the last 7
Posted by JasonBa | 2 Comments
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