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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 5:47 AM

Roundup: Tips For Improving TFS 2008 SP1 Performance

From time to time, I get questions from customers on how to diagnose performance issues with their TFS 2008 SP1 servers and how to improve performance. Here’s a set of blog posts I refer to frequently, now rounded up into one convenient place: General
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:18 AM

Some Benefits of “Checkout” in TFS Version Control

One of the more common points of confusion around TFS source control is the checkout model.  This typically comes from users who are more familiar with the checkout-less model (e.g. Subversion).  I acknowledge the TFS approach is a different
Posted by JasonBa | 11 Comments
Monday, August 10, 2009 11:05 AM

How to undo a pending change in a workspace you no longer have

Not that it’s a huge deal to have stale workspaces lying around, but if you’ve ever wondered how to undo a pending change on a workspace you no longer have (e.g. if you repaved your computer to install Windows 7 and didn’t delete your TFS workspaces first),
Posted by JasonBa | 1 Comments
Monday, August 10, 2009 8:10 AM

How to connect to a TFS 2010 server from a 2008 Team Explorer client

In TFS 2010, we’ve added a new organizational concept called Team Project Collections . This abstraction helps with flexibility in administration scenarios. One TFS 2010 server can host multiple collections of Team Projects. When you’re connecting to
Posted by JasonBa | 4 Comments
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 | 5 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 .
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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.
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