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Saturday, September 30, 2006 4:23 AM

get-workspace.ps1 - easier access to that wonderful Workspace instance

Along with easier TeamFoundationServer access , one of the things I found myself wanting was easier access to the wonderful Workspace instance. As before, the goal here is just to make it a little easier to get access to the instance of a useful object
Posted by jmanning | 3 Comments

Attachment(s): get-workspace.ps1
Thursday, September 28, 2006 5:50 PM

get-tfs.ps1 - example of adding properties to make interactive life easier

One of the things I noticed while working inside PowerShell was wanting to make a quick TFS object model (OM) call (for instance, to VersionControlServer) and slice/data/inspect the results. The OM calls to get an instance of TeamFoundationServer aren't
Posted by jmanning | 9 Comments

Attachment(s): get-tfs.ps1
Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:00 PM

IronPython + PowerShell = 2 great tastes that taste great together!

Posted just for Ravi :) IronPython Sample: IPPowerShell This sample shows how to use PowerShell commands from IronPython by invoking the PowerShell API(s) directly and also by using a nice Python helper class. The samples use both of these techniques
Posted by jmanning | 2 Comments
Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:29 PM

PowerShell equiv of xargs -n

On an internal mailing list the question came up of how to take this stream of objects going in the pipeline and break it up into arrays of a given chunk size - so if you had 100 objects on the way in and decided to group in chunks of 10, you'd get 10
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Tuesday, September 05, 2006 3:14 AM

Peanuts! Cracker Jack! VSTS Videos and WebCasts!

After last month's collection of wonderful goodness , I see Jeff Bramwell is getting together his own collection of goodness : a collection of all the VSTS videos and webcasts . Can you help Jeff fill out his list? Easy quick first hit: the ones Cameron
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Tuesday, September 05, 2006 12:11 AM

Internet? Check. Chat? Check. Relay? We don't need no stinkin' relay!

I'm totally just copying Ed's entry , but I noticed the DB SKU isn't listed there. I'm going to have to ping Cameron and Gert to make sure at least a couple of warm bodies from that crew show up, as I would expect there to be a lot of excitement about
Posted by jmanning | 2 Comments
Monday, September 04, 2006 2:44 PM

Various ways of moving a TFS instance to another machine

Naren included a bunch of good links in a forum post , so I wanted to include a copy here. Yes, TFS can be moved from one server to another and all move types are explained in http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404879.aspx . Below are few direct
Posted by jmanning | 1 Comments
Monday, September 04, 2006 1:17 AM

PowerShell - you're soaking in it!

A little holiday weekend silliness thanks to a lifehacker link .
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Monday, September 04, 2006 1:14 AM

tail -f on the TFS activity log

We already saw how we could use the QueryServerRequests web method to tell the calls that are actively going on for the Version Control portion of our TFS instance . I've found that to be pretty useful, as I use it on nearly a daily basis to quickly see
Posted by jmanning | 4 Comments

Attachment(s): tail-tfsactivitylog.ps1
Saturday, September 02, 2006 9:24 PM

in PowerShell, parameter binding is stronger than operators

This is one of the PowerShell behaviors that caught me a little off-guard at first. I don't necessarily disagree with the choice the PS team made (although obviously, at least for me as a data point, it violated the principle of least surprise :), but
Posted by jmanning | 1 Comments
 
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