- Power Tools 1.2 released!
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A new set of power tools for Team Foundation Server has been released! This new package contains many new tools, but what is most exciting for me is the process template editor. Here is a list of tools available in the package and a link to download.
- Workspace Command (tfpt.exe) - Use the workspace command for additional workspace operations not supported in the currently shipping Team Foundation Server command line (tf.exe).
- Treeclean Command (tfpt.exe) - Use the treeclean command to see and optionally delete files in the current directory and all subdirectories that are not under version control.
- Process Template Editor - A tool to provide UI for authoring work item types and some of the associated Process Template components.
- Check-in Policy Pack - A set of handy check-in policies to address needs customers have expressed.
- Build Test Tools Task - A tool that allows running unit tests by simply specifying the DLLs or even specifying a file name pattern in TfsBuild.proj, instead of using .vsmdi files to specify tests to run.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7324c3db-658d-441b-8522-689c557d0a79&displaylang=en
- Bug Capture
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I hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year! I ran across an interesting post yesterday from our U.K. Sales team on an IE plugin for TFS. Basically it alllows you to capture a screenshot, css info, html source, user environment, etc when the user finds a bug in a web application. This will help promote better communication between testers and developers. If you are interested check out the details in this post .
- Database Professional has launched!!
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Thank you to everyone that had chance to attend the launch events for VSTS for Database Professionals. It is exciting to see that after a year after launching VSTS we are able to add to the suite with new exciting tools for SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 DBAs and developers. For those of you that are interested I have included two links to the powerpoint presentations for the launch event.
Database Change
Database Test
- Visual Studio Team System Chat - Wed, Nov 8th
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Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP).
Join the chat on Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time.
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- Branching and Merging
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I get several questions when talking with customers on branching in TFS. Whether the question is "how should we branch", or "when should we branch" we have provided a primer on some basic strategies. It's a good short read on how to branch, but also points out some of the drawbacks to certain strategies.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/team/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/branchmerge.asp
- Team System Chat - Today
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Visual Studio Team System Chat
Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in Visual Studio Code Name Orcas September CTP and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals CTP 5.
Join the chat on Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time.
- TFS Internal Dogfooding
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Brian Harry blogs about our current TFS Dogfood topology at Microsoft.
"Given how much I talk about our internal "dogfooding" of TFS on this blog, I thought you might be interested in seeing a diagram of what our internal deployment actually looks like. This diagram was put together by our IT department a couple of weeks ago. It shows the basic network topology, regions we have servers and the number and purpose of various servers. I don't even know what all of them are but I'll point out some highlights."
From: Microsoft's Team Foundation Server Deployment Topology
- TFS projects
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One question that seems to come up in discussions about TFS is what level in a software development project does it makes sense to create a Team Project. My guidance has always been to try and keep the Team Project at the highest level in a project. Eric Lee has posted a bit of guidance and an example of how we use Team Projects internally at Microsoft.
- Welcome
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Welcome to my blog site. After a year at Microsoft I have decided to brush the dust off and start blogging about Visual Studio Team System. In the past year working as a Technical Specialist I have talked with many customers about VSTS, and have discussed the usage of VSTS in their environment. Over time I will be posting on topics related to VSTS and Team Foundation Server, as well as pointing to important announcements.
