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MSDN Magasize has new article on TFS

Brian A. Randell has written an article titled Work Item Tracking which deals with programming the TFS object model to access work items. He shows the basics of how you can write your own custom work item client; presenting and editing work item data Read More...
Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 10:44 PM by mattlind | 1 Comments

Using TFS with Client on Different Domain

Having read that Team Explorer connects to TFS using the windows identity of the currently logged in user I actually did not even try connecting to the customer TFS server, for some reason I thought it wouldn't work. However, one day I did try. And it Read More...
Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 1:14 PM by mattlind | 2 Comments

Customizing TFS Process Templates - Part 2: Process Template Name, Areas, Iterations and Standard Work Items

The second part of the TFS process template customization series talks about changing the name of the process template, customizing areas and iteration and finally how to control which standard work items that are always created when a project is created Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:41 AM by mattlind | 1 Comments

Workspace Disabled and No Commands Available in Source Control Explorer

One of the developers in my project had a problem today when she wanted to sync files to her local machine and work there instead. She installed the TFS Client on her machine, configured server name etc. and then started Source Code Explorer. To our surprise Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:47 PM by mattlind | 0 Comments

TFS Areas: An Update...

Once you write something down and publish it it's not unusual that you immediately realize that you were only partly correct, this is what happened to me last week when I wrote about the definition of an Area in TFS . Just a few days later the project Read More...
Posted Monday, January 22, 2007 12:56 PM by mattlind | 0 Comments

Customizing TFS Process Templates - Part 1: Basic structure

This post is the first in a three part series that will describe the basic steps to create your own process template. When working with TFS there is a fair chance that there are some part of the process templates that you either do not agree with or that Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:07 AM by mattlind | 1 Comments

New Year, New Posts

It's almost two month since I last posted and the reason for this silence is the start of a new project which has had me completely absorbed. However, we are now on our way and things have settled down so I would like to share some of the experiences Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:10 PM by mattlind | 0 Comments

VSTS (and TFS) Resources

Andrew Coates has a post about VSTS Resource Guide for Developers and Architects , I particularly find the looong list of webcasts interesting. Read More...
Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 9:31 PM by mattlind | 0 Comments

Visual Studio 2005 Team System Basics Training

The Level 200 training that I wrote about earlier (see Ramping up on Team Foundation Server - Some Guidance ) has now been released, you can download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=527e2a17-1dea-4d0b-9484-6ae43d00e570&displaylang=en Read More...
Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 7:14 PM by mattlind | 1 Comments

Team Foundation Server Projects on CodePlex

This is a list of all projects in CodePlex that is tagged for TFS. After a quick review of the list I think TFS Code Review Workflow looks interesting, not only for providing interesting funtionality but also because it shows the extent to which you can Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:38 AM by mattlind | 3 Comments

Team Foundation Server Webcasts in November

Marcus lists a few upcoming webcasts in November related to Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team System. Rob Caron also lists an additional webcast . To me the most interesting webcasts are: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server HOW TO: Plan for, Read More...
Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 1:06 PM by mattlind | 1 Comments

An Advantage for SourceSafe over Team Foundation Server

Having worked with Visual SourceSafe (VSS) since the mid-90s, first as a developer working at an ISV and then for the last seven years as a consultant at Microsoft, I have grown quite fond of this application. SourceSafe has always been there for me when Read More...
Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 1:17 PM by mattlind | 2 Comments

Ramping up on Team Foundation Server - Some Guidance

Recently my effort to ramp Team Foundation Server (TFS) has been intensified due to that I will start a new project this week where I plan to use Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) and TFS , but I have also been assigned to hold a training in December on Read More...
Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 11:59 PM by mattlind | 1 Comments
 
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