Tips of the Day on .NET : Visual Studio Team System

Visual Studio 2008 is RTM!!

tolong — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:39:00 GMT

Yesterday at TechEd Europe we announced that Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 will be released by the end of November. There are some video recordings on the Channel 9: Lap around Visual Studio 2008 & .NET Framework 3.5 What's new in...(read more)

Client Cannot connect to TFS after installing service pack 1

tolong — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:39:00 GMT

Recently I have a customer faced an issue that the client cannot connect to the TFS after installing service pack1. This is really weird as we connected to the TFS successfully and created a team project. But after the service pack 1 installation, the...(read more)

Visual Studio Team System Project Server 2007 Connector

tolong — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:24:00 GMT

Now you can integrate the project management capabilities of VSTS with Project Server 2007 by using the Visual Studio Team System Project Server 2007 Connector. http://www.codeplex.com/pstfsconnector Before this, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS)...(read more)

Managing Workitem Relationships

tolong — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:23:00 GMT

TeamRM is a Visual Studio plug-in that allows you to manage and create Parent/Child and Link relationships between Team Foundation Work Items. This is a Windows application that facilitates merging by work item between branches in version control. Users...(read more)

Web Test on IE7?

tolong — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:56:00 GMT

If you installed Visual Studio on Windows Vista, and create a web test on IE7, you might encounter a problem that the web test recorder is not functioning. This is because of the administrator permission issue. So, what you need to do is, right-click...(read more)

TeamPlain Web Access for Team System

tolong — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:55:00 GMT

TeamPlain Web Access is available here as free download to all Team Foundation Server customers. Now you can access to team foundation server without using Visual Studio 2005 or Team Explorer by using the lightweight and simpler web interface offered...(read more)

Get Started with VSTS

tolong — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:33:00 GMT

Want to get started with Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)? Go to this site to download the VSTS Basics Training material. This download is a virtual image, which broke into 7 zipped files and 1 exe self-extract file. The image is installed completely...(read more)

Does Macro work with TFS?

tolong — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:07:00 GMT

If you are using Microsoft excel,project for some times, you might find using macros really ease your daily job. So, when come to integration excel and project with TFS, does macro still work with TFS? In fact, you can still create your own macro to call...(read more)

Remote access Team Foundation Server through VPN

tolong — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:12:00 GMT

If you want to allow your Team Foundation Server clients remotely access the Team Foundation Server, you can implement Virtual Private Network (VPN). The initial release of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server supports only Integrated Windows authentication...(read more)

Enable Source Control Caching for TFS Proxy

tolong — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:31:00 GMT

You can easily Configure Team Foundation Server Proxy to manage a cache of source control files for the Team Foundation Server application-tier server by editing the Proxy.config file on the proxy server. 1. On the Team Foundation Server Proxy computer,...(read more)

Promote Team Foundation Server from Workgroup to Domain

tolong — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:49:00 GMT

If you already installed the Team Foundation Server in a workgroup, and you plan to promote it to a domain. What you need to do is to change the two service accounts ([computername\TFSSERVICE], [computername\TFSREPORTS]) usernams and passwords You can...(read more)

Setting Up Team Foundation Server Proxy

tolong — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:21:00 GMT

Team Foundation Server Proxy is a way that you can utilize to enhance the network performance by caching copies of source control files in a remote location. So that developers do not need to get the files from main source control location, which with...(read more)

Test-driven development made easy

tolong — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:54:00 GMT

How many software development projects actually start with writing unit test cases? None perhaps. Writing unit test cases is often an after-thought, typically by the same developers who implemented the same classes in .NET. In Visual Studio Team Edition...(read more)

Integrate Team Foundation Server with other products

tolong — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:23:00 GMT

Now you can integrate Team Foundation Server with other products that do not support team explorer integration. You can download and install the Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider . Download from here . By installing this, you can...(read more)

Upgrade from Team Foundation Server Trial Edition

tolong — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:35:00 GMT

For those who are using Team Foundation Server Trial Edition, here is the guide on how to upgrade to Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Team Foundation Server Workgroup edition:

TFS Trial à TFS
1. On the Team Foundation application-tier server, click Start, click Settings, and then click Control Panel
2. Click Add or Remove Programs
3. Click Change or Remove Programs. Click Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, and then click Change/Remove
4. In Maintenance Mode Options, select Upgrade to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server
5. Key in the product key for your Team Foundation Server, and then click Next.
6. On the Maintenance - Setup Complete page, click Finish

TFS Workgroup Trial Edition à TFS Workgroup Trial Edition
1. On the Team Foundation application-tier server, click Start, click Settings, and then click Control Panel
2. Click Add or Remove Programs
3. Click Change or Remove Programs. Click Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, and then click Change/Remove
4. In Maintenance Mode Options, select Upgrade to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server
5. Key in the product key for your Team Foundation Server, and then click Next.
6. On the Maintenance - Setup Complete page, click Finish
7. On the Control Panel, Click Add or Remove Programs
8. Click Change or Remove Programs. Click Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, and then click Change/Remove
9. In Maintenance Mode Options, select Repair or Reinstall, and then click Next
10. On the Service Account page, enter the TFS service account name and password
11. On the Reporting Data Source Account page, enter the TFS reporintg account name and password
12. On the Maintenance - Repair Complete page, click Finish

*You need Team Foundation Server product media to complete the upgrade from TFS workgroup trial edition to TFS workgroup edition