Microsoft UK Developer Tools Team

Installing TFS 2010 on Windows Home Server

2009-11-12T14:41:39Z

A really interesting blog from Jason Neave on getting TFS Basic up and running on Windows Home Server. I’m inspired to do this myself now (I just need to replace my deceased Windows Home Server hardware):

http://blogs.msdn.com/jneave/archive/2009/10/30/installing-tfs-2010-beta2-on-windows-home-server.aspx

Cheers,
Giles

Microsoft has Acquired the Teamprise Client Suite

2009-11-09T17:53:39Z

Very interesting and exciting news – Microsoft has acquired the Teamprise Client Suite that provides (amongst other things) access to TFS from Eclipse. Good blogs to read:

The official announcement

From the Visual Studio product group

From Teamprise

Cheers,

Giles

Enabling Code Coverage in VS 2010 Beta 2

2009-11-06T17:17:18Z

A quick “how-to” as the steps to enable code coverage are different in Beta 2. To enable code coverage (assuming that you have some unit tests defined already and that you have either Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Premium or Ulitmate):

Open the Solution Explorer.
Open the Solution Items folder
Double-click the Local.testsettings file:

Select the Data and Diagnostics option in the left hand list:

Select Code Coverage and make sure that it is enabled AND (and here’s the obvious but easy to overlook bit) click on the Configure option at the top of the table:

Select the artifacts that you want to enable code coverage for (in my case only the application code, not the tests themselves).
Click OK, Apply the changes, run the Unit tests and view the code coverage results:

And that’s it – hopefully that might help avoid a couple of minutes of wondering where the configuration settings can be found.

Cheers,

Giles

Migrate Existing Test Cases To TFS 2010

2009-11-06T12:52:00Z

If you have been looking at the new Test & Lab Manager with Visual Studio 2010 and you're wondering how you can import your existing test cases then take a look at the Test Case Migrator (Excel) Tool that has just been released to Codeplex.

Rich

What Does The Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2“Go Live” Licence Mean?

2009-10-19T18:11:11Z

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 4 are declared as “go live” releases. What does this mean? A good overview from Jeff Beehler.

Cheers,

Giles

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Is Available

2009-10-19T17:38:35Z

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available from MSDN now. It will be made generally available on the 21st October. A comprehensive “how-to” around where to get it, how to install it and other useful information has been published by Brian Keller.

I’m now running Team Foundation Server 2010 natively on my Windows 7 laptop in a Basic configuration, without SQL Server or SharePoint installed, and it’s looking great. I’m really enjoying not having to have a server operating system (running in a virtual machine) just to work with my own team projects. Fantastic for small teams, or make the most of the full version with SQL Server and WSS/MOSS.

Cheers,

Giles

How TFS 2010 Provides Even Better Support For Small Teams

2009-10-02T17:31:56Z

Great post from Brian Harry on how TFS 2010 can be installed on client machines with minimal infrastructure, e.g. a Windows 7 netbook. So, if you’d like an easier install on a wider variety of OS’s (client and server, 32 and 64 bit) it’s a good article to read.

Cheers,

Giles

Get ready for Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2: Chat with the TFS Setup and Admin Team

2009-09-29T22:06:42Z

I’ve copied the blurb from the post for a LiveMeeting on installing TFS 2010 Beta 2 on the 15th October:

“The Team Foundation Server Setup and Admin team would like to help get you ready for Team Foundation Server Beta2 with a live presentation via live meeting.

While the session will focus on getting Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS) up and running Ed will also be touching on the features that now enable TFS to “scale down” to the smallest development efforts from both resource and administration point of view. This will session be a little different than my normal presentations in that we will also be running a parallel chat session for people to ask questions in real time.“

Cheers,

Giles

Mainframe Support for TFS from Teamprise

2009-09-29T22:02:26Z

I thought this was an interesting blog post from Martin Woodward at Teamprise discussing how they are working on mainframe integration via Teamprise into TFS.

Cheers,

Giles

Windows 7 RTM Available to all MSDN Subscribers on August 6

2009-08-03T10:25:00Z

On August 6^th, the first public release of Windows 7 will be to MSDN Subscribers, which is over two months ahead of the general availability date of October 22^nd for retail and OEM customers. To support the variety of languages and builds, 893 different images are being released to MSDN Subscriber Downloads in three waves through August 21^st.

We expect that this release will break all MSDN download traffic records, which is why groups from across the company have gone through tremendous effort to ensure its success. This has included but is not limited to: load and performance testing on the MSDN Web site, adding significant capacity to the product key servers, performance testing on the product key servers, capacity planning for the download servers and network, and more.

Quest Releases Beta of Oracle DSP for Visual Studio Team System 2010

2009-07-27T13:32:00Z

Quest Software has released a public beta of “Project Fuze,” a database schema provider (DSP) for Oracle databases that can be used within Visual Studio Team System 2010. Project Fuze enables Oracle developers to manage schema changes, PL SQL, stored procedures, triggers and more right from within Visual Studio Team System 2010. All of this work can be done offline and then deployed to various servers. When it comes time to deploy, the Oracle developer can compare the offline schema model in Visual Studio Team System 2010 to the live database instance and create an update script to synchronize the two. Finally, all work items can be stored and versioned under Team Foundation Server source code control along with the rest of the application. This will enable the Oracle database professional to better integrate themselves with the development team, at the same time becoming familiar with Microsoft tools and platforms.

Details at: www.teamfuze.net

New TFS Migration Solutions Page

2009-07-12T22:30:10Z

There’s a new consolidated summary of the TFS migration and integration solutions available here. It’s a good, clear summary of the options available if you want to migrate from an existing product or are looking for integrations.

Cheers
Giles

Automated Build Video

2009-06-12T17:51:03Z

I’ve put together a video on the automated build capabilities of Team Foundation Server. I thought it would be useful to step through running a build, looking at the results of a build and understanding what triggers you can set for automated builds.

You can download the video here.

Cheers

Giles

Code Quality with The Development Edition

2009-06-03T12:06:55Z

I thought it might be interesting to quickly demonstrate how you can go beyond unit testing with Visual Studio Team System Development Edition and take a look at code coverage, code metrics and code analysis:

You can get the video here. Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions for future topics; I’m currently planning to do a build and a process video next.

Cheers,

Giles

Second Video in the Series – MY First TEam Project

2009-05-27T14:29:24Z

To follow up on Rich’s video What is Visual Studio Team System I’ve added a second video to the series which continues the introduction but this time by walking through the creation of a new Team Project, explaining the options and discussing the main elements of the newly created project.

I was trying to keep to 5 minutes, and nearly made it (2 seconds over):

Download the video here.