Category: TFS

For anyone managing multiple build types within Team Foundation Server's Team Build service, you've probably come to realize there are several shortcomings in v1.0.  For example, there's nothing in the IDE that lets you stop a running build for delete completed builds. Although I've built a couple of utilities on my own to alleviate some of these issues there is now a project on CodePlex which handles these issues very nicely (and looks way cooler than anything I've written for these tasks :-) - TFSBuildManager. TFSBuildManager has the following features: Start, stop a build Change build/s quality Delete, backup build/s…

For anyone using the AssemblyInfoTask custom build task you may have noticed that it does not work (using default settings) when performing a build in the new year (2007). This is due to a restriction within Microsoft's version number scheme (i.e. it uses 16 bit numbers).The AssemblyInfoTask home page suggests a work around by modifying the Microsoft.VersionNumber.targets file (on the build server) and changing all occurrences (there's two of them) of "yyMMdd" to "01MMdd". This will work for the remainder of the year, at which point you'll need to change the format to "02MMdd" for 2008.If you are like most…

I'm currently working in a shop that tracks defects in Quality Center but I would like for our development team to be able to work with TFS defects directly from their Visual Studio IDE. I started to work on an in-house solution for synchronizing defects, however, I recently found out about a utility for synchronizing bug/defect items between Mercury Quality Center and Team Foundation Server. Although I haven't used it yet (I'll be trying it out over the next week or so) it looks to be very promising.Here is a quick rundown of how it works:For every selected defect for…

The SRL Team has released a new utility to help with the management of Team Foundation Server permissions.? TFS Permission Manager 1.0 has allows you to work with all aspects of TFS-related permissions and includes the following capabilities: Add or remove TFS group memberships, Reporting Services role memberships and SharePoint role memberships Set Server- and Project-level permissions Set Area Path and Source Control permissions Create new TFS users with permissions identical to those of an existing user Save user permissions as a template and use it later to create new or update existing users If you have the responsibility?of managing?permissions…

While bouncing 'round the 'Net this morning I came across the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server FAQ.I'm sure this page has been around for a while but I thought it was definitely worth reading so I thought I'd pass it along. It's definitely a good "first stop" when you have a question about TFS.

In case you haven't already noticed (I'm a little late on this posting due to being off the last week) Microsoft has released two Service Pack 1 betas - Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta and Team Foundation Server SP1 Beta.Brian Harry has posted details here and here about Team Foundation Server SP1 Beta. To summarize, SP1 includes a few new features as well as several bug fixes and performance improvements. Some of the new features include:Extranet SupportWIT Custom Control SupportSupport for Office 2007 (Project & Excel - no SharePoint 2007 yet)Detailed Merge HistoryAbility to Separate SQL Analysis Services ServerBrian has…

Great news for users of Team Foundation Server - a new set of Power Toys has been made available. This includes updates to existing Power Toys as well as the addition of several new Power Toys.Some of the highlights include:The TFS MSSCCI Provider is now officially supported by Microsoft.Previous Power Toys have been pulled out of the SDK and made available in this separate download (so you don't have to download the entire SDK).Four new Power Toys have been included including tfpt bind, tfpt query/tfpt workitem, Annotate (very cool), and TreeDiff.Read the full post on Brian Harry's blog or click…