This category groups all content related to the team Foundation Server platform
Microsoft announced today the purchase of Teamprise Client Suite, from Teamprise.
Teamprise is a division of SourceGear and it's main focus is creating products and solutions for enterprise companies standardizing on Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server. SourceGear's most popular product is SourceOffSite. You have probably already heard of it.
Teamprise Client Suite consists of 3 components:
Eclipse plugin - Allows developers to perform all of their source control, bug tracking, build, and reporting operations from within Eclipse and Eclipse-based IDEs, such as Rational Application Developer, JBoss, BEA Workshop, and Adobe Flex Builder. It integrates into the menu...
Some time ago I compiled a list of some of the most useful webcasts and articles regarding the basic tasks of Team Foundation Server 2008. Most of them are from TeamSystemRocks, witch is an excellent resource in terms of this technology. So I thought of leaving them here as a reference:
Webcasts
Visual Studio team System Webcast
VisualStudioTeamSystem2008_5F00_TFSWebcast.wmv
Using Team Explorer Webcast
http://teamsystemrocks.com/media/p/1800.aspx
Using Team Foundation Server Command Line Tools
http://teamsystemrocks.com/media/p/1799.aspx
Understanding VSTS Reports
http://teamsystemrocks.com/media/p/1798.aspx
Project Metrics Data Warehouse
http://teamsystemrocks.com/media/p/1797.aspx
Navigating The VSTF project Portal
http://teamsystemrocks.com/media/p/1796.aspx
MSF Agile Project Template
http://teamsystemrocks.com/media/p/1795.aspx
Microsoft Project Integration
http://teamsystemrocks.com/media/p/1794.aspx
Microsoft Excel Integration
http://teamsystemrocks.com/media/p/1793.aspx
Enforcing and Customizing Check-in Policies
http://teamsystemrocks.com/media/p/1792.aspx
Customizing Work Items
http://teamsystemrocks.com/media/p/1791.aspx
Customizing The Build process with Team Build
http://teamsystemrocks.com/media/p/1790.aspx
Customizing Process templates
http://teamsystemrocks.com/media/p/1789.aspx
Creating Custom Reports in VSTS
http://teamsystemrocks.com/media/p/1788.aspx
Configuring Team Foundation...
Ekobit recently released a new version of TeamCompanion. Now in version 2.2, this cool add-in allows you to integrate e-mail and Outlook with Team Foundation Server. This minor version release aims essentially for the improvement of usability and user experience.
Here’s what you get with the 2.2 version:
• Better offline support and support for occasionally connected clients
• Improved Work item edit form
• Improved Work item preview (Support for history; preview is now fully customizable)
• Improved Work item from Mail action
• Improved Open related object action – for emails multiple related objects are offered; related work item...
It's been a while since I posted here, and shameless as it might seem I just moved to my new appartment and it's been a busy month.
Trying to redeem my self, It's time for another great announcement: On Monday, Microsoft released Visual Studio/Team System 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1 for those who are MSDN subscribers. Well today it is time for everyone else to have a piece of the cake. Counting from yesterday, the download is publically available to anyone who wants to download it. I have to say that this is indeed a treat. The new features...
Microsoft released today the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 GDR (General Distribution Release). This release addresses some issues and should only be installed if you have some kind of issue. Otherwise, it is not recommended to do so. You better wait.
In case you don't know what a GDR is, here's a quick explanation:
A GDR addresses an issue that has a broad customer impact, that has security implications, or that has both. It is determined and issued by Microsoft as appropriate and when appropriate. GDRs are kept to a minimum and cannot be requested by a customer. Microsoft internally determines whether a...
I've been reading some info on the next release of Team Foundation Server, codename "Rosario" (if anyone knows the origin of this please let me know) and aside from technological advancements an improvements there are some budget and platform considerations to think about as well.
For starters, TFS "Rosario" was considered not to support Windows Server 2003. But Microsoft had little to gain from this, and customers had a lot to loose. So, next versions of TFS after Rsario will drop support for Windows Server 2003, and mantain full support for Windows Server 2008 and future releases.
TFS "Rosario" will be supporting full 64-bit...
The Team Foundation Server team released yesterday the new version of Power Tools, for the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server.
The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools is a set of enhancements, tools and command line utilities that improve the Team Foundation Server user experience.
The following tools are installed with the tfpt.msi package:
Command line tool (TFPT.EXE)
Team Explorer IDE menu additions
Build Notification tool
TFS Best Practices Analyzer
Process Template Editor
...
It seems that the Expression Team is currently working on a Team Foundation Server integration for Expression Blend and Expression Web.
In the current state of development we can see all the basic features TFS has to offer: add, checkin, checkout, remove. etc. It's all there. It's expected to have a complete integration, but we'll have to wait for the next version of these two applications to confirm which, by the way, is currently unknown.