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Team System 2008 SP1 Virtual PC/Virtual Server and Hyper-V images are live
Brian Randell just announced about his holiday surprise : New Virtual PC/Server and Hyper-V images with VSTS and TFS and a 12/31/2009 expiration date. As part of the refresh and extending the expiration date, Brian have updated the images to include the following (naturally some items only appear in the “all-up” images): the latest virtual machine additions or integration services components all of the latest Windows Updates as of December 1, 2008 Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Visual Studio 2008...
Posted 25 December 2008 12:09 AM by Maor David-Pur | 2 comment(s)
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VSTS 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools - July 2008 Release
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 latest power tools release can be found here: TFS July 2008 Power Tools .  See BHarry’s blog for an overview of all the great enhancements and make sure you download and install it. The following tools are installed with the tfpt.msi package: Command line tool (TFPT.EXE) Team Explorer IDE menu additions Build...
Posted 22 July 2008 01:00 AM by Maor David-Pur | 3 comment(s)
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CTP15 of the GDR release of VSTSDB is available
Gert just announced that they just released a new CTP of the upcoming 2008 update, Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR. You can download it from MSDN: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed&displaylang=en Most important changes: Project upgrade is now in place. Mixed projects are no longer supported, from now on server projects represent only server creatable objects and user objects that need to be deployed to...
Posted 22 July 2008 12:46 AM by Maor David-Pur | 1 comment(s)
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Configure Team Foundation Build for an Incremental Build
A question I got today: "How can I configure my Team Build for an incremental build?". Well, it's simple. Team Build 2005 Add the PropertyGroup definition to the end of the TFSBuild.proj file, before the closing </project> tag. Set the following properties: < PropertyGroup > < SkipClean > true </ SkipClean > < SkipInitializeWorkspace > true </ SkipInitializeWorkspace > < ForceGet > false </ ForceGet > </ PropertyGroup > Team Build...
Posted 12 June 2008 04:16 PM by Maor David-Pur | 1 comment(s)
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VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR - Where Is The Properties Tabs?
Some changes were shipped in the last GDR June CTP of VSTS 2008 Db Pro. If you want to change or view the catalog properties, deployment properties or variables properties you should navigate the properties node . These properties tabs are no longer exists under the database properties area. Example: When you click for example on the CatalogProperties.catalogproperties property, the database properties will be displayed.
Posted 12 June 2008 12:20 PM by Maor David-Pur | 1 comment(s)
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Team Build - Dynamicly adding project outputs to GAC
It's occurs sometimes that after a successful build, we need to iterate through all assemblies outputs and install each assembly to the gac.. Solution: First, we have to use a CreateItem task like: < CreateItem Include ="&quot;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\GacUtil.exe&quot; -i $(DropLocation)$(Slash)$(BuildNumber)$(Slash)Release/*.dll" > < Output TaskParameter ="Include" ItemName ="AssembliesToGac" /> </ CreateItem...
Posted 12 June 2008 01:38 AM by Maor David-Pur | 1 comment(s)
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VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR June CTP
Yesterday, at TechEd 2008 Developer, Data Dude team announced the immediate availability of the first public CTP of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR (General Distribution Release). Highlights: SQL Server 2008 Support, better DB unit testing support, refactor engine improved, and no more need for a local copy of SQL Server to validate DB changes. Read more... ...
Posted 04 June 2008 10:32 AM by Maor David-Pur | 3 comment(s)
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Microsoft Source Analysis for C#
Microsoft announce the public release of a new developer tool -  Source Analysis for C# . Inside Microsoft this tool's name is StyleCop and it enforces code style guidelines on the code we write Source Analysis comes with a set of default rules analyzers covering approximately 200 best practice rules. These rules are full compatible with the default layout settings in Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008. Specifically, these rules cover the following, in no particular order: Layout...
Posted 27 May 2008 11:08 AM by Maor David-Pur | with no comments
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VSTS Database Professionals msdb Projects
You can now download the sample msdb database projects from Microsoft Code Gallery to create cross database references between your database project schema objects and the schema objects that reside within the msdb database. There are msdb database projects for both Visual Studio Team System 2008 release of Database Edition as well as the Visual Studio Team Edition 2005 for Database Professionals Service Release 1 for both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. Cross-database references requires that...
Posted 15 May 2008 02:22 PM by Maor David-Pur | 1 comment(s)
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Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview
Brian Harry just posted about the many new impressive features and changes coming out in TFS 2008 service pack 1 . It is quite a comprehensive blog post and well worth the time to read through it. Check it out at " Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview ".   List of features: Version Control Add to Source Control Drag & Drop Version control of unbound files Simpler working folder mappings Checkin date/time column Local Path is now a link Editable source location Download files...
Posted 29 April 2008 12:19 PM by Maor David-Pur | with no comments
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Permissions Error when Creating Database Projects
Recently I got a question about permissions error that occurred when user was trying to create database project in the local instance of Microsoft SQL Server used for design-time validation. The error was: "CREATE DATABASE permission denied in database 'master'" . Workaround To create database you must be a member of the dbcreator and securityadmin fixed server roles in the server instance that you specified for design-time validation. First, ensure that the instance name that is...
Posted 28 April 2008 10:41 PM by Maor David-Pur | 1 comment(s)
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How To Deploy Data Dude Project Changes using Team Foundation Build
When you want to build and deploy database projects with team build you need to edit the database project file and the Team Build file. That's because database projects store any non-default values for the TargetDatabase, TargetConnectionString, and DefaultDataPath properties in a <ProjectName>.dbproj.user file.  *.user files are not checked into version control in order to let every user use different values.   Step 1 - Modify build project file (team build .proj file) Open the...
Posted 28 April 2008 10:16 PM by Maor David-Pur | 1 comment(s)
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March 2008 TFS Power Tools now available
Brian Harry has just announced that the March 2008 Team Foundation Power Tools have been released : We've just released a new version of the TFS Power Tools.  This new Power Tool release will work only with the VS/Team Explorer 2008 client (but against either a TFS 2005 or TFS 2008 server).  If you haven't taken the time to upgrade yet, I highly recommend it - you are missing out on lots of great new value we are delivering. This release includes: Process Template Editor support...
Posted 22 April 2008 02:17 AM by Maor David-Pur | with no comments
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Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 and Work Item Web Access 2008 CTP's Available
Community Technology Previews (CTP) for Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 and Work Item Web Access has just released by Hakan Eskici and TFS team. Team System Web Access (TSWA) 2008 SP1 (CTP) What's new in TSWA 2008 SP1 Download the CTP for TSWA 2008 SP1 Work Item Web Access (WIWA) 2008 (CTP) What's WIWA? Download the CTP for WIWA 2008
Posted 16 April 2008 06:28 PM by Maor David-Pur | with no comments
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Determine TFS Edition: Full, Workgroup, Trial
What version of TFS do you have? The full edition? Workgroup edition? or maybe Trial edition? To answer this question, open your registry (Start-->Run-->regedit.exe) and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\TeamFoundation\Registration Note: If you have TFS 2005, replace the 9.0 with 8.0 You will find in this key a value named Edition_CT. This value is a string that indicates the edition you have. (This text equivalent to the encrypted key of the Edition value...
Posted 05 April 2008 04:36 PM by Maor David-Pur | with no comments
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