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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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Preview Of The Next TFS Power Tools Release
For a preview of the next TFS Power Tools release, please read Brian Harry’s blog . The next version is really amazing! From Brian’s post : There are 3 major new components to the October Power Tools release and the usual incremental improvements. Team Members - We've added a new node to the Team Explorer called "Team Members".  It appears under each Team Project and is used to identify who are the people who work on the project.  It serves as a "pivot point" for...
Posted 02 October 2008 04:32 AM by Maor David-Pur | 1 comment(s)
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Data Dude:Deploy Action On CTP16 Does Not Deploy The Database To Target
A lot of users confused and don’t understand why the database does not appear on the target server when they do deploy. The reason is that in CTP 16, the default deploy mechanism is to deploy to script. If you want to deploy to database you have to change the 'Deploy action' on the project properties, deploy tab to 'Create a deployment script (.sql) and deploy to the database.' Read more .
Posted 27 September 2008 03:32 PM by Maor David-Pur | 3 comment(s)
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Data Dude On RadioTFS
From http://vstskb.net - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/vstskb/~3/394424099/ Just published over on Radio TFS   a special episode on the Database Edition of Team System with the Data Dude man - Gert Drapers .  In the show Gert talks how the product got started, where it is now, where it is going in the future, the latest CTP of the Database Edition GDR and more.
Posted 16 September 2008 02:45 PM by Maor David-Pur | 1 comment(s)
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Team System Web Access 2008 SP1
The Team System Web Access team had released SP1 last week. Some of the cool new features include: Ability to run multi-language in a single TSWA instance. 10 languages supported Work Item only view for users without a CAL!! more Ed Hintz’s announcement to see what’s new in this release: http://blogs.msdn.com/edhintz/archive/2008/08/29/team-system-web-access-2008-sp1-power-tool.aspx   Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3ECD00BA-972B-4120-A8D5-3D38311893DE
Posted 04 September 2008 04:04 AM by Maor David-Pur | 1 comment(s)
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VSTSDB 2008 GDR CTP16
Gert just posted about the release of CTP16 of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR release. From Gert’s post: This release adds the following features: VSDBCMD.EXE We added independent commandline deployment and reverse engineer, which can be used on machines that do not have Visual Studio installed, in order to deploy the results of a database project build (.dbschema file), or if you need to generate a .dbschema file so you can for example compare it, this commandline tool will...
Posted 29 August 2008 10:30 AM by Maor David-Pur | 1 comment(s)
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Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
Introduction Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 enable developers to rapidly create connected applications that deliver high quality and rich user experiences. Visual Studio 2008 enables organizations of every size to rapidly create secure, manageable, and reliable applications that are optimized for Windows Vista™, SQL Server, the Microsoft 2007 Office system and the Web. Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 continue Microsoft’s investment in market leading...
Posted 13 August 2008 09:26 PM by Maor David-Pur | 1 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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Suppress Code Analysis Warnings In Code
Code analysis provides a way of making sure our assemblies don’t violate the programming and design rules set forth in the Microsoft .NET Framework Design Guidelines (including issues related to Globalization, Security, Performance, Portability, and many more).  We can run code analysis from the IDE and from MSBuild. To do it, we first have to turn on Code Analysis from within the IDE. To do it we have to open the project properties, and in the Project designer, we should select the Code Analysis...
Posted 23 June 2008 04:40 PM by Maor David-Pur | 5 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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