How To: Disable the Team Members Feature If you installed TFS Power Tools 2008 you will see couple of new features. One of the features called – "Team Members" that allows you to collaborate with your team even better. One of the features is integration with instant messaging that allows you to see presence, IM, video, audio, etc from inside Team Explorer. You can read more about the feature here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/10/01/preview-of-the-next-tfs-power...
How To Create Custom Check-In Policy Create a new Visual C# class library project. Add an assembly reference to System.Windows.Forms.dll . You use this assembly to display message boxes. Add an assembly reference to Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.dll. By default, this is installed in the following folder:\Program Files\Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server\Tools Replace your skeleton class code implementation with the following source. Note that the class derives from the PolicyBase...
How To: Create TFS Reports Using Excel (PivotTable) I have customers that from time to time need new reports for them self not for the all project, I asked them why you need me to create this king of report? The answer is: I don't know how and it's too complicated... My answer: No it's not! In less then 5 min you will be able to create report like the one below that sync directly from TFS. Let's Start Open Excel 2007 click on Data tab and click on From Analysis Services . Enter TFS...