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How To Debug MSBuild Projects And Tasks Almost everyone customize their MsBuild scripts for the company needs. But some times because those customization you spend a lot of time try to make this script works as you want. There is no easy way to debug those MSBuild script / Tasks and here is a list of links to help you accomplish this: published by - Buck Hodges - Debug your build with MSBuild Sidekick v2.3 Powerful MSBuild projects debugger with extended functionality: step through mode, visual...
TFS Check-in Validation Tool There is a new version available in CodePlex Project Description The TFS Check-in Validation Tool extends TFS Team Build 2008 by enabling buddy build queuing (pre-checkin), validating checkins using shelvesets, and build agent pooling, all from the VS 2008 IDE. Buddy Build Process Flow
Wit-It! 1.4 – New Features If you don’t know what is Wit-It! please read Wit-It! – Outlook Add-in for TFS Work Item Alerts I saw that lots of people are downloading Wit-It! and I get lots of feedbacks. Also I got a place on MSDN forums. It’s time for the next version of Wit-It! I fixed couple of performance problems, change the Design to some thing more friendly. Add couple new features to Wit-It! Download Wit-It! Today Here is the list: New Work Item Convert Email message to Work Item ...
Wit-It! – Outlook Add-in for TFS Work Item Alerts After a small talk with Guy Burstein he comes up with a Great Idea : use outlook form region to show Work Item from Team System. Then I remembered that working with Event Email in Team System are so irritating. You can customize Event Emails to work with Team System Web Access but then you can’t open the work item in XML (sometimes you may need it) But then I noticed that not everyone have TSWA and even this sometimes can be irritating(slow...
Announcing TFS Performance Report Pack Grant Holliday upload TFS Performance Reports that Microsoft use. Quote” We have a responsibility to ensure that the server is performing as expected and to identify any efficiencies that can be made in the server or the tools. To do this, we have created a number of reports that we use ourselves and make available to our own users. “ The Full Article + Download Execution Time Summary Server Status - Source Control Request Queue Server Status - Top Users...
TFS 2008 - Quality Center Connector is now available The December pre-release of the TFS 2008 - Quality Center Connector is now available for download. This release is packaged as a Microsoft Installer (MSI) package and includes a Viewer (GUI), Console (command-line) and Service versions of the Quality Center Connector. In many customers I see that QA works with QC and the development works with Team System, this is a great solution for this kind of situation. Before Installing make sure you read...
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...
Team Foundation Build Load Balancer Is a new project published on CodePlex called Team Foundation Build Load Balancer that balances builds between the build agents defined in a Team Project reducing the time developer's wait for builds to complete. It's a very simple tool that you need to run from command-line. Example: You need to pass the Team Foundation Server's URL as the first parameter to TeamBuildLoadBalancer.exe, for example, TeamBuildLoadBalancer.exe http://TFSRTM08:8080/. You...
Working With TFS Data Manager In the post I talked about Disaster Recovery for VSTS 2008 and now I will show how to work with TFS Data Manager. Every one can download the trial version and check for your self Download Page After downloading (9.5mb) the install is very simple. Choose the backup location, make sure you have al least 800mb , basiclly it’s like SQL backup. Select your Team System database and proper User & Password After the installation you can open TFS Data Manager, Perform Backup...
Disaster Recovery for VSTS 2008 Team System has become the kernel for many companies, We all know that we can Backing Up a Team Foundation Server database using simple maintance plan in the database, but is it enough? What is TFS Data Manager? At its core, TFS Data Manager provides Disaster Recovery for VSTS 2008, specifically Team Foundation Server. This includes backing up and restoring an entire TFS server, individual Team Projects, or Entities, such as Work Items, Reports, Source Code, Builds...