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Team System 2005 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility is now available! This is an update for the 2005 SP1 version of Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer and allows the 2005 SP1 version to work with the Team Foundation Server 2010. The update will allow teams to move forward and use the Team Foundation Server 2010 server even if part of the team continues to use the Team Explorer 2005 SP1 client. IMPORTANT The Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is a required prerequisite to install this update. If you plan...
TFS 2010 RC Power Tools are Available! Brain Harry just post that Power Tools for TFS RC are available for download from here: Power Tools MSSCCI Provider Please make sure you uninstall any previous VS 2010 versions of the Power Tools before installing these. They should work side by side with the VS 2008 Power Tools though. Full Post
TFS 2010 Power Tools are Available Brian Harry just post the TFS 2010 Power tools are now available for public use. 1. TFS MSSCCI Provider: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/f959ea32-5ac3-424a-a709-5001a158ebe8 2. TFPT: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/0e69a28f-020c-488b-80b3-f4c89a20621d View Full Post
PsTFS - Cmdlet for Team Foundation Server - Codeplex Noham CHOULANT just published a new project on codeplex called PSTFS. PsTFS is a set of PowerShell commands to manage and use Team Foundation Server. PowerShell effectiveness is combined with the power of TFS API to maximize TFS capabilities CodePlex Project
How To Add Check In Policy I know this is something that almost every one knows but some people don’t so here it is: To perform this action you need to be Administrators of Team Foundation version control. Open Team Explorer – Right click on your Team Project –> Team Project Settings – > Source Control Choose “Check-in Policy” tab and add the policies you want. Test your Check-in policy by performing check-in in source control. For additional policies download Team Foundation...
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 ...
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: Add Custom Controls Into Work Item I had question regarding the post about How To: Write Team System Custom Control . Question: How I can add the custom control anywhere in the Work Item? First download PowerTool 2008 so will be able to work with Process Template Editor . Copy you Custom Control output into - (For Visual Studio 2008) C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Team Foundation\Work Item Tracking\Custom Controls\9.0 Copy you Custom Control output into - ...
Skype Collaboration Provider for TFS New project on CodePlex - Team Foundation Server Collaboration Providers The Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools enable rich integration with other team members via IM and VoIP chat. Out the box the power tools integrate with Live Communicator and Windown Live Messenger (MSN). This project is for community contributed providers for other systems
October 08 TFS Power Tools Available! You can read about all the cool new stuff in this release here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/10/01/preview-of-the-next-tfs-power-tools-release.aspx . Couple of new things, The include: tfpt searchcs - A new tfpt command that allows you to search for checkins, filtering by date, user, path, and string matches in the comment and checkin notes. It's a very handy tool if you are looking for a checkin but aren't 100% sure what you are looking...
How To: Manage Custom Controls In Team System and Web Access Here is couple of question I'm hearing from people about Custom Controls: 1. Why after I add a custom control to my work item I see an error message in the Web Access? 2. Even when I have Web Access Custom Control and Team System Custom Control I can't get them to work together, always one of them shows me an error, Why? | Answers: 1. Custom Controls for Team System and for Web Access are different! How To Write Team System Custom...
TF51655 When Trying To Delete Global List I create a Service that ones a day create a Global List of customers from CRM system and export to TFS. This Global List contains over 3000 items. When I tried to Delete this Global List using Process Editor I get this message: So I tried using Power Tools 2008 Command-Line - Using Tfpt Command Line Tool The Solution: Edit the Global List and remove all items (Leave one item.....) and make sure this Global List have the same name like the Global List You...
Preview of the next TFS Power Tools release For the full article please read Brian Harry’s blog . This is one example for very nice and important feature! :-)
Power Tools 2008 - TFSUsers / TFSManager TFSUsers The TFSUsers tool allows administrators to fix issues with Work Item Tracking that occur when user names are changed in Active Directory. You maybe remember the Validation error when saving Work Items after a user is removed from Active Directory , So now instead of add < ALLOWEXISTINGVALUE /> inside the WorkItem Definition you may want to user TFSUsers to solve this problem. Also you can change Display Name for users. 1: TFSUsers computedelta...
Work Item Web Access If your QA team only need the ability to open new Bugs and doesn't use Team System For Tester abilities you may want to use WIWA . WIWA is a Web UI that allows using some work item tracking features even if the user doesn’t have a Client Access License (CAL). It’s based on TSWA, but provided as a separate download. WIWA simply enables 3 core “file-a-bug” scenarios stated in the TFS 2008 EULA. Without TFS CAL , Work Item Web Access (WIWA) will let you: Create new work items...
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