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This is a great news, TeamPlain are the leader in Team System web access as a group (MVPs and influencer) we told Microsoft "if you are going to provide web access to TFS, make it better then TeamPlain of buy them", looks like the listen to us ;-). What is also great about this news is they will be able to spend more cycle on new features in TFS and just gain a whole web access platform which is good for everyone. Nice move Microsoft read all about it here on Brian's blog. Cheers, ET ...
Last Saturday we had our TFS workshop, around 70 people came to hear me talk about Team System. We had so much to cover I'm surprised I actually manage to cover it all. I was great fun answering questions and talk about one of my passions Team Foundation Server. Thanks to everyone who came and made this a day to remember. Also thanks to our sponsors, Microsoft, TeamPlain (now Microsoft!!), TeamLook, TeamPrise and InCycleSoftware. Finally a big thanks to Guy Barrette for getting all the logistics ...
*Moved to: TFS Weekend Part 1 - InstallI got a call from a friend of mine (Neil Ramsay) who was installing TFS for his company (http://www.quantad.com). Needless to say, he had a few problems, as everyone does when installing TFS. So he gave me a call and I road to the resque. The big advantage of installing TFS in a amall comapany, is that you can OWN the entire server. He gave me teh admin password and I had TFS eating out of my hand in about 20 minutes.Read more...Follow my new blog on http://blog.hinshelwood.com ...
*Moved to: TFS Gotcha (server name)If you are installing TFS in a large network that utilises proxy servers, especialy those that strip network credentials for what it thinks are internet sites, then you may run into problems.. The instalation program always uses the netbios name of you server. But in my enviroment navigating to thsi in a browser produces a DNS error even on the local machiene.Read more...Follow my new blog on http://blog.hinshelwood.com ...
*Moved to: TFS Gotcha (SP1)If you are out there and you have installed SP1 for Team Foundation Server you probably went through as much pain as I did... Solution:Read more...Follow my new blog on http://blog.hinshelwood.com ...
The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Power Tool (formerly known as Power Toys) is a set of enhancements, tools and command-line utilities that improve the Team Foundation Server user experience. This release includes two new command-line tools for the developer and three non-command line tools: a process template editor, a set of custom check-in policies, and a test tools build task: Team Foundation Server Power Tool Commands (tfpt.exe) - A command-line tool with enhanced functionality ...
Usually I don't write about my current employer or work, but I think this time it deserves to make an exception. You read already it in the title: I work now on The Collective Molecular Environment (C-ME) for The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI). If you are following the news on Windows Vista or WPF you have probably seen this application already (the screen on the right might remind it to you). The Scripps Research Institute is a biomedical research organization that is trying to find a cure for ...
Chris Burrows has an illustrated post on how to setup TFS to support Continuous Integration, Automated Unit Testing, and Automatic deployment. Link: http://blogs.madtechnology.... Technorati tags: TFS, CI, Continuous Integraion, Unit Testing, Automated Deployment Cross-posted from tariqayad.com ...
A friend of mine keep think the Orcas bits he downloaded corrupted and keep blaming Microsoft for putting the corrupt files because he can’t install it on his machine. I wanted to share. Just in case you have the same problem. For me, I’ll take it as a lesson. The next time I download any pre-release or RTM bits. I will make sure I download the correct one. Here’s my respond:Are you sure you were downloaded the correct files?It happened to me last time. It seems that the .rar file I downloaded corrupted. ...
Welcome everybody to the inaugural, first ever, grand opening, “opening the doors to the public” celebration day kick-off for the new “Developer, Meet Server” screencast series. I am your sincere, humble (as ever), gracious and wonderful host/chef/tour guide Jason Olson. In this series of screencasts we will be diving through all the various cool developer-oriented enhancements on the Windows Server "Longhorn" platform that developers can leverage to build robust and powerful applications. Specifically, ...
The next task in our Team Foundation Server is going to be id 666. Maybe I should not work today and just watch basketball. Technorati tags: Evil ...
I've been in IT now for about 5 years (2 years studying, 3 working). This is a very masculine field and, though I have often talked about it with colleagues (both male and female), the truth is that I have never been the object of any ironic remarks or felt I was being discriminated in any way, except for this week! In the space of 3 days, two fun/ironic remarks on women and IT. No malice intended, I think, but still ... I didn't find them that funny (especially the first one). Remark #1 (From a ...
Wow! The SRL Team has released an Addin for Outlook that connects to Team Foundation Server. This is the task management tool that I have been waiting for. You can generate a work item right from Outlook. You can view queries, you can search your work items, you can even generate a work item based on content from an email. I mapped the subject to the task title and the body to the description, but you can map any field you want. Then it changes the subject line in the email to have the work item ...
*Moved to: Microsoft UK Team System BlogThe TFS guys in the UK are blogging! They started late last year, but in the time honored tradition of blogging, "Don't tell anyone you have one until there is something to read." Well, here it is:Read more...Follow my new blog on http://blog.hinshelwood.com ...
A couple weeks ago, I blogged about the pain in my hands because of tendonitis. Since then, I've followed all directions from my doctor, took my medicine and even switched to using my left hand for the mouse. The pain only got worse, and it got to the point where my hands, wrists and forearms were throbbing. It hurt to drive, play with the dogs, use the remote control and my productivity with EnGraph was going down the tubes. Some days I would have to quit at 3 PM and just read a book. By the way, ...
I haven't blogged in while... I've been so busy it's hard to think strait sometimes... I'm back from a trip to Argentina where it was the summer (+30C) leaving a nice (-20C) in Montreal ;-). So many things happened it's like we can't go to bed... 1) SQL SP2 shipped 2) Virtual PC 2007 shipped (and it's FREE!!!) now this is great news and I love the fact it's released now (I just need a new PC that supports virtualization now ;-)). 3) March CTP of Orcas just released. Now this is great since we finally ...
Well, I've finally made time to start my own blog, and here it is, my first post. Most of my work involves Microsoft .NET, web pages, rich clients, communications, and so forth, and I'm sure I'll be blogging about some of those experiences soon. But I plan to also blog about any technology issues that come up that I think are interesting enough to share, including new discoveries regarding Java, Linux, and open source projects which aren't necessarily new but are either new to me or something I think ...
These were formally called Power Toys. Apparently Microsoft decided that they're not toys anymore. The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Power Tool (formerly known as Power Toys) is a set of enhancements, tools and command line utilities that improve the Team Foundation Server user experience. This release includes two new command-line tools for the developer and three non-command line tools: a set of custom check-in policies, a build test task, and a process template editor. This ...
Update - Found a solution here I've had a problem ever since installing TFS, and I've not blogged about it yet because I wanted to figure out a good solution first. I haven't found the solution, so I'm hoping for some good advice from the brilliant GWB readers. We have quite a few dll's and controls that we reference from our applications. For example, we have our SQL Connection String control that lives in the EnGraph Controls team project. If I want to use the SQL Connection String control, I add ...
I was reading the latest MSDN and ran across a WorkItem tool named HEMI (the old WorkItem Move tool). This is a great little tool for moving WorkItems between projects on the same TFS server. It was developed by Eric Lee of previous MS fame and now on his own. Seeing as I was curious as to just how good it worked, I had to try it out. I was pretty impressed with it. It allowed me to not only move workitems between projects, but to also decide what WorkItem type that I wanted to create in the target ...
The first thing I learned about TFS is that if you have source safe installed and install TFS then you must go to Tools>Options>SourceControl and change the provider to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.
The good thing about TFS is that it does allow you to make mistakes while adding source files and you can delete the project the bad thing is you must delete a project to rename it.
Well it has been a while since my last post and I thought I would just write and say hello to those that view my blog. I am beginning work with TFS and I will let you know my opinion on that shortly. I have learned a lot in the past few months working with Biztalk 2006. I really like the product and like the new innovations that Microsoft has done. I am, like others, awaiting the release of R2 and look forward to its capabilities. A book I would recommend reading is the "Pro Biztalk 2006" book by ...
*Moved to: Beta Exam 71-510: TS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation ServerWell, its study time again I have managed to get myself onto the 70-510: Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server beta certification, and I now have an exam date of the 27th February 2007. I have not studies since Uni ;). Alas there are no specific courses or study material, but I asked someone at Microsoft what to study and their "team of subject matter experts" suggested: Read more...Follow ...
Sometime back I setup a client to use the Conchango Scrum template. I had to customize it for them and during that process I found that there is a TestCase workitem that was never implemented. I decided to load it into a test project to see what it offered. I was suprised to see that, while not complete, it did offer the ability to capture a nice amount of testing metrics. What else I liked about it is that it allows you to add test steps for doing manual tests. Now this is cool because the current ...
Hello everyone, I've decided to conduct a Full day workshop on VSTS/TFS on Saturday March 24th. We will cover a lot of things ranging form sizing and installation to source control practices all the way to unit testing and performance. It should be a very cool day. If you live in Montreal (or around) and would like to join us in that experience please follow this link for all the information. I will animate in French but if we have questions in English there shouldn't we'll be more than happy to ...
I think the guy that wrote this article just woke up one morning and thought, "Let's see how many people I can piss off today." Here is what he has to say about his experience with open-source IDEs. They were slow, flaky and frustrating. I very soon abandoned the Java world – I couldn’t stand the tools, the debuggers were crap or non-existent and the documentation was sparse one-dimensional and uninspiring. There is nothing out there in the open source world that can begin to compete with the fluidity ...
*Moved to: Software Development Industrial Revolution I found out the other day that there is another implementation of TFS in the company. Not even the principal UK Architect, who recently visited the US knew of this. I do not think that it has been communicated outside of the department. That is an inevitable aspect of such a large company. The only way to get things working is to keep your head down until you have a viable solution, otherwise you get blown out of the water as soon as department ...
*Moved to: Deploying Team ServerSorry that I have not posted on this subject in a while, but I am lazy. After that last elongated post I am in the mood to write again... Our TFS implementation is moving forward. I did a presentation on Friday to my peers and bosses on the need for TFS and the appropriate uses of it. This has all come about as the scope of the project I have been asked to undertake has increased. Instead of 6 developers an 4 project managers, I have been asked to spec for 10 developers ...
It turns out that the TFS Warehouse cube does not store code coverage data down to the class or method level. You can retrieve the data at the assembly level only (from the Assembly dimension).
I searched for information on this everywhere without much success. In the end I found someone mentioning this here.
Brian Harry talks about his internal TFS management tool. He's really just torturing us, because it's not available for download. Hopefully, he will release this to the salivating public. Technorati tags: Brian Harry, TFS ...
Wow! Exactly what I've been waiting for!! So yesterday Brian Harry blogged about a Server Manager tool he developed on the side and asked us if we taught that was going to be useful as a power tool. Well... Absolutely. Manageability as been...how to say... difficult in V1 with tools like this it will certainly help see if our infrastructure is healthy and how well we do. Those stats will be very important for some of our folks. So I say ... absolutely Brian bring it on. Cheers, ET ...
A while back I replied to a Rob Caron post regarding the connection of a TFS Proxy to a TFS Server in a different domain. Here's the link: http://blogs.msdn.com/robca... So, I am finally getting around to posting the actual Visio diagram for this particular configuration. I can verify that this configuration still works with SP1 of TFS. A few notes: This solution uses local machine accounts, taking advantage of pass-through authentication. While using non-domain accounts ...
As I was trying to import a work item definition into a team project (using the Process Template Editor from gotdotnet) I received the following error message: TF26204: The account you entered is not recognized. Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator to add your account.. But I had not done any security changes (adding account or groups or permissions). What was it taking about? Then I understood: I had added a field that contained backslashes as values and TFS interpreted it as user account! ...
So today an internal Team decided to move to our corporate TFS instance (nothing new there) the crux was that they are running a mix of VB6, VS2003 projects. I say "Hey no problem you guys can use the MSSCCI Provider for TFS and it should work like a charm!" so after our conversation I remembered that I had not tried this at home like they say, I have been using VSTS (2005) and have not worked on a legacy project in a while. So off I go and download the MSSCCI Provider and install it in VM (that ...
When using Visual Studio 2005 to access Team Foundation Server source, you can configure the client to use the TFS Proxy Server. However, on a build server, you don't necessarily have Visual Studio. installed. Further, the setting is per user, so you'd have to log into the box as athe build service account, run Visual Studio, and configure the proxy setting. So here's how you configure the build service to use your TFS Proxy server. Note that you still need to log into the box as the build service ...
In a recent post, I talked about wanting a TFS group called ParaPlan_Stud that contained Kyle and myself that we could assign tasks to and view in our "My Work Items". Much thanks goes to Mickey Gousset, who wrote a book that you need to get, for helping me with this. I originally made this a blog post, but it was a bit lengthy and I didn't want to flood the front page, so I added it to my articles. http://geekswithblogs.net/t... ...
Kyle and I are running into a small problem with Team Foundation Server when it comes to assigning tasks. In a typical software development company, a Project Manager receives a bug or feature request. He then assigns associated tasks to his developers. Once the developer is finished, the task is re-assigned to the PM for review. At EnGraph, things are a bit more collaborative. Partly because of our size, but also because we like to manage support and development from a team perspective. Back to ...
Christoph Wille has developed a Team Foundation Server code check-in policy that checks the pending changeset for ///code comments. This has been a very useful tool for us. It can be downloaded here. Thanks Christoph! Technorati tags: TFS, Check-in policy, code comments, Christoph Wille ...
OK. I blogged about it before Christmas, but I have to talk about it again. I got a gift from MindJet this year. Mind Manager Pro is an awesome way to do mind maps. I had used FreeMind in the past, but MindJet's product is just so much more. I planned my 2007 Goals with it (though if I got more detailed, I'd have to kill you). What I really love is being able to bind a MindMap to TFS. This is an awesome way to collect and view requirements as well as keep in Sync with Team System. Stop me sometime ...
*Moved to: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Installation GuideThe TFS guys have just updated the Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Installation Guide to a new version released on 4/1/2007 and it incorporates all of the SP1 updates. I have been browsing the documentation for a while now and the main differences are that the guide now includes SP1 in the install procedures. Another change is that it also includes instructions on installing Reporting Services and Analytical Services on a separate ...
*Moved to: Team System WidgetsI have found a site with a list of many of the applications available for Team System. It seams to be updated regularly and should help with some of the v1 shortcomings of team Foundation Server. http://accentient.com/widge... more...Follow my new blog on http://blog.hinshelwood.com ...
When migrating our TFS from a workgroup based install to Active Directory, we got a couple errors when running Team Build. Access to the path 'C:\...BuildLog.txt' is denied To fix this error, I simply deleted the root Team Project folders in Windows Explorer and re-ran the build. The build then recreated the folders. You may have to run the builds in a specific order if your solutions reference assemblies that live in these folders. The other error occurred after a build started: TF42004: Team Build ...
Moving our TFS Server to Active Directory wasn't that bad. I followed these instructions from MSDN. They are meant for people moving from one domain to another. But the steps worked for moving from a TFS workgroup based install to a domain based install. All of the tasks that were assigned to Kyle or myself were migrated over to our new domain usernames and using this handy permissions tool, I was able to get all of our permissions set correctly. The only problem is initiating a build. When I right ...
I added my main workstation to our new Active Directory domain last night with out a hitch. This morning, I added my Vista laptop and ran into a bit of a problem. So I added a DNS role to the server and was able to add the laptop to the domain. Then we started in on Kyle's laptop. When attempting to log on, we got "The system cannot log you on now because the domain engraph is not available". After much googling, I discovered that the DNS role was incorrectly set up. I thought that just removing ...
Today I get to learn how to change a Team Foundation Server from a workgroup based install to a domain based install. We've had Active Directory for a while, but it was never set up right. Thanks to Robert Oderkirk at Free State Business for helping us figure out what was wrong. So now, we have to attach all of our computers to the domain, set up the network users, and hope that TFS plays nicely with the transition. I need to do more research, but hopefully, I just have to switch the TFS accounts ...
So Howard tagged me yesterday ;-). I met Howard at Microsoft a few months back working on the OD for TFS. Here goes 5 things few people know about me ... 1. Today is my birthday... I'm old ... but I'm still barely clinging to my 30s. 2. I used to play football when I was ... younger ;-). I had to stop because I broke my tibia (that's the big bone on the lower part of the leg) and was 6 months in various casts and it was never the same after. Oh and did I mention it was touch football ;-). I still ...
*Moved to: Deploying Team ServerLoads more fun with the deployment, but we now have a plan... We are going to to have 3 sets of servers for out TFS implementation, (DEV | QA / CNR | Prod). The triples the cost, but allows us to have a fail over server if the live goes down and a dev box for testing service packs and and custom components or process flows we create. The costs do not stop there however. On the server side we need SAN storage for the production box and on the client side we need developer ...
Well... it's been a pretty crazy year! here are a few of the highlights ... around the world (literally) in 65 days, 8 countries, 100,000 air miles, speaker at Devteach for the second year in a row, VSTS MVP for the second year in a row, speaker at the first Montreal Code camp, 15 year at EDS and last but probably the best, 20th year with my lovely wife. I don't know where I would be without her... pfeeeww ;-) man I'm tired after reading this again. So what does next year look like... Well I'll probably ...
We were supposed to get Visual Studio Team Edition for Developers in the mail by the 20th of this month (Dec 06). It still hasn't come and I don't see it on MSDN. Time to get back on the phone with Microsoft. Technorati tags: VSTS, Tired of waiting ...
What is reference data? Typically by reference data we mean an attribute of an object within a system that is restricted to a specific list of values. In integration scenarios when you are passing a message from one system to another these lists of reference data are different between the systems. This means if you have a product type id or value from System A there will usually need to be some kind of mapping required to translate the value or id to an equivalent value that System B will understand. ...