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Saturday, May 31, 2008 6:34 PM

Just-In-Time sysinternals tools!

I'm a few days behind on posting this, but now you can run the current version of sysinternals tools directly from \\live.sysinternals.com\Tools !  If you're in PowerShell , you can just cd over to it , even.  If you don't want to use a UNC
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:35 PM

Brian the Build Bunny ownz those Watership Down rabbits

Maybe I'm the only one, but that movie gave my 6-year-old self quite the nightmares . I don't think my parents got the memo. Unlike many animated features, the film faithfully emulated the dark and violent sophistication of the book. As a result, many
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:23 PM

How does TFS 2008 pick which Reporting Services instance to use?

One of the painful parts of TFS 2008 install is that you can point ( via the msiproperty.ini file ) the install at the right machine for your SQL Reporting Services, but not the specific instance on that machine. It's a bit of a long story as to why that
Posted by jmanning | 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:34 AM

TFS + timesheets = TX Chrono

Jason mentioned their TXLooker back in early April, but not long after that, TeamExpand announced the beta of TX Chrono at VSLive . I know of a good number of companies that will love having something like this - getting their timesheet management into
Posted by jmanning | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:15 AM

TeamReview - more integrated code reviews

The OOTB experience for code reviews isn't horrible (shelvesets work fine, in my experience), but there's not a good built-in way of tracking the code review process , especially the feedback given. Over the last month or so, JBBrown has done a ton of
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:56 PM

Secure by default and the list of team projects

Another brown-paper-bag bug in TFS 2005 was that, by default, all valid users could see the full list of team projects.  You would grant read access to some random team project and all of the sudden, when the user connected they could see all your
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:19 PM

You can use your SVN clients (including TortoiseSVN) against TFS, including CodePlex

While there are projects like LizardTF , IMHO you're better off running SvnBridge and then using your real SVN clients. SvnBridge allows you to use TortoiseSVN and other Subversion clients with Team Foundation Server. It converts the calls made by your
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:59 PM

TFS 2008 SP1 Beta - we support SQL Server 2008, but just the February CTP

While we already have the code so SP1 final will support the RTM version of SQL Server 2008, because of changes during their development, our SP1 Beta only supports the " February CTP " version of SQL Server 2008 . If you already have the SQL
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:54 PM

When you want to destroy something already deleted, you need a deletion id

I helped a friend via email with this last week and just noticed a similar blog post.  If you're having trouble trying to destroy an item you already deleted (to free up disk space, for instance), you may find this helpful. http://kinnie.blogspot.com/2008/05/6-delete-vs-destroy-in-tfs.html
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:44 PM

screencast on using Team Build 2008

Joel's 12 rules rightfully includes 2 entries on creating builds.  While many would argue that rule 3 should be modified for continuous integration rather than daily, Team Build 2008 does a great job getting your team covered in both cases, and more
Posted by jmanning | 1 Comments
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:27 PM

IntelliJ IDEA integration with TFS coming!

I'm about a month behind on this one, but based on their technology roadmap , TFS integration is on the way! Team Foundation Server A plugin supporting the version control features of Microsoft Team Foundation Server is currently in development. It is
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:18 PM

VS 2008 / .NET 3.5 SP1 (Beta) - Awesome Mega Ultra Super Edition

Don't be fooled - despite being tagged Beta, this actually isn't a Google product.  I kid, I kid! Hopefully by now you've already seen Brian's list of SP1 improvements for TFS .  My work's been mainly around SQL Server 2008 support (it's been
Posted by jmanning | 0 Comments
Monday, May 12, 2008 9:40 AM

Properties, coming to TFS soon!

One of the things I miss when using TFS instead of Subversion is svn's metadata ("properties") that you can attach to arbitrary items (" svn propset " for the fellow command-liners out there). It's something I only used around 10% of the time, but when
Posted by jmanning | 1 Comments
Friday, May 09, 2008 4:24 PM

Flexibility in TFS 2008

Helen : You're late. When you asked me if I was doing anything later, I didn't realize you'd actually forgotten. I thought it was playful banter. Bob : It *was* playful banter. Helen : Cutting it kinda close, don't ya think? Bob : You need to be more...
Posted by jmanning | 1 Comments
Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:52 PM

I lose, so customers win!

I made a failed attempt to see if we would be willing to make the next version of Team Foundation Server only supported on Windows Server 2008. Since we'd like to have native IIS7 support in our setup (not require the IIS6 compat like we do in TFS 2008),
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