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In a previous post on the TFS Build Extensions I mentioned the new Community Build Manager and that I will write a post and explain more what it does. But who can do it better than one of it’s author’s Jakob Ehn so take a look at his fine post on the...
We’ve just released a new release of the Community TFS Build Extensions . This time it’s a pretty big release many new activities as well as a new power-tool, the Community TFS Build Manager. I will come back to the Build Manager later but here’s a sneak...
Here’s a reminder to all using the “Brian Keller” demo VM for TFS: The VMs expired November 1 but Brian has once again updated the VMs to run for another six months (April 9 2012). More details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2010/06/25...
Today the v.1.0 release of the TFS Build Extensions was released by Mike Fourie . I've had the opportunity to help out in the later part of this project and it's great to see the TFS build activities finally come out. I know these activities will...
This week there’s been lots of celebration for the Visual Studio ALM Rangers ! Today the project site for the Lab Management Guide went live, which is really exciting. Now there’s finally a comprehensive document available that describes the many details...
The Visual Studio ALM Rangers , which I’m a proud member of, today released v1.0 of a new set of guidance for TFS 2010 Build Customization. This is a project that has been under development for quite some time and includes lots of great material related...
If you’ve been working with TFS 2010 build workflows you might have come across a community-developed set of custom activities on Codeplex called the Community TFS Build Extensions . This is a great add-on to the built-in activities but the documentation...
Yesterday Microsoft released a beta of a new interesting extension to TFS 2010 – the OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 . This is a new way to get to the data in TFS using the Open Data Protocol (OData, http://www.odata.org/ ) instead of the...
VS/TFS 2010 SP1 has just been released! SP1 rolls up most of the post RTM hotfixes and updates but it does not include Feature Packs and some other updates. Here’s a list of the current stack of tools and patches that should be applied to a new Visual...
The TFS team just released an updated version of the essential TFS power tools. In this version I think the following are the most important additions: Improved feature-set in the Windows Shell Extension. Workspace management, history search and the option...
The evaluation VPCs Microsoft kindly provides us will soon expire (on December 15). To our rescue Brian Keller has updated the virtual machines for Hyper-V, Windows 7 and Virtual PC 2007 so that it will run for another six month (next date to be aware...
This week the ALM Rangers shipped another project, this time the Visual Studio 2010 Database guidance project. I’ve been part of the review team in the project and had the opportunity to look at the content throughout the project. I think many will appreciate...
Today Microsoft released its first true Scrum process template for TFS. Even if the MSF for Agile template has been used by many Scrum teams it doesn’t always have the right terminology (i.e. Product Backlog Item would map to User Story, Sprint Backlog...
The Visual Studio Lab Management team has released an updated virtual machine with the latest bits for testing out the Lab Management capabilities. The setup of lab management can be pretty involved so this is a great way to get to test the product in...
I really like that Microsoft builds virtual machines for us to use to try out new products. The only downside is that once in a while the images time-bombs and now this has happened with the latest Visual Studio RC 2010 image. Not too bad since we’ve...
First there wasn’t going to be a RC release of the power tools but by popular demand it was released anyway. I think it’s awesome that the TFS team manages to do these things in what I assume is pretty busy times in the end game of the 2010 development...
Visual Studio Lab Management is a new component in the VS 2010 and TFS 2010 stack aimed to simplify management of test environments. Being a pre-v1 product and also a solution to a complex problem it has been a challenge to set up and get a test lab running...
With Team Foundation Build 2010 it is easy to specify which version of files to get for the build. Unfortunately the build report will only show the default values, which is confusing if you want to use that information as a reference when managing your...
Yesterday the release candidate for Visual Studio 2010 was released! I've upgraded my development machine (Windows 7 x64) from beta 2 to RC and it was a breeze! That took the most time was uninstalling the beta 2 bits :-) Both Visual Studio and TFS...
The VSTS Rangers have really been in release mode the last couple of weeks! This time I want to mention another project I’ve been involved in - the update to the TFS Branching Guide project. In this release the content has been updated for TFS 2010 and...
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