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Naming Restrictions for Team Foundation Server
If you ever had questions like: How long is the team project's name allowed to be? How many levels may an work item area hierarchy have? Which characters are allowed in build type names ? What is the maximum supported size for work item attachments...
What are Test Name, Test Id, and Test Path used for?
If you create a work item out of a test result like this… … the three test fields get populated by Visual Studio: Read all details here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms194965.aspx
Using TFS to develop custom SharePoint applications (revised)
The first article is created during a real world customer engagement and answers dozens of frequently asked questions and how-tos in a real world context vs. theoretical discussions. The 2 nd package addresses very common questions around setting up and...
VSTS Whitepapers by Microsoft
Planning Visual Studio Team System 2008 Licensing White Paper (pdf/xps/docx) Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Guide (pdf/ book ) Team System Web Access 2008 Scalability Limits White Paper (pdf/xps/docx) Installation, Configuration...
Hardware Recommendations for Team Foundation Server 2008
What hardware do I need to run TFS? Well, it depends on how much load you are going to generate. But what is a solid hardware configuration to start? Microsoft recommends for the Single-Server installation of TFS: Additionally they recommend switching...
Q: How Do I link work items with SharePoint documents?
A : Two possible ways: Step 1 : Get the URL of the document saved in a SharePoint document library From the project portal : Right-click the file and select Copy Shortcut . Done. From the Team Explorer window in Visual Studio : Right-click the file under...
TFS Tip: Enabling Work Item meta data filtering
Beginning with TFS 2008 SP1 you can specify that only the necessary part of the Work Item meta data will be transferred to the client caches, e.g. not the meta data for project you have no permission on. This is not done by default. You can read all the...
Ways to access Team Foundation Server
Pick your favorite tool for your task/job: From Visual Studio : Visual Studio 2008: Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Explorer (+ SP1 ) Visual Studio 2005: Visual Studio Team System 2005 Team Explorer (+ SP1 ) older Visual Studio versions and VSS clients...
Using TFS to develop custom SharePoint applications
Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications Summary: Use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server to support SharePoint application development, and provide an integrated development environment...
Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5 and TFS 2008 Service Pack 1 released
Service Packs for VSTS/TFS do not only contain bug fixes, but quite a few nice new features as you can read here (more general) and here (TFS-specific). Download links: TFS Installation Guide Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Service...
Users can see all team projects after upgrading from TFS 2005 to 2008
Make sure all team project members are added to the appropriate groups ( Project Administrators , Contributors and Readers ). For every team project remove the "[Server]\Team Foundation Valid Users " group from the team project settings ( Team...
Version Control Tip: Excluding specific files from multiple checkout
Question : Can I define a file name, not only a file type (extension), if multiple checkout is allowed for the whole Team Foundation Server? Answer : Yes, that is possible, although the UI shows "file extensions" and displays it in a way that...
FIX: TFS 2008: Delete lost when you merge from delete-branch to trunk
> KB article > Hotfix download
Facts about Running Builds in Parallel with Team Build
TeamBuild can build one build definition from a single Team Project at a time. can build multiple build definitions from different Team Project. MSBuild has the capability to use multiple CPUs to build projects in parallel and therefore speed up your...
Team Foundation Proxy - Your friend for distributed development teams
Since you can only deploy one master TFS server and replication mechanisms are not supported you might consider using a TFS Proxy server, which caches the downloads from the Team Foudation Version Control. Functionality / What it does: Cache downloads...
Screen Gallery: Creating a Team Project in TFS 2008
Screenshots from a successful team project creation.
Screen Gallery: Upgrading WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0
You updated to TFS 2008, but since the upgrade process doesn't touch your already installed WSS you are responsible for upgrading it yourself. Official Guidance: Upgrading SharePoint Products and Technologies for Team Foundation Server Step 1: Run...
Screen Gallery: Installing TFS Power Tools 2008
Screenshots from a successful Power Tools installation Step 1: Installing Windows PowerShell Step 2: Installing TFS Power Tools
TFS 2008: Team Build doesn't get subfolders of team build type folder by default
In TFS 2005 subfolders of your team build type folder were copied recursively to the build temp directory. In TFS 2008 only the contents w/o recursion is copied. To change this behavior, Aaron tells us , you need to modify the following line <add key...
Documentation: Team Foundation Server SDK (online version)
From the contents: Team Foundation Server Extensibility Team Foundation Server SDK Architecture How to: Run Team Foundation Server SDK Samples Team Foundation Core Services Work Item Tracking Extensibility Source Control Extensibility Data Warehouse Extensibility...
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