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• 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... Posted Feb 23 2008, 02:55 PM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: For Software Developers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Third-Party Solutions, TFS Extensibility, Training and Learning, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, Version 2008, Team Build Server, TFS Administration, TFS Customization

• V-Modell XT Generator creates TFS Process Templates

  Microsoft Germany [1], The Center of Software Concepts at the Technical University of Munich [2] and Zühlke [3] released the V-Modell XT Generator [4] that creates process templates for working with the V-Modell, which is a process modell widely asked... Posted Nov 21 2007, 10:07 PM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF), Downloads, Tools and Utilities, For Decision Makers, Project Management with TFS, TFS Customization

• Changing TFS email notifications to link to Team System Web Access

  Thanks to this MSDN Forums post I was able to change the link included in every TFS notification e-mail to point to TSWA instead of the project portal. Here’s the full story: When using project alerts to get notified about work item changes you... Posted Aug 31 2007, 04:44 PM by neno with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, TFS Server Administration, TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, Project Management with TFS, TFS Administration, Project Portal and Team Communication, Team System Web Access (TSWA), TFS Customization, Notification and Alerts

• Tool for creating links to pages on Team System Web Access

  Would you like to send links to work items, team projects or source files on Team System Web Access ? For work items … you can find the answer in the offical TSWA FAQ : Q: What’s the URL to use if I want to send the link of a specific work... Posted Aug 31 2007, 04:34 PM by neno with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, Tools and Utilities, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Project Management with TFS, Team System Web Access (TSWA), TFS Customization

• Creating a separate work item form layout for Web Access

  Right now custom work item controls [1] are not supported by Team System Web Access [2]. Instead your custom control you will see this unpleasant message: “Unable to create workitem control ‘ControlName’”. While this is a sad thing for us users does that... Posted Aug 29 2007, 06:32 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, TFS Administration, Team System Web Access (TSWA), TFS Customization, Work Item Customization

• Getting started using Custom Work Item Controls

  Since Service Pack 1 [1] we have the ability to create our own controls to display field value within a work item form which gives us great flexibility. However there are two caveats with custom work item controls right now that aren’t solved: They... Posted Jul 07 2007, 05:26 PM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Extensibility, TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, TFS Customization, Work Item Customization

• Undocumented attributes for controlling the Work Item form layout

  Naren [1] revealed a few very interesting on hidden attributes his blog [2] which you definitely should take a look at since they let you solve some problems as the following ones: Control the height of two text boxes that were placed vertically on one... Posted Jul 07 2007, 04:42 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, TFS Customization, Work Item Customization