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Project System Compatibility with Team Build
There are a number of projects that you can create and build in Visual Studio that are not supported by MSBuild. That means you can’t use MSBuild to build them from a command line and you can’t build...
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BizTalk Server and Team Build
We’ve been talking with the BizTalk Server team about supporting MSBuild (and, transitively, Team Build) in their next release but I thought I’d share a really terrific post I recently came across...
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Integrating Dependencies into Team Build 2010
I was just reading Brad Butt's Suggestions for Microsoft, Part 1 and I thought I'd take the opportunity to let him know that we are addressing two of his three frustrations in Team Build 2010.Brad's...
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TFS 2008 – HP Quality Center Connector December Pre-release
This post is now obsoleteFor more information, please see Team Foundation Server Migration and Integration Solutions.The TFS product team has been working with Hewlett Packard’s (HP) Quality Center...
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Building “Classic ASP” applications with TFS 2008
As far as VS 2005 or VS 2008 are concerned, “Classic ASP” applications are just text files. You can edit them and you can check them in and out of version control. When people ask about managing...
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Coming soon – Gated Check-in
This is the first in a series of planned blog posts on new features coming in Team Foundation Build 2010.Team Foundation Build 2010 includes a new feature that lets you reject check-ins if the...
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Improving Build Performance in TFS 2008
There are a number of things you can do to improve build performance in TFS 2008:Reduce the scope of the Get as much as possible by fine-tuning the workspace mapping. Reduce the verbosity of the...
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Resources for Building ASP.net Applications with VSTS/TFS
I often hear that our customers hit challenges when developing ASP.net applications with VSTS and TFS. I’d like to kick off a dialog with a goal of identifying the key pain points so that we can...
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Building a simple web site with VSTS/TFS 2008
I’ve been working on a web site for a local non-profit as an opportunity to spend more time with VSTS and TFS as a user. I setup TFS 2008 SP1 in a virtual machine running on my home PC and made it...
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Enabling Symbol and Source Server Support in TFS Build 2010
One of the really nice new features in TFS Build 2010 is support for symbol and source server. While the names “Symbol Server” and “Source Server” are somewhat misleading (there isn’t really a separate...
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What Everybody Ought to Know about the TFS SDK
If you’ve checked out the latest Visual Studio SDK, you may have noticed something relative to the previous releases:SDK ReleaseDownload (MB)Visual Studio 2005124Visual Studio 2008109Visual Studio...
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Upgrading TFS 2008 Build Definitions to TFS 2010
If you’re a TFS 2008 user who’s thinking about installing TFS 2010 Beta 2, you may be wondering what will be involved in getting your existing build definitions to work in 2010. You see, build...
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How to Build Compact Framework Projects with TFS 2010
If you have a Visual Studio 2008 solution with one or more Compact Framework (also referred to as “Smart Device”) projects that you’re trying to build with TFS 2010 or MSBuild 4.0, you’ve probably hit...
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Build Machine Configuration Recommendations for TFS 2010
I've fielded a few questions about what type of machine (hardware, operating system, etc.) works best as a TFS 2010 build machine. The answers probably won't surprise you, but they may serve as helpful...
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Using Windows Search to Index your Source Code
I really like having Windows Search integrated into the Start Menu in Windows. It’s a handy way to find documents, programs and even control panel links. I found it really strange, however, that I...
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Adding SQL Management Studio to the VS 2010 RC
While it’s very convenient to have SQL 2008 Express installed along with Visual Studio 2010, it’s unfortunate that it’s missing the Express version of SQL Management Studio. There is, however, a pretty...
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Create a Custom WF Activity to Sync Version and Build Numbers
Updated for TFS 2010 RTM! One of the common requests we hear is to provide a way of automatically updating the version information in the assemblies produced by a TFS build. Unfortunately, it’s one of...
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Extending Team Projects and Team Explorer in TFS 2010
In this post, I’m going to walk you through a TFS SDK sample that extends Team Projects and Team Explorer in TFS 2010. This solution is implemented as a Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) package...
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How to: Implement, package and deploy custom check-in policy for TFS 2010
This How to article walks you through the process of creating, packaging, deploying and applying a custom check-in policy for TFS. Check-in policies let you run rules, whenever someone attempts to...
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Installing just the Server Components of TFS 2010
If you’re developing (or planning to develop) on the Team Foundation API and you want to get the server assemblies installed on your machine in addition to the client assemblies that are included with...
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