Today Rob Caron announced a new Visual Studio Team Edition that provides many integrated tools to improve data-driven applications development: Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals.The first CTP of the product will be available in TechEd 06 and the final release is expected to ship by the end of this year. From the Database... read more
I’m proud to annouce that Johnny Halife and I are going to collaborate with Alejandro Jack on the MSDN Webcast named Extending Visual Studio Team System he will be giving next week.Summary:Southworks S.R.L. is a leading early adopter of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System in the Latin American region. Come hear about their experiences with... read more
MSFWinBuild, the tool that compiles Process Guidance for Team System is finally available for download! This tool is the one used by Microsoft to create MSF Agile and MSF for CMMI process guidances, it generates nice HTML files from XML sources that describe the guidance content. Go get it from the GotDotNet workspace! Important: There... read more
If you’re editing work item types, you will find useful having Intellisense in Visual Studio 2005: Open the Visual Studio Team System Integration folder from the VS 2005 SDK. The SDK can be downloaded from here. Navigate to Work Item Tracking. Copy the file WorkItemTypeDefinition.xsd included in Work Item Tracking Schemas.zip to “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual... read more
After working with Visual Studio Team System at Southworks for some months, I noticed a common practice that some of us repeated frecuently: after creating a Work Item we use to send an email to the assigned user just with the subject: "Assigned WI #xxx". This was not only a boring task, but also innecessary... read more
Here I’ll post useful resources I find when making research about Customizing & Extending Visual Studio Team System. Please, if you have another resource that is not listed here let me know! General Main official entry point for extending VSTS:Microsoft Visual Studio Developer Center Visual Studio Development Center: Expand your Opportunities The chapter 9 included... read more
Martin Woodward has written another useful post related to Source Control in Visual Studio Team System.In this opportunity, he talks about the lock types and gives some advises on when to use each one. Don’t miss it! TFS Source Control Lock Types.
Tim Noonan posted a couple of registry settings that will boost up the performance of Visual Studio Team System. Personally I found very useful the setting that will prevent Team Explorer and Source Control from connecting automatically to a Team Foundation Server when Visual Studio starts:Simply create a DWORD value called “AutoLoadServer” under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TeamFoundation and... read more
Those who are used to working with Subversion know the great tool the blame command is: it helps you to know who modified every single line in a file and when (in what revision). Now you can have this feature in Team Foundation Server, luckily! Don’t miss this post from Buck Hodges, he talks about the Annotate (Blame) tool included in... read more
Richard Hundhausen (author of the book “Working with Microsoft (r) Visual Studio(r) 2005 Team System”) recently published a useful “list of various Visual Studio 2005 and Team Foundation Server add-ins, add-ons, widgets, and extensibility solutions”. Check it out at http://www.accentient.com/widgets.aspx.
