We just released a new Radio TFS episode on check-in policies. You can listen to the show here, but don't forget that you can subscribe to the show using the RSS Feed in iTunes or Zune (http://feeds.feedburner.com/radiotfs). As we mention in the show, we have a set of special episodes coming up that you really won't want to miss so now is the time to subscribe.
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The other week Brian Randall and I sat down with Carl and Richard to record a .Net Rocks episode. Honestly, you wait years for a Brian Randall podcast and then three come along at once!
In this episode we talked about what's been happening in the Team System world since 2005, share some best practice war stories and look forward to some the new goodies coming up in the next release. You can get the episode here.
Don't forget that if you like listening to podcasts about Team System and Team Foundation Server, then hopefully you'll love Radio TFS :-)
Over on Radio TFS we've just published a special episode on the Database Edition of Team System with the man himself, Gert Drapers. In the show Gert brings us up to speed on how the product got started, where it is now and where it is going in the future. We also spent a lot of time talking about the latest CTP (released last night) of the Database Edition GDR along with a few exclusive bits of information that I'd not heard elsewhere before.
As well as listening to the show, be sure to check out Gert's blog post for more details. Don't forget that you can subscribe to the RSS Feed in iTunes or Zune so you need never miss an episode. This was our first "special guest" show and we have a few more planned in for the future. If you have someone that you'd like us to talk to then email radiotfs@gmail.com to let us know.
In this first episode back from the summer break we talk about the features available in TFS Version Control and talk about some of the fundamental concepts that you should understand to make your life easier. Don't forget to stay tuned all the way to the end when I offer up a brainteaser for everyone and Paul goes crazy and offers a FULL copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite to a lucky listener drawn at random who provides a correct answer to radiotfs@gmail.com before the end of August 2008.
If that is not enough for you, Mickey is running a competition over at Team System Rocks where you could win a years MSDN Premium Subscription with Visual Studio Team Suite.
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I've just posted the latest installment of Radio TFS. I'm actually a show behind on editing so expect to see episode 6 up soon. However, in episode 5 Paul, Mickey and I attempt to answer some of the common questions we hear people ask about Team System including:
- What is Team System?
- Which edition is right for me?
- Why can't I find Team Foundation Server on MSDN?
- What is Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition?
- Is VSTS 2005 compatible with TFS 2008?
- Why can't I see Team Foundation Server when I install Team Suite?
- What are my options for migrating from my old system(s) to TFS?
- Can I use TFS with VB6, .NET 1.1, Eclipse etc?
- What is a Team Project - how should it be scoped?
- I deleted a file locally, I do a "Get Latest" and TFS doesn't download it - why?
As well as the usual sprinkling of tangents along the way.
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I've just posted the fourth episode of Radio TFS. In this episode Paul and Mickey talk about Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition while I ask dumb questions and go off on tangents. Despite this, it is actually one of our better episodes to date. So if you are interested and have a spare 35 minutes during a commute or something then please take a listen and let us know what you think.
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I swear, one day I'll learn. Despite having promised myself to steer clear of the initial release of any Windows version of iTunes because they are consistently broke in some pretty severe ways - I read this report on Engadget and decided to upgrade thinking that they may finally haved solved the issues I have been having. (My main one being that I could consistently crash iTunes on any PC by downloading a podcast and pressing the "pause" button during the download).
However, iTunes 7.6 gave me a great new issue - iTunes wouldn't close. Every time I tried to close it (by pressing the X button, or doing File, Close) it would freeze and start consuming as much of my CPU as possible - the only way to get rid of it was to kill the process in Task Manager.
Anyway - after a bit of playing, I eventually figured out that this was something wrong with how they are calling Bonjour. iTunes has the ability to listen for other shared libraries and to share your own library - which is something I had enabled so that I could stream stuff off my laptop onto the Mac Mini and vice-versa. It does this using Apple's Bonjour service.
On my system, the Bonjour service is installed under the catchy name of
"##Id_String1.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762##"
Very user friendly - I think I'll start using GUID's for all my user interfaces :-). Anyway. If I stop this service, I can close iTunes down happily. It will even now let me go into the preferences in iTunes and disable sharing - something that was locking up iTunes 7.6 before (and what made me suspect the Bonjour integration).
Therefore - if you are having the same problems as me, right click on My Computer and select Manage. Then go to Services and Applications, Services, select "##Id_String1.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762##" and press "Stop". Then right click, select properties and change the Start-up type from "Automatic" to "Disabled".
This obviously removes the sharing capabilities - but at least it allows you to sync your iPod. When I finally got iTunes 7.6 to actually work a little bit, I was unsurprised to see that they have still not fixed the bug with the download manager, so if you attempt to do anything to a downloading purchase, podcast or whatever then it will still crash iTunes and will consume most of the available CPU while downloading. Sigh.
Update:People are reporting that this same issue is true with iTunes 7.6, 7.7 and 7.7.1 so I've removed the version number from the title of this post. Luckily now that I've disabled Bonjour and sharing things seem to be working better for me so hadn't noticed myself that this was the case. Additionally, if you have ESET NOD32 Antivirus installed then you might want to look at this forum post.
