TFS Migration and Synchronization for ClearCase
Brian Harry has posted some great news over on his blog - Microsoft have release a new tool to allow users to migrate from ClearCase to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.
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Skype Woes
Skype seems to have been having trouble this morning. At first I thought it was a set of Windows Vista Updates I'd applied - but when the problem started affecting my hardware based Skype phone as well my suspicions went to my ISP. I was thinking that they were doing some traffic shaping or something to Skype traffic.
Continue Reading CruiseControl 2.7.1 RC3 - now with TFS Support!
Paul Julius just announced that RC3 of CruiseControl 2.7.1 has been released from the Agile 2007 conference. From my point of view this is fantastic news, because it includes a patch I submitted to the project to include integration between CruiseControl and Team Foundation Server.
Continue Reading I Love Resharper
As I've mentioned before, I love Resharper from those crazily clever folks at JetBrains. Today I installed an Early Access version of 3.0.2 into Visual Studio 2008 and all the goodness has returned.
Continue Reading Running TFS 2008 (Beta 2) in Production
Yesterday I sat down with my freshly downloaded Orcas Beta 2 media (thanks to the Secure Content Downloader from the good folks at Microsoft Research in Cambridge) and upgraded our production TFS instance.
Continue Reading Vote for your favorite systems to migrate off.
Now that the V1 of the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit is up and running on CodePlex, Matt and the team are looking for feedback on what systems you would like migration options allowing you to abandon your old system and move to TFS.
Continue Reading 30 Useful Team Build Properties
If you are going to get into the Zen of TFS Team Build, then at some point you are going to have to read the TeamBuild .targets file (located in %ProgramFiles%\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\TeamBuild\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets).
Continue Reading TFS Top Tip #13 - Watch where you drop stuff
With Team Build in Team Foundation Server, you can have multiple build types for multiple projects. For example, we have a build that runs fast that we can have running Continuous Integration on, and a slower build (that does obfuscation, release packaging etc) that is run on demand when we want to perform a release...
Continue Reading MSF Process Guidance Generator Tool
A new project has been released over on CodePlex from the Patterns and Practices folks which attempts to improve the guidance generation process. "The interim solution makes it easier to customise the narrative guidance than the current mechanisms, but I should emphasize that it will be replaced by our longer term...
Continue Reading Oh iTunes, iLoath thee
People go on about iPod + iTunes + Store being this all time great combination. I'll admit that I love my iPod, and if/when one comes out with similar capabilities to the iPhone player I'll be buying it. However, I don't think I'm being controversial here when I say that iTunes on Windows really sucks.
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