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Team System 2008 Interview with Brian Harry

Martin Woodward
Date : 23 Jan, 2008
Categories :tfs web programming podcast

Brian Keller has posted a great interview with Brian Harry about Visual Studio Team System 2008, and a lot of detail on the improvements in Team Foundation Server 2008.

iTunes Freezing on Close

Martin Woodward
Date : 21 Jan, 2008
Categories :technology gadgets maker web programming podcast

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...

TFS Top Tip #15 - Baseline your Builds

Martin Woodward
Date : 16 Jan, 2008
Categories :tfs technology maker

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 has a great new improved build system (often referred to as "Team Build"). An advantage of running your build from Team Build is that (by default) all changes between your current build and the last good one are reported in the build report and any work items that were associated...

Talk: Thomson's use of Team Foundation Server with Teamprise as a cross platform, integrated Configuration Management solution

Martin Woodward
Date : 15 Jan, 2008
Categories :tfs technology dotnet maker teamprise web personal

I just noticed that on Wednesday January 16th at 5pm, the Minnesota Visual Studio Team System User Group are having a talk by Mac Noland. Mac is a good guy with some very interesting real-life experience in the use of TFS, and I would expect this talk from Mac to give people a great understanding of TFS could fit in...

Team System MSDN Media Arrives

Martin Woodward
Date : 11 Jan, 2008
Categories :git tfs technology

It's funny, in these days of digital distribution, but seeing some physical media for a software project you have been closely involved with still means a great deal. Today my January MSDN shipment arrived in the mail - and lo and behold in included a proper physical DVD for Visual Studio 2008 Team System Team Suite.

I Love Shelving

Martin Woodward
Date : 17 Dec, 2007
Categories :git tfs technology gadgets web programming

No - this is not a post about the big news in Northern Ireland this past week. On Friday night I was in the middle of a rather large change that I wasn't ready to check-in to the mainline of code. However, as I am now in the habit of doing, I shelved the changes to TFS before I stopped work for the evening.

Six Months of TFS 2008

Martin Woodward
Date : 14 Dec, 2007
Categories :tfs technology maker teamprise web programming personal

As a follow up to my post back in August when we put TFS Beta 2 onto our production box, I just thought I'd mention that here at Teamprise we have now been running Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2008 for over 6 months now.

Building Ant projects from Team Build

Martin Woodward
Date : 03 Dec, 2007
Categories :tfs technology dotnet gadgets maker teamprise web programming personal

Update: With Teamprise 3.0 we included this work into the freely downloadable Teamprise Extensions for Team Build. The source is also provided under the MS-PL if you are interested. You should definately look at the new version as it contains some fixes and additional features based on feedback during beta testing.

CruiseControl with TFS2008 update

Martin Woodward
Date : 30 Nov, 2007
Categories :git tfs technology dotnet web

Just a quick update on the TFS2008 with CruiseControl (java version) issue. I recently submitted the patch to the CruiseControl project and it has already kindly been commited into trunk by Dan Rollo. The patch should appear in the 2.7.2 release of CruiseControl.

"Electricity Gone" Moment

Martin Woodward
Date : 28 Nov, 2007
Categories :technology dotnet gadgets web personal

This morning while I was preparing for a customer demo that I'll be doing over LiveMeeting later today, my DSL connection stopped working. I have a reasonably complicated home office network arrangement - but it is most often my VPN connection or my unmanaged gigabit switch that are the problem.

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