TFS Admin Tool 1.3 Released For TFS 2008 on CodePlex!

An updated version of the TFS Admin tool (v 1.3) has been released on CodePlex.

This version of the tool supports TFS 2008 and WSS 3.0. It can be used to help manage User and Permission settings across TFS, SharePoint and SQL Server Reporting Services platforms.

Source Code Outliner PowerToy for Visual Studio 2008

The Source Outliner PowerToy is a Visual Studio 2008 extension that provides a tree view of your source code's types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them with filtering inside the editor is available on MS Download Center.

The project source code (in both C# and Visual Basic) can be found on the SourceCodeOutliner project on CodePlex.com.

Team Build: Modify TFSBuild.proj Template File

One of the usually made changes in all TFS Builds are setting some Targets and Properties for each and every build. Changing the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets is not a supported and risky scenario as it can be changed from version to another (as happened between TFS05 & TFS08) so the best option is customizing the Template file that generates the TFSBuild.proj file to include those changes by default.

The template can be found in:

• [VS2005] C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\1033\tfsbuild.proj
• [VS2008] C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\1033\tfsbuild.proj

Note that those templates are found in the PrivateAssemblies folders which can be overwritten by Maintenance and/or Updates so always make sure the output file is correct

All you have to do is to add your Custom/Overriden Targets, Properties or ItemGroups in their needed locations and Copy the file to each Machine that will create a Team Build.

Hope that helps.

Thanks to Steve for the info

VSTS 2008 VPCs

2 new VSTS 2008 VPCs are now available on MS Download.

The first one is running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, SP2. It contains a full installation of Team Foundation Server 2008, Team Build 2008, Team Explorer 2008, Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite and all necessary prerequisites. Team Foundation Server is installed in workgroup authentication mode and thus does not require a domain controller. The image is over 11 GB uncompressed.

The second one is is running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, SP2. It contains a full installation of Team Foundation Server 2008, Team Explorer 2008, and all necessary prerequisites. Team Foundation Server is installed in workgroup authentication mode and thus does not require a domain controller. The image is under 7 GB uncompressed.

Have fun :)