Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio Team System 2010

Team Foundation Installation Guide 2010 is available on Download Center here, it includes instructions for installing Team Foundation Server and Team Foundation Build Services

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 Beta 1 Arrived

Yesterday, May 18th, Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 were released.

If you are a MSDN subscriber, you can download the Beta from here. For the rest of the world, the Beta will be publicly available on Wednesday May 20th.

To find out how to download the beta and where to share your feedback, please visit the Visual Studio 2010 Product Page

Enjoy :)

TFS Admin Tool 1.4 Beta Released

The TFS Admin Tool 1.4 beta is now available on CodePlex.

The new beta version provides support for SQL Server 2008. It also contains a lot of code cleanup as housekeeping so that the full set of Code Analysis Rules run against the code come back largely clean or suppressed (suppressed a minimum amount).

TFS Code Coverage Check-in Policy

TFS Code Coverage Check-in Policy is now available on CodePlex.

The TFS Code Coverage Check-in Policy enforces that the latest test run of the current solution has code coverage enabled and that the total code coverage percentage is not below a certain, configurable, threshold value.

It reads the information from test results folder stored locally beneath the current solution.

To ensure that the user actually ran all the necessary tests, this check-in policy should be combined with the Testing check-in policy, that ensures that the user has executed all tests from a predefined test list.

Visual Studio 2010 New Look

Jason Zander posted a blog post about Visual Studio 2010 New Look which is built on WPF technology in .NET Framework 4.0.

The new UI looks amazing in my point of view … Well done …

Visual Studio DB Professional 2010 Oracle Support

Quest Software has announced that they will be creating an Oracle Database Schema Provider for Visual Studio Team System 2010, which means that all Team System users having Oracle databases in their applications will get the same benefits from the Database Edition as those given to SQL Server databases.

Quest has opened up a Beta program on their TeamFuze.net site for Oracle Professionals using Team System.

Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action

"Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action" is a hands-on guide to Team Foundation Server 2008. Written for developers with a good handle on TFS basics, this book shows you how to solve real-life problems. It's not a repetition of Microsoft's product documentation. "Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action" is a practitioner's handbook for how to work with TFS under common constraints. This book walks you through real-life software engineering problems based on hundreds of hours of TFS experience.

You'll benefit from expert author Jamil Azher's extensive interactions with members of Microsoft's TFS team and MVPs, survey feedback from the author's blog, and interviews with organizations and user groups using TFS. Instead of just offering a high-level overview, the book provides detailed solutions for solving common-and not-so-common-problems using TFS. It discusses the strengths as well as weaknesses of TFS, and suggests appropriate problem resolution steps, workarounds, or custom solutions.

Creating T-SQL Static Code Analysis Rules

Gert Drapers wrote a great detailed post on how to Create T-SQL Static Code Analysis Rules as one of the new features in the GDR release is that you can create your own T-SQL Static Code Analysis rules.

The post will guide you through creating your first rule.

New VSTS Virtual Machines

The VSTS Virtual Machines are all updates with fresh bits and expiration dates and now available in 4 different flavors on Microsoft Download Center thanks to Brian Randell

The new Virtual Machines are a VSTS “all-up” image with Team Foundation Server, Team Build, Team Explorer and Team Suite with the latest SP1 installed, and a TFS “only” image with just Team Foundation Server, Team Build and Team Explorer with the latest SP1 installed. But they are produced as Virtual PC 2007/Virtual Server 2005 R2 Compatible images and Hyper-V Compatible images to suite everybody’s needs …

The images are updated with the following:

• The latest Virtual Machine additions or Integration Services Components.
• All of the latest Windows Updates as of December 1, 2008.
• Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1
• Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite SP1
• Team System Web Access 2008 SP1
• Team Foundation Power Tools, October 2008 Update.
• The latest MSSCCI Provider.
• Team Explorer 2005 (this allows you to work with TFS from Visual Studio 2005 which is installed so that you can edit and customize TFS reports)
• The GDR for the product formally known as Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition (aka Data Dude).
• Current Process Explorer, Process Monitor, and Background Info.

All can be downloaded as follows:

• VSTS “all-up” Virtual PC/Virtual Server image (6 GB download, expands to 15 GB)
• TFS “only” Virtual PC/Virtual Server image (3 GB download, expands to 8 GB)
• VSTS “all-up” Hyper-V image (6 GB download, expands to 15 GB)
• TFS “only” Hyper-V image (3 GB download, expands to 8 GB)

Enjoy :)

VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR Language Releases

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Team just released 6 additional languages of the recently released GDR on Microsoft Download Center as follows:

Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)

• http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/9/D/19D1CB8C-82A8-4736-AFF4-51F2E343A312/Readme.mht
• http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/9/D/19D1CB8C-82A8-4736-AFF4-51F2E343A312/setup.exe

German

• http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/E/F/6EFD0F85-C8C3-4B47-9426-22B0ED4D12CE/Readme.mht
• http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/E/F/6EFD0F85-C8C3-4B47-9426-22B0ED4D12CE/setup.exe

Spanish

• http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/1/0/A10A906C-5CB9-4DAE-9CC2-B4B233B8AD6B/Readme.mht
• http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/1/0/A10A906C-5CB9-4DAE-9CC2-B4B233B8AD6B/setup.exe

Italian

• http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/1/6313DB42-DBC5-499F-AB3E-2119689A6A3E/Readme.mht
• http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/1/6313DB42-DBC5-499F-AB3E-2119689A6A3E/setup.exe

Japanese

• http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/D/1/3D14DB8E-4507-4AC3-BE96-DDD5E1FF1C8B/Readme.mht
• http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/D/1/3D14DB8E-4507-4AC3-BE96-DDD5E1FF1C8B/setup.exe

Korean

• http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/C/2/0C2CAB8A-08D4-4354-9883-502C2639DB04/Readme.mht
• http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/C/2/0C2CAB8A-08D4-4354-9883-502C2639DB04/setup.exe

VSTS Database Project Import Scripts Add-In

Patrick Sirr posted a detailed post about the latest VSTS Database Edition GDR Import Scripts Add-In that is amazing.

In this blog I’ll introduce you to the Import Scripts add-in to the General Distribution Release (GDR) for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition. With this add-in Visual Studio can import multiple scripts to populate a target database project. I’ve included the source code but, in order to compile the install project you’ll need to install Votive 3.0 (I used 3.0.4707.0).

Team Foundation Server Build 2008 Reference DeskSheet – V2.0

Mike Fourie had a few minor updates on the handy reference to aid your work with building software in TFS 2008.

System Center 2008 Management Packs for TFS 2008

System Center 2008 Management Packs for TFS 2008 is now available for download on Microsoft Download Center

The Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 Management Pack monitors exposed services of TFS. This management pack includes event rules and monitors. It is designed to proactively monitor quality and availability of TFS services and even automate recovery in some scenarios.

Feature Summary

• Auto discovery of TFS components
• Leverages ASP.NET MP and SQL MP
• Implements containment hierarchy reflecting logical architecture of the Product
• Implements a proper health model using Monitors
• Contains tasks, diagnostic and recovery for certain failures
• Events indicating service outages
• Alerts indicating configuration issues and connected data source changes
• Verification that all dependant services are running
• Targeted running of BPA against TFS Servers from Operator Console

New monitoring capabilities can be easily added.

VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR is now RTW

I recently blogged about VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR RC1 which is now finally a RTW available for download from Microsoft Download Center :)

TFS Build 2008 Reference DeskSheet

Thanks to Mike Fourie for the great handy reference that will aid working with Team Builds on TFS 2008

Team System Web Access Translations

Some of Team System MVPs started working on creating some translations for Team System Web Access through CodePlex as the TSWA Community Translation Project

The great work resulted in 7 new languages that are now available through CodePlex as follows:

• Croatian
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
• Turkish
• Danish
• Swedish
• Polish
• Dutch

Another release is currently in progress that will contain:

• Norwegian
• Arabic
• Portugese

VSTS 2010 Architecture: Prologue

Cameron Skinner wrote an amazing post discussing the composition of VSTS 2010, giving some higher level descriptions of the parts that make up the whole product.

It's a must read post ... Well done Skinner ...

TFS Collaboration Providers

Team Foundation Server Collaboration Providers is a new CodePlex Project that targets Community Contribution for Collaboration providers for different IM and VoIP integration as the TFS 2008 Power Tools enables rich integration with other team members via IM and VoIP chat.

The Power Tools integrates with Live Communicator and Windows Live Messenger Out of the Box.

Skype Provider Initial version is now available as the first Collaboration Provider in the project with more to come ...

TFS 2008 Web Services List

Never thought of listing all TFS 2008 Web Services before until I needed to start access them directly.

Below is the full list of Web Services which comes in two versions, V1.0 and V2.0 for backward compatibility I believe ...

• Build Service
• V1.0
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Build/V1.0/BuildController.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Build/V1.0/BuildStore.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Build/V1.0/Integration.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Build/V1.0/PublishTestResultsBuildService.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Build/V1.0/PublishTestResultsBuildService2.asmx
• V2.0
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Build/V2.0/BuildService.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Build/V2.0/Integration.asmx
• Services Service
• V1.0    
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Services/v1.0/AuthorizationService.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Services/v1.0/CommonStructureService.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Services/v1.0/EventService.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Services/v1.0/GroupSecurityService.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Services/v1.0/ProcessTemplate.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Services/v1.0/projectMaintenance.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Services/v1.0/Registration.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Services/v1.0/ServerStatus.asmx
• V2.0
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Services/v2.0/GroupSecurityService2.asmx
• Version Control Service
• V1.0
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/VersionControl/v1.0/Administration.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/VersionControl/v1.0/Integration.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/VersionControl/v1.0/ProxyStatistics.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/VersionControl/v1.0/Repository.asmx
• Warehouse Service
• V1.0
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/Warehouse/v1.0/warehousecontroller.asmx
• WorkItem Tracking Service
• V1.0
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/WorkItemTracking/v1.0/ClientService.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/WorkItemTracking/v1.0/ConfigurationSettingsService.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/WorkItemTracking/v1.0/ExternalServices.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/WorkItemTracking/v1.0/Integration.asmx
• http://YourTFSServerName:8080/WorkItemTracking/v1.0/SyncEventsListener.asmx

TFS Sticky Buddy

Sticky Buddy is a Digital Dashboard that will run off Team Foundation Server and allow teams to display information on the status of their development on one or many projects.

The application will consist of a main screen that queries a TFS Server and pulls a list of projects that the user can select for display and within each project it will display the iteration tree.

This tree will be displayed as a set of concentric columns that are populated with "Change Requests" and "Requirements" that are currently within that iteration path.

Each of the Work Items displayed will show limited information about itself, which user it is assigned to, its Area and title. But it will also display the number of sub items within each item. This will give an indication of the length of time necessary to complete all of the sub-work items within that iteration so it can be moved on to the next.

A set of rules will determine the color or icons associated with each item based on their status. These rules may include:

• Is this item overdue?
• Does this work item have any blocked work items associated with it?
• Does this work item have any risks associated with it?

Sticky Buddy is available on CodePlex