TFS Useful Links

While looking for some useful stuff for VSTS, I came across the following great ones ...

• Process Template Editor (http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=812a68af-5e74-48c6-9623-1a4469142a84 then “releases” bottom right)·
• VSTSRocks training videos (http://teamsystemrocks.com/tutorials/default.aspx)·
• TFS Integrator (http://notgartner.wordpress.com/tag/projects/tfs-integrator/Continuous)·
• TFS Bug Snapper (http://www.holliday.com.au/tfsbugsnapper/)·
• Extra TFS sample reports included in the training VPC (http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/09/09/tfs_reporting.aspx)·
• UK SDC MSBuild tasks: http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=b4d6499f-0020-4771-a305-c156498db75e·
• Changing the InstanceId for a development/DR server (http://www.holliday.com.au/blog/tfs-instanceid-servermapxml-and-how-to-cause-havoc.html)·
• Version Control(MSDN): http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.teamfoundation.versioncontrol.client.versioncontrolserver_members(VS.80).aspx
• Work Items(MSDN): http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.teamfoundation.workitemtracking.client.workitemstore(VS.80).aspx
• Security(MSDN): http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.teamfoundation.server.igroupsecurityservice(VS.80).aspx
• MSBee – Building 1.1 applications with Team Build/MSBuild: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=MSBee
• Team Foundation Power Tools (tfpt.exe): http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=5431080
• MSBuild Task Reference (all the tasks provided out of the box): http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/7z253716(VS.80).aspx
• Overriding targets in Team Builds (BeforeGet, AfterGet, etc): http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337604(VS.80).aspx
• Skip Work Item Creation (by default, Team build creates a bug once a build fails.) You can skip this behaviour with this property: http://weblogs.asp.net/dmckinstry/archive/2006/07/16/Hints-for-expediting-Team-Build-script-development.aspx

Thanks to a bunch of blogs and newsgroups for them ...