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 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.
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:
Another release is currently in progress that will contain:
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 ...
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:
Sticky Buddy is available on CodePlex
A new project is released on CodePlex called Team Foundation Build Load Balancer that balances builds between the build agents defined in a Team Project and thus reducing the time developer's wait for builds to complete.
It’s a very simple command-line application that is designed to run in a scheduled job to balance queued builds between multiple build agents irrespective of which build agent it was queued on.
Each task is documented and provided with an example in the help file. Where applicable, tasks are remote enabled, simply specify a MachineName and the task will target the remote machine.
The latest Project Server to TFS Connector was just released on CodePlex.
This release of the PS2007 VSTS Connector is targeted to work with Team Foundation Server 2008 and resolves several bugs that were reported in the first two releases.
They've done thier best to ensure that this Connector is easy to install and well documented.
Future versions of Team System will have native integration with Project Server, in the meantime this Connector solution is the best way to integrate the two Microsoft products. This solution builds on the previous PS2003 VSTS Connector, published on GotDotNet. This solution is intended to provide guidance, provided as source code that can be used "as is," extended, or modified by developers to use on enterprise development projects.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.
TFSBuildLab 1.0 is released on CodePlex, it is a project to simplify the day to day operations when using automated builds on TFS.
This project handles common Team System issues such as:
Below is a list of 1.0 features
Service
Admin Client
Checkin Policies
Build Task
Many of these issues are handled in the upcoming TFS release, but they wanted to have a good implementation until then and was also aiming to be as forward-compatible as possible.
Back in June the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit was released, the toolkit helps migrating data between 3rd party version control and bug tracking systems and TFS.
Having multiple locations and on site development arose the idea of having a TFS to TFS tool as well, so work was begun on writing a TFS to TFS migration tool based on the toolkit.
A pre-release of this TFS to TFS Migration Tool is now available on CodePlex!
This tool enables migration of work items and version control items with history between TFS servers. To learn more about the tool, you can visit the TFS to TFS Migration Tool page on CodePlex.
The purpose of this pre-release is for testing and stabilizing of the tool before officially releasing the tool.
Patterns & Practices: VSTS Process Support is a collection of tools, samples and guidance related to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Process Templates. We’ll share artifacts from early development cycles with you and would like to get feedback so we can improve our products.
Patterns & Practices: Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications is now available on CodePlex
This guide shows you an end-to-end approach for implementing performance
testing. Whether you are new to performance testing, or looking for ways to
improve your current performance testing approach, you will find insights that
you can tailor for your specific scenarios.
The purpose of the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit is to enable customers of Team Foundation Server (TFS) to build custom tools that enable migration and synchronization with other version control (VC) and work-item tracking (WIT) systems. Customers have asked us for this toolkit to help them integrate TFS into their existing development environments. Please give it a try and let us know what you think.
The Visual Studio Team System Project Server 2007 Connector is designed to integrate the project management capabilities of VSTS with Project Server 2007.
It's been developed by the Visual Studio Team System Rangers in response to significant customer demand for a connector solution. Future versions of Team System will have native integration with Project Server, in the meantime this Connector solution is the best way to integrate the two Microsoft products.
This guide shows you how to make the most of Team Foundation Server. It starts with the end in mind, but shows you how to incrementally adopt TFS for your organization. It's a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, Team System team members, and industry experts.
The Visual Studio Team System Project Server 2007 Connector is designed to integrate the project management capabilities of VSTS with Project Server 2007.
It's been developed by the Visual Studio Team System Rangers in response to significant customer demand for a connector solution. Future versions of Team
System will have native integration with Project Server, in the meantime this Connector solution is the best way to integrate the two Microsoft products. This solution builds on the previous PS2003 VSTS Connector, published on GotDotNet. This solution is intended to provide guidance, provided as source code that can be sed "as is," extended, or modified by developers to use on enterprise development projects.
