VB.NET and C# Comparison
October 21, 2008 4 Comments
Sometimes we need a simple VB.NET & C# side by side comparison. This sheet doesn’t include all features, but its great place to start with.
TFS Check-In Validation Tool
October 21, 2008 1 Comment
New tool was released on CodePlex called TFS Check-in Validation Tool.
This tool provides the ability to have a checkin validating by a build prior to being checked in. This is similar to a feature in TFS 2010 called Gated Checkin, which is integrated into VS and TFS (more info in this video). With both of these the goal is to prevent build breaks from being checked in by validating them beforehand.
If you really like it and are interested in doing something similar with TFS 2008 (before TFS 2010) comes out, you can check out this new project on CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/BuddyBuild.
It is not a part of TFS and the implementation is unrelated to the TFS 2010 Gated checkin feature.
How to set up TFS 2008 SP1 to use TSWA links in checkin notification emails
October 21, 2008 Leave a comment
Buck Hodges has created a great post on this commonly issue here.
Scrum for Team System – Version 2.2 released
October 21, 2008 Leave a comment
Version 2.2 for TFS 2008 is out:
- Task Board for Team system has hit Gold Master and is coming out of Beta
- Task Board for Team System now supports SfTS 1.2 on TFS 2005
- Version 2.2 of the free process template is now available for download:
Version 2.2 supports:
- TFS 2008 / TFS 2008 SP1
- SQL Server 2005 / SQL Server 2008
- WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007
It features a new "Report Flicker Mode", a velocity report, ten new engineering focussed report along with numerous bug fixes, performance tweaks and other enhancements.
Task Board for Team System hits Gold Master:
http://www.scrumforteamsystem.com/en/TaskBoardBeta/Default.aspx
Road to Rosario Special: VSTS 2010 Development
October 21, 2008 Leave a comment
RadioTFS is going to be doing a series of shows on the new Features in Visual Studio Team System 2010 – In this edition they catch up with Habib and the developer features!
Habib is a Lead Program manager on the VSTS Development group. His main responsibilities include the Visual Studio debugger, profiler, code coverage and pretty much anything related to troubleshooting and diagnosing applications. He joined Microsoft in 2000 and has been in Developer Division ever since. Before joining Microsoft, Habib studied computer science at the Australian National University in Canberra. While not at work, Habib spends his time playing with robots, shooting hoops or chasing that elusive Yellowfin. One of his favorite possessions is a Washington state license plate with the label "RUNTIME".
MSBuild Extension Pack Brings 170 Build Tasks
October 21, 2008 Leave a comment
When MSBuild was first released, it was seen as a stopgap measure. Prior to its introduction, building a non-trivial .NET project from the command line was a daunting challenge. Either command line options have to be carefully laid out or third-party libraries like NAnt have to be brought in.
Recently MSBuild Extension Pack was released on CodePlex. Run by Mike Fourie and a team of 5 developers, this successor to FreeToDev MSBuild Extensions has over 170 different tasks for MSBuild. Many of these tasks support a MachineName argument allowing the actions to be performed on a remote machine.
The team summarizes the tasks into these categories:
- System Items: Certificates, COM+, Console, Date and Time, Drives, Environment Variables, Event Logs, Files and Folders, GAC, Network, Performance Counters, Registry, Services, Sound
- Code: Assemblies, CAB Files, Code Signing, File Detokenisation, GUID’s, Mathematics, Strings, Threads, Zip
- Applications: BizTalk 2006, Email, IIS7, MSBuild, SourceSafe, StyleCop, Team Foundation Server, Visual Basic 6, WMI
Israeli ALM UG – November 2008 Meeting
October 17, 2008 2 Comments
The next meeting of the Israeli ALM UG will be focused on VSTS/TFS extensibility.
Save as Outlook Appointment:
VSTS is a great ALM platform. One of the main advantages of VSTS is it’s API which gives us the ability to write tools to make our daily work more productive.
We will talk about what parts and how we can customize and extensible VSTS.
The agenda:
17:30 – 18:00 : Assembly
18:00 – 18:45 : Part 1 – TFS API fundamentals
18:45 – 19:00 : Break
19:00 – 19:45 : Part 2 – Hands-On & code samples
Please register here.
The lecturer:
Shmulik Segal works as ALM group manager in Sela Group. Shmulik is a software engineer with rich and varied technical experience. In the past 3 years Shmulik assimilate many TFS projects and has proved experience in writing tools to VSTS.
