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At work we never really had a branching strategy. This resulted in a big branching mess. People were either not branching at all or were making it up as they went along. Now we have chosen to follow guidance given at http://tfsbranchingguideiii.codeplex.com/ . The Basic Branch Plan should work fine for...
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On 4 and 5 March Microsoft is organizing the Microsoft Applicatieplatform Congres in Noordwijkerhout in the Netherlands. At the congress Microsoft will be showing what their application platform is capable of. The first day is targeted at IT managers and architects, the second at software architects...
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The installation of Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server (TFS) uses an ini-file located on the installation DVD to determine the TFS related settings, e.g. SQL Server port and TFS Web Service port. When you need custom settings, you need a modified ini-file and reference that file when starting...
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Since Team Foundation Server (TFS) uses SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) as its repository for all kinds of info, people are interested to expose the data through Excel or SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). SSAS doesn't expose itself through the HTTP protocol by default, but this can be configured...
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Since Holland is kicked out of Euro 2008 , I found myself some extra time to investigate Visual Studio Team System "Rosario" CTP 12 . It's been a couple of months ago Microsoft released this fantastic platform, but almost nobody blogged about it. Of course three of the most interesting...
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Lately I've been asked to install Team System Web Access on the same machine containing WSS 3.0. Officious I configured their SharePoint using a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) . This gives them the ability to open the TFS sites from outside their environment and on Internet as well. Since MS...
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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 their best to ensure that this Connector is...
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Since almost everyone wanted to upgrade TFS V1 to use WSS 3.0, Microsoft added two guides to MSDN in which they explain how to update. In this guide I'll explain how to update your WSS 2.0 sites to use the newly delivered WSS 3.0 templates. This guide can also be used for people and companies who...
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Christmas comes early this year. Microsoft is releasing cool tools by the day. One of these tools is the TFS to TFS Migration Tool. With this tool you're able to migrate your work items and source from one TFS server to another. Since a lot of my customers started with TFS as soon as it was available...
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Today I received the question how you can receive a pop up messege when you try to check out some files when a newer version is already on the server. When you work with VS2003 and TFS it is possible to perform an get latest version when you try to check it out. I try to explain it: Jan check out file...
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Thanks to the MSDN forums (and specifically one Hua Chen), I found a way to disable specific code analysis rules for a team build. In this post I'll combine the steps I followed earlier with the description given at the MSDN forum. I'll start out with some steps earlier on in the process: how...
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After searching a bit, I found a way to disable specific Code Analysis rules for a team build. Or at least I thought so... The RunCodeAnalysis tag in my build.proj file is set to 'Always' to override the individual project settings, and I added the 'CodeAnalysisRules' tag to exclude some...
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A must read for every pro that uses Team Foundation Server. 469 pages of guidance to use TFS! http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide Also check out the VSTS Guidance project if you are on the codeplex site: http://www.codeplex.com/VSTSGuidance
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Together with 2 other guys from Communited i've visited the DevDays in Amsterdam. Every year it's a great party with a whole bunch of Microsofters together in one big building! This year i attented 4 sessions and saw the keynote presented by our .NET guru Scott . The keynote was about Silverlight...
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Hi There, This week i made some new reports based on our TFS cube and found a strange thing happen. When using the area-field in my querys, some records returned double in my query-result. After speaking to Mike yesterday at the DevDays in Amsterdam he gave me the hint to check the actual MDX query fired...