The contributors to this project have continued to pour their spare time into fixing bugs and adding new functionality. Today we are wrapping up all the recent changes and making the January 2013 release available. The January 2013 release contains…
Mike Fourie
Visual Studio ALM MVP of the Year 2012, 13. Distinguished ALM Ranger (Champion of Champions 2011, 12, 13)
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Misc. Team Foundation Build News
New Activities Released — Community TFS Build Extensions – Aug 2012 Upgrading? If you haven’t run into this problem in TFS Build 2012 yet, you probably will — TFS 2012 – Cleaning up Workflow XAML files (AKA removing versioned namespaces)…
Community TFS Build Extensions – Aug 2012
We just pushed out the August 2012 release of the TFS Build extensions. This wraps up over 90 change sets which address new features and bug fixes. The August 2012 release contains VS2010 Activities(target .NET 4.0) VS2012 Activities (target .NET…
Using Continuous Deployment to Azure with Team Foundation Service
Microsoft’s Brian Harry recently blogged ‘Announcing Continuous Deployment to Azure with Team Foundation Service’ in which he basically covers how you can now have a developer check in some code and see those updates on your Azure Websites hosted website…
Community TFS Build Extensions – December 2011
We’ve just shipped the next stable release of the Community TFS Build Extensions. This is a significant release for us following over 130 changesets since our September release. Once again we’ve addressed feedback from users, fixed bugs and added new…
MSBuild Inline Tasks to the rescue
A colleague (Pål Bendiksen) recently asked if there was an MSBuild task available to checkin pending changes in a Team Foundation Server workspace and get the check-in id. Looking at the MSBuild Extension Pack I saw no solution. Another solution…
Community TFS 2010 Build Extensions – September 2011
We’ve just shipped the second stable release of the Community TFS 2010 Build Extensions. We shipped our first release in July and this release contains 28 changesets which provide new functionality and address a lot of feedback from our first…
Build Trigger Management in Team Foundation Build 2010
Even though Visual Studio 2010 has been out for some time, I encountered an interesting question on a discussion list recently. The question was basically, “What happens if I check into a folder which is mapped to a Gated and…
Using Work Item Tracking Search in the Team Foundation Server Power Tools
The current out the box experience of work item searching in Team Foundation Server 2010 involves putting together a query, probably spanning a few rows, and then executing it. Then you may save that query for later as something like…
Using Rollback in the Team Foundation Server Power Tools
Team Foundation Server 2010 provided a much better rollback experience for users via the tf rollback command. In ‘TFS11’ this functionality will be baked into the UI, though it seems that the Visual Studio UserVoice site is bearing some early…
