Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (5 Parts)

Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 1) - Create Team Project - Willy-Peter Schaub’s Cave of Chamomile Simplicity:

This is the start of a mini series during which I will review the Rosario CTP Mini-Stories, viewing it from our production perspective and highlighting exciting, missing and/or troubling features. So let’s rock and roll with the latest and greatest of Team Foundation Server

Ahh, the next version of TFS! Cool! Have a look at part 5; no more Xml for you!

Team Foundation Server File Sync Service

TFS File Sync - Home:

This solution was developed to address the need to automatically propagate specific files in the Team Foundation Server version control to a predefined path.

Could be useful, in my old job we could have made use of this to make sure our shared binaries/task/etc. was always up to date. Instead we chose to use xcopy…

TFS Rosario - Team Build uses Windows Workflow « Grant Holliday

Holy cow!

TFS Rosario - Team Build uses Windows Workflow « Grant Holliday

Ozzie Rules Blogging : 3 More of the Rosario Specifications posted

Pretty cool! I like the fact that they (Microsoft) are actually showing us their specs! That’s just awesome! Charles asked for feedback on whether we wanted to see more spec like this or not; my answer is a simple yes. It’s awesome to see how Microsoft does this and to see what you guys are thinking. How will VSTS/TFS look/feel/act in the near future? All good stuff!

As for the features; The bug submission feature doesn’t really attract me all that much, but it looks like a nice feature though. The linking spec was just too much for me, I lost track after like 3 minutes of reading. Looking forward to a new drop of Rosario CTPs to test though. The e-mail feature looks nice, especially when paired with TSWA. Not sure how I feel about the requirement to use Outlook though… Could this be done in a more open fashion?

Something just dawned on me; why aren’t WI queries available as RSS feeds? That would be an awesome feature!

Ozzie Rules Blogging : 3 More of the Rosario Specifications posted

VSTS Scrum Process Template - Home

I’ve always wanted to use Scrum and TFS/VSTS together, I wonder how good this template this is?

VSTS Scrum Process Template - Home

Teams WIT Tools : FAQ #7: Can I combine a list of valid TFS users and a fixed list to present as an option for an "Assigned To" field?

We should probably add “Testers” and “Devs” to our list. That way we don’t have to know/care about where to send items, just that some dev/test person will pick it up. Add some notification magic and you can make sure that the correct people are notified when they should. Easy does it!

Teams WIT Tools : FAQ #7: Can I combine a list of valid TFS users and a fixed list to present as an option for an “Assigned To” field?

Jelle Druyts - Just Released: BuildCop v1.0!

Interesting addition to TFS Build.

Jelle Druyts - Just Released: BuildCop v1.0!

Strong Name your assemblies with Team Build using a private key « Grant Holliday

Nice to know.

Strong Name your assemblies with Team Build using a private key « Grant Holliday

Running the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit « Grant Holliday

I’ve always wanted to write an app that sync Synergi with TFS, so we could truly have a one-stop bug location. But so far I have not gotten the funding to do so…

Running the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit « Grant Holliday

TFS 2008 Setup and Administration FAQs - MSDN Forums

Good to know these things when (if) we upgrade.

TFS 2008 Setup and Administration FAQs - MSDN Forums