Cheat sheet for TF.exe
Here’s a nice roundup of commands for TF.exe
Building
When doing pc based development I think that having a working build environment that you can quickly recreate on a developers machine is very important.
I also beleive that making it possible to have more than one instance of said environment on any computer should be a prioritised goal.
This will:
- save a lot of time when introducing new developers.
- make it easy to do more than one thing at a time.
- enable nightly builds.
- visualize cloaked dependencies
… and if you do nightly builds along with some automated testing you will:
- find errors early
- always have someting to deliver
- feel confident in your work
TFS Server with friendly DNS name
Since I didn’t find this info the first time I searched I’ll add it here to.
This is what you have to do to get the Team Explorer to work correctly if your TFS Server has a different DNS name than it’s machine name.
http://geekswithblogs.net/etiennetremblay/archive/2006/07/28/86542.aspx
…and what is really missing in that instruction is to disconnect/reconnect you project in Team Explorer since all URL’s are cached on the client.
Attrice Corporation Team Foundation Sidekicks
Attrice Corporation Team Foundation Sidekicks
From the site:
Team Foundation Sidekicks is a suite of tools for Microsoft Team Foundation Server Administrators and advanced users providing Graphic User Interface for administrative and advanced version control tasks in multi-user TFS environments.
Build or release ?
From Wikipedia:
In the field of computer software the term software build refers either to the process of converting source code files into executable code or the result of doing so.
A software release refers to the distribution, whether public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product.
Mysterious hangs on TFS operations
If your Visual Studio instance hangs when doing operations that normally show a dialog, it might be because you have multiple monitors and the one Team Foundation wants to show the dialog on is not connected or you have swapped the primary and secondary monitor.
This is actually not a TFS-only problem I’ve seen the same hang in other applications too so I guess it’s Windows that hasn’t figured out that a monitor is missing.
BSDAgile – Team System Project Template for Extreme Programming
Team Foundation Server Implementation Guidance
The home page of Team System
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/default.aspx
TFS Permission manager
