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Team Foundation Server Power Tools released
21 February 07 11:01 AM | MikeD | with no comments
The Team Foundation Server power tools package has been released. It includes the command line tool, tfpt.exe, that has a bunch of commands that help you with source control operations, and workitem operations. The package includes several checkin policies...
Enterprise Library v3 plan is released.
27 September 06 08:32 AM | MikeD | with no comments
The Patterns and Practices group at MSDN have released their initial plans for Enterprise Library v3 . In a nutshell, here is their list: As at our Vision/Scope milestone, the minimal credible list line includes the following features: Medium Trust support...
Some real-world Team System project experiences...
22 September 06 10:36 AM | MikeD | 1 comment(s)
Bill Simser in Calgary is using Team System with a Scrum template, and he mentioned hearing Joel's recently recorded Dot Net Rocks episode (which I've downloaded but haven't listened to - knowing Joel it will be clever and entertaining and...
MSBuild, MSTest, Biztalk and CruiseControl.Net
12 January 06 10:24 PM | MikeD | 5 comment(s)
I've been working on a project that will incorporate a number of pieces of technology: Biztalk, Host Integration Server, Hummingbird Document Management, Sybase, and perhaps a few others. We're going to use VS2005, the only question is, whether we will...
Application Designer and Web Application Projects and Biztalk
12 January 06 08:57 PM | MikeD | with no comments
I'm working on a project now that has a lot of components and web services and a few client applications. And Biztalk. I'm using Application Designer from Visual Studio 2005 Team Architect edition to model the components of the system. While the model...
Team System Tests and NUnit Tests
21 December 05 08:36 PM | MikeD | 1 comment(s)
I was just looking at the Composite UI App Block (for .NET 2.0 recently released) and they ship with their framework both Nunit and Team System tests. The really cool thing is this: the test source files are common between the two of them. Here is the...
Team Test
10 December 05 11:14 PM | MikeD | 1 comment(s)
I'm getting into writing tests for a .NET 2.0 project, and I must say that one of the great things about writing unit tests in the Team Test environment is how easy it is to run those tests in the debugger in Visual Studio. I've also been mentoring a...
Team Foundation Server performance numbers
10 December 05 11:05 PM | MikeD | with no comments
There's a new post from bHarry telling how they scaled Team Foundation Server to a team of over 2000 developers, using a dual processor 2.8 Ghz, 4GB application server and a quad-processor 2.7 Ghz, 16 GB database server. They used a test set of 750,000...
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