Top stories published by Into ALM in 2008

New for Team Builds in Team Foundation Server 2010 is the concept of Build Controllers. In the previous versions of Team Foundation Server (2005/2008), you were only able to assign a Team Build to a specific Build Agent. This means that when the Build Agent is offline…

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Oct 18, 2008

TFS with FQDN

From Wikipedia …

A fully qualified domain name (or FQDN) is an unambiguous domain name that specifies the exact location in the Domain Name System’s tree hierarchy through to a top-level domain and finally to the root domain. Technically, a FQDN has a trailing dot (for example…

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Oct 1, 2008

About this blog

My name is Pieter Gheysens and I’m working as a .NET Consultant and Team Lead for Compuware Belgium. I already have a blog on .NET Development and I also blog there about the VISUG community events in Belgium which I organize as a User Group Leader.

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Dec 8, 2008

VSTS2010 : The Big Picture

Taken from the Microsoft Developer and Designer Tools 2008 Product Guide :

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System is an integrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance to help development teams improve…

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Dec 21, 2008

Branches in TFS2010

Let’s face it : managing branches and controlling the merge activities in Team Foundation Server isn’t optimal for the moment and it takes some effort to know what’s going on in a Team Project. At least development teams should enforce the most appropriate branching & merging strategy at the…

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Dec 19, 2008

Visual Studio 2010 CTP Expiration

In case you didn’t know about the VS2010 CTP Expiration : now is the time to disable time synchronization under Virtual PC 2007! Otherwise, after January 1, 2009, you will no longer be able to launch the Visual Studio 2010 CTP …

Source Server for TFS Builds

This is not yet a widely known practice in the field, but setting up a Source Server for TFS Builds in an enterprise development environment can be extremely valuable.

My friend and ex-colleague Jelle Druyts wrote a few months ago an excellent blog post…

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Oct 28, 2008

VSTS Sessions at PDC

I’m currently at PDC in Los Angeles and on day 1 of the conference I followed already the session of Cameron Skinner A lap around VSTS2010 and the session of Brian Harry Cool New Features in TFS2010.

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Oct 10, 2008

No code coverage result with Team Build?

When creating a new Team Build with the Build Wizard in TFS 2008, it may be possible that you won’t have code coverage results while you have this option enabled in your testrun configuration file. This depends on how you selected your tests to run …

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Nov 9, 2008

new release of TFS Power Tools

The TFS Power Tools (October 2008) are released …

The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools is a set of enhancements, tools and command line utilities that improve the Team Foundation Server 2008 experience.

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Nov 29, 2008

VISUG Session What’s new in VS2010

Last Thursday (November 27, 2008), I redelivered some PDC content on Visual Studio 2010 for the Visual Studio User Group (VISUG) in Belgium.

The session took about 2 hours and was a mix of all the new stuff I saw at PDC. Most of the time I was…

Pieter Gheysens in Into ALM

Oct 2, 2008

Rosario becomes Visual Studio 2010

On September 29, 2008, Microsoft unveiled the next version of Visual Studio : codename Rosario will now officially be replaced by Visual Studio 2010, pronounced as Twenty-Ten or Two Thousand Ten.

2009

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