TFS 2010: A standalone installer for the TFS 2010 SP1 client Object Model API

TFS 2010: A standalone installer for the TFS 2010 SP1 client Object Model API

A small post to inform you that Microsoft released a standalone installer for the Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1 client Object Model API! You can found it on the Visual Studio Gallery here:

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a37e19fb-3052-4fc9-bef7-4a4682069a75

Before this installer, if you wanted to develop an application that interacts with TFS you needed to install Team Explorer to have those few needed DLLs… this isn’t the cas anymore :) Of course licencing doesn’t change and your user will still need a TFS CAL.

A TFS 2012 version will be available with the RTM.

Carpe Diem.

TFS 2012: Add a custom section in a build summary

TFS 2012: Add a custom section in a build summary

With the previous versions of TFS you could customized the buil summary from TeamBuild by developing Visual Studio add-in and deploy is on every computer. This was not simple and it was simplified in Visual Studio 2012 / Team Foundation Server 2012 :)

Everything is done with the new standard TeamBuild activity WriteCustomSummaryInformation:

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