New features in Team Build 2013

New features in Team Build 2013

Microsoft has release a preview of Team Foundation Server 2013 and Visual Studio 2013. You can download this preview here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39323

In this post i’ll present you what has changed around Team Build. Be careful, the information provided here are based on a preview version and could change in the final version.

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VS ALM: Tips for using Brian Keller’s VS ALM virtual machine

VS ALM: Tips for using Brian Keller's VS ALM virtual machine

I’m using more and more Brian Keller’s virtual machine for my presentations and demos. This virtual machine can be downloaded on Brian’s blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2011/09/16/visual-studio-11-application-lifecycle-management-virtual-machine-and-hands-on-labs-demo-scripts.aspx

This VM already contains all tools installed and configured and also has some projects with data. To ensure it’s use over time some scripts are run at each startup of the system and can cause some errors when you want, like me, to do your own demos.

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TFS: Create a WebDeploy package using Team Build

TFS: Create a WebDeploy package using Team Build

During my session at the TechDays 2013 a reader of my blog asked me how to generate a WebDeploy package from Team Build. Here’s a post on this subject :)

Before starting here’s a brief reminder of what WebDeploy is:

WebDeploy is a tool to simplify the deployment of web applications or web sites on IIS servers. With WebDeploy an administrator can export or import a web site as a configurable package or can synchronize IIS servers.

In this post i’ll show you how you can create a WebDeploy package (.zip) based on your web application source files and the result of it’s build.

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TFS 2010: Rename a server – Part 7 : the TeamBuild server

TFS 2010: Rename a server – Part 7 : the TeamBuild server

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In this sixth post we will see what to do to rename the TeamBuild server build.demo.local to build1.demo.local and make our service work again :)

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TFS 2010: Rename a server – Part 6: the TeamFoundation Server server

TFS 2010: Rename a server – Part 6: the TeamFoundation Server server

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In this fifth post we will see what to do to rename the TeamFoundation Server server tfs.demo.local to tfs1.demo.local and make our service work again :)

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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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TFS: Doing rollbacks with TFS 2010 and TFS 11

TFS: Doing rollbacks with TFS 2010 and  TFS 11

I got several time questions about how rollback are done with Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010; instead of repeating myself i’ve decided to write a post :)

Note : although the screenshots are done under Visual Studio 11, the principals are the same with Visual Studio 2010..

In TFS when doing a rollback or cancel a changeset you will get a new version of your file or files with an Edit status:

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The edit will then be visible in the history after doing a checkin. (you will the be able to rollback your rollback :) )

Update 08/25/2014: corrected output of rollback 22, thanks B€N :)

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TFS 2010: Rename a server – Part 5: the Sharepoint server

TFS 2010: Rename a server - Part 5: the Sharepoint server

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In this fourth post we will see what to do to rename the sharepoint server wss.demo.local to wss1.demo.local and make our services work again :)

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TFS 2010: Rename a server – Part 4: the Reporting Services server

TFS 2010: Rename a server - Part 4: the Reporting Services server

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In this third post we will see what to do to rename the reporting services server rs.demo.local to rs1.demo.local and make our services work again :)

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TFS 2010: Rename a server – Part 3: the Analysis Services server

TFS 2010: Rename a server – Part 3: the Analysis Services server

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In this second post we will see what to do to rename the analysis services server as.demo.local to as1.demo.local and make our services work again :)

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