Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013 are available!

Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013 are available!

It’s official, the RTM version of Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 are available to download at the following URL :

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads

You can also download them from your MSDN account.

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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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Blog update

Blog update

It’s been a while since I wrote a post on my blog mainly due to lack of time and also because I wanted to do a big update on it which is now done :)

After some tests and some customization i’ve found a new theme, Montezuma, and a new plugin to manage multiple languages, WordPress Multilingual Plugin. Additionally i’ve created some categories to order my posts:

I’ve also decided to add a icon with a color code for each category on each post to help find the subject.

Soon some new post with more technical content :)

Carpe Diem.

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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Team Build: TFS Build Extensions – January 2012

Team Build: TFS Build Extensions - January 2012

We released a new stable version on the Community TFS Build Extensions. For a list of updates see the download page here.

Your feedback and suggestions are welcomed, use the site’s forum for this :)

Carpe Diem.

TFS: Installation using DNS aliases – Part 3 : Team Foundation Server

TFS: Installation using DNS aliases – Part 3 : Team Foundation Server

This post is part of a series on how to install and configure Team Foundation Server using DNS aliases for it’s components:


In this post we’ll see how to configure Team Foundation Server to use the DNS aliases for the database and SharePoint. Here’s the aliases i’ll be using for this tutorial:

  • SQL Server : sql01.demo.local
  • Analysis Services : analysis01.demo.local
  • Reporting Services : reporting01.demo.local
  • SharePoint : sharepoint01.demo.local
  • Team Foundation Server (AT) : tfs01.demo.local

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TFS: Installation using DNS aliases – Part 2 : SharePoint

TFS: Installation using DNS aliases – Part 2 : SharePoint

This post is part of a series on how to install and configure Team Foundation Server using DNS aliases for it’s components:


In this post we’ll see how to configure SharePoint to use the DNS aliases for the database and SharePoint. Here’s the aliases i’ll be using for this tutorial:

  • SQL Server : sql01.demo.local
  • SharePoint : sharepoint01.demo.local

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TFS: Installation using DNS aliases – Part 1 : Data Tiers

TFS: Installation using DNS aliases - Part 1 : Data Tiers

In my last series of post I’ve looked at how you can rename server which runs TFS components and reconfigure them so that the platform can be operational again. In this new series i’ll explain how to realize an installation using DNS aliases so that future server changes will be simplified by simply changing the alias :)

Even you start with a single server installation, using DNS aliases for all components will simplify your task if you need to make some evolution later. Here’s the list of components on which we will have an alias:

  • SQL Server
  • Analysis Services
  • Reporting Services
  • SharePoint
  • Team Foundation Server (Application Tiers)

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TFS 2012: Team Foundation Service is RTWed !

TFS 2012: Team Foundation Service is RTWed !

If you have followed the news around Team Foundation Server 2012 you know that Microsoft has proposed a preview version of its tool on Azure. Since yesterday Team Foundation Service is now officially RTM at the following URL:  http://tfs.visualstudio.com !

The service will continue to improve every 3 weeks which is the sprint cadence of the DevDiv team. For now here is what you can get:

  • Free access up to 5 users,
  • Unlimited number of Team Project,
  • Version control,
  • Work Item tracking,
  • Agile planning tools (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog et Taskboard),
  • Feedback management,
  • Azure build service (still in preview)

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