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TFS 2010: Rename a server – Part 1: introduction

Posts in this series:

Part 1: introduction
Part 2: the database server
Part 3: the Analysis Services server
Part 4: the Reporting Services server
Part 5 : the Sharepoint server
Part 6: the TeamFoundation Server server
Part 7: the TeamBuild server

During my work i had an interesting “challenge”: rename a server on which was installed TFS and all the needed components (WSS, SQL, RS, AS, Build). There are some documentation on how to rename each component but they are squattered in each product documentation so i decided to write a series of post specifying how to rename each component/server used by TFS.

VisualStudio vNext: ALM roadmap in video

I was talking yesterday about the ALM roadmap announced by Microsoft at the Teched North America 2011. The video of Cameron Skinner’s presentation “The Future of Microsoft Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management” is now online. You can now see those new features in action

Carpe Diem.

VisualStudio vNext : ALM roadmap

Yesterday began the Teched North America conference and Microsoft has finally announced their vision for ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) in the next version of Visual Studio.

This version concentrates around :

Agile developments.
Interaction with stakeholders.
Interaction with opérations.

Here’s a quick overview of what was announced.

TFS 2010 : The TFS SDK for Java is available

After releasing TeamExplorer Everywhere 2010, Microsoft continues to open TeamFoundation Server to non Microsoft development by publishing the TFS SDK for Java! You can download it at the following address:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=7a3c4332-6998-48ec-b689-e434d4218012&displaylang=en

You will get :

A unique JAR containing the TFS API. This is the same code that TeamExplorer Everywhere uses.
Some native code used by the TFS API. (Kerberos authentication, Keychain, …).
The complet API documentation in Javadoc format.
Code samples.

Microsoft has also make an effort to respect Java conventions so that Java developer are not “lost”.

More details on Brian Harry’s post.

Carpe Diem.

TFS 2010: How to activate/deactivate email notification using TfsConfig

If you want to activate or deactivate the email notification of TFS 2010 you can do it using the admin console :

If you want to do it by command line, you can do it using an undocumented argument of TfsConfig:

TfsConfig ConfigureMail /Enabled:<true|false>

Carpe Diem.

TeamBuild 2010: Customized expandable parameters

Here’s a small post on how to add customized expandable parameters to a build workflow. What i mean by expandable parameters is parameters with a small + sign so that you can expand the parameter to fill its properties, the main line containing a summary of the values:

TeamBuild 2010 : UpdateAssemblyInfo v1.1

I published the version 1.1 of my TeamBuild 2010 activity to update versioning attributes in AssemblyInfo files. This new version brings the following features:

Added support for the AssemblyInformationalVersion attribute with the following tokens:
- $(version): the AssemblyVersion value after update.
- $(fileversion): the AssemblyFileVersion value after update.
- $(date:<format>): the current date.
Lowered BuildMessageImportance of successful file update from High to Normal.
Added VersioningSettings class to manage activity settings.

The sample workflow project was also updated to use the new VersionSettings class. If you have any remarks, bugs or request feel free to use the forum or enter an issue on codeplex.

Carpe Diem.

Eclipse : Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1

The SP1 of Team Explorer Everywhere is available at the following address:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=53c27216-c4f0-48b6-9bed-fe1718a2e3b0

To know what was shipped, please see my previous post on the beta. Two additional features were added:

A parameter was added in the Eclipse preferences to enable/disable auto connect to TFS on startup.
A list of workspaces was added to the pending changes window.

If you want to see the plugin in action, you can see, when it’s available, the web cast of my session during the TechDays 2011 : Développez en Java avec la plateforme Team Foundation Server 2010. As you may suspect, it’s in french

Carpe Diem.

VS 2010: Code metrics using command line

Microsoft just release a PowerTools to enable Visual Studio 2010 code metrics analysis using a command line tool :

Visual Studio Code Metrics PowerTool 10.0

The result is stored in an XML file and is unfortunately not integrated to TFS for reporting or TeamBuild but it’s a start! After playing with this tool i’ll come back with a post on how to integrate it inside TeamBuild

Carpe Diem.