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.
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 :
Here’s a quick overview of what was announced.
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:
You will get :
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.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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:
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.
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.
A small post to inform you that the beta of Team Explorer Everwhere 2010 SP1 was released and can be downloaded here:
If you don’t know what Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 is, it’s the client Team Explorer for Eclipse! (previously know as TeamPrise before being bought by Microsoft).
Here are the addition of the SP1:
Carpe Diem.
Yesterday was the keynote of PDC 2010. I could not attend the broadcast, so I’ll just relay information important enough without going into details: Team Foundation Server will arrive at Azure! For more information, please read the post from Brian Harry (English) or that of Vincent (in French). Carpe Diem.