TeamPlain goes official as Microsoft Team System Web Access

Great tool! one of the major missing component from Team System is there now!

Cool checkin policy

Nice idea for controlling methods comments.

Have Fun!

Microsoft eScrum

Microsoft has just released the Scrum Process Template for TFS. I also heard that it's better then the famous Scrum Template from Conchango, so do find yourself.

At last MS Project linked with TFS

That's a wonderful news but not that big for me as i really suffered in implementing MS Project tasks as TFS WorkItems in past. It's available as source code from codeplex website. I can't use it as working on a different project now. Will play with it later on. Enjoy!

Best Practices for TFS

At last Microsoft has released the best practices for Team Foundation Server. It's a must have resource if you are facing problem in organizing team projects, source control etc. Go and start reading.

Enjoy!

Cool Idea

It seems everyone trying to release add-ons for TFS, here's the one from SnagIt and a nice one. It can take screen shot and create Bug work item in TFS. Isn't it cool? Making life easy for testers.

New PowerToys for Team Foundation Server

As we all know MS TFS lacks lot of features, tools etc but no need to worry about. There are so many guys like me who are continuously working to improve TFS. So check some great tools here...

Useful Team Foundation Server Commands

Check it out!

IE Addin for webpage testing

Excellent addin which can retrieve all the information even with the screen shot on the page where error happend and send it to TFS as a Bug work item. Good stuff!

At last Team Foundation Server & Visual Studio 2005 SP1 released!

Was busy little bit, and missed out a much needed updated, yeah Visual Studio 2005 & Team Foundation Server, anyway Enjoy!

Another TFS Permission tool

Can manage all three permissions from single dialog...

Manage WorkItem Tracking from MS Word

something different.. it doesnt use ActiveXControl, only works on standard MS Word controls..

Brian Harry's commitment

Last month i discussed with Brian Harry, regarding future of TFS and he promised me that he'll be publishing complete TFS Road map and here we go... Bharry Rocks!

Excellent review of Team Foundation Server

Finally someone showed up and has written something almost true about Team foundation server, not complete but fair…

TFS Power Toys

Some cool power toys for Team Foundation Server..

Enjoy!

TFS Build Troubleshooting

Team Build TF42046: The Build Service used in the build process is not reachable

Whenever you get above error, plz make sure following:

1. That Team Build is installed on the build machine. This can be found on the Team Foundation Server installation CD in the BB directory. Run setup to install Team Build
2. Make sure the Team Build Service is running. Open the services MMC snapin and look for Team Build Service. Make sure the service is running. Also note the account that the service runs as; you will need it for the next step
3. Make sure the Team Build Service account (from step 2) is in the “TFS Service Accounts” group. For more information see http://blogs.infosupport.com/raimondb/archive/2005/11/28/bbsvcacc.aspx
4. Make sure the designated Team Build port is listening and available thru any firewalls. By default, the port used is 9191. Open a command prompt on the build machine and run “netstat”. Make sure TCP port 9191 is listening. You may want to make sure The Team Build service has this port and not another application on the build server. Make sure this port is not blocked by the window’s firewall or any other firewall in you enterprise.
5. Make sure the paths defined in your PATH system variable do not have any invalid characters. This includes any “” around the paths. Part of the Team Foundation Build Client source code attempts to build the path to msbuild.exe using the paths defined in this environment variable. Unfortunately the exception that is thrown when the system attempt to call Path.Combine on a malformed path is masked by the misdirecting TF42046 error.
6. If all else fails, turn on verbose tracing by navigating to the build server’s build service install directory and uncomment the trace flags in the TeamBuildService.exe.config file. You can find this file at “:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\”. You can verify this directory by checking the run directory listed in the properties window of the TeamBuildService found in the services snapin.

Team System Widgets

Some excellent resource to get everything for TFS, especially the free stuff and in the form of Widgets.

Keep exploring...

Awesome tool for TFS

Excellent work by Attrice, you can manage following:

- Complete Source Control History
- Lock Status
- Workspace

Great!

Officially announced TFS SP1 features

Following are the officially announced features of Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1

- Custom Control hosting in WorkItem
- Separate Analysis Server installation
- Performance Enhancements
- Bug fixing
- TFS accessibility from normal internet instead of just over VPN

looks good but i was expecting more features.

Team Foundation Present and Future

Finally i asked one of TFS Product Manager regarding happenings at Microsoft under TFS Flag, well truly speaking it disappointed me as most of the things i need today it'll take more than a year to come, in fact i'll say 2 years as most of the things in the coming release Orcas are finalized and my required features are not part of orcas and its already expected to release in 2nd half of the next year so forget mates :( Following are the features Microsoft is working on in upcoming releases of Team Foundation

- WorkItem workflow/hierarchy
- Tight integration with MS Project
- Test Plan and Test Case management
- Custom and default properties for Team Projects
- Share point 2007 integration
- WorkItem restricted access
- Process template improvement

Hard luck.. things will be too complicated for me now.. as my company badly needs majority of the features mentioned above..