Automated builds using VSeWSS 1.3

I stumbled upon this post from John W Powell explaining how to create a nightly build using the Visual Studio Extensions for WSS 3.0. Exteremely interesting and something I’m gonna try out later this week. Let’s hope it’s a bit easier to do so in VS 2010 with MOSS 2010

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0

It’s official Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0. Appearantly, to have a bigger impact they will be leaking news slowly instead of giving it all to you in one big bang. There is already a nice overview page available which lists some features, there are a few interesting news posts. One quite interesting part of it all is that the new Team System will no longer be running on SQL Server 2005 but on SQL Server 2008 due to its’ more advanced reporting abilities.

Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool Released

Just a small and quick post to let you know that SP1 has been released. It includes (shameless copy/paste):

New With Service Pack 1

• Work item only view for users without a client access license. [Previously known as Work Item Web Access (WIWA) feature]
• Run a single instance with multiple languages.
• Create work items with initial values by using a URL.
• Share ad-hoc work item queries by using a URL.
• Find and view Shelvesets.
• Improved work item search syntax.
  

Features in Team System Web Access

• Direct links to work items, query results, diffs, changesets and more.
• Display custom controls on work item forms.
• View queued or completed builds, queue or stop builds.
• Add new work items or edit existing ones.
• Work with any type of work item, including custom ones.
• Add new work item queries or edit existing ones.
• View, download, upload, check-in and check-out documents on SharePoint team portal.
• View reports, export as PDF or Excel.
• Browse items in version control, download source files, view changesets, diffs, history, and annotated views.
• Search for keywords in work items.

Moving the document store in TFS

Sorry for the recent lack of any updates, but work is just immense. Normally the holidays are a little calmer but this year it’s just insane! Anyway, on topic, Richard Fennell posted a nice article on how to move your documents from your Team System WSS environment to your MOSS2007 environment. Enjoy the read.

SharePoint 2007 Engineering Practices, Must Read

One of my colleagues sent me a link to a VERY NICE article about MOSS 2007 Projects. It lists a lot of lessons learned and things to consider in a SharePoint project. The only small remark I have is that if we are using Team System for our SharePoint projects, we might use the Team System Project Portal (based on WSS 3.0) instead of adding a seperate MOSS 2007 to create a project portal. I’m pretty sure (haven’t tested it though) that you can give people access to your team portal in Team System without them having to be a Licensed User.

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR July CTP

Microsoft just  released the CTP of the Team System Database Edition which adds support for SQL Server 2008 Projects.

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools – July 2008 Release

Microsoft released a new version of their Team Foundation Server Power Tools. These tools help you administer and change your Team System environment to map better with your project approach, philosophy and organization. The current package includes: 

• Command line tool (TFPT.EXE)
• Team Explorer IDE menu additions
• Build Notification tool
• TFS Best Practices Analyzer
• Process Template Editor
• Work Item Templates
• Custom check-in policies
• TFS Server Manager
• TFS Users tool
• Alert Editor

Download link

Archive: Team System 2008 Beta 2 up and running

Thank you Microsoft. After the major failure on the installation package on VSTS 2005 you actually made a nice install for VSTS 2008 Beta 2. The notification before the setup that you need to use a domain account to do the install instead of an unspecified error in the middle of the installation, the ability to use non-default sql instances, the ability to log in on TS as a different user from a client using Team Explorer (quite handy that you don’t need to log in as TFSSETUP on your machine, you can log in directly into TS with that account), …
Only one error popped up while connecting to Team System after the setup, and it was due to the websites not being up, not some crazy identity that was wrong or some error message that explained nothing. Two thumbs up

Archive : The project file ‘ ‘ has been renamed or is no longer in the solution

Today I started transferring projects from the old environment in our new Team System 2008 environment. I also took the time to clean up some projects and one of them gave me this nice error. I did indeed remove a few of the “test gui” projects, and after a little search the solution lied in removing the references in one of the web projects to that particular project. What I do not understand is why it can’t say : Project Web X failed in loading the reference to project Y (Y.dll). But I guess that’s just too easy to fix then, and then my blog would be out of stuff to post

EDIT: I’m getting quite a few hits on this post, so if this post is helping you, please let me know in a comment. Thx!

Archive : Team System and Cats