alkampfer on September 30th, 2010

Codeplex is Microsoft hosting site for open source projects, based on TFS or mercurial. Now suppose you have this scenario: an open source project, with a  core team that work actively on it, and some occasional contributors that do little work. Since Codeplex does not support every feature of tfs, (especially you lack the build [...]

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Sometimes you need to operate to a Tfs Version Control System with API starting from a local folder. There are a lot of API to work with workspaces, but the main problem is that you need to pass through a VersionControlServer object, and to obtain such an object you need to know the address of [...]

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alkampfer on September 10th, 2010

Brian Harry has just announced a new release for TFS Power toys here. One of the most important news is the new “admin Console Backup/Restore Wizard”, that will simplify a lot the administration of tfs server. Other important new feature is the ability to copy Build Definition and Work Item. Thanks to Power Tools we [...]

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alkampfer on September 1st, 2010

NHQueryAnalyzer is a tool originally written by Ayende, and now it is supported at this link. I think that it is really a good tool, very useful even to learn HQL query because gives you an immediate idea of what the query will looks like. Here is a screenshot. (‘I’ve hide some sensitive part because [...]

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