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Team Edition for Database Professionals
Thom Robbins
writes "Via Rob
For a look at what Team Edition for Database Professionals has to offer, watch these high-quality videos to see demonstrations of:
Importing a Database Schema and Adding it to Team Foundation Server Source Code Control
Creating a Test Project and a Database Unit Test
There are more videos on the way. Visit the ..."
MSDN Webcast Follow-up
Martin Woodward
writes "Thanks to the folks that dropped by the webcast early today. Hopefully it was ok – I found it very weird talking to the sheep in the field outside my house while all you folks were “out there”. Anyway, here are some links that I promised to people during the Q&A Session. I’ll post a link to the session recording as soon as I have it..."
TFS MSSCCI Provider 1.1 is available
Martin Woodward
writes "As announced yesterday by Brian Harry and also by Michal Malecki in the TFS Version Control Forum, version 1.1 of Team Foundation Msscci Provider is now available for download here.
It incorporates the following changes:-
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MSBuild Project File - Items
Mickey Gousset
writes "Items are the stuff you are sending into the build system. Usually, they are grouped together into what is called an "Item Collection". You will pass these collections to the tasks defined later in the project file.
You specify an item collection as:
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Video streams of Team Data Walkthroughs Available
Thomas Murphy
writes "We have just posted two walkthrough videos of VSTE for DB Professionals to our teamsite. These let you see how the product works for setting up a project and connecting to version control and creating unit tests. If you haven't downloaded the CTP yet, this will give you a good view of what we are trying to achieve in an integrated database development life-cycle..."
TFS Bug Snapper v1.0 Released
Jeff Bramwell
writes "A handy little utility, Bug Snapper, has been created and released by Grant Holliday. This utility allows you to quickly and easily create a "bug" work item within a Team Project without having to go through the Team Explorer client. You can quickly type in a title and description, specify a ranking, and take a screen shot..."
Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server And Build
Sanjay Shetty
writes "...Well the documentation which comes with the DVD software says that Team Foundation Server doesn't install it by default, for obvious reasons such as you may want to install this on a separate dedicated build server blah... but in addition to that it also says that to install this look under a directory called \tb under the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server installation CD.
Unfortunately the documentation is wrong, there is ..."
If You Remember Nothing Else
Ted Malone
writes "...My first exposure to the product was today here in the hands on labs.. I needed to write up a 1 page addition to one of the labs to ensure it had the proper context.. My write-up must've been OK because the sat scores of the lab have gone up.. Oh, I almost forgot..... "
Migrating to Team Foundation
Renderinfo
writes "Whoa! My "heaviest" class yet. There was a LOT of info in this class. They still haven't posted the power point presentation to the class, but as soon as I find it I will pass it along...
Again, the overwhelming recommendation is to ..."
VSS & TFS - Coexistence on the client
Bill Sheldon
writes "One of the things which will occur for certain developers is a need to be able to connect to both TFS and VSS from the same development PC..."
Live from Atlanta Code Camp - VS2005 Team System
Thom Robbins
writes "Congratulations to the Atlanta Code Camp for a really cool Code Camp idea!
Via Jim
I hinted a while back at some exciting things Wrox is trying to do in the .NET community with CodeCamp. We know not everyone has a codecamp near by. When know not everyone can go. We know not everyone can afford more expensive conferences and travel like tech ed. So, we're bringing the best of CodeCamp to you on..."
VSS & TFS - Coexistence on the client
Bill Sheldon
writes "One of the things which will occur for certain developers is a need to be able to connect to both TFS and VSS from the same development PC. This may occur as a company transitions from VSS to TFS or for consultants when you move from working with company A who is using TFS to company B who is not...
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Testing the Edges Around VSTS Data
Thomas Murphy
writes "I am sitting in a session on WCF now but just have to keep blogging about this cool product we have. In the last post I talked about using regular expressions and the value of "human readable" vs. schema correct tests. Let me illustrate another way that data gen can help you..."
VSTS Download link
Thomas Murphy
writes "The download link should go live by tonight on MSDN. Download should also be available from MSCOM. I will post again once the page edit is complete for the MSDN download. The download is an ISO CD image. You have to have VS Pro or VS Team Dev/Test/Suite already installed and this can be one of the trial editions. Make sure that you install SQL Express (done by default), MSXML (default), and VB and/or C#. If you are at..."
A new member of the VSTS family is on the way!
Glen Gordon
writes "Last week Microsoft announced that a new member of the Visual Studio Team Suite family - Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals is on the way..."
We interrupt your normally scheduled WinFX focused blog...
Marc Mercuri
writes "This is not WinFX related (atleast directly), but is something that's of value to MSDN subscribers, so I wanted to forward on.
The much-anticipated Team System VPC (a single-server, evaluation install of Team Foundation Server + Team Suite) has been posted for download from MSDN Subscriber Downloads.
Look under “Developer Tools” – “Visual Studio 2005”:
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MSBuild - Actually running a build from the command line
Mickey Gousset
writes "To actually run a build from the command-line, you need to use the MSBuild.exe application. This application is located at C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 on any machine you have installed Visual Studio 2005 on. When you run this application, you specify any command line options you want to include with the build, as well as a MSBuild Project File.
Since I haven't talked about the details of ....
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DBAs definitely should NOT read this blog entry...
Kimberly L Tripp
writes "...So, in the end, I'm not their primary target but I think I'll probably get really into it and try to consider a variety of ways to leverage it for Operations/Administrations teams for "after the fact" tuning cases. However, I do think teams will be even more productive if they adopt it earlier in their production lifecycle.
Now, if you're even slightly interested. You can get a lot more information about Data Dude already. Here's a beginning list:"
MSBuild - Introduction
Mickey Gousset
writes "Team Foundation Build is built of off MSBuild. As such, it might be worth looking at some details of MSBuild in order to better understand what can be accomplished with Team Foundation Build. MSBuild is the build engine that is used by Visual Studio 2005. When you hit that F5 key to compile your application, behind the scenes you are using MSBuild and an MSBuild project file which was created for you automatically by Visual Studio.
Obviously, from the ...
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A nice recipe indeed
Michael Ruminer
writes "Rob Conery has published a nice recipe about Team Builds and Web applications. I love the title Team Build, Web Applications, Lemon Juice and Paper Cuts. I have yet to follow the recipe to see exactly what is going on, why and when but it after a quick read it seems to ..."
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