Jim Lamb
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Building in Parallel Across Multiple Build Agents with TFS 2010
One of our developers, Patrick Carnahan, has put together a customized build process template that...
Date: 09/14/2010
Windows Workflow vs. MSBuild in TFS 2010
I often hear people asking if Windows Workflow replaces MSBuild in TFS 2010, so I wanted to take a...
Date: 06/09/2010
Turn on Compile-time View Checking for ASP.NET MVC Projects in TFS Build 2010
When you create a View for an ASP.NET MVC web application, you add an .ASPX or .ASCX file that uses...
Date: 04/20/2010
CustomizableOutDir in TFS 2010
Aaron Hallberg had previously blogged about Preserving Output Directory Structures in Orcas Team...
Date: 04/13/2010
Configuring Multiple TFS Build Services on one Machine
In TFS 2010, the Build Service is a Windows Service that is associated with a particular TFS Team...
Date: 04/13/2010
Test Page
This is a test of some source code embedded from Gist How does it look?
Date: 04/13/2010
Installing just the Server Components of TFS 2010
If you’re developing (or planning to develop) on the Team Foundation API and you want to get the...
Date: 04/06/2010
How to: Implement, package and deploy custom check-in policy for TFS 2010
This How to article walks you through the process of creating, packaging, deploying and applying a...
Date: 03/31/2010
Extending Team Projects and Team Explorer in TFS 2010
In this post, I’m going to walk you through a TFS SDK sample that extends Team Projects and Team...
Date: 02/26/2010
Create a Custom WF Activity to Sync Version and Build Numbers
Updated for TFS 2010 RTM! One of the common requests we hear is to provide a way of automatically...
Date: 02/12/2010
Adding SQL Management Studio to the VS 2010 RC
While it’s very convenient to have SQL 2008 Express installed along with Visual Studio 2010, it’s...
Date: 02/12/2010
Using Windows Search to Index your Source Code
I really like having Windows Search integrated into the Start Menu in Windows. It’s a handy way to...
Date: 01/20/2010
Build Machine Configuration Recommendations for TFS 2010
I've fielded a few questions about what type of machine (hardware, operating system, etc.) works...
Date: 01/14/2010
Build Machine Configuration Recommendations for TFS 2010
I've fielded a few questions about what type of machine (hardware, operating system, etc.) works...
Date: 01/14/2010
How to Build Compact Framework Projects with TFS 2010
If you have a Visual Studio 2008 solution with one or more Compact Framework (also referred to as...
Date: 11/13/2009
Upgrading TFS 2008 Build Definitions to TFS 2010
If you’re a TFS 2008 user who’s thinking about installing TFS 2010 Beta 2, you may be wondering what...
Date: 11/03/2009
What Everybody Ought to Know about the TFS SDK
If you’ve checked out the latest Visual Studio SDK, you may have noticed something relative to the...
Date: 10/29/2009
Enabling Symbol and Source Server Support in TFS Build 2010
One of the really nice new features in TFS Build 2010 is support for symbol and source server. While...
Date: 06/15/2009
Building a simple web site with VSTS/TFS 2008
I’ve been working on a web site for a local non-profit as an opportunity to spend more time with...
Date: 04/16/2009
Resources for Building ASP.net Applications with VSTS/TFS
I often hear that our customers hit challenges when developing ASP.net applications with VSTS and...
Date: 02/12/2009
Improving Build Performance in TFS 2008
There are a number of things you can do to improve build performance in TFS 2008: Reduce the scope...
Date: 02/10/2009
Coming soon – Gated Check-in
This is the first in a series of planned blog posts on new features coming in Team Foundation Build...
Date: 01/23/2009
Prettify Stylesheet
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Date: 01/16/2009
Prettify JavaScript
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Date: 01/16/2009
Team System Feeds
Aggregated RSS feeds for Team System bloggers. TeamSystem.opml
Date: 01/14/2009
Building “Classic ASP” applications with TFS 2008
As far as VS 2005 or VS 2008 are concerned, “Classic ASP” applications are just text files. You can...
Date: 01/13/2009
TFS 2008 – HP Quality Center Connector December Pre-release
This post is now obsolete For more information, please see Team Foundation Server Migration and...
Date: 01/06/2009
Integrating Dependencies into Team Build 2010
I was just reading Brad Butt's Suggestions for Microsoft, Part 1 and I thought I'd take the...
Date: 11/03/2008
BizTalk Server and Team Build
We’ve been talking with the BizTalk Server team about supporting MSBuild (and, transitively, Team...
Date: 09/29/2008
Project System Compatibility with Team Build
There are a number of projects that you can create and build in Visual Studio that are not supported...
Date: 09/29/2008
SQL Server Integration Services and Team Build
I recently came across a helpful post on Jim Morris' IDeveloper blog. He describes how to get your...
Date: 07/29/2008
Best Practices for Shared Virtual Machines
I was working with a shared VPC the other day and I thought I'd share some of my thoughts on how to...
Date: 07/18/2008
Microsoft is Hiring in Raleigh!
I was on SourceForge today and spotted this ad: It's nice to see the Raleigh site called out in a...
Date: 03/29/2008
New Team System add-in for SnagIt
I've been a fan of TechSmith's Camtasia product for a long time so I thought I'd mention another...
Date: 09/27/2007
Team Build Monitor – Vista Sidebar Gadget
I've created a sidebar gadget for Windows Vista that lets you monitor a set of build definitions....
Date: 06/22/2007
Building Visual Studio Setup Projects with Team Build
We get this question often enough that I thought I would post the answer. In the future, I'll be...
Date: 06/21/2007
Hosted TFS Pilot Program
Updated: Listing of Hosted TFS Providers After coming across a question regarding hosted TFS on...
Date: 05/30/2007
Build Notification Applet
Admittedly, our inclusion of continuous integration (build queuing, triggers and drop management)...
Date: 05/15/2007
Continuous Integration
Those of you who have bitten the proverbial bullet and installed Beta 1 of Team Foundation Server...
Date: 05/15/2007
VSIP Developer Conference
I presented at the May 2007 VSIP Developer Conference last week in Redmond on extensibility...
Date: 05/15/2007
5-things
Since Aaron tagged me, here are five things you probably didn't know about me: I started programming...
Date: 01/12/2007
Microsoft Corporation Technical Documentation License Agreement (Standard)
READ THIS! THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN MICROSOFT CORPORATION ("MICROSOFT") AND THE RECIPIENT...
Date: 07/28/2006
New Responsibilities
It’s been a while since I last posted, so I apologize for “going dark” to use the...
Date: 06/07/2006
Team Foundation Server FAQ
I've compiled a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding the many aspects of Visual...
Date: 02/24/2006
Team Foundation Server FAQ
This is where I’ll be compiling frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding the many aspects of...
Date: 02/22/2006
Scheduling Tips for Microsoftees outside of Redmond
While it's great to be able to live in an area like Raleigh-Durham and work for Microsoft, it does...
Date: 02/07/2006