Monthly Archives: September 2007

Creating Build Definitions with the TFS2008 Object Model

Recently I’ve been working on a project that requires many team build definitions to be created using the TFS Object Model (OM).
TFS2005 Team Build
In TFS2005 this could be achieved using the classes available under the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client namespace.
This is because a “Team Build Type” was just three files sitting in a well-known path e.g. $/MyTeamProject/TeamBuildTypes/MyBuildType/TfsBuild.proj

TFSBuild.proj – [...]

I wonder which company this might be

The original ad on Seek is here, but you could always apply direct by emailing careers@readify.net.

CCTray Build Notification applet for TFS

Woohoo! It’s finally here. Go and grab the pre-release attachment from the end of Buck’s blog post.
Preview of the build notification tray applet power tool for TFS 2008

Visual Studio 2008 Tip of the Day

Sara Ford (rss) from the Visual Studio core team has been dutifully posting a Tip of the Day every working day since July!
There’s plenty of gold in there, for example:

Did you know… There’s a way to track changes in the editor?
Did you know… Ctrl+W selects the current word
Did you know… you can drag and drop [...]