Grant Holliday

Since I launched TFSBuild.com – the Team Build & MSBuild Recipes site earlier this year, it’s been averaging ~50 visits a day.

There’s some great recipes up now thanks to some contributors like dmcewing, Michael Ruminer, Martin Woodward, Mike Douglas and Eugene Zakhareyev.

• Keeping the Build Number and Assembly Version in sync
• Build and Assembly versioning (alternate to above using SDC Tasks)
• WiX MSI Setup Package
• .NET 1.1 Applications
• Building Java Applications
• Deploy MSIs from TFS Build
• Running Unit Tests without a Test List
• Deploying Web Applications to IIS
• Copying Files From DropLocation or Similar Location
• Building Sandcastle Documentation

Since I launched OzTFS.com – the TFS Mailing List in September 2006, it’s been steadily climbing to almost 350 subscribers.

And while the average number of messages per month was ~57, the busiest month by far was May 2007. As Chuck mentions, the great thing about the list is that the signal/noise ratio is extremely good.

By looking at the archives, I can’t really pin it down to any one particular event or announcement – it was just a busy month.

If you want to get involved in the Team Foundation Server community, there’s plenty of options:

• Subscribe to the blogs of Team System MVPs
• Subscribe to the blogs of the Team System development teams
• Subscribe to the monthly TFS Times newsletter
• Subscribe to the Radio TFS podcast
• Have a look at VSTSSearch.com – a custom search of known VSTS resources
• Look around the MSDN Forums for Team System, and of course
• Sign up to the OzTFS.com mailing list and share your questions & thoughts with others.