Brian Harry's Blog

Orcas and Team Projects

July 6, 2007 Jul 6, 2007 07/6/07

Brian Harry

One of the concerns I hear pretty frequently is about the number of Team Projects that a TFS server will support.  Bill Essary wrote an extensive paper a while back on what limits TFS has, why and what behavior you will see as you approach and exceed the "limits". Tackling this problem was not one of our objectives in Orcas.  We've ...

Cool tool for requirements test coverage

July 3, 2007 Jul 3, 2007 07/3/07

Brian Harry

A few days ago someone forwarded me some links to a tool for determining test coverage (code coverage) on requirements rather than assemblies, classes and methods (which VSTS provides out of the box).  I finally got a chance to look over it today.  It looks pretty cool.  I have to admit I'm a bit skeptical about annotating every...

Reminder – MSDN Chat today

July 3, 2007 Jul 3, 2007 07/3/07

Brian Harry

I wanted to remind everyone that we have 2 MSDN chats with the Team System team today.  The first is at 10:00am pacific time and the second at 4:00pm pacific time.  I will definitely be at the first but may not make the second as it is at 7:00pm eastern time (where I am).  See this post for more details.Brian...

TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit is Available!

July 2, 2007 Jul 2, 2007 07/2/07

Brian Harry

Last week we released the "final" version of the TFS Migration & Synchronization Toolkit.  I say "final" because nothing is ever final (particularly when we provide source and put it on CodePlex :)). The toolkit is designed to make it easy to do both 1 way and bidirectional synchronization of work item tracking and version control ...

June DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

June 20, 2007 Jun 20, 2007 06/20/07

Brian Harry

Orcas Beta 2 has been deployed on our dogfood server for about a month now and has been running quite well with very few patches.  We've been focusing primarily on cleaning up the event log and making sure we fix any bugs generating event log entries, making appropriate eventlog entries clear and actionable and removing spurious ones. I ...

Team System product group chats on July 3rd

June 20, 2007 Jun 20, 2007 06/20/07

Brian Harry

The next set of Team System chats with the product group will be on July 3rd.  We're continuing the new tradition of 2 chats at different times to help accomodate people in different timezones around the world. Join the chat on Tuesday, July 3rd , 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time. Add to Calendar | Additional Time Zones  &...

Using Subversion clients with Team Foundation Server

June 18, 2007 Jun 18, 2007 06/18/07

Brian Harry

There a new and very interesting project on CodePlex today.  It's a "bridge" that allows Subversion clients (like TortoiseSVN) to work against a TFS server.  This project has been created by the team that develops CodePlex itself due to the popularity of Subversion clients.  This bridge works at the protocol level by ...

Updated Quiescing patch released

June 15, 2007 Jun 15, 2007 06/15/07

Brian Harry

We're now one step closer to the end of my humiliation :)  The updated quiescing patch has now been released and is available for all to use.  It should address many of the issues people have had with installing TFS 2005 SP1.  If you've already successfully installed SP1, you don't need to go back and mess with it, but you ...

The end of my humiliation is near?

June 12, 2007 Jun 12, 2007 06/12/07

Brian Harry

Well, I've been doing everything I could to hide from my humiliation that was the install experience around TFS SP1.  As you'll recall, the underlying problem was that the way it "quiesced" (deactivated) the server was not appropriate.  It didn't work for servers that were in the process of being used.  It didn't work for ...

GAT/GAX Support for Orcas

June 12, 2007 Jun 12, 2007 06/12/07

Brian Harry

A few weeks ago (in a thread about Orcas feedback) I got several questions about GAT/GAX support.  As promised I went and talked to the team about their plans and accelerating support.  Their plan had been to support Orcas at RTM, but given the feedback you gave and after reviewing the effort involved, they've come back with a plan ...