July 2006 - Joshua Smith

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Check in Overrides

It is possible to implement a policy on Team Foundation Server to require work items to be associated with check ins. However, the developer does have the option to override this policy and check his or her code in anyway. Visibility into overridden check...

Published Mon, Jul 24 2006 10:46 AM by jsmith

Filed under: Team Systems
Team Systems and Continuous Integration

Here is an excellent post on continuous integration in Visual Studio Team Systems.. I have tested this successfully.. it also gives the developer greater flexibility in determining exactly what is done (for example, fire the build only if code at a certain...

Published Mon, Jul 17 2006 9:48 AM by jsmith
Team Systems check outs

I found that it is a bit difficult to get a comprehensive list of checkouts in Visual Studio Team Systems. Fortunately, since it leverages SQL 2005 as its back end, you can query the TfsVersionControl database for this list: select c.displayname, b.Computer...

Published Wed, Jul 12 2006 2:05 PM by jsmith

Filed under: Team Systems
Hello World

I am happy to join Rich, Dave, and others in sharing my experiences and (sometimes painfully acquired) technical knowledge of the software industry. Happy reading!

Published Wed, Jul 12 2006 1:56 PM by jsmith