Manicprogrammer

I've been tossing around for a few years now some 'better living through IM' tools to tie into the Team Foundation Server (TFS) toolset. I have a not-even-started-yet-over-a-year-old project called TeamPatter on CodePlex to prove it. It's been one of my favorite TODO items to never do. I have begun to actually code and generate some proof of ...

Inside TFS global lists are created to store the names of completed builds that are then used to populate the SuggestedValues of such fields as Fixed in Build or Integrated in Build. Lots of folks don't want every build type they run to show up in this list, for example a CI build or failed build. I'm one of those folks. There is not, as one might ...

I'm working on a new tool around interacting with team builds for my own use and ideally to make available to others. What are the interactions you most often have or desire with team build? Is it queuing a build, checking which builds have run, looking at the metrics on builds, seeing when a build was last run, changing a build quality, setting ...

Mike Azocar is running a Coolest Team System Gadget Contest. I know I'll be contributing something most likely related to managing my large volume of build definitions. If you have a feature you'd like to see in an add in tool for managing builds in Team System 2008 drop me a line.

I have been meaning to blog this for a long time and not too long ago the question came up again. So after seeing the question raised about three times I decided to add one more link out to the cloud that might be found to help people out. One of the sources of this question came from an MSDN forums post and the response I placed on there about ...

By shops that run a rolling CI build versus a pure ''build on every check-in'' CI process I have often had it asked ''Is there a way to send an email to all the people that had a changeset as part of that build notifying if there is a build break?'' My answer is always- ''Sure you can write a custom task for that. It sounds like a good ...

I have a backlog of blog posts to start or finish on everything from Team Build 2008 to Rosario- Visual Studio and TFS V.Next- and numerous other things such as my new job and what I have been doing there, new code for the TFS Admin Tool on CodePlex (already checked in but not yet in a release) and some code to post on this blog for sending emails ...