Nearing the end of my posts regarding builds, this one describes a TFS build definition.

If you’ve read the previous articles you will know that I consider TFS to have an excellent build eco-system. Other application suites offer similar services but somehow TFS manages to do exactly what’s expected with the minimum of hassle. Whilst many of the concepts are technology agnostic please be warned I’ll be using TFS as my reference point.

I’d first like to touch on how Visual Studio solution (.sln) files are typically used as it has an impact on how each build definition may be configured. Read More…

Tags: TFS, Visual Studio

For those of you with MSDN subscriptions the download is now active!

Here’s the official notice from Brain Harry with additional information here.

Tags: TFS, Visual Studio

If you’re an MSDN subscriber you now should have access to the download of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. For the first time Microsoft have made TFS available for an x64 platform (x86 still supported) which is good news as most servers are going 64 bit these days. The IDE of VS sports a WPF based interface which is probably nothing to get excited about (after all a developer should demand speed and stability above all else). Read More…

Tags: TFS, Visual Studio

Did Microsoft set out to confuse people with the .NET Framework? I often wonder (and rant) about it but that’s the world we live & work in. Each year there’s a release of some sort and for the last 2 at least, they’ve sent out awful messages!

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Tags: .NET, Visual Studio