Microsoft Acquires TeamPlain

March 26, 2007 at 10:30 am · Filed under Miscellaneous

Very cool — I installed it this morning (now it is a free download) and had it working in munites.  This will make it so much easier for my company to handle the migration of our issue tracking from Gemini into TFS.

From bharry (excerpted heavily):

Today we are announcing that Microsoft has acquired DevBiz Business Solutions, the makers of the popular TeamPlain Web Access for Team System.  TeamPlain is a web front end for VSTS that enables users to access the majority of TFS functionality from within a Web browser.  The focus of TeamPlain is on work item tracking but it also includes some valuable version control capabilities (like viewing history/change sets, diffing files, browsing the source base, etc.), some SharePoint integration, Reporting services integration, and some upcoming build support.  TeamPlain gives VSTS a new avenue to reach a broader array of people within the development team who don’t use Visual Studio today and don’t want to install Visual Studio clients on their machines.  It also improves reach by enabling some access from non-Windows clients.

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TeamPlain will become Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Web Access.  Effective today, TeamPlain is available, at no additional charge, to users who own a Team Foundation Server and can be downloaded from here.  It will be accessible by any user properly licensed with a TFS CAL.  Support will continue to be provided by the current staff via the DevBiz online forums.

Source: Microsoft Acquires TeamPlain!
Originally published on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:58:12 GMT by bharry

Tags: DevBiz, Microsoft, TeamPlain, TFS, VSTS

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Into TFS

October 23, 2006 at 8:24 am · Filed under Miscellaneous

Over the last could of weeks, we at Digipede have been preparing to move out of the oh-so outdated VSS into Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server (TFS). 

This last weekend, we did the whole migration. 

My main reason for pushing this change: to make it easier for our team to concurrently develop on multiple branches.  This is fairly challenging in VSS due to its limitations.

So far, so good.  I’ll let you know more as we start to really use it.

Tags: Digipede, Microsoft, Source-Control, TFS, VS, VSS, VSTS

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SuppressMessageAttribute for .NET1.1

February 3, 2006 at 12:19 pm · Filed under .NET

I started using the new Code Analysis feature of VSTS today, moving from external FxCop usage. A cool thing about this new feature is that is adds supression information directly to the source code in the form of attributes.

I like this since it keeps the supressions with the code. There is one drawback for us at Digipede: we cross compile back to .NET 1.1. These new attributes don’t exist in the old framework, so I added my own for compilation with our .NET 1.1 code:

namespace System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis {
    [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.All, Inherited = false, AllowMultiple = true)]
    internal class SuppressMessageAttribute : Attribute {
        public SuppressMessageAttribute(string category, string checkId) {}
        public string Category { get { return null;} set {} }
        public string CheckId { get { return null;} set {} }
        public string Justification { get { return null;} set {} }
        public string MessageId { get { return null;} set {} }
        public string Scope { get { return null;} set {} }
        public string Target { get { return null;} set {} }
    }
}

Thanks to The Moth for part of the implementation. He blogs about the attribute not being included in the Compact Framework here: SuppressMessage not in CF.

Tags: .NET, Code_Analysis, Digipede, FxCop, VSTS

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Getting Started with Team System

January 31, 2006 at 10:30 am · Filed under Miscellaneous

I met Chuck Berg, the chair of the SDForum Windows SIG.

He is speaking February 1st on Getting Started with Visual Studio Team System. I’m sure it will be an interesting talk and a chance to take advantage of his real experience getting it up and running.

If you make it to his talk, try to convince him to blog about his experiences — I’ll subscribe.

Tags: .NET, SDForum, VSTS

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