Today I was trying to open the ProcessGuidance.html file ...

A double-click, or a right-click > Open both resulted in Internet Explorer asking me if I want to Save or Cancel the document download. This was a surprise. I was expecting it to just open the web page.

In case you hadn’t seen it, SQL Management Studio 2012 is now a Visual Studio powered tool.

Nice…

Being the geek I am, I wanted to take a detailed look at the reports in the new Scrum template. Rather than wait for guidance to be posted, or call up my friends at Microsoft (again), I thought I would do my own experimenting.

1. I downloaded the Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 – Preview 3 process template from the Team Foundation Server 11 Beta into C:Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2.0.
2. I launched SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) otherwise known as Visual Studio 2008. (I can’t wait for this to be unified into one IDE someday).
3. I created a new Report Server Project named ScrumReports.

Try this: Download the Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 – Preview 3 process template from the Team Foundation Server 11 Beta into one folder and then do the same with the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 version of the template.

Next, drop to the (Developer) command prompt and run this:

tf.exe folderdiff "C:Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0" "C:Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2.0" /recursive

When configuring Team Foundation Server 11, the default action is to install and configure SharePoint Foundation 2010. I think this is great. I really love SharePoint 2010, and am glad that Microsoft opted to install the newer version automatically, rather than WSS3 like it did previously. Keep in mind that WSS3 will still work with TFS11 and even has a smaller RAM requirement as well.

I don’t know why it bothers me so much to see "Windows User" every time I fire up my Visual Studio 11 Beta …

… but since it does, I thought I would share with you the steps I took to change it. Actually, these steps are not too different from a previous blog post I made about a previous version of Visual Studio.

Config

To use the new version of TFS on a clean VM, I am going to use the following:

VMWare Virtual Machine, 2 Proc, 2 Core 2 GB RAM

• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 64 bit
• SQL2012 RC Enterprise – the perspectives are worth it
  • This is not officially supported but I would be surprised if it doesn’t work!
• MOSS 2010
• TFS 11
• VS 11 Ultimate

Step 1 Read the Manual

Download and read the install guide from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=29035

Microsoft has made the Visual Studio 11 beta versions available today. #Awesome

I’m glad to see the lineup includes some familiar faces as well as some nice surprises (i.e. Microsoft Test Manager now part of Premium edition).

• Visual Studio 11 Ultimate Beta
• Visual Studio 11 Premium Beta
• Visual Studio 11 Professional Beta
• Visual Studio 11 Test Professional Beta
• Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Server Beta

There are also a number of Express editions and standalone installers.

How to output TFS2010 build output to a subfolder

So, I took a branch of the default build template (so I didn’t mess with the rest of the team while I experimented) and started to edit.