Web Access Power Tool for Team System is just released.
Brian Harry just announced the awesome news. As I said in my previous post - these guys at MS do not sleep. And it is 4am already and I can hardly catch up with the news.
Message to the Visual Studio product team at MS - guys, please take a break; we need to sleep :)
Here is the feature list (first one is my best friend) and
VSTS Web Access 2008 Power Tool download page:
New linkable web pages - This is, perhaps, the coolest feature in the release. It allows you to easily link to work items, work item queries, work item query results, Changesets, File/Folder history, file differences, file contents and annotated views of files. This makes TSWA a far more powerful building block for integration with other applications. In fact, we've already started work to leverage this from notification emails so that you can get a richer experience. Because the notification emails are user configurable, you can read Neno Loje's poston how to modify work item alert emails to use TSWA links. Look forward to some future suggestions on how you can customize your checkin notification to get a richer experience using TSWA. See Buck's post for details on how to use the new TSWA links.
Custom work item controls - Web Access now supports custom work item controls. Now it is possible to create a rich client version and a web version of custom work item controls and have your fully customized experience available no matter which interface your users access. You'll find documentation for writing custom controls in the SDK folder under you TSWA installation folder.
Team Build support - Web Access has been updated to support several of the new features in TFS 2008 for build automation. Most importantly, it allows you to view the queue of builds and queue new builds.
Performance improvements - Every release of Web Access includes more performance improvements. The more we use the tool internally, the more we learn about it. Every time we find issues, we fix them and release them to you as soon as possible. The big performance improvements in this release are around server memory consumption.
No more TSWA users group - The 2005 Power Tool required that you manage a user group of web access users for security reasons. We've improved the server side impersonation and directory management to eliminate the need for this. TSWA can now manage access securely just using the permission settings you already have and no longer requires a "special" restricted group. This should make managing TSWA easier.
Documentation - It's not extensive but should be enough for you to find your way around TSWA. You'll find it located here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb892990(VS.90).aspxLabels: TFS, Visual Studio 2008
# posted by Martin Kulov @ 3:57 AM
