On May 8th, the Scotia Bank Theatre, Richmond Street Toronto was the scene of another successful “ObjectSharp At the Movies” event. The event was recorded so you can watch again, share with colleagues or maybe you couldn’t make the presentation and just want to watch for the first time. Below is a quick synopsis of what I presented. Click here to enjoy the Video.
My goal for the morning was simple. As MC I needed to keep things moving, entertain the audience during lull's and show the 500+ registered attendees how great it will be when they upgrade and or start using TFS 2013 in under 30 minutes.
I Started things off with this slide showing Team explorer when TFS is your repository and when Git is your repository. Not much to say on the subject as Colin covered it in his presentation.
The new Build process in 2013 includes the ability to shell out to a batch file or powershell script from several steps including prebuild, postbuild, pretest and posttest. This is a great feature that I have been adding to build processes since 2010.
A lot of people didn’t like the fact that pending changes was incorporated into the Team Explorer. Several of the Team explore windows like pending changes and builds can be torn off the team explorer and float as their own windows.
My Work is not new to 2013 but worth mentioning. This window is a great view of all your Work In Progress, Suspended Work, Available Workitems and Code Reviews. Watch the video to see how you can easily switch context using Suspended work and change the query behind Available Workitems to show the work that is assigned to you.
Check out Code Lens inserted right in your code on classes and methods, showing you references to this code, changesets when this code was added and workitems associated to those change sets. This is a great connection from your code directly into TFS.
Release Management is the biggest and best new feature of TFS 2013. Watch and see how a code change can easily be deployed out to multiple environments all starting from your build.
Again click here to enjoy the Video.