by Gabriel Lozano-Moran
14. April 2010 16:45
When you upgrade TFS 2010 RC to TFS 2010 RTM, you will notice that when you create a new Team Project that the RC Process Templates can still be selected from the dropdown:
It seems that after the upgrade we need to delete the RC Process Templates. Fortunately we don’t have to fire up SQL Server Management Studio and start manipulating the database for collection (btw the templates are stored in the table dbo.Templates of the Team Project Collection database). You need to be a Team Foundation Server Administrator to be able to delete Process Templates.
The Process Templates can be managed with the conveniently named Process Template Manager, which can be launched from within the Visual Studio 2010 IDE.
Note: It is possible to use Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 to connect to TFS 2010 with the Team Explorer Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010. But managing process templates is only possible from within the Visual Studio 2010.
Process Template Manager
The Process Template Manager can be started by selecting the menu item Process Template Manager… from the submenu Team Project Collection Settings of the Team menu:
As mentioned before, it is possible to launch the Process Template Manager in earlier versions of Visual Studio that connect to TFS 2010:
But as you can see from the screenshot, this will give you a read-only view of the installed Process Templates:
Back in the Visual Studio 2010 IDE, delete the RC Process Templates one by one. Deleting a Process Template does NOT affect existing team projects based on that Process Template.
When you delete a Process Template, you will be notified that the next Process Template in the list will be the default template when creating new Team Projects:
When you now create a new Team Project, you will get to see the limited list of Process Templates:
by Gabriel Lozano-Moran
20. February 2010 09:58
IMHO Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management is a l33t product. At this point in time, there is no word on the pricing but I going through the Visual Studio 2010 Licensing White Paper I don’t think that it will be cheap, furthermore I am also a bit afraid that in a lot of companies it will be a bit hard to sell because of company politics as it is possible that your company is already using for example VMware vCenter Lab Manager and they might not be willing to just throw that away (yet).
David Baliles, the Enterprise Tools Strategist @ Microsoft posted on his MSDN blog a whole bunch of Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management videos which are worth checking out.
Click here for the videos.
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