Teamprise 3.0 Ships - Plus Free Teamprise Extensions for Team Foundation Build (Think Ant for MSBuild )

Martin Woodward - Teamprise 3.0 Ships!

"At EclipseCon 2008 this morning, we just announced that Teamprise 3.0 has been released!  If you've been wondering why I have been quiet on the blog lately - but also why anything I have been talking about is Team Foundation Build related, then you are about to find out why :-)  First of all, I'd encourage you to go visit the shiny new website at http://www.teamprise.com.  Our marketing team had too much fun putting that together, including getting a real, live, massive Teamprise power button made up and shipped in a huge crate from New York to be photographed and used as the new site/icon image.

The full release notes are available here, but as has been the tradition for the past few Teamprise releases, I thought I would give you a run down of my favourite new features in the 3.0 release.

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All this would be fairly academic, if you didn't have some way to do a cross-platform build using Team Foundation Build.  In the current release, we provide a the Teamprise Extensions for Team Foundation Build which basically Ant enables the Team Foundation build server.  The Teamprise extensions are a set of MSBuild targets that insert the Ant build process into the standard Team Build mechanism as well as a custom MSBuild We hope to extend this to support in the near future to some of the other common build/test tool-chains in the cross-platform world.  However, the Ant integration case will help a lot number of people out there.

Best yet, the Teamprise Extensions for Team Foundation Build are available free of charge for everyone - wether or not you are a Teamprise customer.  Also, if you want to see how they work and customize them to meet your own non-standard build system then the source is available under the permissive open source Microsoft Public License (MS-PL).

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Nice...

I've been a fan of the Teamprise and Teamprise Explorer since they released it for usage with CodePlex. It's officially cool they are continuing in that spirit and releasing their Teamprise Extensions for TFS for free (with source even!).

I'm a big fan of TFS and I think it's great that it's open enough that it can be used outside the MS world...

 

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