Scrum session at CodeCamp

I spoke about Scrum at the Orlando .NET Code Camp today, it went really well.  You can download the presentation file here.

Getting build notifications from TFS

TFS ships with an event subscription tool that you can access through command line and it's located at "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server\TF Setup".  You can use it to subscribe to a variety of TFS events dealing with builds, check-ins, projects, work items, etc.    You can subscribe to a handful of events from the team project node in team explorer, but this gives you a much bigger list.  In order to get notifications when the build fails or partially succeeds (which means that your assemblies built, but your tests failed), you would do the following:

bissubscribe /eventType BuildCompletionEvent /address you@email.com /deliveryType EmailHtml /server yourTfsServer /filter "TeamProject = 'TeamProjectName' AND (CompletionStatus='Failed' OR CompletionStatus='Partially Succeeded')"

There's also a UI for it in CodePlex that will allow you to do the same if you don't want to deal with command line.