Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

How to Create an Area
Create areas to organize team project work into project sub-areas. For example, you
could organize your project work into areas such as UI, Application, and Database. Once
you have created areas, you can assign scenarios and work items to these areas.
You can start with a single root-level area and then later, as your project matures, you can
create areas whenever you need them.
To create areas for your project
1. In Team Explorer, click your team project.
2. On the Team menu, point to Team Project Settings, and then click Areas and
Iterations.
3. In the Areas and Iterations dialog box, click the Area tab.
4. Click the Add a child node toolbar button.
5. Right-click the new node, click Rename, and then type the area name you want.
6. Click the Area node.
7. Repeat steps 2, 3, and 4 to create additional areas. In this way, you can create a
hierarchy for your project structure.
Additional Resources
• For more information, see “Walkthrough: Creating a New Team Project” at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dhedaeb2(VS.80).aspx
How to Add a Check-in Event Notification
Use the bissubscribe tool, available at %programfiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Team Foundation Server\TF Setup\BisSubscribe.exe, on your TFS server to subscribe to
check-in notifications.
To set up a check-in event notification
1. Open a command prompt and change to the following location:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\TF Setup\
2. If you want to set up an e-mail notification, use the following command:
bissubscribe /eventType CheckinEvent /address someone@domain.com /deliveryType
EmailHtml /domain http://TFSRTM:8080
3. If you want to set up a Web service notification, use the following command:
bissubscribe /eventType CheckinEvent /address http://TFSRTM:8080/ci/notify.asmx
/deliveryType Soap /domain http://TFSRTM:8080
4. If you get any errors or you want to confirm that you have registered correctly, do the
following:
a. Open SQL Server Management Studio.
b. Open the tfsIntegration database.
c. Review the tbl_subscription table.