TFS Integration Platform – A new release has been dropped on Codeplex

A new version (Changeset 45445) of the TFS Integration Platform codebase, installer, documentation, guidance and hands-on-labs has been dropped on Codeplex today.

What’s changed?

Looking at the check-in comments, we have a substantial amount of features and bug fixes added in this release.

• Important changes
  • DB project is converted to use DBPro GDR R2
  • New WorkFlowType is introduced in toolkit.
  • Toolkit is backward compatible (support for old work flow types persisted in DB), but doesn't support importing a new configuration file with old work flow type
• Toolkit
  • Enforce each migration source can only be used in one session
  • Convert DB project to use DBPro GDR R2
  • Add new WorkFlowType configuration support. See TFS Integration Platform – WorkFlowTypeEnum Configuration element is being deprecated  for details.
  • Add support to @@MissingField@@ and its default value. See TFS Integration Platform – @@MISSINGFIELD@@: Question & Answer 16 for details.
  • Wire up new Sync Orchestrator status with conflict management and migration console
  • Make WITD/Field mapping explicit in the configuration
  • Add aggregated fields feature to WIT custom setting. See TFS Integration Platform – Aggregated Fields: Question & Answer 17 for details.
• Adapters
  • Wit adapter: add project-scope context to query base
  • Fixes two problems in the SyncMonitorProvider implementation in the WIT adapters:
    • Correctly issues the WIQL query with [TeamProject] == @Project
    • Handles the case where the version string stored for a TFS work item has a string that's not an integer (e.g. "Attachment")
• Guidance
  • Revised hands-on labs and documentation to align with codebase and to take advantage of new features.
  • The following documentation has been revised:
    • TFS Integration Platform - Architecture Overview
    • TFS Integration Platform - Custom Adapter POC
    • TFS Integration Platform - Getting Started
    • TFS Integration Platform - Migration Guidance
    • TFS Integration Platform - Planning Poster

In parallel we are making great progress at a number of migration proof-of-concepts, which are going to bring a wealth of features, administrative support and new adapter provider support to the platform. Watch the space!