Cruise Control.net and Team Foundation Services Michael Stephenson, January 1, 0001 Recently I have been working with a customer where we wanted to migrate some source code to TFS Services for source control but we had an existing Build Server setup running on-premise with Cruise Control. ... Cruise Control.net and Team Foundation Services 0 0 30
TFS Lab Infrastructure Planning / Scaling Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve been working with a lot of clients over the past couple years helping them adopt TFS Lab Management. One discussion that always comes up is how to architect the infrastructure required to run TFS ... TFS Lab Infrastructure Planning / Scaling 0 0 1
Visual Studio 2012.2 Hanging When Editing Razor Pages Aligned, January 1, 0001 Since I installed the v2 update, Visual Studio has been hanging on occasion. The CPU for the process jumps to 25% and stays there and Visual Studio stops responding. I found a Microsoft Connect feedback ... Visual Studio 2012.2 Hanging When Editing Razor Pages 0 0 1
Using MSBuild to publish a VS 2012 SSDT .sqlproj database project... deadlydog, January 1, 0001 Post and code updated on March 21, 2013, and again on March 22, 2013. We recently upgraded from VS (Visual Studio) 2010 to VS 2012, and with it had to upgrade our .dbproj database project to a .sqlproj. ... Using MSBuild to publish a VS 2012 SSDT .sqlproj database project... 0 0 0
2010 version of TF (TFS command tool) unable to determine the wor... Michael Freidgeim, January 1, 0001 We upgraded to VS 2012 and TFS 2012 a month ago.I have a backupShelve.cmd that used to work before upgrade, but when I run it yesterday caused the errorUnable to determine the workspace. You may be able ... 2010 version of TF (TFS command tool) unable to determine the wor... 0 0 0
Presenting at TechEd 2013-TechDays 2013 India ALM Track Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I’ll be presenting at TechEd and TechDays in India, there is a lot to look forward to as the events will be hosted across India. Bangalore will be hosting TechEd on 18-19th March, Delhi will be hosting ... Presenting at TechEd 2013-TechDays 2013 India ALM Track 0 0 1
Notes Upgrading To Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Ctp4 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Notes Upgrading To Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Ctp4 0 0 0
List of Software on TFS Service Hosted Build Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 A couple of weeks back I had posted a blog post on getting a list of software installed on the build agent by simply customizing the build process template. Building on top of the same solution, I have ... List of Software on TFS Service Hosted Build 0 0 0
Using the DIR command in the TFS 2010/12 Team Build Invoke Proces... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 I found that using a loop activity to build up a filtered list clutters up the build report with repetitions of activities inside the loop. I could write a custom activity to create the list. However, ... Using the DIR command in the TFS 2010/12 Team Build Invoke Proces... 0 0 0
TFS Kanban Board Swim lane Customization To Better Manage The Pro... Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Brian Harry announced the customize columns feature on the TFS Kanban board that enables you to define new swim lanes based on the work item state right from Team Web Access. This feature has officially ... TFS Kanban Board Swim lane Customization To Better Manage The Pro... 0 0 0
Check Out the New Windows Azure Hub on Channel 9 Clint Edmonson, January 1, 0001 Several weeks ago we launched a new hub for Windows Azure on Channel 9. This hub will serve as an index and entry point for all video content related to Windows Azure. Since the launch we have already ... Check Out the New Windows Azure Hub on Channel 9 0 0 1
MVP Summit 2013 D'Arcy Lussier, January 1, 0001 I got back on Thursday last week from the Microsoft MVP Summit in the Seattle area. MVPs are tech community leaders who are awarded annually by Microsoft based on their contributions and leadership. They ... MVP Summit 2013 0 0 2
MVP Summit 2013 Recap Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 Just sitting in the Seattle airport finally returning home from my first MVP Summit (well in truth I’m flying directly to my next client, no home till next weekend). As I said this was my first time attending ... MVP Summit 2013 Recap 0 0 2
Continuous Integration-Automated Deployments And Release Manageme... Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 A customer I am working with is interested in an ‘automated deployment and release management’ solution for their 160 applications scaling across 350 servers. There is a mix of Microsoft and Non Microsoft ... Continuous Integration-Automated Deployments And Release Manageme... 0 0 0
TFS GIT pull "changes in the current working directory" Josh Tenenbaum, January 1, 0001 If you are trying the new Visual Studio 2012 TFS Git source control and are trying to pull from master and get the error that "There are changes in the current working directory." You should add the ".gitignore" ... TFS GIT pull "changes in the current working directory" 0 0 2
ALM Mag – Harnessing the cloud for Performance Testing Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Recently my blog post ‘Leveraging the cloud for Performance Testing’ got featured in the ALM Mag Vol. 1 Issue 1 – January 2013. Figure 1 – Visual Studio Load Testing using Windows Azure – featured in ALM ... ALM Mag – Harnessing the cloud for Performance Testing 0 0 0
Upgrading to Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP3 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Last week I upgraded my TFS 2012 test environment to CTP3 to try out the new features rolled out in preview as part of the Visual Studio 2012 Upgrade 2 CTP. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the ... Upgrading to Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP3 0 0 0
How to backup the TFS 2012 databases Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Team Foundation Server Backups - You need to install the ‘Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Update xx Power Tool’ on the application-tier for Team Foundation Server. The tool can schedule backups ... How to backup the TFS 2012 databases 0 0 0
My Experience with free source control from Microsoft Vijaya Malla, January 1, 0001 Microsoft has been very generous with all the free stuff they are giving to the developer community and among that is a free source control (tfs ). It is free for 5 developers and is a very little after ... My Experience with free source control from Microsoft 0 0 7
Error Cannot map server path because it is not rooted beneath a t... Vijaya Malla, January 1, 0001 What happened: I have an online TFS account (if you don’t have one please go to visual studio and subscribe, free for 5 people team). I recently bought a surface pro and started creating various test projects. ... Error Cannot map server path because it is not rooted beneath a t... 0 0 3
BizTalk Automated Multi Server Deploy RobBowman, January 1, 0001 Background I’ve been working with BizTalk since 2006r1 (the one without the handy WCF adapters). Since that time I’ve tried various community offerings to improve the deployment process. In 2008 I was ... BizTalk Automated Multi Server Deploy 0 0 8
Feature Toggles vs Feature Branches – Dylan’s $0.02 Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 There’s been some chatter lately about an old debate between Feature Branches vs Feature Toggles. I used to be firmly in the Feature Branches camp, but about a year ago (at the ALM Summit) I became convinced ... Feature Toggles vs Feature Branches – Dylan’s $0.02 0 0 8
BizTalk: the Naming Conventions in Examples Leonid Ganeline, January 1, 0001 See the BizTalk: BizTalk Solution Naming Conventions article. In small application we do not really care about names. When the number of objects start growing, we start pay attention to the names. Experienced ... BizTalk: the Naming Conventions in Examples 0 0 2
Ready for .NET Code Camp in South Florida? Herve Roggero, January 1, 0001 Here we go again! South Florida Code Camp is about to start tomorrow, Saturday Feb 9 2013, at NOVA University in Fort Lauderdale. I have seen this event grow every year; over 900 people were registered ... Ready for .NET Code Camp in South Florida? 0 0 0
TFS Build Custom Activity : TODO Counter charlie.mott, January 1, 0001 Article Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/c... Tracking the count of TODO’s in your solution can be used for the following: Use as an additional measure of code quality. Predict estimated completion ... TFS Build Custom Activity : TODO Counter 0 0 1
TFS - Get List Of Software Installed On Build Agent Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Introduction It is common for your code projects to reference Microsoft or Non Microsoft SDKs, this requires that the build agents has the SDK’s installed. It is also natural that some of your projects ... TFS - Get List Of Software Installed On Build Agent 0 0 2
TFS2012 QU2 - New Feature - Work Item Tagging Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Microsoft has just switched the flag ON and released a whole bunch of new features in CTP1 as part of the TFS 2012 QU2 release. In this blog post I’ll be talking about some practical uses of ‘Work Item ... TFS2012 QU2 - New Feature - Work Item Tagging 0 0 1
TFS API - Reporting Visual Studio Solution And Project Versions Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Problem Definition I am about to take ownership of a TFS 2005 repository that has projects for BizTalk, SharePoint, SSIS, SSAS, different flavors of .NET, to complicate things, the customer is using different ... TFS API - Reporting Visual Studio Solution And Project Versions 0 0 0
TFS In the Cloud! ryanabr, January 1, 0001 Late last year Microsoft launched TFS in the cloud at https://tfs.visualstudio.com. It is free for 5 users and less. Microsoft hasn’t completely worked out the pricing yet for larger teams, but that will ... TFS In the Cloud! 0 0 0
Managing Parallel Team Development–Using NuGet Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 For probably over a year now I’ve been hearing lots of hype around package managers and NuGet in particular. I’ve never really “got it” – that is until last week. So what, NuGet will download the nHibernate ... Managing Parallel Team Development–Using NuGet 0 0 1
Fix - TF51011: The specified iteration path does not exist Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 In this blog post I’ll show you the fix for the TF51011 exception (refer to the screen shot below), Blocked Tasks TF51011: The specified iteration path does not exist. The error is caused by «'Demo\Release ... Fix - TF51011: The specified iteration path does not exist 0 0 0
How to change Rating values in Microsoft Feedback Client Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I had a customer request that they would like to change the value the Microsoft Feedback Client Rating gets translated to. Currently the stars in the Rating are mapped as follows, 0 – Not Rated 1 – Poor ... How to change Rating values in Microsoft Feedback Client 0 0 0
TFS Build: Running Static Code Analysis for Specific Configuratio... Jakob Ehn, January 1, 0001 Moved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2013/01/... ... TFS Build: Running Static Code Analysis for Specific Configuratio... 0 0 5
Solving the ALM puzzle using Microsoft Suite of tools Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 I presented a talk at the #vBug user group run by David Ringsell at Bristol. David in his day job runs his own venture known by the name of “Talk-IT” which provides training for developers. You can check ... Solving the ALM puzzle using Microsoft Suite of tools 0 0 0
Configure Outlook as the TFS SMTP client Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 In this blog post, I’ll show you how to use Outlook.com as the SMTP client for your TFS. Figure 1 – Email Alert Settings for Outlook.com as a SMTP client for TFS When I was asking around for these settings ... Configure Outlook as the TFS SMTP client 0 0 0
VS12 Team Member Photos not showing in Chrome Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Issue The Team Members photo doesn’t show up in the Members section in the Team Home Page in Team Web Access when browsing using Chrome. However, the team members photo does show up as expected when browsing ... VS12 Team Member Photos not showing in Chrome 0 0 2
Step-by-Step: Build a FREE SharePoint 2013 Lab in the Cloud with ... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 My good friend and colleague, Tommy Patterson, recently blogged about leveraging the Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) preview offering to build a FREE lab environment in the Cloud. You ... Step-by-Step: Build a FREE SharePoint 2013 Lab in the Cloud with ... 0 0 7
Presenting VS2012 at VBUG Bristol on 16 Jan 2013 Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 Let’s start with a few interesting facts about Bristol, Bristol is located just 120 miles west of London. It is the largest city in the south west of England. Bristol is a 45 mile trip across the Bristol ... Presenting VS2012 at VBUG Bristol on 16 Jan 2013 0 0 0
The year 2012 in highlights! Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP], January 1, 0001 2012 has been an overwhelming year, I had my share of up’s and down’s. The year started on a high note with Microsoft presenting me the MVP award for Visual Studio ALM. I changed my availability status ... The year 2012 in highlights! 0 0 2
Using Visual Studio Layer Diagrams for Fun and Profit! Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 One of my favorite and most underused features introduced in VS 2010 was Layer Diagrams. It’s a really simple tool to learn and use, but amazingly powerful. It’s a diagramming tool that allows you to draw ... Using Visual Studio Layer Diagrams for Fun and Profit! 0 0 2
Microsoft Channel 9 Interviews Mei Liang to Introduce Sample Brow... Jialiang, January 1, 0001 This morning, Microsoft Channel 9 interviewed Mei Liang - Group Manager of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework - to introduce the newest Sample Browser extension for Visual Studio 2012 &2010. This ... Microsoft Channel 9 Interviews Mei Liang to Introduce Sample Brow... 0 0 1
TFS / Visual Studio 2012 End To End Demo Project–Intro Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I’ve been working on a hobby project for the past little while, and I wanted to blog my way through it as I go. My intent is to use a lot of new technologies, agile best practices, and some trendy architecture ... TFS / Visual Studio 2012 End To End Demo Project–Intro 0 0 0
Simple TFS 2012 API Methods: List Projects in a Collection and Im... Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 I found a lot of code to do these things, but really appreciated a more concise and simple approach. For example, this can be run as a unit test. --> using System; using Microsoft.VisualStudio.Test... ... Simple TFS 2012 API Methods: List Projects in a Collection and Im... 0 0 0
Step-by-Step: Build a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster for Highly... KeithMayer, January 1, 0001 Overhead at one of my recent IT Pro events: “The FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 sounds AWESOME! With the same features and scalability as the Hyper-V role in the full Windows Server 2012 OS, I could really use ... Step-by-Step: Build a FREE Hyper-V Server 2012 Cluster for Highly... 0 0 22
How to build Visual Studio Setup projects (.vdproj) with TFS 2010... Vishal, January 1, 0001 Out of the box, Team Foundation Server 2010 Build does not support building of setup projects (.vdproj). Although, you can modify the DefaultTemplate.xaml or create your own in order to achieve this. I ... How to build Visual Studio Setup projects (.vdproj) with TFS 2010... 0 0 4
Visual Studio 2012 Launch Winnipeg–Slides Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 The Winnipeg .Net User Group hosted a VS 2012 Launch Event at the Imax in Winnipeg on Thursday, Dec 6. Doing presentations on the giant Imax screen is always fun, and I did the first 2 sessions on: End-To-End ... Visual Studio 2012 Launch Winnipeg–Slides 0 0 2
My collection of favourite TFS utilities Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 So, you’re in charge of your company or team’s Team Foundation Server. Wish it was easier to manage, administer, extend? Well, here are a few utilities that I highly recommend looking at. I’ve recently ... My collection of favourite TFS utilities 0 0 3
Book “Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter” published terje, January 1, 0001 During the summer and fall this year, me and my colleague Jakob Ehn has worked together on a book project that has now finally hit the stores! The title of the book is Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter ... Book “Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter” published 0 0 5
Team Foundation Server 2012 Build Global List Problems Bob Hardister, January 1, 0001 My experience with the upgrade and use of TFS 2012 has been very positive. I did come across a couple of issues recently that tripped things up for a while. ISSUE 1 The first issue is that 2012 prior to ... Team Foundation Server 2012 Build Global List Problems 0 0 0
Advanced Continuous Delivery to Azure from TFS, Part 1: Good Enou... jasont, January 1, 0001 The folks over on the TFS / Visual Studio team have been working hard at releasing a steady stream of new features for their new hosted Team Foundation Service in the cloud. One of the most significant ... Advanced Continuous Delivery to Azure from TFS, Part 1: Good Enou... 0 0 4