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TFS API–Search for builds
15 February 13 02:47 AM | BaruchF | with no comments

Hi Recently one of my customers asked me to take a look at one of his builds that takes a looooong time to end. I started analyzing build time and find out that build use custom activity to find some other build and uses its outputs. I realized the activity takes too much time. Looking  into the code shows that it queries all builds from desired project and iterate them in order to find last successful build from desired type. Wrong Way ! So I decided to write this post and introduce a class...

תגים:TFS, DEV, Team Build, C#, TFS API, VS2012

Should I wait for VS\TFS 2012 SP1 ?
27 November 12 08:09 AM | BaruchF | with no comments

Update 1 for VS\TFS 2012 is out. Read about it in Buck Hodges detailed screencast post. Now the question rises again: Should I wait for VS\TFS 2012 SP1 ? The one word answer is: No . Why ? Because there will be no SP1 … - Microsoft has change the update model between major versions from one or two big service packs to sequence of "Updates". As Brian says and I quote : " So you can , kind of, think of Update 1 as SP1". Microsoft will ship several updates between VS 2012 and VS...

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, DEV, Visual Studio, VS2012, ALM, TFS2012

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Final CTP – Great News
31 October 12 10:49 AM | BaruchF | with no comments

Microsoft announced the final CTP for VS 2012 Update 1 and it seems that the release is already in sight … This update includes many fixes and requested features. Here are some of the news: Version Control path limit is expanded to 400 character (you will need to update both client and server)   Cross browser support for Coded UI test Safari is still not supported …   Pause Resume and Update Test Case from Test Runner One of the most missing requests   OOB support for Kanban process...

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, DEV, CTP, TFS Web Access, VS2012, MTM, ALM

ALM User Group – LinkedIn Group
20 June 12 11:19 AM | BaruchF | with no comments

תודה רבה ל שמוליק ו דן על ההרצאות המאלפות במפגש קהיליית ALM ביום ראשון השבוע. בעקבות חידוש קהיליית ALM והמפגש המוצלח,  הקמנו קבוצה בLinkedIn. בקבוצה נפיץ את ההודעות על המפגשים ואת תכני המפגש. כבר כעת ניתן להוריד את המצגת של המפגש ביום ראשון. חברי הקבוצה חופשיים לפתוח דיונים בכל הנושאים שמעניינים אותם ורוצים לשתף ולהתייעץ בחברי הקבוצה. הזמנות נשלחו לכל מי שנרשם לאירוע וכל מי שמתעניין יכול להירשם בלינק הבא: www.linkedin.com/groups/Israel-ALM-User-Group להתראות במפגשים הבאים ברוך

תגים:TFS, OFFTOPIC, Sela, VS2012, MTM, ALM

What’s new in Microsoft Test Manager 2012 RC
10 June 12 09:23 AM | BaruchF | with no comments

As the main focus of the Visual Studio 2012 is productivity, usability and user experience. The MTM 2012 RC release takes it further by adding new abilities. Here short summary of the news: Moving between Team Projects and Test Plans made easier   Copy link in various activities (Test Case, Test Run) Assigning configuration made easier New Exploratory Testing toolbar New Video Recorder a Media Foundation based video recorder has been integrated with the product, which means that you don’t have...

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, VS2012, MTM

Workflow Designer Patch
09 August 11 08:58 PM | BaruchF | with no comments

Everyone who works with workflow designer (and if you are TFS Build Developer – you do it a lot ) encounter the problem with Workflow Designer slowness and crashes (happened to me like 20 times today ) . Today, Microsoft announce a patch for that ! This patch includes fixes to ASP.Net & Silverlight as well and other 35 issues and 6 features as you can find in KB 2468871 . Read more in Buck Hodges post . Grab it from Here .   Happy Building.

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, DEV, VS2010, Team Build, Performance, Tech, Workflow

Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools–New Release
04 March 11 07:32 AM | BaruchF | with no comments

Brian Harry has just announced a new release of the Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools that includes new features, improvement and bugs fix for existing features. What I really liked is the enhanced Windows Explorer Extensions: With much more options. Another graet improvement occurs in the Backup & Restore tool . You can read about all new stuff  in Brian’s blog . Download it from here .

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, DEV, VS2010, TFS 2010

Command Line build – Bug & Workaround
24 August 10 12:04 AM | BaruchF | with no comments

In the last time I was working on updating one of our clients Build Machines. We got a new muscular (virtual) machine with 2 cores and a lot of memory, but instead of getting faster build they start to fail unexpectedly. It came out that unmanaged (C++) solution that we are building in command line using devenv.com is falling without any meaningful error in the log. I’ve opened Visual Studio in build environment and everything works like a charm, it compiles with no errors. Building in command line...

תגים:TFS, DEV, Team Build, MSBuild, Visual Studio

TFS 2010 Upgrade Issue
28 June 10 04:05 PM | BaruchF | with no comments

If you already upgraded from TFS 2005/2008 to TFS 2010 or you are about to. You must read Brian Harry Blog Post about potentially serious issue of losing Labels content and Merge Data here . According to Brian: ” Under no circumstance will it cause the contents of any source code to be modified or lost ”. This issue caused by change of handling items in source control between TFS 2008 Version Control and TFS 2010 Version Control, you can read about this change here . Since that change caused the...

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, DEV, Upgrade, TFS 2010

Team Build Summary Window in VS 2010 – Bug & Workaround
13 May 10 10:06 AM | BaruchF | 2 comment(s)

I just submitted a bug on Microsoft Connect in Team Build Summary window in VS 2010. First of all this page uses a lot of system resource. When you have real Build with more than couple steps the CPU goes up to 100% usage & memory goes up to 1 GB – 1.2 GB (depends on system memory). The second problem is that if you have really a lot of steps like a lot of warnings/errors, the page never finishes to load. If you think “OK I’ll switch to another tab & go back later”, it’s not going to work...

תגים:TFS, DEV, VS2010, Team Build, Tech

WSS 3.0 – Change Web Site Administrator
05 December 09 08:04 PM | BaruchF | with no comments

WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) not like other systems doesn't inherit permissions from the parent automatically. Means that even though you are site collection administrator and farm administrator and local computer admin (even if you are domain admin…) you wouldn’t have access to Website created under that web collection.Unless the owner (Website administrator) gave you explicitly permissions on the Website. If the user created the Website left the company (or was recreated for some reason...

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, Tech, WSS

Team Build 2010 – Build Controller
17 September 09 04:23 PM | BaruchF | 1 comment(s)

In TFS 2005 we introduced the concept of Build Machine that ran the build service and had the ability to compile and run team builds. The build machine was hardcoded in the build script and couldn’t be change unless modifying the script. A build request to busy machine leaded to an error. In TFS 2008 the concept was upgraded to Build Agent that manages the connection between the build and build machine. As all the build definitions in TFS 2008 it’s stored in the Database and it’s not hardcoded in...

תגים:TFS, VS2010, Team Build, Tech, Beta

How to avoid annoying authentication window when connecting to TFS
08 September 09 04:56 PM | BaruchF | 4 comment(s)

When connecting to TFS through Team Explorer it uses the windows login credentials. If the logged in user has no rights to connect to TFS an authentication window appears that allows you to enter another credentials in order to connect to TFS.    But sometimes even though the logged in user has the required permission this annoying window appears and you must enter your credentials again. This happens every time you open Visual Studio and is really bothering. This problem may lead to another...

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, C#, Visual Studio

Team Build 2010 – I’m falling in love again
13 June 09 08:49 PM | BaruchF | 1 comment(s)

“WOW” that what came out of my mouth when I finished running my first Team Build 2010. It looks like almost all our wishes came true … (we still got our work to do but its much easier). Here are some of the great features in Team Build 2010: Build Controller – manages a “pool” of our well known build agents. The end of looking for free (or the least busy) agent …. you just send your build request to the controller and it manages the queue between agents. [Update] Worth's special post . Gated...

תגים:TFS, VS2010, Team Build, Tech, Beta

TFS 2008 – Get Latest Version when Check Out
04 May 09 11:08 PM | BaruchF | 1 comment(s)

As TFS users probably know TFS 2005 (unlike SourceSafe and other Source Control tools) didn’t perform get latest version when checking out.The net is full with discussions is it by design ? is this right behavior ? (We also developed a little add in for VSTS 2005 to support this behavior ).   Any way, in TFS 2008 this option is built in. Can be found in Tools—>Options—>Source Control—> Visual Studio Team Foundation Server—>Get latest version of item when check out NOTE: It works...

תגים:TFS, DEV, Visual Studio