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“Team For Word” A TFS Word Client and a User Guide For It
28 December 10 07:30 AM | Eran Ruso | 7 comment(s)

A few days ago I have encountered a very nice tool that is called “Team For Word” Until now I have worked with the “Team Spec” that cost a license compares to this tool that is totally free and with an open source. In the past few days I have worked a lot with the “Team For Word” on clients sites, we have tried to see if this tool can replace the “Team Spec” and the answer is not simple. This tool has some abilities that”Team Spec” doesn’t have like presenting all the work items from a query with...

תגים:TFS 2008, DEV, Team System 2008, TECH, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, Work Items, Work Items Guide, Team System Guide, Guides, TFS Guide, Documents Management, WIs, Word

Team System 2008 Work Items Basic User Guide Was Released
16 November 09 05:50 PM | Eran Ruso | with no comments

Finally it was released… The “Team System Work Items Basic User Guide” was released and can be downloaded from the codeplex project: “Team System Guides” The guide can educate new and advanced users to better use the Work Items section. I have already started to work on “TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide” and I will start publish its parts very soon… Have Fun!!!

תגים:TFS 2008, DEV, Team System 2008, TECH, TFS, NEWS, ALM, Work Items, Work Items Guide, Queries Guide, Guides

Core Fields Of A Work Item (For Advanced Users)
12 November 09 02:54 PM | Eran Ruso | with no comments

This post is the fifth and last post out of Five that builds the Work Items Basic Guide . See the first post: “Team System Work items Basic User Guide – Introduction” I have already published the “Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items” , the “Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create And Use Queries” and the “Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items Out Of An Existing Work Items” We have seen in previous posts how to create a new work item we...

תגים:DEV, Team System 2008, Team System, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, TFS2010, Work Items, Work Items Guid

Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items Out Of An Existing Work Items
30 September 09 11:15 AM | Eran Ruso | 3 comment(s)

This post is the forth post out of Five that builds the Work Items Basic Guide . See the first post: “Team System Work items Basic User Guide – Introduction” I have already published the “Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items” and the “Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create And Use Queries” We have seen in previous posts how to create a new work item and how to create and manage my queries , on this post we will see how to create a new Work Item out of an existing...

תגים:DEV, Team System 2008, Team System, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, TFS2010, Work Items, Work Items Guide, Team System Guide

TFS API: Get Project Members
13 September 09 03:22 PM | Eran Ruso | 3 comment(s)

I have been asked to write a few times custom controls that requires me to get the users from the Team Project. The method that does that is very simple, the example in this post takes the members from the project by the “project name” that was passed to it, and adds them to a combobox named cmbUsers. using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client; using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Proxy; using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server; public void GetUsers( TeamFoundationServer server, string project) { cmbUsers.Items...

תגים:DEV, Team System 2008, TFS, Custom Control, TFS API

Delete TFS Work Item Types
10 September 09 10:52 AM | Eran Ruso | with no comments

I have already written about How To Delete Work Items in TFS in this post I like to show how you delete Work Item Types you don’t need so you will not get a long list of Work Item Types when creating new Work Items. Here is how to do it: Step 1: Download and Install the Team Explorer 2008 - October Power Tools . Step 2: Log-in to the TFS using a TFS administrator user. Step 3: Open a command line and go to: “X:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools” Step 4: Use the “TFPT...

תגים:TFS 2008, DEV, Team System 2008, TFS, Work Items, TFS Administration

Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create And Use Queries
03 September 09 04:56 PM | Eran Ruso | 6 comment(s)

This post is the third post out of Five that builds the Work Items Basic Guide . See the first post: “Team System Work items Basic User Guide – Introduction” I have already published the “Team System Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items” On this post I will talk about Queries. In order to see the Work Items you have entered to the Team System you will need to create a "Search", the way you search the Team System is by Queries . Queries contains filters , you can put filters...

תגים:DEV, Team System 2008, Team System, TFS, TFS 2010, Team System 2010, TFS2010, Work Items, Work Items Guide, Team System Guide, Queries, Queries Guide

How To Manage the TFS Global List
26 August 09 10:56 AM | Eran Ruso | 2 comment(s)

The easy way of managing lists of Work Items in TFS is by using the TFS Global List. Many of my customers ask me “What is the easiest way to manage my Global List?” The easiest way to manage the Global List is with the “Process Editor” that comes with the Team Explorer Power Tools. Step 1: Open the Global List by choosing: Tools –> Process Editor –> Open Global List from Server option Here you can see all the “Global List” lists. Step 2: Right click the white space of the screen and choose...

תגים:TFS 2008, Team System 2008, TECH, TFS, Work Items, TFS Global List, TFS Administration

How To Show A Work Item From Custom Control Using API In TFS
05 August 09 07:02 AM | Eran Ruso | with no comments

Yesterday I have created a Custom Control that one of its features is to open a work item for the user to modify. Since it took me some time to understand how to do it I have decided to post a reference for how to do it in an easy way. Here is an example of how to do it: using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client; using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Controls; using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client; using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking; private void ShowWorkItem...

תגים:DEV, Team System 2008, TFS, Work Items, work Items API, Custom Control

Changing The TFS Work Item Attachments Maximum Size Limit
21 July 09 09:55 AM | Eran Ruso | with no comments

Users of TFS are used to have the 4MB attachment limit, what they don’t know that instead of complaining about that they can change the limit up to 2GB in a few simple steps. Step 1: Log-in to the TFS machine using an administrator account (Local Administrator). Step 2: Surf using the browser to: http://localhost:8080/WorkItemTracking/v1.0/ConfigurationSettingsService.asmx?op=SetMaxAttachmentSize Step 3: In the maxSize text box enter the new size limit in bytes. For example to have 10MB limit you...

תגים:DEV, Team System 2008, TFS, Work Items Attachments, Work Items

How To Create A Branch In Team System 2008
28 June 09 03:05 PM | Eran Ruso | 1 comment(s)

Before I start with the how to create a branch step by step guide, I like to remind that creating a branch should be done by a SCM (Software Configuration Management) plan and not when ever you “feel” like creating a branch. It is very important to manage your branches or else you will have a big pile of branches that no one knows there purpose. After saying that here is the step by step guide: The demonstration will be for a demo project called "Web Sites". Step 1: Right click the source...

תגים:SCM, TFS 2008, Source Control, DEV, Team System 2008