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Couple of days ago Brian Harry post about the new release of Update 2 for Visual Studio and TFS 2012, and today another release of Update 3 that isn’t big a Update 1 and 2 but contains a set of bug fixes that can ease you work. Before jumping to Update 3, if for some reason you’re not using Update 2 this is the time to read about it and install it! Update 2 VS/TFS 2012.2 (Update 2) Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS 2012.2) ISOs available Team Explorer Everywhere 2012 Update 2 Update 3 – CTP Visual...
Tweet I consider myself a calm person with plenty of tolerance, I believe in productive discussion and love it – Part of my job as a consultant is to talk with Teams and explain them why you should choose a specific product over another, in 99.9% of those meetings there is one guy that don’t like the change (No One Like Changes) and you need in a calm way to explain and show him the benefits of the new tool – Forcing someone to do something is never a good thing. But sometimes there is no wining...
CodeProject Here is a post from 2008 on how to change attachment size in TFS 2008 , the same concept is available in 2010 but there is a small confusion about 2010. Many people had problems changing the attachment size in TFS 2010 using the same web service because the following error: 500 Internal Server Error There where people who changes the attachment size using code: TeamFoundationServer tfs = TeamFoundationServerFactory .GetServer( @"yourtfsserver/.../DefaultCollection" ); ITeamFoundationRegistry...
Work Item Spell Checker Custom Control for VS 2010 A long time ago I published a free Work Item Custom Control for Visual Studio 2005/2008 to allow using Spell Check on work item fields. Since Visual Studio 2010 comes with Spell Checker ability I left this project behind, over the last couple of months I got lots of requests from people to adjust this Control to 2010, Today I got a request from a customer that really needs it so here you go. Follow the link below, download the setup file and install...
Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack is now in Beta We at Sela Group already working with a customer working with TFS-PS Feature Pack CTP for Integration between TFS 2010 and Project Server 2010, now all customers can get this support as “Go Live” Beta. I’ve post about VS/TFS 2010 SP1 Beta has Released and Here is another great news from Brian Harry for TFS 2010 and Project Server Users: The TFS-PS Feature Pack is being released to MSDN subscribers today as a “go...
Sela - “Web Test Manager” Announcement in ALM Summit As you may know – Sela is a gold sponsor in ALM Summit ( http://www.alm-summit.com/almsummit/sponsors.aspx ), during the summit we revealed our latest developments for TFS/VS 2010 and Microsoft Test Manager. WIMBI – Merge By Work Item Scrat – Quality Center 2 TFS 2010 Migration *NEW* - “Web Test Manager” – Web Access For "Microsoft Test Manager” ” Web Test Manager” – Will allow Testers, Developers and each and every one on the Team to Write...
Wit-It! 1.4 – New Features If you don’t know what is Wit-It! please read Wit-It! – Outlook Add-in for TFS Work Item Alerts I saw that lots of people are downloading Wit-It! and I get lots of feedbacks. Also I got a place on MSDN forums. It’s time for the next version of Wit-It! I fixed couple of performance problems, change the Design to some thing more friendly. Add couple new features to Wit-It! Download Wit-It! Today Here is the list: New Work Item Convert Email message to Work Item ...
Wit-It! – Outlook Add-in for TFS Work Item Alerts After a small talk with Guy Burstein he comes up with a Great Idea : use outlook form region to show Work Item from Team System. Then I remembered that working with Event Email in Team System are so irritating. You can customize Event Emails to work with Team System Web Access but then you can’t open the work item in XML (sometimes you may need it) But then I noticed that not everyone have TSWA and even this sometimes can be irritating(slow...
Team System User Group - Scrum and Team System Even when the meeting starts at 3:00 am (Israel Time) the Scrum session was very interesting. Trent Nix spoke about : What Is Scrum? and how it’s implement in Team System under the different templates: Conchango's Scrum For Team System Microsoft Escrum Light Weight Scrum Next month I’ll speak about Custom Control, hope to see you there. TSUG Web Site
How To: Set Work Item Creation\Edit Permission Using Area Path Some times you don't want a specific User or Group will be able to create or edit a Work Item. This is one way how to perform this action. Open Team System with User in Administrator Group. Click on the desire Team Project -> Right Click -> Team Project Settings - > Area and Iterations Here you pick the Level. You can set the Root or a lower Area, and Click on "Security" Select the desire Group / User and check...
Failed To Create Maintenance Plan For TFS Backup After installing TFS 2008 I want to create maintenance plan using SSMS to create a Backup plan How To: Backing Up a Team Foundation Server database . When creating new maintenance plan I got an error. Then I saw that SQL Databases is upgraded to SP2 but not the Client Tools. So Download SQL Server SP2 and make sure to select the right components. After installing SP2 for the Client Tool I was able to create the maintenance plan for backup TFS Databases...
Error While Trying To Create OLAP Cube One of my customers failed to get up to date Reports from TFS. Looking in one of the reports I saw that the last time the warehouse was update is Two Month Ago! I tried to process the cube manually and this got nothing, so I checked the event log and I saw couple of errors related to the warehouse. I tried to Rebuild the cube using SetupWarehouse.exe and get another error. An unexpected error occurred: Some or all identity references could not be translated...
How To: Change Estimate/Remaining/Complete Field Format To Days Instead Of Hours I receive the following question: How do I change the format for reporting a work: estimate/ remaining/complete - to days instead of hours??? Here is my answer for that question: To download a mapping file Open a Command Prompt window. Open the folder where Visual Studio is installed (for example, drive :\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9), and in that folder, locate \Common 9.0\IDE. The TFSFieldMapping.exe utility...