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Git-TF tool release by Microsoft allowing developers to work locally using Git repository without any connection to TFS, if you wanted to work on your files locally (In case you don’t have internet connection) you had reopen the solution and work offline. TFS 2012 comes with new feature called – Local Workspace allowing developers to work locally on their files but without tracking the changes history – here comes Git-TF tool. Brian Harry’s Blog Distributed Version Control (DVCS) has a growing following...
If for some reason you or your company is still using VSS it’s time to move forward! Team Foundation server supports VSS Migration, until today there were a command line tool allowing you to migrate VSS repository to TFS Source Control – this tool is called – VSSConverter. VSSConverter command line tool requires configuration file that need manual authoring, but no More! Microsoft has announce a new wizard based UI tool for upgrading VSS repositories to Team Foundation Server 2012/2010. Open the...
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...
Tweet Read the full article from Brian’s Harry Download –> Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools Power Tools Come to Eclipse We are completely committed to ensuring that developers outside of Visual Studio have great access to TFS and that includes bringing Power Tools to these developers when appropriate. Today we made a new Power Tool download available as an Eclipse update site. 64-bit MSSCCI Support We also made the one of our most significant updates to the MSSCCI provider for TFS...
Tweet Yesterday a got a a request from a customer how want to work with TFS Source Control from RoboHelp: Adobe® RoboHelp® 9 software is an easy-to-use solution for technical communicators to author, collaborate, personalize, and optimize content for help systems, policies and procedures, and professional knowledgebases for multichannel, multidevice publishing. This is possible using the MSSCCI provider and some registry changes: Download and Install – MSSCCI - http://visualstudiogallery.msdn...
Tweet מהרגע שחזרתי מכנס Build לקוחות שואלים אותי מה מחכה להם בגרסא החדשה של Visual Studio 11 ו – TFS 11? קצת היסטוריה – בעבר חברות רכשו מספר רב של כלים עבור כל תפקיד ייעודי בחברה, לאנשי פיתוח – Visual Studio, לאנשי בדיקות Quality Center ועוד כלים לאוטומציה, מנהלים עבדו עם Excel או MS Project ועוד ועוד כלים, הבעיה שלא היתה אינטגרציה ושיתופיות מלאה בין הכלים, מה שגרם לקשיים לא קטנים בתקשורת ובמעקב אחרי התהליך. ב – 2005 מיקרוסופט הוציאה לאוויר העולם את Team System כמוצר נפרד מ – Visual Studio שהיה חידוש...
Tweet Today one of my customers decide to work with MSTest Unit Test instead of NUnit, he asked me what he need to do to make it happen? There are couple of options to accomplish that": Add Build Extension to Support NUnit run from MSBuild. Create Custom Activity to run NUnit executable Convert the NUnit Syntax to MSBuild Because the customer had nothing special in NUnit and the entire company works in .NET and Team Build we decide to convert the NUnit Tests to MBuild Unit Tests Format. Here...
Tweet I got this questions a lot, if this because lots of my customers working with branches and often they delete those old branches or just because someone delete a folder and you want to see its content. There are two ways to see deleted items from source control, the first is through Visual Studio and the second through TFS API. See Deleted Items In Visual Studio: First open visual studio 2010 and open source control Navigate to –> Tools –> Options –> Source Control –> Visual Studio...
CodeProject Some news for Visual Studio 2010, I’ll start from several updates you should to apply on you TFS and Visual Studio. KB - TFS 2010 SP1 Cumulative Update 1 – KB2536929 This is the first Update from Microsoft since SP1, and the new concept from Microsoft is to release hot fixes for critical bugs, every once in a while when the development team feels they have critical mass of fixes they will publish new Update includes all hot fixes. – So make sure your Visual Studio and TFS are up to date...
In my last post on TFS API I summarize in Index Page include 37 parts - http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/shair/archive/2011/05/18/tfs-api-index-parts-1-to-37.aspx And I coming back with more about TFS API, and Today about how to create Label using TFS API. Download Demo Project Step 1: Create Project and Add Reference Create an WPF/WinForm application and add the following references: First add reference for Microsoft.TeamFoundation.dll Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client Microsoft.TeamFoundation...
This is old news but sometimes it’s better to refresh the memory for those who don’t know how to do that, most of the people that came from Other tools than Visual Studio already use to other Compare Tools and want to use them. Open Visual Studio 2010, navigate to Tools menu and Options. Navigate to Source Control –> Visual Studio Team Foundation… –> Click the “Configure User Tools…” Complete the below fields to configure WinMerge with Visual Studio Source Control. Extension: .* Operation:...
Since 2009 I ‘m writing about TFS API and several people asked to get an index page with all parts related to TFS API, so here is it: Basic TFS API Part 1: Domain Picker TFS API Part 2: Domain Picker Using Registered Servers (Cache) TFS API Part 3: Get Project List Using ICommonStructureService TFS API Part 4: Get TFS User List (Mail, Sid, Account, Domain) TFS API Part 7: Use IEventService To Get User Event Subscriptions TFS API Part 8: Subscribe/Unsubscribe Events Using IEventService TFS API Part...
Power Tools for Microsoft VS 2010 users – Innovative software that saves time and money Sela Technology Center is proud to announce the release of our unique software development productivity power tools for the Microsoft ALM environment: SCRAT , WTM and WIMBI . All products are well proven and based on our deep understanding of client requirements for Development and Testing activities using Microsoft VS 2010. About SCRAT - MIGRATION : SCRAT tool enables the most time efficient and cost effective...
Problems with MSSCCI and VB6 Doing some work at a customer working with Visual C++ , IAR, VB 6.0 and couple more I faced with some issues using MSSCCI and VB6. (MSSCCI - The Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider enables integrated use of Team Foundation Version Control with products that do not support Team Explorer integration. [Read More] ) After Installing MSSCCI I Can’t See TFS Menu The solution is very easy, just edit vbaddin.ini (start->run: vbaddin.ini (its in the windows dir) Add...
Building Setup Project In devenv.com Command Line Fails, Works In IDE I started to build a Build Definition in TFS 2010 (WF) for one of my customers and ran into a strange problem with couple of Setup Projects, when I build the Setup Project in Visual Studio 2010 IDE the setup built just fine but once I tried to build it using devenv command it fails.. (To build setup project using Team Build you need to invoke devenv with command line arguments.) The Error from the command line is: ERROR: Unable...
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