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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 Today I came to a customer for consulting and the customer told me that there is no Backups for TFS. So right away I told him this is very important and let’s create a Backup Plan for TFS. How To: Create TFS 2010 Backup Plan Problem So I’ve download TFS 2010 Power Tools, Install, Open TFS Administration Console, Click “Create Backup Plan” and Nothing happens. So I’ve started to investigate and saw some errors in TFS Event Log, of course I saw “Object reference not set to an instance of an object...
Tweet I did some cool things lately with TFS Lab Management API, from connecting it to TFS Web Access and allow REST access to the lab (if you want to ask why – The customer is always right ). So this part of TFS API will deal with Lab Management API, although Lab Management API is not public I’ll show some cool things you can do but this will be under your own risk. Again, this is just the beginning of the Lab Management API, so let’s get started Download Demo Project Step 1: Located “ Microsoft...
Tweet Today I got a interesting questions from a customer – How I can force format to a version field? I said cool finally I can use the MATCH Element (Work Item Type Definition Schema) to set a regex for System.Title field, The MATCH rule doesn't support full regular expressions , but a simplified version. <MATCH pattern="pattern to match" for="user name" not="user name" /> Enforces basic pattern matching for strings only. <pattern> should be replaced...
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 In the past I’ve showed some examples on how to work with TFS IGroupSecurityService for getting users list, but you can do much more, Create new Group, Add or Remove users from group etc… TFS API Part 25: Get TFS User List (Mail Sid, Account, Domain) – TFS 2010 TFS API Part 4: Get TFS User List (Mail, Sid, Account, Domain) Download Demo Project Step 1: Connect To TFS and Get All Users and Projects As always we need to start with connecting to TFS, but here we’ll also obtain 2 important services...
Tweet The conference was Amazing!!! I had great time in the conference with partners, customers and friends, I didn’t went to most of the lectures (Ich weiß nicht Deutsch spricht) but from the people who presented the presentation and the title there were plenty of interesting lectures. In my lecture I’ve talked about Applied Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010 , I showed demos on Test Manager, Web Performance Test, Load Testing and of course Coded UI Testing. I’ve also talked about Migration...
Tweet I know for most of you what I’m going to show is obvious, But today during a course for a customer (That already working with MTM for 6 months) I found out this wasn't so obvious…. When using Microsoft Test Manager for running Tests the window is automatically Dock to the left side, this will rearrange all icons and will force other applications to work with a smaller screen. And yes you can change it, as you can se from the picture below I’ve changed the windows to “ Floating ” And now...
Tweet Couple of days ago I wrote about How To Change Test Scribe Template since than I got plenty of emails on that subject asking me to supply more and more information about changing Test Scribe Template. Many people thinks that: “The output generated by Test Scribe is not customizable in this release.” But this is not fully correct, you can change the Test Scribe template but this will require couple of hacks….. But possible I recommend you to read the How To Change Test Scribe Template article...
Tweet I’ve wrote about Test Scribe couple of months ago and explained how you can Generate word documents from Microsoft Test Manager. Test Scribe is an awesome tool for Generating Test Documents, but can I change the document template? Test Scribe comes with a Default Template and many customers what’s to change the template to their needs. This is the best way I found how to do that, and it require to drill down to some file inside the Test Scribe. Make Sure you backup all files before doing any...
Tweet Straight from the oven, Brian Harry just post and gave 250 free TFS Azure Accounts for those who didn’t came to Build Conference. 250 use activation code: “bharry” To use the code, visit http://tfspreview.com . Below you’ll find a walk through of the sign up experience. Although the service is pre-release at this time and is not complete, much of the TFS functionality works today. You can use: Source control Work item tracking Agile project management (a new feature in TFS 11) Testing...
Tweet Yuval Mazor just post about “Introduction to TFS 2010 Training Kit is Released!” , Yuval Mazor and Assaf Stone did an amazing work for Microsoft in the past months writing the TFS 2010 Training Kit. TFS 2010 Training Kit The Introduction to Team Foundation Server 2010 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs and demos designed to help you get acquainted with the features of Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010. This Training Kit contains several demos and hands-on labs that require some...
Tweet לקוחות שעובדים עם Microsoft Test Manager לניהול בדיקות בעיברית נתקלים בבעיה נפוצה בתמיכה בישיר הטקסט מימין לשמאל. אפשר להחליף את כיוון הטקסט לימין אבל הוא ישר יקפוץ לשמאל כאשר נעבור לצעד הבא, וזה לא באמת פתרון… שעובדים עם עיברית ואנגלית ביחד קשה מאוד לערוך ולהריץ את התסריטים שלנו בצורה נוחה. אל דאגה יש פתרון גם לזה, אם נשנה את הערך של FlowDirection ב – Registry ל – 1 הכיוון של הטקסט ב – Microsoft Test Manager יתהפך ונוכל לקרוא את הבדיקות שלנו בצורה נורמלית. יש לסגור ולפתוח מחדש את Microsoft...
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...
Couple of months ago Sela Collage were a sponsor in Microsoft ALM Summit in Seattle , there we announced on ALM Products and the first version of Web Test Manager - Innovative approach to managing and running your tests - Any Test – AnyWhere - Anytime (by Everyone) under TFS 2010. WTM = Manage your tests directly from your browser in TFS 2010 Now, for the first time you can manage your tests without the need for any local installation, WTM is a web application integrated in VS 2010 Team Web Access...
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