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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...
There are many improvements in TFS API for 2012 version, in my previous post I’ve talked about TFS API Part 48 – WorkItemControl And Bypass Work Item Rules that allow work item creation with bypass rule mode in WorkItemStore that allow you to create and change any field value without applying the WorkItem template rules. in this post I’ll show how to delete Team Project using TFS API, be aware Delete Team Project is unrecoverable! Download Demo Project Step 1: Connect TFS and Getting Team Projects...
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...
With Visual Studio 2012 and TFS 2012 we have a lot of new stuff for Developers, Testers, Managers customers and more, and this is not the end…. Microsoft continues to develop new features for 2012 version. Test Case Management On The Web Brian Harry - We’ve heard from a number of customers that in final acceptance testing, they don’t want to install anything on the test environment that’s not going to be in the production environment. That’s understandable. In our first update, we will...
Tweet In my previous post “ Teams and Team Members ” I talked about new Service in TFS API called – TfsTeamService. Using this service we can control Teams and Team Members under TFS. We can create and remove Teams and Team Members using TFS API. I know this can be quite confusing but Teams in TFS are simply Group (Security Group), same as Contributors, Administrators etc. If you open Security tab under TFS Web Management you can see that there is two separate lists of Groups – Teams and TFS...
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 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 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 First, what is the Build Service Host or IBuildServiceHost ? The BuildServiceHost object represent the physical location of the Controller and/or Agent objects. The name property is usually the machine name that the Controller or Agent lives on. In earlier versions, this was simply the Machine Name property on the Agent. Now, I’m working with a customer works with Lab Manager and after upgrading the SCVVM and perform some port changes we faced an issue – The Build Service Host stuck in your...
Tweet A long time ago I wrote about SharePoint 2007 Files Restore Tool , tool that allows you to connect to SharePoint content database (not need to have SharePoint installation) and extract documents. The reason I wrote this tool was a customer that upgrade TFS and perform a new installation of SharePoint so he lost all his documents, this tool helped me to extract all documents and added them to the new SharePoint site. SharePoint upgrade/migration can be unpleasant and sometimes I prefer to do...
Tweet אני יודע, אתם בטח לא מאמינים זה סוף כל סוף קורה – מיקרוסופט הוציאה “תיקון” ל – Microsoft Test Manager אשר יאפשר לכתוב צעדי בדיקה עם שורות מרובות. תיקון זה מגיעה עם עוד מספר תיקונים קטנים אבל ללא ספק תמיכה בשורות מרובות הינה המשמעותית ביותר. הכתבה המלאה - Brian Harry And one time in English - Microsoft has released Multiline support for Test Cases in Microsoft Test Manager!!! Visual Studio 2010 SP1 TFS Compatibility GDR <– Download <- הורדה Alt+Enter
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