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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...
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 As Sela Group continues to move hundreds of customers from Quality Center to TFS we have upgrade our migration tool called – Scrat to support migration to TFS 2012 RC. The migration process is Easy, Fast and doesn't required any special customization it’s just a simple wizard application that will allow you to migrate everything from Quality Center to TFS. Requirements, Bugs, Test Cases, Attachments, Links between items and more. Just download the trial version and follow my steps: Step...
Tweet In previous post - TFS API Part 21: Delete Work Item using WorkItemStore (Demo Application) I showed how to delete Work Items from TFS using TFS API. My problem was that it not easy to delete work items one by one so I decided to build a tool based on TFS Queries to allow me easily select the work items I want to delete. You can download executable from Here You can download Source Code from Here *** Deleting Work Item Action Is Not Recoverable *** Enjoy
Tweet Yes, this sounds strange but it’s true – Brian Harry wrote couple of days ago on TFS Express . TFS 11 comes with many great improvements for Developers, Testers, Product Managers and The “Team”, and one more thing called – TFS Express , that includes the core developer features: Source Code Control Work Item Tracking Build Automation Agile Taskboard and more…. And it’s FREE !!! (Up to 5 users) Read the full article
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 Quality Center vs. TFS is a question I hear a lot, each customer that works with Quality Center has faced this question when the development team has decided to work with TFS or the Testers want features to help them improve their testing quality. Instead of talking about that subject only with my customers I decided to write something on that subject to help you understand the power of TFS for Testers, and how this platform will improve your Testing abilities with more advance features and...
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 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
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...
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...
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...
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