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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 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 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 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...
In the mood of improving my work couple of days ago I wrote about Wifi Network Backup Manager Utility a utility that allows you to Save and Load Wifi Network Profiles, using Native Wifi API through P/Invoke interop. Today I decide that I’ll change Visual Studio 2010 Start Page to show things I really wants starting from more Recent Projects, today VS 2010 only shows 10 recent projects, because I have a lot more than 10 recent projects I want to continually open I’ve increased the Max Count of recent...
Application Life Cycle Management with Visual Studio 2010 במפגש זה תוכלו ללמוד על פתרון ה- ALM המתקדם ביותר ולצפות בדמאויים עשירים. המפגש מיועד למפתחים ולבודקים ויועבר ע"י מיטב המומחים בנושא. לוח זמנים מתוכנן : 8:30-9:00 – התכנסות ורישום. 9:00-10:00 – Requirement Management using Visual Studio 2010 – מרצה : דן מורגנשטיין. 10:00-11:00 – Applied Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010 – מרצה : שי רייטן 11:00-11:15 – הפסקה 11:15-12:00 – סיפור לקוח – חטיבת מוצרי ה- Enterprise של Nice בחברה ב- ALM...
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...
Code Metrics From The Command Line - Power Tools In my last post I’ve talked about What is Code Metrics in Visual Studio, and how Code Metrics will allow you to monitor you code to find those un-maintainable and complex hotspots “Microsoft just release a command line because many customers are looking for a way to generate code metrics information as part of their build process. In this way, the complexity associated with assemblies coming out of your nightly builds could potentially be tracked and...
How To Include HTTP Headers In Web Test Recording HTTP header fields contain the operating parameters of an HTTP request or response. With the request or response line (first line of message), they form the message header. Here is a ScreenCast on How to Create Web Test\Coded Web Test - Screencast [HE] While recording Web Test you will notice that Headers are not included in Web Test Requests, this because Web Test only record below header by default: SOAPAction Pragma x-microsoftajax Content-Type...
How To Change Visual Studio Default Editor Yes I know this sounds strange, but some times this can be very useful, For example, let say we are .NET developers but really addicted to NotePad++ , and each time I click on File. CS file I want notepad++ to open it… There are two ways to do it: The Ugly Way – Registry Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0 find the “Default Editors” key (create if doesn't exists). Create another Key with the name of the File extension (Example...
Team System 2005 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility is now available! This is an update for the 2005 SP1 version of Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer and allows the 2005 SP1 version to work with the Team Foundation Server 2010. The update will allow teams to move forward and use the Team Foundation Server 2010 server even if part of the team continues to use the Team Explorer 2005 SP1 client. IMPORTANT The Visual Studio 2005 SP1 is a required prerequisite to install this update. If you plan...
TFS API Part 24 – Get All Fields From TFS I got an email regarding previous post ( TFS API Part 6: WorkItemStore - Get Fields From WorkItemType ) how to get Fields without regard to Work Item Type? This is very easy using Team System API. Download Demo Project Step 1: Create Project and Add Reference Create an WPF/WinForm application and add the following references: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client.dll (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0...
Implementing a WIX installer that calls the GDR version of VSDBCMD.EXE Duke Kamstra just post a great article about WIX and DB Dude. One of the cool things that shipped with the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR (aka the GDR) is the command line utility VSDBCMD.EXE . By using this utility, you can take the artifacts created by building a Database Project and deploy them to a database instance. If the database doesn’t exist on the instance of SQL Server, it will be created...
SourceSafe Users Get Ready To Say – Bye Bye! Microsoft looks to move SourceSafe users to newer technology The company will offer a special installation option for Team Foundation Server ALM platform as it winds down Visual SourceSafe support….. Brian Harry "We see TFS as the successor to SourceSafe," said Brian Harry, who holds the title of technical fellow at Microsoft. The Basic Installation option would be featured as part of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 . Read...
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