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TFS API Part 43–Delete Work Item Tool

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

TFS API Part 42 – Getting Started With Lab Management API

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...

TFS API Part 41–Manage Groups and Members

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...

My Lecture at Munich ALM Days 2011

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...

TFS API Part 40–Build Service Host

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...

TFS API Part 39 – Show Deleted Items in Source Control

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...

Visual Studio ALM Video & Two Updates for TFS/VS You Should Install

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...

TFS API Part 38 – Create Label

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...

TFS API Index Parts 1 To 37

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...

TFS API Part 37 – Create Builds

This is the last of series of 3 about manipulating Build Controllers ( TFS API Part 35 – Create Build Controllers ), Agents and Definitions ( TFS API Part 36 – Create Build Definitions ) and now I’ll complete the series with a demonstration on how to create a new Build and set the Result using TFS API. This can assist you in building Fake definition in order to publish tests or setting a test environment much more easily. Download Demo Project As you can see from the picture above you can define...

Announcing a Java SDK for TFS

Brian Harry just post about Java SDK for TFS The TFS SDK for Java includes the following: A redistributable JAR file containing the TFS API’s. This is a the same Java code that is used by Team Explorer Everywhere in the TFS plug-in for Eclipse and the Cross-platform command line client. It provides access to version control, work item tracking, build and other functionality in TFS from your own Java based application. We ship this as a single JAR file containing all the code and Java dependencies...

TFS API Part 36 – Create Build Definitions

In my last post TFS API Part 35 – Create Build Controllers   I showed how to create Build Controllers using TFS API, this can help create a Fake Build and publish test results outside TFS. This post continue the coding from me previous post, and shows how to create or delete Build Definitions under a specific Team Project. Download Demo Project Step 1: Obtain Build Process Templates and Existing Definition from Team Project private   void ListDefinitionsTeamProjectSelectionChanged( object...

Test Case Migrator Between Projects – WPF Metro

Test Case Migrator Between Projects – WPF Metro This is a common question I keep hearing from customers: Question: How can we copy Test Cases \ Shared Steps from one Team Project to another? Answer:  You can manually duplicate item after item in visual studio but this isn’t a good solution if you have lots of Test Cases to copy. So, to solve this problem I built a tiny little tool to help you accomplish this task. This tool contains 4 steps: Getting Started: 1. Connection Connect to TFS, pick...

TFS API Part 34– Build Basic Actions

TFS API Part 34– Build Basic Actions In my previous post on on TFS API– Get Build Definitions and Build Details I’ve showed how to obtain Builds Definitions and Builds using TFS API. In this post I' used the same project but I’ve added more functionality to the UI that will allow you to perform more actions on the Build item (Stop, Delete etc). Download Demo Project Step 1: Create Project and Add Reference Create an WPF/WinForm application and add the following references: First add reference...

TFS API Part 33– Get Build Definitions and Build Details

TFS API Part 33– Get Build Definitions and Build Details Doing some major projects in WF under Team Build 2010 I decide it’s the right time to start writing about Build API in TFS 2010. This part is very very basic and in later posts I’ll show some cool stuff in Build 2010 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...