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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...
In previous post “ Visual Studio 2012–News (iPhone, Web Test Management, 260 Limit and more) ” I talked about the new Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 and what’s new for Visual Studio and TFS 2012. So today Microsoft release : Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 – Download TFS 2012 Update 1 – Download Update: Error when installing TFS 2012 Update 1 - dbo.typ_BuildControllerTableV2 is incompatible with dbo.typ_BuildControllerTable 260 Character Path Limit Some call this Microsoft “Achilles’ heel” but I’ll not...
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 Couple of hours ago Brian Harry post about the RC version for VS and TFS 2010 + Alex Golesh post about Windows 8 Release Preview . As we know VS/TFS 2012 comes with many great improvements and new features that push forward the ALM platform allowing more and more people to work as team more easily and much more productively. Visual Studio Product website Eclipse update site for the latest Team Explorer Everywhere preview or the download page Overall summary of changes since the Beta Jason’s...
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 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 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 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 Build Conference announced several new things, beginning from Windows 8 to the new version of TFS 11 and Visual Studio 11. TFS 11 and Visual Studio 11 are in Developer Preview state, means it’s not even a Beta, but every things works just fine If you like to experience the new features coming in TFS 11 and Visual Studio 11. We in Sela Group will do a special event to introduce the new TFS 11 and Visual Studio 11 over the coming weeks, meanwhile if you have an MSDN Subscription you can download...
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...
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 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...
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