Shai Raiten's Blog : TFS 2010, TECH

Getting Started With Git-TF Tool

shair — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:12:17 GMT

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. It enables a set of workflows that can be very handy and Git is an increasingly popular DVCS solution. Today, we are announcing Git-tf, a solution that enables you to work locally with a Git repo – edit, commit, revert, branch, merge, etc. and then “sync up” with a central TFS repository. In this way, you can have the best of both DVCS and TFS.

Getting Started with Git-TF Tool

Prerequisites

Download Microsoft Git-TF for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012
Extract the zip content to C:\git-tf (or any other place)
Add the path where you extracted Git-TF (i.e. C:\git-tf) to your PATH environment variable.
Download Java from http://www.java.com and add the Java path to your PATH environment variable. (Step 2)
Download Git for Windows, and install it.

Setup Git User Information

Open PowerShell and execute the following commands:

PS C:\> git config --global user.email "shai.raiten[at]mail.com"
PS C:\> git config --global user.name "Shai Raiten"

TFS Source Control

I’ve create new Team Project called – Agile, and added new console application under Main folder.

The first thing before we can start using Git-TF tool is initializes a new git repo from an existing path in a TFS server using the clone command.

Run: git-tf clone http://TFSServerName:8080/tfs "$/Agile/Main”

Result:

PS C:\Users\Shai\Dev> git-tf clone http://lucy:8080/tfs "$/Agile/Main"
Connecting to TFS...
Cloning $/Agile/Main into C:\Users\Shai\Dev\Main: 100%, done.
Cloned changeset 19 as 6195f2e
PS C:\Users\Shai\Dev>

Change some files under your new Git repository.

I’ve also create new file (Program – Duplicate.cs)

To apply new change we’ll use the commit command:

Run: git commit -a -m "Add new file and new comment..."

Result:

PS C:\Users\Shai\Main> git commit -a -m "Add new file and new comment..."
[master 2feccf1] Add new file and new comment...
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
PS C:\Users\Shai\Main>

Now, let’s make things more complicated, I’ve checked in new change from TFS (Adding new comment)

Before you checked in your local git repository changes to TFS you want to fetches changes made in TFS as a new commit in Git, and merges the commit with the latest commit in the current branch.

Run: git-tf pull –rebase

Result:

PS C:\Users\Shai\Main> git-tf pull --rebase
Connecting to TFS...
jgit : Obtaining commits that need to be cherry-picked
jgit : Rewinding to commit Add new Comment - TFS
jgit : Applying Add new file and new comment...
Fetching and merging changes in $/Agile/Main at latest changeset: 100%, done.
All files were fetched to commit 1f59bb6. The rebase operation was stopped, please fix the issues and run "git rebase --
continue" to complete the operation.
PS C:\Users\Shai\Main>

We can see we have a conflict with TFS, if you open the the conflicted file you’ll see TFS and Git changes separated by OURS and THIERS comments.

Modify the file to resolve the conflict, and run git rebase –continue command to fix the conflict.

After we make sure there is no more conflict we can check in the Git repository changes to TFS by running the following command:

Run: git-tf checkin

Result:

PS C:\Users\Shai\main> git-tf checkin
Connecting to TFS...
Checking in to $/Agile/Main: 100%, done.
Checked commit de1ca4c in as changeset 21

Now we can see Git changes in TFS Source Control.

Enjoy.

Quality Center Migration To TFS 2012 RC

shair — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:00:00 GMT

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 1: Define Migration Plan

After installing Scrat the first page will ask you for two things, a configuration file that will save all completed items and migration settings and the second is defining what items would you like to migrate from Quality Center to TFS (Requirements, Bugs and Test Cases).

The configuration file will also allow you to repeat the migration process for Failed items and will skip the work items that previously migrate successfully.

Step 2: Connecting Quality Center and TFS

The connections page will ask you to connect to a specific Team Project under TFS 2010 or 2012 and connect to specific Project in Quality Center.

Step 3: User Mapping

Quality Center allow users to work without LDAP users this means that we need to create a mapping between Quality Center users to TFS Users, you will use this page to define which user from Quality Center will be translate to LDAP user in TFS.

Step 4: Area Mapping

Area Mapping is one of the important steps in Scrat, Areas will allow you to keep Quality Center folders hierarchy as Areas in TFS.

At the picture below you can see Scrat presenting the folders hierarchy, you can also modify and add new values before creating those areas in TFS.

After Scrat will finish Area creation you will see the same folders hierarchy in TFS but as Areas.

Step 5: Fields Mapping

In this steps you’ll map Quality Center fields to TFS Fields, this page will show also Customize fields in Quality Center and TFS.

Fields that you’ll not choose will not be copied during the migration.

Step 6: Data Mapping

After you choose fields for the migration you might have to define new values for those fields, it’s more than possible that the field values will be different from Quality Center and TFS.

You can also prepare for the migration by defining the proper values and fields before you start migrating.

Step 7: State Mapping

Just before you’ll start the migration we need to define one more thing, the States.

As you know TFS doesn't allow you to open Work Item and change the State field to any field that you like, you have to save the work item and than change the state again, furthermore State field in TFS works on Work Flow mechanism that force the user to work based on the state flow.

This means that we also need to define the flow for each state from Quality Center.

Step 8: Migration

In this page all you need to to is click “Start” to begin the migration, but you can also choose to migrate based on a specific filter, expend the advanced option and choose as many fields as you like to help you filtering the items for the migration.

When the migration is completed you can see those items in TFS:

Step 9: Test Suites Hierarchy – Just for Test Cases

The migration process is the same for all items except Test Case, there you will have additional Page allowing you to build the Test Suites hierarchy for Microsoft Test Manager.

First you need to create a plan or select an existing one, this will create new Test Plan in Microsoft Test Manager.

Then select the desire Test Suites to create(you don’t need to create all just those you want) and click start.

After the process is done you can enter Microsoft Test Manager and you’ll see the same Suites hierarchy as in Quality Center, and each suite has his Test Cases assigned to it.

Test Case after the migration:

Enjoy.

The Git Hole

shair — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:31:00 GMT

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 side in a discussion, you might say discussion are not about winning is about Accepting and Understanding, but Imagine yourself this scenario - You are a religious man, how about a discussion with a non-religious about “Does God Exists”?

You can throw billion argumentation's but nothing will matter because in this discussion there is not Logic but Faith and Emotions, so you can spend hours but in the end the non-religious will not believe and the religious will.

Even when you talk about Technology there is emotions if you like it or not – If you not believe me you should read some theory's from Lawrence Kohlberg, Carol Gilligan and Sub Judice , (Latin for "under judgment"), I hope in this discussion you’ll understand you are not the first and for sure not the last how think he can control his emotions when you make a choice.

So why I told you all about that? Lately I’ve being asked about why TFS and Not Git?

First I think Git is a wonderful version control system and I even use it for several projects, I use SVN and several other Open Source Version Control Systems.

The reason sometimes I’m using other systems than TFS, is for specific projects:

Project I do by myself and I don’t need work assignment or project management.
Projects that doesn’t have Testers, Product Manager or anyone else besides Developers.
Projects that doesn't care about team collaboration and think that Email is a great solution for tracking the team.
Project that doesn't have the money to buy TFS (Dream Spark)

The question itself implies that the person didn’t understand what is TFS, and just think about saving his praised code.

Team Foundation Server – This is a suite of development tools all within a single platform
The idea of one platform for the entire team is brilliant. Microsoft created tools for each individual position on the team; there are tools for Requirements Management, design tools for Architects, Developer tools and of course testing tools ranging from manual test to automation and load testing. All is this is now under one platform. When the entire team works on the same platform the collaboration and integration become easy and fluent, collecting data to generate reports no longer needs to take a lot of time. The team’s efforts are now integrated as part of the platform. Synchronizing between different tools is no longer necessary because all are working together in one place.

So after I explain what is TFS the person told me –> but TFS doesn’t have distributed version control.

SO WHAT? Git doesn’t have Bug Management, Load Testing, UML Designer, Build Machine and a lot more. It’s not all about Code!

So developers think that everything about the Product is up to them – and they are wrong! the product is something that everyone is part of, the Project Manager, the Business Analysis, the Developers, Tester and more.

Sometimes one less feature is best for the Team than one extra feature just for you!

Now, let’s go back to the discussion, even after I explain TFS the person still want Git (although his company bought TFS) and in that point I understand that this is the same discussion as “Does God Exists” because the person has HMS (Hate Microsoft Syndrome) and this is what he believes.

Is there a cure? I really don’t know. But I do know that Emotions overcome common sense and facts.

I Love Microsoft and I really Love TFS, but TFS is not the only tool at the market today that gives teams the ability to work together under a single platform, there is IBM Jazz or HP ALM Solution, but with not doubt TFS is mature and most popular ALM tool today and I will continue recommend TFS and I’ll not surrender the HMS!!!

God, give me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Thanks

Team Foundation Backup Plan Not Working in Administration Console

shair — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:42:00 GMT

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” and didn’t understand the problem.

[Info @09:02:10.541] Process finished: fileName=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft
Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools\Team Foundation Server Backup Plan\
AdminPTHelper.exe arguments= exitCode=0 in 2588 ms
[Error @09:02:10.541]
Exception Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
(type NullReferenceException)

Exception Stack Trace:    at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.Admin.Models. PageExternalDatabasesViewModel.FillList() at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.
PowerTools.Admin.Models.
PageExternalDatabasesViewModel.PageExternalDatabasesViewModel_PropertyChanged
(Object sender, PropertyChangedEventArgs e)
at System.ComponentModel.PropertyChangedEventHandler.Invoke(Object sender,
PropertyChangedEventArgs e)   at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.MVVM.
NotifyPropertyChangedDispatcherObject.
SetAndRaisePropertyChanged(Boolean& propertyDataField, Boolean value, String
propertyName)   at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.Admin.Models.
BaseWizardViewModel.
InitializePageInputs()   at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.Admin.
Wizards.WizardBackupPlan.Initialize()

So I went to try my luck with ProcMon and found the following command returning an error:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools\Team Foundation Server Backup Plan\AdminPTHelper.exe" SharePointInspection /method:FindLocalSharepointConfigDb /tfsApps:http://172.21.11.51:17012/

Solution

So Why the “Central Administration URL” is there? after a deeper drilldown I found some DNS errors, So I went to SharePoint Web Application Settings and change the “Central Administration URL” to DNS name instead of IP Address and everything start working.

The Future of Testing: Quality Center vs. Team Foundation Server

shair — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:12:00 GMT

TFS API Part 42 – Getting Started With Lab Management API

shair — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:12:00 GMT

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.TeamFoundation.Lab.Client.dll”

This dll cannot be found under Public, Private or ReferenceAssemblies it can only be found under GAC, so navigate here - C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Lab.Client\10.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\
Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Lab.Client.dll

Add this dll as reference to your project.

Step 2: Connect TFS and Obtain LabService

After connecting to TFS you need to obtain the Lab Service at the same way we did for all other services under TFS.

If created a combo box with all team project for later use.

private void BtnConnectClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
   var tpp = new TeamProjectPicker(TeamProjectPickerMode.NoProject,false);
   tpp.ShowDialog();
 
   if (tpp.SelectedTeamProjectCollection == null) return;
   _tfs = tpp.SelectedTeamProjectCollection;
   _lab = (LabService)_tfs.GetService(typeof(LabService));
  
   var store = (WorkItemStore)_tfs.GetService<WorkItemStore>();
   listProjects.ItemsSource = store.Projects;
}

Step 3: Get Collection Hosts and Library Share

Before we start dealing with Team Projects and their Lab Vm’s and templates the below code will show how to pull the Lab Management Hosts and Library Share from the TFS Collection.

Using the Lab Service and a QuerySpec object (we’ll use those a lot), we need to call QueryTeamProjectCollectionHostGroups method (right now we don’t need to add anything to the Query).

//public class TeamProjectCollectionHostGroupQuerySpec
//{
//  public TeamProjectCollectionHostGroupQuerySpec();
//  public Uri Location { get; set; }
//  public string Name { get; set; }
//}
listHostGroups.ItemsSource = _lab.QueryTeamProjectCollectionHostGroups(
    new TeamProjectCollectionHostGroupQuerySpec());
 
//public class TeamProjectCollectionLibraryShareQuerySpec
//{
//  public TeamProjectCollectionLibraryShareQuerySpec();
//  public Uri Location { get; set; }
//  public string Name { get; set; }
//}
listLibraryShares.ItemsSource = _lab.
          QueryTeamProjectCollectionLibraryShares(
     new TeamProjectCollectionLibraryShareQuerySpec());

Step 4: Get Lab Management Details For Team Project

Now, when you choose a Team Project we’ll call the GetProjectLabDetails method to extract all relevant lab information on that project.

But first we’ll use the LabService.IsLabConfigured method to see if this project has any lab configurations, if it does then using the QuerySpec we can pull all Environments and Templates for that team project.

void GetProjectLabDetails(string projectName)
{
    //Does this Team Project has Lab configure?
    if (!_lab.IsLabConfigured(projectName)) return;
 
    //Creating Query for lab environments under a specific project name.
    var labQuerySpec = new LabEnvironmentQuerySpec{Project = projectName};
    //public class LabEnvironmentQuerySpec
    //{
    //  public LabEnvironmentQuerySpec();
    //  public LabEnvironmentDisposition Disposition { get; set; }
    //  public Uri Location { get; set; }
    //  public string Project { get; set; }
    //}
 
    listEnvironments.ItemsSource =_lab.QueryLabEnvironments(labQuerySpec);
    listTemplates.ItemsSource = _lab.QueryLabTemplates(new 
    LabTemplateQuerySpec() { Project = projectName });
}

Download Demo Project

Enjoy.

Validate Field Format in Work Items using MATCH Element

shair — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:12:00 GMT

TFS API Part 41–Manage Groups and Members

shair — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:11:00 GMT

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…

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 for our demo IGroupSecurityService and ICommonStructureService.

Using ICommonStructureService we’ll be able to extract all Team Projects under the collection you choose, this is not the only way to do that.

Using IGroupSecurityService will allow us to get all users under the “Project Collection Valid Users” category.

private void BtnConnectClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
  var tpp = new TeamProjectPicker(TeamProjectPickerMode.NoProject, false);
  tpp.ShowDialog();
  if (tpp.SelectedTeamProjectCollection == null) return;
  
_tfs= tpp.SelectedTeamProjectCollection;
_css= (ICommonStructureService)_tfs.GetService<ICommonStructureService>();
_gss= (IGroupSecurityService)_tfs.GetService<IGroupSecurityService>();
 
  var allSids = _gss.ReadIdentity(SearchFactor.AccountName, 
        "Project Collection Valid Users", QueryMembership.Expanded);
 
  listAllUsers.ItemsSource = _gss.ReadIdentities(SearchFactor.Sid,
  allSids.Members, QueryMembership.None).Where(a=>a.Type == 
  IdentityType.WindowsUser || a.Type == IdentityType.WindowsGroup);
 
  listProjects.ItemsSource = _css.ListAllProjects();
}

Step 2: Get All Application Groups Under a Team Project

Once you choose a project we’ll use Project Uri and ListApplicationGroups method under IGroupSecurityService to get all Groups under that project.

private void ListProjectsSelectionChanged(object sender,
 SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
    if (listProjects.SelectedItem == null) return;
    var project = listProjects.SelectedItem as ProjectInfo;
    listGroups.ItemsSource = _gss.ListApplicationGroups(project.Uri);
}

Step 3: Get Users From Specific Group

When you select a specific group we’ll use the group SID to get all members under that group.

Make sure to change the SearchFactor to SID instead on AccountName, this will prevent getting users from another Project where the Group Name is not unique.

private void ListGroupsSelectionChanged(object sender, 
SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
    if (listGroups.SelectedItem == null) return;
 
    var group = listGroups.SelectedItem as Identity;
 
    var sids = _gss.ReadIdentity(SearchFactor.Sid, group.Sid, 
               QueryMembership.Expanded);
    if (sids == null || sids.Members.Length == 0)
    {
        listUsers.ItemsSource = null;
        return;
    }
 
    listUsers.ItemsSource = _gss.ReadIdentities(SearchFactor.Sid, 
                                 sids.Members, QueryMembership.None);
}

Step 4: Add New Application Group

This part is very simple, you just need to obtain the Project Uri and call CreateApplicationGroup under IGroupSecurityService with the Project Uri and the new Group Name.

private void BtnAddGroupClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(txtGroupName.Text) || 
               listProjects.SelectedItem == null) return;
            
    var project = listProjects.SelectedItem as ProjectInfo;
    var groupname = txtGroupName.Text;
    try
    {
        var result = _gss.CreateApplicationGroup(project.Uri, groupname,
                      "Your Group Description");
        ListProjectsSelectionChanged(sender, null);
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
    }
}

Step 5: Remove Application Group

This part is also very simple, you need to call DeleteApplicationGroup method under IGroupSecurityService with the Group sid you want to delete.

private void BtnRemoveGroupClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    if (listGroups.SelectedItem == null) return;
 
    var result = MessageBox.Show("You are about to remove application 
    group from TFS, press yes to continue",
    "Remove Group", MessageBoxButton.YesNo, MessageBoxImage.Question);            


    
    if (result == MessageBoxResult.No) return;
 
    var group = listGroups.SelectedItem as Identity;
    _gss.DeleteApplicationGroup(group.Sid);
    ListProjectsSelectionChanged(sender, null);
}

Step 6: Add User To Application Group

For this you need to obtain the User sid and Group sid and again using the IGroupSecurityService add call AddMemberToApplicationGroup method passing those values.

If the User already exists in that Group you will receive a soap exception.

private void BtnAddUserToGroupClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    if (listAllUsers.SelectedItem == null 
     || listGroups.SelectedItem == null) return;
 
    var group = listGroups.SelectedItem as Identity;
    var user = listAllUsers.SelectedItem as Identity;
 
    try
    {
        _gss.AddMemberToApplicationGroup(group.Sid, user.Sid);
        ListGroupsSelectionChanged(sender, null);
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {//TF50235: The group Test Group already has a member Administrators.
        MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
    }
}

Step 7: Remove User From Application Group

It’s the same as Adding a user to a group, just call RemoveMemberFromApplicationGroup method.

private void BtnRemoveUserFromGroupClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    if (listUsers.SelectedItem == null || 
       listGroups.SelectedItem == null) return;
 
    var group = listGroups.SelectedItem as Identity;
    var user = listUsers.SelectedItem as Identity;
 
    _gss.RemoveMemberFromApplicationGroup(group.Sid,user.Sid);
    ListGroupsSelectionChanged(sender, null);
}

Download Demo Project

Enjoy.

My Lecture at Munich ALM Days 2011

shair — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:42:00 GMT

TFS API Part 40–Build Service Host

shair — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:15:00 GMT

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 server with no way to remove it. (there is no UI for Build Hosts)

Now when trying to register the Lab environments we received an error the Host with the same name already exists, so I’ve built a small tool to help me managing the Build Service Hosts.

Download

Step 1: Connect To TFS and Obtain IBuildServer

As any TFS API article we first need to connect TFS and from the TFS Object Model to obtain the IBuildServer object.

private void BtnConnectClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
  var tpp = new TeamProjectPicker(TeamProjectPickerMode.NoProject, false);
  tpp.ShowDialog();
 
  if (tpp.SelectedTeamProjectCollection != null && 
      (tpp.SelectedTeamProjectCollection == null && 
      !tpp.SelectedTeamProjectCollection.HasAuthenticated)) return;
 
  _tfs = tpp.SelectedTeamProjectCollection;
  _buildSrv = _tfs.GetService<IBuildServer>();
 
  ShowList();
}

Showing the current Hosts in the TFS:

private void ShowList()
{
    buildList.ItemsSource = _buildSrv.QueryBuildServiceHosts("*");
}

The IBuildServer is running Team Foundation Build and has control on everything related to Builds.

Step 2: Delete, Create and Rename

After we obtain all Build Service Hosts we will use the IBuildServer to Create, Delete and Rename the hosts on our TFS.

private void DeleteHost(string hostName)
{
    IBuildServer buildServer = _tfs.GetService<IBuildServer>();
    IBuildServiceHost bsh = buildServer.GetBuildServiceHost(hostName);
    bsh.Delete();
}
 
private void Create(string hostName)
{
  IBuildServer buildServer = _tfs.GetService<IBuildServer>();
  IBuildServiceHost hostsrv = buildServer.CreateBuildServiceHost(hostName,
      "http", hostName, 8181);
  hostsrv.Save();
}
 
private void Rename(string currentHostName, string newHostName)
{
  IBuildServer buildServer = _tfs.GetService<IBuildServer>();
  IBuildServiceHost hostsrv = buildServer.GetBuildServiceHost
 (currentHostName);
  hostsrv.Name = newHostName;
  UriBuilder uriBuilder = new UriBuilder(hostsrv.BaseUrl);
  uriBuilder.Host = newHostName;
  hostsrv.BaseUrl = uriBuilder.Uri;
  hostsrv.Save();
}

Download

Microsoft Test Manager–Multiline Support

shair — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:01:00 GMT

How To Change Test Scribe Template

shair — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:19:00 GMT

I’ve wrote about Test Scribe couple of months ago and explained how you can Generate word documents from Microsoft Test Manager.

Test Scribe is an awesome tool for Generating Test Documents, but can I change the document template? Test Scribe comes with a Default Template and many customers what’s to change the template to their needs.

This is the best way I found how to do that, and it require to drill down to some file inside the Test Scribe.

Make Sure you backup all files before doing any changes!!

Locate Test Scribe Template

Navigate to –>
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\TeamTest

Copy “Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestManagement.Tools.TestScribe.sx” to another folder, change the file name and extension to “Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestManagement.Tools.TestScribe.zip”.

Extract file content, and you should have TestPlan and TestRunSummary folder contains the Document Template.

Test Plan Directory Content:

Changing Test Plan Section

I’ve open “TestPlan” directory and start editing the “TestPlanSection.tt”.

In the picture below you can see the two selected Paragraphs that are responsible to the static text display in the header of the document.

I’ve remove those and also changed the Header style, instead of showing the Test Plan Id I wanted to only show the Test Plan Name and make sure the Name is hyper link to the Test Plan it self.

SprParagraph
(
    "Heading1",
    SprImage("/Images/TestPlan_32.png"),
    SprText(SprHost.Resources.GetString("TestPlanLabel")),
    SprText(String.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture,
            SprHost.Resources.GetString("ItemHeaderFmtString"),
                            "")),
    SprHyperlink(TestPlan.Name, BuildUrl("testing/testplan/open?id="
      + TestPlan.Id.ToString()))
);

Adding Attachments

This is another issue I keep hearing from many customers, How can I add attachments to the document?

In the TestCaseSection.tt just before the “SprMultilineText("Errormessage", testCase.Description);”

Add the following:

if (testCase.Attachments.Count > 0)
{
    SprParagraph
    (
        "Heading4",
        SprText("Attachments"),
        SprText(String.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture,
                SprHost.Resources.GetString("ItemHeaderFmtString"),
                testCase.Attachments.Count))
    );
 
  for (int i = 0; i < testCase.Attachments.Count; i++)
  {
    ITestAttachment attachement = testCase.Attachments[i];
    SprParagraph
    (
      "Heading5",
      SprText(String.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, "{0}: ", i + 1)),
      SprHyperlink(attachement.Name, attachement.Uri.AbsoluteUri)
    );
  }
}

Download Custom Template (Backup and Copy to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\TeamTest)

This is for now, I’ll continue customizing the template over the next weeks.

Enjoy

Team Foundation Server on Windows Azure: A Preview is available!

shair — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:35:00 GMT

TFS 2010 Training Kit

shair — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:36:00 GMT

How To Change TFS 2010 Attachment Size

shair — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:11:00 GMT

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 rw = tfs.GetService<ITeamFoundationRegistry>(); 
RegistryEntryCollection rc = rw.ReadEntries(@"/Service/WorkItemTracking/Settings/MaxAttachmentSize");
RegistryEntry re = new RegistryEntry(@"/Service/WorkItemTracking/Settings/MaxAttachmentSize", "20971520");//20MB
        
if (rc.Count != 0)
{    
    re = rc.First();    
    re.Value = "20971520";
}
        
rw.WriteEntries(new List<RegistryEntry>() { re });

But the only thing you had to do in order to change the attachment size in TFS 2010 is to change _tfs_resources to the collection name, as follow:

http://localhost:8080/tfs/_tfs_resources/WorkItemTracking/v1.0/ConfigurationSettingsService.asmx?op=SetMaxAttachmentSize

TO:

http://localhost:8080/tfs/<CollectionName>/WorkItemTracking/v1.0/ConfigurationSettingsService.asmx?op=SetMaxAttachmentSize

Enjoy

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