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 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

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...

SharePoint 2007 Files Restore Tool I had a customer that need to restore some files from a deleted SharePoint site (long story….) in TFS 2010, the first option is to restore the entire TFS 2010 database include the SharePoint content database but instead of doing all this work I’ve written a small tool to help with that issue. Just restore the WSS_Content database (the version before the deletion) to another sql instance  and use the tool to hook the database and restore the files you needed...

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...

Work Item Spell Checker Custom Control for VS 2010 A long time ago I published a free Work Item Custom Control for Visual Studio 2005/2008 to allow using Spell Check on work item fields. Since Visual Studio 2010 comes with Spell Checker ability I left this project behind, over the last couple of months I got lots of requests from people to adjust this Control to 2010, Today I got a request from a customer that really needs it so here you go. Follow the link below, download the setup file and install...

Problems with MSSCCI and VB6 Doing some work at a customer working with Visual C++ , IAR, VB 6.0 and couple more I faced with some issues using MSSCCI and VB6. (MSSCCI - The Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider enables integrated use of Team Foundation Version Control with products that do not support Team Explorer integration. [Read More] ) After Installing MSSCCI I Can’t See TFS Menu The solution is very easy, just edit vbaddin.ini   (start->run: vbaddin.ini (its in the windows dir) Add...

Test Attachment Cleaner Download Test Attachment Cleaner Overview: In Visual Studio 2010, with the introduction of Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 & Visual Studio Premium/Ultimate 2010 SKUs, testers can author manual and automated Test cases, configure the different diagnostic data collectors (as part of Test Settings), associate the Test Settings with Test Plan/Suites and then execute these test cases as part of Test Runs. The execution of a Test Run (whether automated or manual) generates...