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 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 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...

Brian Harry הודיע על הוצאת Power Tools חדשים . ה – Power Tools מכילים בעיקר חידושים עבור משתמשי ה – Team Explorer Everywhere. לראשונה מיקרוסופט מוציאה Power Tools עבור ה – Team Explorer Everywhere, הפונקציונאליות ב – Power Tools אילה בסך הכול מיישרת קו עם משתמשי ה – Visual Studio בחלק מהפונקציונאליות. התוספות הם: Alerts – המשתמש יוכל להגדיר התראות למייל עבור חוקים שונים, בדיוק כמו שיש למשתמשי ה – Visual Studio Search – פעולה בסיסית שהייתה מאוד חסרה ב – Team Explorer Everywhere נכנסה ל – Power Tools...

Tweet Today I got a interesting questions from a customer – How I can force format to a version field? I said cool finally I can use the MATCH Element (Work Item Type Definition Schema) to set a regex for System.Title field, The MATCH rule doesn't support full regular expressions , but a simplified version. <MATCH pattern="pattern to match" for="user name" not="user name" /> Enforces basic pattern matching for strings only. <pattern> should be replaced...

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...

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...

ה – Test Scribe הוא כלי להפקת מסמכי בדיקות STD ומסמכי תוצאות הבדיקות STR. ניתן לקרוא עוד על ה – Test Scribe בפוסט שכתבתי בעבר: “איך נעשה דוקומנטציה למקרי הבדיקה ולתוצאות ההרצה? Test Scribe” אחת השאלות ששואלים אותי לא פעם היא: “האם ניתן לשנות את הפורמט של המסמכים המופקים על ידי ה – Test Scribe” התשובה היא כן. יש לפעול במדויק אחרי הצעדים הבאים: צעד 1: יש להעתיק את הקובץ: “Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestManagement.Tools.TestScribe.sx” מהנתיב: “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE...

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...