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 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 Yesterday a got a a request from a customer how want to work with TFS Source Control from RoboHelp: Adobe® RoboHelp® 9 software is an easy-to-use solution for technical communicators to author, collaborate, personalize, and optimize content for help systems, policies and procedures, and professional knowledgebases for multichannel, multidevice publishing. This is possible using the MSSCCI provider and some registry changes: Download and Install – MSSCCI  - http://visualstudiogallery.msdn...

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...

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...

פרסמתי על Patch חדש בבלוג של ה – MSDN. ניתן לקרוא את הפוסט בלינק הבא: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/msdn/archive/2011/10/24/New-patch-released-for-VS-2010-and-MTM-2010.aspx   תיהנו!!!

פרסמתי פוסט בנושא זה בבלוג של MSDN אותו ניתן לקרוא כאן לנוחיותכם אני מפרסם עותק נוסף בבלוג. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ כאשר רכשתם מוצרי פיתוח ממיקרוסופט קיבלתם נקודות זכות אותם ניתן לנצל עבור יעוץ או הדרכה בהטמעה של מוצרי מיקרוסופט בארגונכם. Brian Harry הודיע היום על שלוש תוכניות הטמעה: תוכנית 1: הטמעת Team Foundation Server תוכנית הערכה בת 5 ימים בה יעברו איתכם על כל הצעדים הנדרשים להטמעה מוצלחת...

Tweet Yuval Mazor just post about “Introduction to TFS 2010 Training Kit is Released!” , Yuval Mazor and Assaf Stone did an amazing work for Microsoft in the past months writing the TFS 2010 Training Kit. TFS 2010 Training Kit The Introduction to Team Foundation Server 2010 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs and demos designed to help you get acquainted with the features of Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010. This Training Kit contains several demos and hands-on labs that require some...

Brian Harry הודיע על הוצאת Power Tools חדשים . ה – Power Tools מכילים כמה חידושים: Windows Shell Extension Log-In – אחד הדברים שמאוד מציקים בעיקר למי שעובד עם מחשב מיחוץ לדומיין הוא חוסר היכולת לעבוד עם ה – Windows Shell Extensions. ב – Power Tools החדשים ניתן יהיה להכניס User Name וסיסמה. Search – הרבה אנשים מחפשים את הפיצ’ר הזה תיבת Search פשוטה. Rollback In Source Control – לדעתי פיצ’ר חזק מאוד, מאפשר לבצע Rollback ל – Changeset מסויים או לטווח של Changesets. Test Attachments Cleanup – אחת הבעיות...