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 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 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...

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

Tweet Couple of days ago I wrote about How To Change Test Scribe Template since than I got plenty of emails on that subject asking me to supply more and more information about changing Test Scribe Template. Many people thinks that: “The output generated by Test Scribe is not customizable in this release.” But this is not fully correct, you can change the Test Scribe template but this will require couple of hacks….. But possible I recommend you to read the How To Change Test Scribe Template article...

Tweet 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...

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...