Technorati Tags: TFS2010 , TECH   Download the following packets: Visual Studio Team System 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Installer) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cf13ea45-d17b-4edc-8e6c-6c5b208ec54d Required by a user of VS2008, requirements VS2008SP1     Visual Studio Team System 2005 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Installer) http://www.microsoft...

  Server Side   1- Take a snapshot of the current TFS Server 2- Uninstall Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 (Shield) and all the references to any pre-release product        I also remover the Power and the SideKicks Tools, the Shell edition, etc. 3- Delete the folders related to old installed version 4- Start the re-installation of the TFS RTM, the same options installed in the previous version     5- Select the Upgrade Option   If you follow...

This post is the Second post out of Four that builds the Visual Studio 2010 Coded UI Test User Guide . See the first post: “Visual Studio 2010 Coded UI Test User Guide - Introduction” On this post I will show how to create a simple Coded UI Test. The example I will use in this guide created by Microsoft and is called: “IBuySpay” The example is a web application but we will use its GUI in the Coded UI Test. A few guide lines before we start: To create a test you need to have a Test Project Base every...

I know some of you are waiting for it and now it is finally here: The Team Explorer 2005 extensibility patch for TFS 2010 . Download it from the following URL: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=22215e4c-af6f-4e2f-96df-20e94d762689&displaylang=en I think that the connection to the server user experience will be the same as the Visual Studio 2008 user experience. Refer to my post: “How To Connect To The TFS 2010 With Team Explorer 2008” for how to connect. I did not test...

I have been asked that question almost in each project I am doing. The answer is very simple: with SharePoint. When I give this answer I get a curious look, and the following question will be: “Why?” SharePoint is a huge product that does many wonderful things, in this post I like to show how it can help us manage our documents. First thing that you will need to know is that when you create a Team Project you also create a SharePoint site, actually what you create is Windows SharePoint Services ...

In TFS 2008 the Web Access was a different installation and it came as a Power Tool to the TFS. In TFS 2010 the Web Access is installed automatically and is part of the TFS. In order to get to the Web Access in TFS 2010 do the following: In your preferred browser type: http://[YourServerName]:8080/tfs/web/ YourServerName is the tfs name for example: http://tfs-srv:8080/tfs/web/ Or you can get to it from the Team Project SharePoint Site : Have Fun!!!

In Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft has added the Coded UI Test. Back to history: In Visual Studio 2005 Microsoft presented the Tester Edition, it contained the following parts: Web Test Automation Test Performance Test Unit Test Something that should have been a Manual Test, it was word or text documents contained the Test Cases. Practically no one used it. In Visual Studio 2008 tester edition no significant changes has been made. In Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft added more parts to the Tester Edition...

Many customers ask me about deleting Work Items from the TFS. Here is how to do it for TFS 2010: Step 1: Log-in to the TFS using a TFS administrator user. Step 2: Open a command line and go to: 32bit machine - “X:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common 7\IDE” 64bit machine - “X:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common 7\IDE” Step 3: Use the “witadmin.exe destroywi” command in the following way: witadmin.exe destroywi /Collection:http:\\[ServerName]:8080\tfs\[CollectionName...

From now on the TFS 2010 RC and Visual Studio 2010 RC are available to the public. The link to download is: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx Also after customers pressure to have Power Tools RC Brian Harry promised that it will be released by the end of next week no later than 02/19 so thank you Brian for the rescue. Have Fun!!!

The TFS 2010 Release Candidate and the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate are now available to MSDN subscribers and in a few days they will be available to the public. I have already installed the TFS 2010 and the Team Explorer 2010, the installation was smooth but it is to early to give a feedback regarding the performance and changes made in the RC. If you decide to install it or to upgrade to the RC version take in account the following considerations: You will need to use the Server RC and...