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 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 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...

כדי ש - PL-SQL יוכל לעבוד עם TFS יש להתקין שני רכיבים שמדברים אחד עם השני ועם השרת. הפונקציונאליות שנחשפת היא רק עבור ה – Source Control של ה – TFS ועבור כל השאר יש להשתמש ב – Client אחר של ה – TFS לדוגמא: Team Explorer. רכיב ה – VCS הינו רכיב היודע לתקשר עם כל מערכת התומכת ב – Microsoft’s SCC Interface. כפי שכבר ניחשתם ה – TFS תומך ב – Interface הדרוש וזאת בעזרת רכיב נוסף שניקרא: MSSCCI Provider. אז איך מתקינים: צעד 1: הורד את ה – VCS מהלינק: http://www.allroundautomations.com/download/vcs124.zip...

Tweet I know for most of you what I’m going to show is obvious, But today during a course for a customer (That already working with MTM for 6 months) I found out this wasn't so obvious…. When using Microsoft Test Manager for running Tests the window is automatically Dock to the left side, this will rearrange all icons and will force other applications to work with a smaller screen. And yes you can change it, as you can se from the picture below I’ve changed the windows to “ Floating ” And now...