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...

כוח ההמונים, היכולת שלנו כלקוחות להשפיע על מה נקבל מהספק (מיקרוסופט במקרה זה) אני שומע הרבה מאוד פעמים מהלקוחות שלי את האימרות הבאות: 1. “למה מיקרוסופט לא הוסיפו את הפיצ’ר ____ זה היה עושה את החיים הרבה יותר קלים” 2. “הפיצ’ר הזה לא הגיוני, הרבה יותר נכון לעשות את זה בצורה הבאה: ______” 3. “כמה חבל שלא ניתן לעשות ____ בעזרת הכלי” ועוד… היום כל לקוח של מיקרוסופט יכול להשפיע על המוצר, כל מה שצריך לעשות זה לגלוש לאתר: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio להצביע או להוסיף רעיון...

This post is a sequel to a previous post - The TFS Build Definition List<T> OOTB UITypeEditor. In my previous post I showed how easy and cheep it is to use the TFS’s build definition OOTB “List<T>” editor. We even saw that if we use enum’s or Boolean's the “List<T>” editor’s properties grid gives us drop-down editors for them, but what if we want to use more advanced editors; such as the “ServerFileBrowserEditor” to select a project from the source control or the “PlatformConfigurationListEditor...

A while back I came a problem: I needed to build for a client an activity  that runs on an unknown number of projects and builds them with DevEnv 2005/2008/2010. I needed to create an editor that allows the user to select projects to be built in DevEnv and additional properties for each project such as “DevEnv version” and “Configuration to build”. The problem was that I had very little time to do this. This is where my good friend Baruch Frei came into the picture; He informed me that when...

One of the customers that I work with have deleted a Team Project from the TFS collection, when he have tried to create a new Team Project on the same collection he got an error": “ Test settings 'Local Test Run' already exists. Test settings must be unique per team project .” The log file included the following information (which didn’t give any new information): “ Exception Message: Test settings 'Local Test Run' already exists. Test settings must be unique per team project...

In the latest blog from Esther Fan she wrote about MSDN videos that show how you can use Visual Studio ALM tools and Team Foundation Server to help your team develop software more successfully ( for the full blog new videos from MSDN ). Few section I want to highlight: Testing How do I get started with test cases in Visual Studio Test Professional 2010? How do I manage test cases with Visual Studio 2010? How do I get started with coded UI tests? How do I get started with Visual Studio 2010 test impact...

Application Life Cycle Management with Visual Studio 2010 במפגש זה תוכלו ללמוד על פתרון ה- ALM המתקדם ביותר ולצפות בדמאויים עשירים. המפגש מיועד למפתחים ולבודקים ויועבר ע"י מיטב המומחים בנושא. לוח זמנים מתוכנן : 8:30-9:00 – התכנסות ורישום. 9:00-10:00 – Requirement Management using Visual Studio 2010 – מרצה : דן מורגנשטיין. 10:00-11:00 – Applied Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010 – מרצה : שי רייטן 11:00-11:15 – הפסקה 11:15-12:00 – סיפור לקוח – חטיבת מוצרי ה- Enterprise של Nice בחברה ב- ALM...

Since 2009 I ‘m writing about TFS API and several people asked to get an index page with all parts related to TFS API, so here is it: Basic TFS API Part 1: Domain Picker TFS API Part 2: Domain Picker Using Registered Servers (Cache) TFS API Part 3: Get Project List Using ICommonStructureService TFS API Part 4: Get TFS User List (Mail, Sid, Account, Domain) TFS API Part 7: Use IEventService To Get User Event Subscriptions TFS API Part 8: Subscribe/Unsubscribe Events Using IEventService TFS API Part...

As the officially Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack was released , to help people evaluate and demonstrate the capabilities of this integration, Microsoft have published a virtual machine which is pre-configured with this integration along with sample data and several walkthroughs (which can either be used as self-paced hands-on-labs, or demo scripts to present these capabilities to others). Beware that the virtual machine download contains 20+ files weighing...

I got a call from one of my customers that when a user is trying to open work item he get the error- From looking inside the template of the work item I saw that the filed have a rule of VALIDUSER, from further investigation I found that the user was renamed from Cathy Smith –> Cathy Jones. Each team the work item was opened the value “Cathy Smith” was thrown as an error since the user “Cathy Smith” didn’t exist anymore. The solution to the problem was to add to the field the rule ALLOWEXISTINGVALUE...