June 2010

Understanding changes in reporting in TFS 2010

June 25, 2010 Jun 25, 2010 06/25/10

Buck Hodges

Sunder Raman, a program manager for TFS, has written a series of posts on the changes to the warehouse and the cube for 2010. Reporting Cube John Socha-Leialoha, a developer on TFS, wrote a series on upgrading your reports. If you are interested in writing your own warehouse adapter...

Posts on using the new team project collection APIs

June 15, 2010 Jun 15, 2010 06/15/10

Buck Hodges

Taylor Lafrinere, a developer on Team Foundation Server who wrote a significant part of the new core server infrastructure APIs, has written a series of posts explaining some of the different parts. If you have other parts of the API that you are interested in, be sure to leave a comment on one of his posts.Here are a few of his posts to...

Use test categories rather than test lists (vsmdi files)

June 13, 2010 Jun 13, 2010 06/13/10

Buck Hodges

Years ago, I posted an msbuild task to run tests without test lists for VSTS 2005. That functionality made it into VSTS 2008. Then Pierre Greborio added support for test categories. That test category capability is now available in VS 2010. Using test categories is now the preferred way of running groups of tests, and ...

TFS 2010 version control upgrade bug in handling labels, merges

June 7, 2010 Jun 7, 2010 06/7/10

Buck Hodges

UPDATE [6/12/2010] The patch is now available on MSDN Code Gallery here. You must install it after you complete the MSI setup portion (the files need to be on the machine and registered in Windows first) and before the upgrade wizard (it’s the upgrade process, not setup that needs to be patched). -- We ...

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June 2010 - Buck Hodges