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Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guide – Localised for Japan

The Japanese community, under the mentorship of Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), have localised the Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guide. Release notes Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), Takaho Yamaguchi (山口 孝穂), Masashi Fujiwara (藤原 祐之), localized and reviewed the Quick Reference Guidance for the Japanese communities, based on http://...

Visual Studio 2010 Branching Guide – Localized for Japan

The Japanese community, under the mentorship of Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), have localised the Visual Studio 2010 Branching Guide. Release notes Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), Takaho Yamaguchi (山口 孝穂), Hirokazu Higashino (東野 紘和), localized and reviewed the Branching Guidance for the Japanese communities, based on http://...

Installing the TFS Plug-in through the Eclipse Marketplace

Now-a-days most versions of Eclipse come bundled with the Eclipse Marketplace Client which is, by far, the easiest way to find and install new plug-ins into Eclipse.  This includes Team Explorer Everywhere, the TFS Plug-in for Eclipse. (image) Anyone can browse and search for Eclipse plug-ins by visiting the Eclipse Marketplace web site, ...

Visual Studio 2012 RC – What’s new in Code Coverage

  As product development adapts to the demands of continuous delivery models and agile methodologies, the developer is being entrusted with bringing in product changes with a higher quality bar. Besides strengthening processes to include quality checkpoints like gated check-ins, rolling builds and other regression checks, the developer ...

Visual Studio 2012 RC – What’s new in Unit Testing

Unit Testing feature in Visual Studio 2012 has been very enthusiastically received by the developer community. Our focus during RC milestone was to respond to feedback we received from Visual Studio 11 Beta. This article talks about some of the new features that we have built during this milestone, many of which were driven by customer ...

Visual Studio Coded UI for Word Add-In v2 Sample Solution has shipped!

We are pleased to announce that we have released the sample solution with support for Visual Studio 2012 RC. (image) (image) (image) Overview This project delivers practical and scenario based sample code and guidance for the Visual Studio Coded UI Microsoft Word Add-in, which extends the Coded UI feature support to Microsoft Word ...

Creating Team Foundation Server 2012 Lab Management Standard Environments and getting error “Verify that the machines are accessible using the user name and password provided”

Getting ready for Code Camp Seattle i  decided to do a demo of Build-Deploy-Test using a non domain joined Windows 8  Release Preview machine as my lab management/hyper V Server creating a Windows 7 Standard Environment as my test environment. Unfortunately everything I did kept getting the error below in the verification step… “Verify...

Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 Beta Overview class by David McKinstry June 27

Just got off the phone with one of my ALM MVPs, David McKinstry, and he mentioned he is offering a limited Beta offering of their Visual Studio & TFS 2012 Overview class…If you want to get up to speed on what is new in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012- this is the class for you!  He also mentioned this will be a ...

Free Webinar: HP Quality Center Integration Patterns with Team Foundation Server using Tasktop Sync Thurs June 28th

Recently while I was at StarEast in Florida one of the more common questions I heard: “How do we continue using our HP Quality Center investments with Team Foundation Center” So when Wesley at Tasktop mentioned he was doing a free a Webinar on ALM Integration Patterns (Including but not limited to HP Quality Center)with Tasktop ...