Note: The iOS sample code used for this blog is located @ https://tfsiosbuild.codeplex.com Especially interesting is a script @ scripts/cibuild.sh  It is becoming more and more common for software shops to build applications and apps for multiple platforms and devices. In addition to other applications and platforms that you need to build, you ...
Running the ALM blog has been a hoot and from the readership growth it looks like people are finding it of value(thank you!) This post is on a new features in Visual Studio Update 1 and represents an experiment of having our MVPs contributing content. In this case the following steps were provided by one of our coffee loving MVPs, Anna Russo...
Not certain how Microsoft manages to get the incredible people we do to be our MVPs – but I am very glad we do! Today on a call i mentioned not having time to do blog posts for the new features in Visual Studio Update 1 and one of my MVPs (now one of my favorite MVPs) mentioned she would be happy to help. By the time i had made it home i had ...
We are pleased to announce that we have released the new Branching and Merging Guide using the new ALM Rangers documentation style as discussed in ALM Rangers – Raising the Quality Bar for Documentation (Part 2).  For more information on this project, please visit the Codeplex project. Please send candid feedback We can’t wait to hear ...
(The other one of Edward’s posts) ***************************** If you haven't yet seen or heard about the new git-tf tool from Microsoft, this blog post probably won't make any sense. So... go check it out over at gittf.codeplex.com. It's okay, I'll wait. Okay, got it? Yeah, I know, it's cool, right? Well, it is, but like any ...
 One of the Team Foundation Server Developers, Edward Thomson, reached out to me this morning: Any way I could get my blog with the fancy new VS 2012 styles? My answer was: “We are only doing this for the team blogs…any reason you aren’t posting to the ALM blog? Turns out he didn’t know to do this…Doh!…Shame on me! ...
This post instructs you on how to run an unattended installation of Team Foundation Server, a new feature to TFS 2012. There is another copy of this post located here, on the TFS Setup, Administration, and Operations blog. **Note: **As nothing in this area has changed for TFS 2013, the title of this document has been amended to encompass the ...
Just had dinner with one of my buddies in TFS and they pointed out a great post by Ed that didn’t make to the team blog: Enjoy! If you are installing a TFS Proxy server on a machine that is configured to automatically receive the proxy settings from your network (this is different than DHCP) you may have connectivity issues ...
In the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP blog post one of the new test features listed was: Automatic updates for Microsoft Test Manager and Microsoft Feedback Client. Since these user interfaces do not have a the normal File, Edit, Tools, Help menu structure i thought it would be nice to show how this functionality is accessed/changed...
 Update: We have moved the test case management features for Web Access to Visual Studio Update 2.  So when you install the latest CTP for Visual Studio Update 1 these test features will no longer be present. We plan to re-enable these features in the CTPs for Visual Studio Update 2. For a final list of all the features in Visual Studio ...
