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Heterogeneous dependencies: what’s a development team to do? Migrate or integrate!

October 24, 2012 Oct 24, 2012 10/24/12

Importer

With the launch of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012, I have seen a lot of dev teams wanting to move to this latest release, yet for most software development organizations, they are likely already using some other system to help them manage the development process. What’s a development team to do? Migrate or integrate! Migration ...

Error TF254027: TFS Install and Language Restrictions in SQL Server (Express)

October 23, 2012 Oct 23, 2012 10/23/12

AndreaMS

The new Team Foundation Server Express product is designed to work with the Express version of SQL Server.  It conveniently installs SQL Server Express automatically during configuration on machines where it is not detected.  However, SQL Server and SQL Server Express impose additional restrictions on a system's language ...

Building iOS Apps in TFS

October 18, 2012 Oct 18, 2012 10/18/12

Bryan MacFarlane MSFT

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...

Populate Test Suites using hierarchical queries in Microsoft Test Manager

October 17, 2012 Oct 17, 2012 10/17/12

Charles Sterling

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 ...

Pausing and resuming test execution from the test runner in Microsoft Test Manager

October 17, 2012 Oct 17, 2012 10/17/12

Charles Sterling

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...

Locking and git-tf and… danger?

October 16, 2012 Oct 16, 2012 10/16/12

Charles Sterling

(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...

Team Foundation Server and Xcode projects with git-tf

October 16, 2012 Oct 16, 2012 10/16/12

Charles Sterling

  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...

Unattended Installation of Team Foundation Server 2012/2013

October 12, 2012 Oct 12, 2012 10/12/12

AndreaMS

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 ...