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

June 19th, 2012
  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

June 18th, 2012
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 ...

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”

June 13th, 2012
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...

Quick Response Sample – Command line utility to manage Team Foundation Server Teams and Users

June 11th, 2012
Quick Response samples provide information directly from Visual Studio ALM Rangers working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Product Group, in response to feature gaps to supplement the product and knowledge base information. (image) Issue The Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server VM Factory automation team, working on the Visual Studio ...

ALM Rangers – Quick Reference Guidance Downloads for Visual Studio 2012 RC refreshed

June 7th, 2012
We have just refreshed Visual Studio ALM Quick Reference Guidance download package for Visual Studio 2012 RC, after we noticed package file corruptions. Get the latest and greatest content, which includes 23 quick reference posters / sheets and 1 video from here: (image) Here are a few examples: (image)   (image)   (image)   (image...

Welcome to Visual Studio 2012 ALM Rangers Readiness RC “Wave”

May 31st, 2012
JasonZ announced the Visual Studio 2012 RC, which triggered a SIMultaneous-SHIPping event for the Visual Studio ALM Rangers. // updated 2012/06/15 – v2 CodedUI Add-In has shipped! (image) (image) I am happy to announce that the Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness RC “Gig” solutions are now available for download from CodePlex as ...

TFS Integration Tools – What is the difference between cloaking and scoping branches?

May 7th, 2012
In a recent support thread the use of cloaking or scoping was discussed to unblock a migration. This raised the question: “What is the difference and more importantly the impact of using one or the other?” As Bill correctly stated, a good reason to have this discussion is that scoping a migration to the minimum amount of data that needs ...

Visual Studio 11 Beta–Test Agent needs to be installed on Test Controller box for Load Test

April 28th, 2012
 With Visual Studio 11 Beta, you will come across below issue while doing remote Load Test run (i.e. run using Test Controller and Test Agent. Please check here):Load Test run won’t be able to start successfully and will get aborted with this error:...View complete post...Note: Cross posted from Rubel's Blog. Permalink...

Friday 13th High Noon – An early BETA of the Branching Guide is released

April 13th, 2012
We are pleased to announce that we have released another one of the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” projects, delivering practical guidance focused on branching and merging. For more information on the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” please refer to here or click the image above. For more information on ...

TFS Integration Tools – March 2012 Release

April 4th, 2012
Last month the team silently released a new release of the TFS Integration Tools on the Visual Studio Gallery, which now includes support for Team Foundation Server 11 and Team Foundation Service. (image) (image) The list of resolved bugs which we received from the community and from internal dogfooding environments is substantial: General...