Ran in to a situation a couple of days ago where i needed to log into a Team Foundation Server as a different user - and since Visual Studio/Team Explorer "remembers" your last credentials you don't have a chance to re-enter these credentials.  This information is cached even after removing and re-adding the server in team explorer.  Which begs the...

One of our ALM Rangers, Mattias Sköld, was finding that he was recreating the same SQL queries to determine the size of his Test attachments, Version control etc.  With this in mind he has now extended his TFS Administrators Toolkit to include this functionality.

One of the hidden gems in Visual Studio 2012 is the ability to show just those files that are open or those with pending changes…Take for instance the solution below are any of these files open? do any of them have a pending change? (in this graphic the answer is no there aren’t any pending changes – Visual Studio does give you glyphs in front o...

One of my standard demos lately is to show off the new Feedback client – lately I have also been showing how you could launch the feedback client using our URI syntax i.e. mfbclient://chassALM:8080/DefaultCollection/p:LureCo?rid=1,2,3    Where ChassALM is an on premise TFS instance DefaultCollection is my project collection (duh) ...

(Reposting for Christophe from: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chrisfie/archive/2012/08/08/team-foundation-server-2012-and-project-server-2010-integration.aspx)   Following last week’s RTM announcements for Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 I have been upgrading a few PCs including one of my favorite demo virtual machine: Visual Studio Team Foundation Se...

In the last couple of weeks we have seen a lot of voting in user voice for the ability to rename/change your TFS Account name in the TFS Service Preview (e.g. XYZ.TfsPreview.com).  Please note you can now do this yourself at: https://aka.ms/ChangeTFServiceAcct

Join Cheryl Hammond for this introduction to the major new features and improvements in Team Foundation Server 2012.  Expect to see the new enhanced User Interface, Agile Planning Tools, Requirements Gathering Tool, Stakeholder Feedback Tool, Updates to the Developer and Tester Experience, Version Control Improvements, and DevOps Integration.  The ...

 In the last 6 months, I have been able to spend some time with one of the pioneers in the keyword and Data-driven Testing space, Hans Buwalda.  While at Star East Hans agreed to do a MSDN Webcast on this exciting topic – So naturally I jumped on the opportunity!  Session Details: Starts: July-18-12 10:00 AM Time zone: (...

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 smaller...

One of my MVPs from the great white North is delivering a end to end  on Visual Studio 2012- I have known Wes for a while and this guaranteed to be a great show!Session Details below LAP AROUND  VISUAL STUDIO 2012 Want to see what's around the corner for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server?  We shall cover some of the new...