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Test Attachment, Version Control and Database sizes in Team Foundation server

Charles Sterling August 14, 2012 Aug 14, 2012 08/14/12

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...

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

Importer June 11, 2012 Jun 11, 2012 06/11/12

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. Issue The Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server VM Factory automation team, working on the Visual Studio ...

Changing the default number of tasks displayed on the taskboard

Susan - Team Foundation Server March 14, 2012 Mar 14, 2012 03/14/12

Whether you've installed the beta or signed up for the hosted service, you've probably seen the new taskboard feature, one of the new planning and tracking tools. Hopefully you've started playing with all these tools, adding items to your backlog, creating tasks, and moving tasks from one state to another. Maybe you've shown your teammates ...

What’s New in the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview

Kathryn Elliott September 20, 2011 Sep 20, 2011 09/20/11

This post provides an overview of most (but I don't promise ALL!) of the new tools, features, and enhancements available in the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview: For a tutorial that illustrates several of these new features by following a fictitious team as they incrementally adopt Visual Studio ...

Videos about Visual Studio ALM + Team Foundation Server 2010 on MSDN

Esther Fan June 15, 2011 Jun 15, 2011 06/15/11

MSDN has many videos that show how you can use Visual Studio ALM tools and Team Foundation Server to help your team develop software more successfully:Testing For more information about these topics, see Testing the Application in the MSDN Library.Development For more information about these topics, see ...

Manage and Track Your Software Project Portfolio in both Team Foundation and Project Server

Kathryn Elliott December 9, 2010 Dec 9, 2010 12/9/10

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack (Beta) enables data to flow from work items in Team Foundation to tasks in enterprise project plans. If you subscribe to MSDN, you can now manage your portfolio of software projects using work items in Team Foundation Server 2010 that are mapped to tasks in ...

VSALM Library Updates on MSDN for September 2010

Patrick-MSFT September 27, 2010 Sep 27, 2010 09/27/10

A couple of exciting additions to the Application Lifecycle Management documentation this month: The complete guide to the Best Practices Analyzer Tool for Team Foundation Server (BPA) is now in the MSDN Library. BPA is a Team Foundation Server Power Tool that diagnoses a large number of issues with your Team Foundation Server configuration ...

VSALM Library Updates on MSDN for August 2010

vstsuetb August 26, 2010 Aug 26, 2010 08/26/10

Lots of new and updated information in the August update to the Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management section of MSDN. Remember that many of these changes are a direct response to your requests and comments. We welcome your feedback and questions – either in the Community Content at the bottom of each page in the MSDN ...

VSALM Library Updates on MSDN for July 2010

vstsuetb July 27, 2010 Jul 27, 2010 07/27/10

The Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management Developer Content team, aka the doc writers, prowl the blogs and forums looking for ideas that we can use to clarify our explanations of VS ALM. We also respond to community comments from the MSDN Library wiki and feedback. Once a month, we publish new and updated topics to the MSDN Library. ...

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