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

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

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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 7, 2012 Jun 7, 2012 06/7/12

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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...

If you are focused on testing, we have great ALM Ranger guides and tooling for you!

May 24, 2012 May 24, 2012 05/24/12

Willy-P. Schaub

Three of the ALM Ranger Dev11 Readiness solutions, which were announced in Welcome to Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness Beta “Wave”. and another supporting solution are dedicated to Visual Studio ALM Test Tooling and are driven by phenomenal teams as shown below. Guidance Tooling (image) The Visual Studio Coded UI ...

Coded UI Test – New Extensibility QFE

May 24, 2012 May 24, 2012 05/24/12

Shubhra Maji MSFT

Coded UI Test team has developed an extension model for enabling custom control identification, record and playback of automation tests using Coded UI Test. This hotfix will be available on top of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1). The experience while writing a new plugin for custom controls has now become much simpler ...

New article and the latest list of articles published by the ALM Rangers

May 23, 2012 May 23, 2012 05/23/12

Willy-P. Schaub

The Visual Studio ALM Rangers are actively contributing to MSDN Flash Newsletter, MSDN magazine and other publications. Here is a handy list of the latest articles published in MSDN magazine and CodeProject:Enjoy the read and watch the space for articles focused on the TFS Object Model and Team Foundation Build...

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

April 13, 2012 Apr 13, 2012 04/13/12

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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 ...

Team Foundation Service whitepaper has shipped!

April 11, 2012 Apr 11, 2012 04/11/12

Willy-P. Schaub

We are pleased to announce that we have released another one of the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” projects, delivering supporting guidance focused on Team Foundation Service. (image) For more information on the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” please refer to here or click the image above...

TFS Integration Tools – March 2012 Release

April 4, 2012 Apr 4, 2012 04/4/12

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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...

Test Tooling Guides BETA has shipped!

April 4, 2012 Apr 4, 2012 04/4/12

Willy-P. Schaub

We are pleased to announce that we have released another one of the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” projects, delivering guidance for both Coded UI and MTM testing. (image) 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 ...