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Testing SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2012 Update 1

October 29, 2012 Oct 29, 2012 10/29/12
Charles Sterling
Another in my MVP series of blog posts: This post is by one of the most active of the Canadian MVPs, Wes McDonald.  I find it interesting that Wes and our neighbors up north have taken the spirit of the US code camps and turned it in to arguably Canada’s best developer conference that is both internationally recognized and ...

Final CTP for Visual Studio 2012 Update 1

October 26, 2012 Oct 26, 2012 10/26/12
Charles Sterling
  11/26/2012 Update.  Note The final release of Visual Studio Update 1 now available, please see: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 now available       Summary This week we are releasing the final CTP for Visual Studio 2012 Update 1.  This release is a Consumer Technology Preview of the forthcoming Visual ...

Introducing Code Map in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP

October 26, 2012 Oct 26, 2012 10/26/12
Charles Sterling
Another one of the ALM MVPs, Kris Lankford, has written a quick getting started with Code Map in Visual Studio 2012 Thanks Kris and sorry this has taken so long to publish!!!   Introducing Code Map for Visual Studio 2012 CTP  By Kris Lankford As part of the Visual Studio 2012 CTP for September, Visual Studio got a little ...

Quick Response Sample – Command line utility to create TFS Branch Scenarios

October 26, 2012 Oct 26, 2012 10/26/12
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Quick Response samples provide information directly from Visual Studio ALM Rangers working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Product Group and Microsoft Services, in response to feature gaps to supplement the product and knowledge base information. Update 2012/11/22 - Please refer to the Quick Response Sample – Visual Studio Extension to ...

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

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

ALM Rangers ship the new Branching and Merging Guide v2.1

October 17, 2012 Oct 17, 2012 10/17/12
Willy-P. Schaub
We are pleased to announce that we have released the new Branching and Merging Guide using the new ALM Rangers documentation style as discussed in ALM Rangers – Raising the Quality Bar for Documentation (Part 2). (image) (image)  (image) For more information on this project, please visit the Codeplex project. (image) Please send ...