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Behind the scenes: the Backlog Priority or Stack Rank field
The backlog in TFS is an ordered list of work items, such as the product backlog. In Scrum you get the ordered list of PBIs and Bugs, in Agile you will see User Stories and CMMI contains the Requirements and Change Requests. The order of the backlog items is dictated by the the “Order” field as defined in the process configuration. The process templates that we ship use different fields for this “Order” field. The Scrum template uses the field called “Backlog Priority”, while the Agile and CMMI templates use the field called “Stack Rank”. In the screenshot below (which is taken from Visual Studio Online) you see...
Binding a Cloud Load Test to a data source
At StarEast I had a couple of Web Performance Tests in my demo solution that people asked about. Namely the Web Tests called: As the name suggests with the first Web Test is something I have been working with Perfecto Mobile on some of their new features and hope to have another post when they are ready to make an announcement – Sorry guys no spoilers just yet! The second Web Test is as the name suggests data bound to a search term list (in our session we looked at how our Search Engine Optimization was trending). While data binding a Web Test is not hard –it is also not intuitive and taking it to a C...
.NET Edit and Continue Survey
This post has been modified to reflect that the survey has closed, and instead updated with the results. Thanks everybody for all the great feedback! We received hundreds of replies with detailed information and concrete examples for us to review. We have closed the survey and have started to process the data you provided. The overwhelming majority of you have told us that Edit and Continue is important and you'd like us to make it even better. We listed scenarios where Edit and Continue is disallowed today and asked which ones impacted you the most. Here's what you said: As you can see the...
Microsoft Engineering Stories – How We Build Software at Microsoft
Before I joined Microsoft, I worked with many companies over many years helping them with transforming & improving their application lifecycle management practices. I was also very fortunate to have been awarded as a Microsoft MVP for many of those years and had the opportunity to interact closely with the ALM Tools product teams where I’m now a team member. In my consulting engagements with customers, especially with the larger enterprises, I noticed a particular pattern: the problems that software teams face are the same as the software engineering problems that are being tackled at Microsoft. Ever sinc...
Migrating Your Data from TFS to Visual Studio Online with New Free Utility from OpsHub
Update (November 16, 2016): We have released a new high-fidelity migration solution for TFS customers migrating to Visual Studio Team Services directly from Microsoft. You can find out more at this announcement blog post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/import-your-tfs-database-into-visual-studio-team-services/ Ever since we launched Visual Studio Online in November, we’ve had tremendous success with lots of teams coming to Visual Studio Online for their needs. We’ve had many Team Foundation Server customers asking us how to move to Visual Studio Online but also take their most impor...
Release Management for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 with Update 2 is live!
Release Management Update 2 is now live! This update brings functionality to easily execute your components/actions to group of servers. It also introduces the ability to achieve continuous deployment from any CI system (including Visual Studio Online). See all the details here and here. Downloads Trial version is available from the Download Center. Full version is available from MSDN: Release Management is composed of three installers: The fourth download available (Release Management for Visual Studio 2013) is an ISO file which contains the three installers together. Links Here are some useful...
Debugging, Profiling, IntelliTrace in VS2013 Update 2 and Tech Ed
Those of you following this blog, and in particular the diagnostics tag, know about the wealth of new value we have shipped in VS2013 RTM and the VS2013 Update 2 RC. I wanted to remind you of all the debugging and profiling features you can take advantage of – please see the items on these two lists: * Investments in VS2013 RTM * Enhancements in VS2013 Update 2 If you are a Visual Studio Ultimate customer and are interested in IntelliTrace, we continue to add links to new IntelliTrace content to our central IntelliTrace blog post: Next week at Tech Ed 2014 NA, two of us from the team will be prese...
Debugging, Profiling, IntelliTrace in VS2013 Update 2 and Tech Ed
Those of you following this blog, and in particular the diagnostics tag, know about the wealth of new value we have shipped in VS2013 RTM and the VS2013 Update 2 RC. I wanted to remind you of all the debugging and profiling features you can take advantage of – please see the items on these two lists: If you are a Visual Studio Ultimate customer and are interested in IntelliTrace, we continue to add links to new IntelliTrace content to our central IntelliTrace blog post: Next week at Tech Ed 2014 NA, two of us from the team will be presenting 3 sessions covering all of the above plus...
Import virtual machines or template operation of Microsoft Test Manager throws ‘Object reference not set to an instance of an object’’
The content of this blog is applicable if you are using Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 4 with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2. Problem: When you try to import a virtual machine or template to Team Foundation Server library using Microsoft Test Manager(MTM), import wizard throws 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object’' . This issue occurs when you have any VM or template with no description in your Virtual Machine Manager(VMM) library share that you have configured to Team Foundation Server(TFS) and you are trying to import them to TFS. Work Around: To fix this error m...