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Showing files with pending changes or files that are open in Visual Studio 2012 Solution Explorer

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? (image) (in this graphic the answer is no there aren’t any pending changes – Visual Studio does give ...

Launching the Feedback client from a Windows 8 application using Team Foundation Server Preview

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...

Team Foundation Server 2012 and Project Server 2010 Integration

(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 ...

A Lap around Team Foundation Server 2012 Redmond User Group August 6th

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...

Writing a Visual Studio 2012 Unit Test Adapter

Visual Studio 2012 comes with an extensible Unit Test Framework. Many of your favorite Unit Test frameworks (xUnit.Net, nUnit..) already have built adapters to Visual Studio.  Peter Provost maintains a list of adapters here.  If you have another unit test framework you like, you can build an adapter super easy. In this article, I will walk ...

Resolving Issues with the RC Version of TFS Office Integration After Installing Visual Studio 2012 RC and then Office Customer Preview

You may encounter problems when opening an RC version of an Office Integration Team Foundation client after you install the Visual Studio 2012 RC.These problems occur when you install the following products in the indicated sequence: The issues that you might encounter are:  These issues are fixed in the RTM release of Office....

Significance of Window Titles in Coded UI Test Playback

The control search in Coded UI Test playback is essentially a breadth first search. For extension plugins that have in-built search capability, the plugin writer can implement its own search logic. What typically remains the same is the way the search is done for the top level window of the application. Consider a top level window UI ...