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ALM Rangers – Quick Reference Guidance Downloads for Visual Studio 2012 RC refreshed

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

Importer

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...

Visual Studio 2012 features enabled by using a TFS 2012 server

June 6, 2012 Jun 6, 2012 06/6/12

Buck Hodges

While many of the features in Visual Studio 2012 are available to users using TFS 2008 or 2010, there are some features that are only available when using a TFS 2012 server.  Also, the web experience in TFS 2012 has been rebuilt entirely from the ground up, and the result is a fast, fluid experience that also includes new experiences ...

Compatibility patch for VS 2008 SP1 to work with Team Foundation Service Preview and TFS 2012

June 6, 2012 Jun 6, 2012 06/6/12

Buck Hodges

Today we released a patch for VS 2008 SP1 and Team Explorer 2008 SP1 to be able to connect and use both the Team Foundation Service preview (http://tfspreview.com) and Team Foundation Server 2012.  You can download it here.While we are on the subject of updates, the patch for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Team Explorer 2010 SP1 is available ...

How to improve the performance of the first connect to TFS

June 6, 2012 Jun 6, 2012 06/6/12

Ewald Hofman - MSFT

When you create your first connection to TFS the local client downloads the metadata required to work with the TFS work items. By default it downloads the metadata for all team projects in a collection, including the ones that you don't have access to. Martin Woodward has a great blog post if you want to read more on the background info, ...

Ed Blankenship joins the ALM Team (focusing on Lab Management) at Microsoft

June 6, 2012 Jun 6, 2012 06/6/12

Charles Sterling

While we don’t usually do organization announcements on our blogs I thought I would make an exception in this case as Ed Blankenship has been one of the earliest and most active ALM MVPs-and he just joined the ALM Team focusing on Lab Management scenarios. I started working with Ed back when he visited Microsoft for a week of his vacation ...

Enabling Coded UI Test playback logs in Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate

June 5, 2012 Jun 5, 2012 06/5/12

Charles Sterling

In Jason Zander’s blog post: Announcing the Release Candidate (RC) of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 he showed a new Coded UI feature  -capturing playback logs.   Please note this blog post has been updated.  Please see: Enabling Tracing and HtmlLogger in Coded UI Test          ...

What is new in the Code Index SDK for Visual Studio 2012 RC?

June 5, 2012 Jun 5, 2012 06/5/12

Jean-Marc Prieur

With Visual Studio 11 Beta, we had started sharing the code index SDK.Last week, we shipped the Visual Studio 2012 RC Visualization and modeling SDK (VsVmSDK RC), which, among other features, contains the Code index SDK build tasks. This is an opportunity to explain what changed in the Code Index SDK.Modifications to the bulk indexing ...

Enabling Feedback Requests, the Backlog and Sprint Planning Features in Team Foundation Server 2012

June 4, 2012 Jun 4, 2012 06/4/12

Charles Sterling

During the Visual Studio 11 Beta I created the post Enabling Feedback Requests for Team Foundation Server showing you that you needed to enable alerts so “Request Feedback” would show up… (image) In the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate an additional step is required to enable the **Request and Manage Feedback **and the **Backlog ...

Getting Started with Load Testing in Visual Studio 2012

June 4, 2012 Jun 4, 2012 06/4/12

Charles Sterling

Since the release of the Visual Studio 11 Beta I have had several questions about load testing in Visual Studio.  All of the questions to date have been around getting started… Unlike Visual Studio 2010 that had Test > New Test > Load Test on the menu you have to create a new project of one of the three Test projects.  &...

After upgrading to TFS 2012: Updating licensing and enabling async checkout for server workspaces

June 3, 2012 Jun 3, 2012 06/3/12

Buck Hodges

The other day I wrote a post with a summary of links for upgrading team project settings to turn on all of the new features, such as code review, task board, and more.There are a couple more things I want to point out that you’ll want to tweak after the upgrade.more&hellip...