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Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP 3–After updating, editing work items from web gives you TF400898: An Internal Error Occurred.
(2013 Mar 3 – Updating the work around steps. Also, when Update 2 RC is available, you can always install that to fix your problem) For those of you installing the VS Update 2 – CTP3, there is an installation sequence that will put the web access work item tracking in a state where editing work items displays this error:  If you install and but do not install **and **your VS is installed on the same box as your TFS Server, You can run into a situation where your DLLs are mismatched and you receive the above error. Your workaround is to follow these steps:  This will revert TFS OM...
Multivaluelist control in TFS Work Item Tracking
One of the top asks from people in the field is to have the ability to have a dropdown in which you can select multiple values. Few people know that there is already a solution out on CodePlex, although it has its limitation. But it might be just good enough for what you are looking for. Since the data is stored in the format “[value1];[value2]”, and the data is backed by a field that stores only 255 characters, you can quickly run into a character limit when have long values in the dropdown and/or select a lot of options. And because of this storage only limited query and reporting capabilities are ...
ALM Rangers ship the ALM Readiness treasure map
We are pleased to announce that we have released the version of the Windows Store reference application that delivers the ALM Readiness treasure map to your Surface and other Windows 8 devices. Both the paper based map and the Windows Store application allow you to explore the ALM guidance delivered by the ALM Rangers, DPE, PFE, p&p and others, showing us where to start, what to explore and in which sequence we should explore. Find the Windows Store application here: Download the paper map or the sample code from Please send candid feedback! Which features do you need in the next version? Wha...
Add bugs to the task board or backlog pages
Some teams like to track bugs as tasks and other teams track them as backlog items, such as user stories or requirements. If you’re using a Scrum project, bugs are already in your backlog. However, if your team project was created using the Agile, CMMI, or other process template, bugs don't appear on the task board or the backlog pages. This post shows you how to add bugs to either the task board or the product backlog. You can add bugs or other work item types to appear in either the task board or the product backlog, but not both. NOTE: With the witadmin command line tool, you import and expor...
Run CI builds in your Git team project
<!-- // <!-- Run CI builds in your Git team project --> Does your team use continuous integration (CI)? Are you an early adopter of the new Git capabilities in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service? If so, you'll be glad to hear that you can define a CI build process that automatically builds and tests the code that your team pushes into your Git team project. Get set up: Get the free service, and then you can use it with any Git client tools you want, including Visual Studio. To use the Visual Studio client tools you'll need to install Visual Studio 2012, apply Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 C...
Light weight browser based test management and execution
Visual Studio Update 2 added a light weight browser based test management to the already set of rich test features in the Visual Studio family. The goal of these test features are to enable development teams an easy way of viewing and editing test cases, give manual testers a way of testing (both Windows and non-Windows) environments without needing to install anything and enable end users to execute tests on their own computers.  Below is a list of the feature highlights.  If you want a view by a tester who has been using these features in the real world, I noticed one of our ALM Rangers, Danny Crone has just...
February CTP for Visual Studio Update 2
Visual Studio Updates are a mechanism we are using to provide ongoing value throughout the year to our Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These updates will provide features to support the latest software trends in the market, and also offer an easy way to deploy bug fixes. In Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 we are focusing on Modern Application Lifecycle and Modern App Development. The CTP Can be downloaded here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=273878 Please let us know if you have any issues! ALM Features in this CTP:
DevOps virtual machine with Team Foundation Server 2012 and System Center 2012 now available
Hands down one of the best training tools Microsoft has for Application Lifecycle Tools is Brian Keller’s virtual machines. Today Brian released another of these virtual machines -this one focused on the integration between System Center 2012 Operations Manager and Team Foundation Server 2012. In addition to the hands-on-lab / demo script he has also produced a DemoMate (online DemoMate | offline DemoMate installer) version so you can watch these scenarios by clicking through a series of interactive screens. To download the entire virtual machine with labs please see: External URL: https://aka....
Create, Connect, and Publish using Visual Studio with Git
// <!-- Create, Connect, and Publish using Visual Studio with Git --> By: Andy Lewis and Matthew Mitrik (MS) In the few days since we announced Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service support for Git, it's been exciting to see so much interest, along with a lot of great feedback and questions. We will take your feedback to help us guide how we evolve the tools and the service; so please keep it coming. And as for the questions, we hope that you will find in this post some answers to help you make the most of our Git tools in Visual Studio and our Git service in TFS. Before we begin, let's recall a k...