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How to fix “TF400898: An Internal Error Occurred.” on your Kanban board in TFS 2012 Update 2
Kanban customizable columns was made publicly available in VS Update 2. You can read the release notes for an overview of the feature itself, and you can read an in-depth article to understand what happens under the hood. If you have an on premises installation of TFS, you might see the following error on the Kanban board The goal of this blog post is to get this error resolved. Why is this happening? In the in-depth article you can read that the work items on the board have states and the board columns. When you visit the board for the first time there are no board settings yet and it provisions it...
New tool for converting test lists to Visual Studio 2012 Playlists
One of the requests we have heard upon the introduction of test Playlists in Visual Studio Update 2 was a tool for converting Visual Studio 2010 test lists to the new Playlists format…Well it turns a developer, Rolf Huisman, at one of our “go to” ALM Partners InfoSupport wrote and and released one Codeplex! To use it: 1. Install the VSIX from http://testlistmigration.codeplex.com/ 2. Load one of your projects and right click on the VSMDI with test lists and select Migrate 3. Save the Playlists to your hard drive 4. Load the newly created Playlists and run them! Than...
Fixed the incorrect order of the first column on the Kanban board on the service
After the Mar 4 update of the service, we received quite a bit of feedback about a bug on the Kanban board. It turned out that the first column on the board was not ordered by stack rank anymore, but by closed date. Since the closed date is empty in the first column, the order of the items in the column was random. Although our next deployment is not to far out, we updated the service to fix this bug, and you will be able to see your incoming column on the board in the correct order again, as you would expect.Sorry for the disruption that we have caused, and so many thanks for the feedback that you gave to u...
Use the Git command prompt to supplement Visual Studio
// By: Andy Lewis and Matthew Mitrik In Visual Studio Tools for Git we aim to offer the fundamental features you need to develop an app in a Git version-controlled codebase. We explain how to perform these tasks in previous posts such as Create, Connect, and Publish using Visual Studio with Git and in our Git welcome portal content. That said, there is a long tail of less-common tasks in software development work. If you can't yet do what you want to do in VS, you might be able to do it from the command prompt. Also, many developers find the command prompt to be a handy and efficient way to perform repetitive ...
core.ignorecase corruption issue fixed in Visual Studio Tools for Git 0.8.0.0
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Use Git 0.8.0.0 to run scheduled builds and resolve conflicts
<!-- // By: Andy Lewis and Matthew Mitrik Today we released Visual Studio Tools for Git 0.8.0.0. Install this release to get not only fixes to numerous bugs, (for details see the release notes on the gallery page), but also an enhanced conflict resolution experience. You can now also create scheduled automated builds. Got the latest version of Visual Studio with Git? If not, click here. To use the Visual Studio client tools you'll need to install Visual Studio 2012, apply Visual Studio 2012 Update 2, and finally install Visual Studio Tools for Git. If you want to use Team Foundation Service, you can si...
TFS Update 2 Offers Settings Preservation for In-Place Upgrades
UPDATE: Beginning with TFS 2012 Update 3, we will preserve your settings in the AT-Only wizard too. Build settings will also be preserved when upgrading Build servers. This functionality is built into a pop-up on the first page of the Build wizard that asks if you would like to restore your previous settings (click yes). Beginning with TFS 2013, Proxy settings - including multiple endpoints - will be preserved in the same fashion. Great news! Given the new, faster release cadence of updates for TFS 2012, there has been great demand for improvements to the upgrade process; namely, to minimize any manual steps...
TFS Kanban board Swim lane customization walk through
While Tarun couldn’t attend the MVP Summit in person (having just gotten married it didn’t seem the most prudent use of his vacation time); he was definitely well missed and more importantly put the time to good use and added another post to the MVP Blog series. Tarun, hopefully we will see you next year! ******TFS Kanban Board Swim lane Customization To Better Manage The Product Backlog by Tarun Arora************** Brian Harry announced the customize columns feature on the TFS Kanban board that enables you to define new swim lanes based on the work item state right from Team Web Access. Thi...