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10+ Free ALM Webcasts on TFS 2012, Load Testing from the Cloud, Managing Labs, Branching, Kanban and MORE!
Imaginet has more ALM MVPs working for them than any single company on the planet…So when they do community activities they do them BIG. Here is their current list of free ALM Webcasts…. Upgrading to TFS 2012: What You Need to Know! Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 brings a number of new features into the integrated ALM toolset. With new features like PowerPoint Storyboarding, Integrated Code Review Features, Stakeholder Feedback, and a newly integrated Developer / Operations Workflow, you will quickly find many reasons to upgrade to Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012! In this webinar, we...
How do I get my Visual Studio 2012 feature video links back?
One of the projects I worked on for Visual Studio 2012 was the feature Videos that show up both in the Ultimate and Premium start pages AND and in the features themselves. As you may have noticed the video links in the features give you the option to “Don’t show this again” at which point the the links and text disappear –forever. If you want to re-watch these videos the easiest way is to just bring up the start page: View > Start Page Now if you do demos and want to show your audience what the experience looks like in the feature you you can restore the links by deleting the contents/children of ...
“The Visual Guide for Building Team Foundation Server 2012 Environments” the first Middle East & Africa ALM Community publication
The level of contribution some our ALM community members dedicate to helping their peers is amazing. Here is an example of what three community members, Mohamed Radwan, Ayman El-Hattab and Hosam Kamel, created to help folks getting started with their TFS environments. Great work Guys!The Visual Guide for Building Team Foundation Server 2012 Environments is not only intended to walk you through the installation and the configuration process of Team Foundation Server 2012 but it is also written and designed to reflect real-world experience of the installation and configuration processes via detailed ste...
Changes to the Process Templates between VS 2012 Beta, RC and RTM
This blog post is for the people who started using the Beta or RC version of VS 2012 and created projects in either of these versions that are still active.In case you want to update your work item types to the level of RTM, you can do two things: If you want to follow step 2, here is the list of changes that we have done:From Beta to RCWhen we shipped the Beta we wanted to hide the ‘complexity’ how the items are prioritized on the backlog from the user by not showing the field on the work item form. From feedback we found out by not showing the field, it was not possible for the user to prior...
TeamCompanion 4.7 for Visual Studio 2012 releases and they celebrate their 5th anniversary with a giveaway bonanza
A common concern I hear from customers with every new version of Visual Studio is the availability of their favorite addins and 3rd party tools. With Visual Studio 2012 we made early builds just to all our partners to ensure their availability. TeamCompanion will not only be ready the day of launch they are using it to celebrate their 5th Anniversary. They would like to thank their users by giving away FREE TeamCompanion personal licenses! For more information about their giveaway please see: bit.ly/QJ7a3N The giveaway bonanza starts on Wednesday, September 12th, 2012, 8:00 AM PDT (UTC -7:00). How to get a...
Odin ships Axe 3.4 simultaneously with Visual Studio 2012
One of the frustrating things about Test Automation is that to do it properly you need your testers and developers to work together but the problem arises from the fact developers don’t want to write tests and testers don’t want to code. For this reason most companies find it very difficult to get automation their automation efforts off the ground! The Axe product from Visual Studio Industry Partner, Odin, uses code generation to enable testers to use Excel to create lots of robust test automation code without having to pick up a C# book! In a nutshell, Axe allows Testers to define tests in Excel spread-sheets ...
Customizable Process Guidance for VS ALM 2012
Customizable process guidance is now available for each of the default process templates that VS ALM Team Foundation Server provides. You can download and unzip these files, modify them to support your team processes, and redirect the process guidance link to your customized content. For downloads, see Customizable Process Guidance Content for VS ALM 2012. These files contain the corresponding content provided on MSDN for the following three process templates: Also, a flat TOC with links to the main topics is included, as shown below for the Agile process template. To learn more about redirecting pr...
Visual Studio 2012: “Where is the Test Toolbar. Couldn’t find it anywhere”
On Jason Zanders’s blog I noticed the question: …where is the Test Toolbar. Couldn't find it anywhere. In Visual Studio 2012 we made an effort to simplify the user interface to give people more room for their own work and to make the IDE more productive. Part of this simplification was not showing as many toolbars by default. In most cases those toolbars are still there – you just need to enable them via **Tools > Customize **or right click on the standard toolbar and choose **Customize. ** In the case of the Test toolbar many of the paradigms have changed with the introduction of the Test Explorer so ...
What is this Lab Management network traffic: QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks, QueryTestMachines, QueryLabEnvironments etc
Just received a question on an internal distribution list: What is Lab Management doing on the Network? I am seeing traffic like: Lab Management QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks Date Machine_name IP_Address Mac_Address Team Foundation (QTController.exe, 11.0.50727.1, Other, SKU:9) QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks Lab Management &nbs...