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Team Foundation Server 2012 and Project Server 2010 Integration

Charles Sterling

(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 Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server 2010 Demo Virtual Machine (patience the bits will be out soon!) After a quick upgrade of my host demo laptop to Windows Server 2012 Standard, I upgraded my VM from Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1 to Microsoft Visual ...

Changing your account/URL name for your Team Foundation Service Preview (TFSP)

Charles Sterling

In the last couple of weeks we have seen a lot of voting in user voice for the ability to rename/change your TFS Account name in the TFS Service Preview (e.g. XYZ.TfsPreview.com).  Please note you can now do this yourself at: https://aka.ms/ChangeTFServiceAcct

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

Charles Sterling

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.  The list goes on but the ride starts here, so buckle up and join us for this lap around TFS 2012.   Cheryl Hammond has a breadth of experience in various roles from developer to manager on developer teams. She has used all versions of Team Foundation Server on real-world ...

Writing a Visual Studio 2012 Unit Test Adapter

Mathew Aniyan MSFT

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 you through the steps required to build a Visual Studio 2012 Unit Test Adapter.   For the purposes of this discussion, I am going to write a Unit Test Adapter for XML files. The XML file will contain tests in the following format. After we install the new XML Test Adapter,...

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

Kathryn Elliott

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.ResolutionTo resolve these issues, you can repair your Office Customer Preview client.     

When did my test plan get deleted? Who deleted my test suitetest run?

Shyam Gupta [MSFT]

If you are looking for answers to questions like above then read on. It has been a frequent asks to have an easy way to figure out when a particular test artifact got deleted and by whom. At present all this information goes in TFS collection database table ‘tbl_AuditLog’. But it’s not straightforward to interpret various columns available in this table. One has to take joins with various other tables present in different databases and still interpretation of some columns lies in code only. Thus it is very hard to get this information in human readable form. To ease this effort, we have creat...

Microsoft Internal Usage of TFS: January – June 2012

Erin Dormier

Significance of Window Titles in Coded UI Test Playback

Tapas Sahoo [MSFT]

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 object such as       <TopLevelWindow ControlType="Window" Id="UICalculatorWindow" FriendlyName="Calculator" SpecialControlType="None" SessionId="36635974">          <TechnologyName>MSAA</Te...

Keyword Driven Testing Webcast July 18th with Visual Studio and LogiGear by Hans Buwalda

Charles Sterling

 In the last 6 months, I have been able to spend some time with one of the pioneers in the keyword and Data-driven Testing space, Hans Buwalda.  While at Star East Hans agreed to do a MSDN Webcast on this exciting topic – So naturally I jumped on the opportunity!  Session Details: Starts: July-18-12 10:00 AM Time zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) Duration: 1 hour(s) Attendee Registration URL: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032519194&Culture=en-CA Session Abstract:It's now possible to achieve a high level of automation efficienc...