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How to improve the performance of the first connect to TFS
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, however the way you enable it has been changed in TFS 2010. In TFS 2010 we have introduced Team Project Collections, which introduced the need to be able to set this value per collection. So we moved the setting to the TFS registry in TFS 2010 and TFS 2012 instead of in the web....
Ed Blankenship joins the ALM Team (focusing on Lab Management) at Microsoft
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 when he cleaned up and published the Microsoft Process Template to codeplex and he was voted MVP of the year by his peers. Since then he has continued being active at ALM events, writing books and on the MSDN forums. If you don’t know Ed, here is his own introduction:
Enabling Coded UI Test playback logs in Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate
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 Unfortunately CodedUI doesn’t do this by default and finding the logs isn’t always obvious. To enable CodedUI Test Playback logs you need to set some configuration settings in the file QTAgent32.exe.config to make this work....
What is new in the Code Index SDK for Visual Studio 2012 RC?
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 Update of the samplesWe have updated the first 2 samples, to account for a few schema changes (for details, see What is new in Visual Studio 2012 RC Visualization and Modeling SDK). The sample named Code Index - How to discover ignored tests can now display the source and lin...
Enabling Feedback Requests, the Backlog and Sprint Planning Features in Team Foundation Server 2012
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… In the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate an additional step is required to enable the **Request and Manage Feedback **and the **Backlog and Sprint Planning Tools **features are visible-giving users access. (For more information on the permission required please see: Compare Visual Studio 2012 editions and Bucks post: After upgrading: Updating licensing) To do this: Set the Web Access Permissions in the Team Foundation ...
Getting Started with Load Testing in Visual Studio 2012
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. While there is a project type called “Web Performance and Load Test Project” it doesn’t create a Load Test by default. …Which is okay as a load test without any tests to supply load to doesn’t make a lot of sense. Fortunately adding and creating a load test ...
After upgrading to TFS 2012: Updating licensing and enabling async checkout for server workspaces
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…
Deep Dive on Configure Features
Upgrading is hard. We have heard a lot of comments about the pain that people had to deal with during the upgrade of the team projects from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. For TFS 2012 we make this upgrade much easier for customers with none to limited customizations with a wizard. This post is in addition to the documentation on MSDN, and will go deeper into how the wizard works. The purpose of this post is to provide you the information that helps you to modify your team project or process template in case you have added customizations that broke the wizard. If you have corrected the breaking changes the wizard is ...
How to Configure Features for dozens of team projects
In a previous post, I have told you how the Configure Features wizard works to upgrade the team projects on your TFS server. It works great. However if you are an administrator of dozens of team projects, you don't want to walk through the wizard for each team project. Luckily we have a solution for you, which is outlined in this post. You can either download the source code or execute the following steps. Create and run the application NOTE: You need to run the code on a machine that has the Application Tier installed. So if you have Visual Studio on the Team Foundation Server you can run th...