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Managing automatic updates for Microsoft Test Manager and Microsoft Feedback Client
In the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP blog post one of the new test features listed was: Automatic updates for Microsoft Test Manager and Microsoft Feedback Client. Since these user interfaces do not have a the normal File, Edit, Tools, Help menu structure i thought it would be nice to show how this functionality is accessed/changed… From Microsoft Test Manager you can access the Updates menu from the “Home” screen while displaying either the select Test Plan or change project dialogs. From the Microsoft Feedback Client the Help button is actually a drop down – now with "Product Updates” option. ...
Enabling Test Case Management features in Team Foundation Server Web Access
Update: We have moved the test case management features for Web Access to Visual Studio Update 2. So when you install the latest CTP for Visual Studio Update 1 these test features will no longer be present. We plan to re-enable these features in the CTPs for Visual Studio Update 2. For a final list of all the features in Visual Studio Update 1 please see the post: Final CTP for Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 ************************************************************************************************************************************ Two of the features i listed in: Visual Studio 2012 Upd...
Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP
11/26/2012 Update. Note The final release of Visual Studio Update 1 now available, please see: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 now availableAlso Note the KB of fixes is now available: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2797915/EN-US SummaryVisual Studio 2012 Update is providing continuous value to customers, adding new capabilities year-round to features in the main product release. These releases will be aligned with the core software development trends in the market, ensuring developers and development teams always have access to the best solution for building modern applications....
Coded UI Test Support Matrix
Please do not use the information in the post below as it is out of date. Updated information about Coded UI Test Support Matrix can now be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd380742.aspx ******************************************************************************************* Please find the support levels across platforms for Coded UI Tests for...
Set Local Workspaces as Default when Upgrading to TFS 2012
I was reminded yesterday by a customer about something in the upgrade process that I thought was a helpful reminder for all the TFS administrators. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Team Foundation Server to the recently released Team Foundation Server 2012, you’ll want to make sure you add one more step to your post-upgrade plan. If you aren’t familiar, local workspaces is the new feature in Team Foundation Server 2012 that makes it much easier to get started with working in TFS version control. It also improves the “offline” experience for developers and removes the “read-only” bit for versio...
ALM Rangers ship the first version of Team Foundation Server Word Add-in
We are pleased to announce that we have released the first version (1.0.12.0622) of the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in. The add-in allows you to import work items from a Team Foundation Server Team Project and generate professional-looking Word document from TFS Work items. For more information on this project, please visit the TFS Word Add-In Codeplex project. Coffee break with the dev lead To share a bit of the human aspect of this project, we decided to ask our dev lead, Rob Jarratt, the following question: “Why have and are you investing such an amazing amount of time, passion and tenacity...
Microsoft Update available for Visual Studio 2010 SP1
An update to Visual Studio 2010 SP1 with compatibility support for Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8 is available for download at Download Center and as a Microsoft Update.After you apply the Microsoft update, the following Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Test Tools features are improved for Windows 8:Here are the list of new features: The Update also contains bug fixes to below issues:Issue 1 Issue 2 Issue 3 For more details, view KB Article 2736182
September Update CTP for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012
I have had a couple of people ask me about these new downloads appearing in MSDN downloads simply called something like: CTP of Quarterly Update for Visual Studio 2012 (x86) - (English). Unfortunately these downloads contained no description other than: “Statement of Support: This release has not been subject to final verification and validation, and is not intended to be run on production machines.”* As Dave Lubash and Brian Harry posted both Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will shipping new features every quarter(!)… In addition to these production quality updates being released quarterly we ...
Getting Started with PreEmptive Analytics for Team Foundation Server
Chris Kinsman wrote a great article on where to use PreEmptive Analytics for Team Foundation Server with best practices, implementation considerations etc etc for MSDN Magazine. The best part i found of this article was the tutorial on getting started. In talking to Chris i mentioned i would love to have a quick and dirty “primer” on the ALM Blog. Hope you enjoy it! (Thanks Chris!) ************************* An important new tool inside Visual Studio and TFS 2012 allows you to capture all the information about issues in your applications across clients and services—and quickly respond to them by ...