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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...
Welcome to Visual Studio 2012 ALM Rangers Readiness RC “Wave”
JasonZ announced the Visual Studio 2012 RC, which triggered a SIMultaneous-SHIPping event for the Visual Studio ALM Rangers. // updated 2012/06/15 – v2 CodedUI Add-In has shipped! I am happy to announce that the Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness RC “Gig” solutions are now available for download from CodePlex as listed below: Solutions that have shipped: Solutions that will ship shortly:
Team Building your windows 8 Metro style Applications.
Hi everyone, since this is my first blog post I’d like to introduce myself first. My name is “Shady Youssef Ibraheem” and I Joined Microsoft in June 2011 working as a software development engineer in test for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, specifically for the Team Foundation build team. I hope that readers of this blog post find it helpful as I’m planning to publish a series of TFS Build specific posts very soon. If you have any suggestions about blog post topics regarding Team foundation Build please let me know, I'll try to make it happen! Today I’m going to walk you throu...
If you are focused on testing, we have great ALM Ranger guides and tooling for you!
Three of the ALM Ranger Dev11 Readiness solutions, which were announced in Welcome to Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness Beta “Wave”. and another supporting solution are dedicated to Visual Studio ALM Test Tooling and are driven by phenomenal teams as shown below. Guidance Tooling The Visual Studio Coded UI Microsoft Word Plug-in solution provides guidance and tooling for the Visual Studio Coded UI Microsoft Word Plug-in, which extends the Coded UI feature support to Microsoft Word documents. Your feedback is important While the upcoming release candidate release is an exciting and important m...
Coded UI Test – New Extensibility QFE
Coded UI Test team has developed an extension model for enabling custom control identification, record and playback of automation tests using Coded UI Test. This hotfix will be available on top of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1). The experience while writing a new plugin for custom controls has now become much simpler and straightforward. With this hotfix, customers will now be able to add a plugin for a custom Windows Forms / Windows Presentation Foundation / ASP .Net control within minutes with our new set of APIs, an extension effort that would have taken days using the previous extensio...
New article and the latest list of articles published by the ALM Rangers
The Visual Studio ALM Rangers are actively contributing to MSDN Flash Newsletter, MSDN magazine and other publications. Here is a handy list of the latest articles published in MSDN magazine and CodeProject:Enjoy the read and watch the space for articles focused on the TFS Object Model and Team Foundation Build!
Optimizing IntelliTrace Collection on Production Server
Introduction Visual Studio 11 introduces a standalone IntelliTrace package which can be downloaded and copied to a product server and used to collect IntelliTrace information such as call events, web request, exceptions, etc. One of the key factors to consider for turning on IntelliTrace collection is the performance cost in terms of CPU, memory usage and page response time. This article will discuss the performance measurements we took in Microsoft and recommend ways to tune IntelliTrace performance on production sever. IntelliTrace Instrumentation Mode With Visual Studio 11, there are three Int...