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ALM Rangers Demo Factory Team release their first demo nuggets!
The ALM Rangers started the Demonstration factory initiative to raise the overall quality bar of hands-on labs and to create DemoMate based recordings. The team’s key objectives were to improve** accuracy** and consistency in terms of style and delivery of hands-on labs and walkthroughs. ALM Rangers Demo Factory nuggets The solutions for the associated guidance and latest hands-on lab manuals can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ee358787. Online Offline Other Nuggets Other online DemoMate nuggets, primarily developed for Brain Keller’s (DPE) Visual Studio Virtual machin...
Changing fields on the Visual Studio Extension Gallery page
Had a community member ask: I want to change some fields on my Visual Studio Extension Gallery page. These fields do not appear to be editable: · “Supported Versions” · “Supported Visual Studio 2010 Editions” Luckily one of our old time ALM MVPs, Terje Sandstrom, had the answer: Make sure and check out his posts on Architecture and Code Analysis: How to fix the CA0053 error in Code Analysis in Visual Studio 2012 Issues with mixed C++ and C# projects in Visual Studio 2012 running Code Analysis Video on Architecture...
Clearing the credentials for connecting to a Team Foundation Server
Ran in to a situation a couple of days ago where i needed to log into a Team Foundation Server as a different user - and since Visual Studio/Team Explorer "remembers" your last credentials you don't have a chance to re-enter these credentials. This information is cached even after removing and re-adding the server in team explorer. Which begs the question - where is it cached? Turns out we are relying on Windows to do this for us. To dump this cache all you need to do is go to control panel > User Accounts > Manage Your Network Passwords select the Team foundation Server and choose remove - viola! Next time...
Enable Remote Audio Capture to when Testing or Providing Feedback on Remote Machines
To record audio as part of a feedback or testing session on a remote machine that is running Microsoft Feedback Client, Test Runner, or Exploratory Testing window, you must configure audio redirection settings on the remote machine. You must also enable “record from this computer” when you connect to the remote machine. You can perform this procedure only if your local computer is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. Of course, to record audio, you must have an audio recording device configured on your computer, or on a remote machine if you access Microsoft Feedback Client, Test Runner, or Exploratory T...
ALM Rangers Branching and Merging guide for Visual Studio 2012 is available
As mentioned in Cowabunga! Visual Studio ALM Rangers Readiness “GIG” goes RTM! the RTM version of the Branching and Merging Guide for Visual Studio 2012 was not included in the sim-ship wave. But we have just received the following signal from the product owner Matthew Mitrik and the project lead Micheal Learned: Well done team! The team has released the following bits, with more to come: Guidance Cheatsheets Illustrations Download the latest bits today… …and share your candid feedback!
Introducing an Integrated Work Item Field Reference for Visual Studio ALM and TFS
Have you ever wanted a single place to see what all the fields are that are defined in Team Foundation Server? Well now you can. Here are two new resources you can use to look up a definition and quickly see which fields are written to the relational database and which are stored in the Analysis Services cube. These cover all the fields defined in the process templates that Team Foundation Server 2012 provides. Here's a snapshot of the index: For an overview of the attributes that are defined for each field, see Work Item Field Attributes - What You Can and Can't Change. W...
Work Item Field Attributes – What You Can and Can’t Change
As a project administrator, you may need to modify a field that's being used in your team project. This post provides a quick reference as to what you can and can't change and how you make the change. Attributes That You Can Change Across a Team Project Collection Here are the attributes that you can change for a work item field. Changes that you make apply to all team projects within the team project collection: You can change these attributes using witadmin changefield or witadmin indexfield commands. See Managing Work Item Fields [witadmin]. When changing reporting attributes, see Adding and Mo...
Few tips on implementing a Coded UI Test Plugin Extension
This blog assumes that you have a prior understanding of Coded UI Test extensibility. If not, a good starting point would be here. Also check out additional links in the “Extending Coded UI Test” section available here.In this post, I’ll enumerate a few points you would need to watch out for while implementing an extension plugin. Some of the data are a compilation of actual issues the plugin writers hit while developing their plugin in collaboration with the Coded UI Test team.1. Set the ComVisibleAttribute Ensure that the System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComVisibleAttribute is set to true f...
Welcome to Visual Studio 2012 ALM Rangers Readiness “Wave”
JasonZ announced the Visual Studio 2012 RTM, which triggered a final SIMultaneous-SHIPping event for the Visual Studio ALM Rangers Readiness solutions wave ALM Ranger Solutions Find the latest list of all ALM Ranger solutions here and a list of all ALM Ranger projects on CodePlex [here][3]. For an overview of the ALM Rangers Readiness wave and to hear from some of the product owners and project leads, watch the 3min RC awareness video and presentation. The following diagram summarizes the Visual Studio ALM Rangers solutions that are included and/or related to the RTM sim-ship wave. The ■’s (tiles) are hy...