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Showing files with pending changes or files that are open in Visual Studio 2012 Solution Explorer
One of the hidden gems in Visual Studio 2012 is the ability to show just those files that are open or those with pending changes…Take for instance the solution below are any of these files open? do any of them have a pending change? (in this graphic the answer is no there aren’t any pending changes – Visual Studio does give you glyphs in front of the files that have pending changes – but this visual cue can get lost in the noise of large solutions) Turns out finding these files and more importantly filtering on just these files is in Visual Studio 2012 is easy. Next to the “home” button in solution explor...
Launching the Feedback client from a Windows 8 application using Team Foundation Server Preview
One of my standard demos lately is to show off the new Feedback client – lately I have also been showing how you could launch the feedback client using our URI syntax i.e. mfbclient://chassALM:8080/DefaultCollection/p:LureCo?rid=1,2,3 Where ChassALM is an on premise TFS instance DefaultCollection is my project collection (duh) LureCo is my Team project 1,2,3 are my feedback request item work item IDs To use a Team Project on a Team Foundation Service instance you need to use the mfbclientS uri – see below. mfbclients://chass.tfspreview.com/DefaultCollection/p:DevTeach?rid=93 ...
Team Foundation Server 2012 and Project Server 2010 Integration
(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)
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
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
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
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?
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
