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Free Webinar: HP Quality Center Integration Patterns with Team Foundation Server using Tasktop Sync Thurs June 28th
Recently while I was at StarEast in Florida one of the more common questions I heard: “How do we continue using our HP Quality Center investments with Team Foundation Center” So when Wesley at Tasktop mentioned he was doing a free a Webinar on ALM Integration Patterns (Including but not limited to HP Quality Center)with Tasktop Sync I immediately signed up! -I hope Wesley doesn’t mind the liberty I took with the title of the post…. If you want to join me, Wesley and Lance on this webcast I have included the details below. (Hard to believe but I will be a silent participant!) See you there Chuck...
Quick Response Sample – Command line utility to manage Team Foundation Server Teams and Users
Quick Response samples provide information directly from Visual Studio ALM Rangers working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Product Group, in response to feature gaps to supplement the product and knowledge base information. Issue The Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server VM Factory automation team, working on the Visual Studio Readiness “Gig” Hands-on Lab (HOL) prerequisite setup automation, required a command line utility, such as TFSSecurity.exe , to add Teams and Team members to a Team Project. Investigations highlighted that in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 RC, a command line utility with ...
DevExpress Releases DXperience 12.1 with Coded UI Support
It is no secret that it is our partners that help make Visual Studio the best development environment on the planet – and DXperience 12.1 from DevExpress ensures that this thought leadership and great experience will continue going forward. As many developers already know DXperience tools address a wide range of software development needs, including the ability to target new user experiences such as Touch, create incredibly immersive applications and to accelerate productivity so you can build solutions in the shortest possible time-and with the highest of Reliability (in case you haven’t...
Developer Division is running on TFS 2012 RC!
This past weekend we upgraded the TFS server used by the Developer Division and other teams who deliver Visual Studio 2012. It is now running TFS 2012 RC!read more about it… Follow me at twitter.com/tfsbuck
What’s new for Microsoft Test Manager in VS 2012 RC
As you may know, we recently announced the launch of the Visual Studio RC 2012. Here is a list of some exciting new features in the MTM RC 2012: The new Video Recorder To further ease the usage of Microsoft Test Manager, a Media Foundation based video recorder has been integrated with the product, which means that you don’t have to install Expression Encoder anymore to create video recordings during your testing sessions. Manual testing support for Metro style apps built using XAML You can now generate rich action logs, with both text and image descriptions of your actions, fo...
ALM Rangers – Quick Reference Guidance Downloads for Visual Studio 2012 RC refreshed
We have just refreshed Visual Studio ALM Quick Reference Guidance download package for Visual Studio 2012 RC, after we noticed package file corruptions. Get the latest and greatest content, which includes 23 quick reference posters / sheets and 1 video from here: Here are a few examples:
Visual Studio 2012 features enabled by using a TFS 2012 server
While many of the features in Visual Studio 2012 are available to users using TFS 2008 or 2010, there are some features that are only available when using a TFS 2012 server. Also, the web experience in TFS 2012 has been rebuilt entirely from the ground up, and the result is a fast, fluid experience that also includes new experiences tailored to Scrum.Once you’ve upgraded your server to TFS 2012, installed your first TFS server, or are using the Team Foundation Service Preview, here are some of the features you are now able to use. The goal here isn’t an exhaustive list but to get you start...
Compatibility patch for VS 2008 SP1 to work with Team Foundation Service Preview and TFS 2012
Today we released a patch for VS 2008 SP1 and Team Explorer 2008 SP1 to be able to connect and use both the Team Foundation Service preview (http://tfspreview.com) and Team Foundation Server 2012. You can download it here.While we are on the subject of updates, the patch for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Team Explorer 2010 SP1 is available here. Team Explorer Everywhere is available on the Eclipse Marketplace, TFS Plug-in for Eclipse.Enjoy!
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....