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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....
Ed Blankenship joins the ALM Team (focusing on Lab Management) at Microsoft
While we don’t usually do organization announcements on our blogs I thought I would make an exception in this case as Ed Blankenship has been one of the earliest and most active ALM MVPs-and he just joined the ALM Team focusing on Lab Management scenarios. I started working with Ed back when he visited Microsoft for a week of his vacation when he cleaned up and published the Microsoft Process Template to codeplex and he was voted MVP of the year by his peers. Since then he has continued being active at ALM events, writing books and on the MSDN forums. If you don’t know Ed, here is his own introduction:
Enabling Coded UI Test playback logs in Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate
In Jason Zander’s blog post: Announcing the Release Candidate (RC) of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 he showed a new Coded UI feature -capturing playback logs. Please note this blog post has been updated. Please see: Enabling Tracing and HtmlLogger in Coded UI Test Unfortunately CodedUI doesn’t do this by default and finding the logs isn’t always obvious. To enable CodedUI Test Playback logs you need to set some configuration settings in the file QTAgent32.exe.config to make this work....
What is new in the Code Index SDK for Visual Studio 2012 RC?
With Visual Studio 11 Beta, we had started sharing the code index SDK.Last week, we shipped the Visual Studio 2012 RC Visualization and modeling SDK (VsVmSDK RC), which, among other features, contains the Code index SDK build tasks. This is an opportunity to explain what changed in the Code Index SDK.Modifications to the bulk indexing Update of the samplesWe have updated the first 2 samples, to account for a few schema changes (for details, see What is new in Visual Studio 2012 RC Visualization and Modeling SDK). The sample named Code Index - How to discover ignored tests can now display the source and lin...