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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...
Set the current iteration in your queries
On User Voice there is a request to be able to query on the current iteration. We have it on our backlog, but it won't ship it for Dev11. However there is a workaround, found by Mark Michaelis, that you can use to avoid having to update all your work item queries if the team moves to the next sprint. The idea of the workaround is the following Thanks Mark for being so creative.Ewald Hofman
Testing Mobile devices with Visual Studio using SeeTest plugin
While at StarEast I met some really great partners. One that caught my eye was Experitest with their SeeTestTM plugin for Visual Studio. The reason I found them so interesting is most Mobile Testing solutions force you to make a decision do you put interrupts in at the OS level (potentially masking real problems, compromising your device or even giving false positives to issues that aren’t there) or do you test through instrumentation at the application level (Losing access to OS tests like turning off the Network or device rotation) but Experitest lets you test using either of these ways. ...
TFS Integration Tools – What is the difference between cloaking and scoping branches?
In a recent support thread the use of cloaking or scoping was discussed to unblock a migration. This raised the question: “What is the difference and more importantly the impact of using one or the other?” As Bill correctly stated, a good reason to have this discussion is that scoping a migration to the minimum amount of data that needs to be moved is a very powerful way to help ensure a successful migration. Simplicity is key! References: Default Migration When using the TFS Integration Tools to migrate version control data for the hypothetical project “space” from a source to a target, the default be...
May 4th QLD Usergroup: Get your Kanban on!
Anthony Borton is so good he can run a user group in Australia while in Redmond. Okay turns out he isn’t that good-but he does have really good people helping him and this month, David Cook, is stepping up to the plate to deliver an updated version of a talk he very successfully delivered at the Agile NZ Conference recently. David's talk was rated one of the top three sessions of the conference so make sure you don't miss it. You'll love the new Microsoft Kanban Template for TFS2010 & TFS"11" Beta. · QLD ALM Users Group meeting Friday 4th May This Friday's Meeting (4th May) Microsoft Office - South St...