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Team Foundation Service Preview – Add Team Members to Your Project
UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here. ** This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast. In this post, we will show you how to add members to your project, so you and your friends can collaborate in the cloud. Congratulations! You’ve learned to share. Your mother would be proud. What’s next? Now you can:
Team Foundation Service Preview – Create team project
UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here. ** This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast. Once you’ve created your account, you need to create a project. A project is where you store all your source code, as well as tasks and builds. Done! You now have your very own TFS Server in the cloud. What’s next? Now you can:
Team Foundation Service Preview – Beginner’s Guide
UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here.This blog post series includes step-by-step instructions to get you productive as quickly as possible.Click on any of the links below to get started… If there are other topics you’d like covered, let us know.
MSDN Article – Visual Studio ALM Rangers: Rise of the VM Factory
Brian Blackman, Paul Meyer (VMFactory Master) and Willy-Peter Schaub have just published an article in MSDN Magazine (December Edition), which delves into the Virtual Machine Factory (VM Factory), exploring its concepts and advantages. Read all about it here.
QFEs and Hotfix Rollup Package for Microsoft Test Manager 2010
In response to your requests and feedback on Uservoice and Connect we have released several QFEs and a Hotfix Rollup Package for Microsoft Test Manager. Highlights of these updates include: For more information on the entire list of updates or for download information please see the blog post: QFEs for Microsoft Test Manager 2010To submit more feedback please see:
Three new TFS Training Modules at MSDN Virtual Labs
At the recent ALM Summit it was clear people are hungry for TFS Training. Always quick to help out, the folks over at MSDN Virtual Labs have introduced three new TFS Training Modules! MSDN Virtual Lab: TFS Training Kit: Module 1 After completing this lab, you will be better able to create and delete team projects, set a process template as the default template for all new projects, fill out work item fields with text and integer fields, which can either be entered freely or from pre-defined values, link an existing work item to a new work item, creating the latter in the process, create a new work item in...
ALM Summit in Redmond
Last week at the ALM Summit I ran the Visual Studio 11 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-On-Labs with a bunch of the MVPs from Imaginet . In my opinion, this conference represents one of the best showcases of Microsoft ALM tools in the wild and it was really satisfying to see so many development teams have moved beyond awareness of agile methodology to successful adoption and implementations. In general the questions changed their tone from last year: “We are considering trying the following…” to “In our last sprint we ran into the following impediment…” ...
Troubleshooting Record and Playback issues in Coded UI Test
We have been receiving numerous queries related to record and playback in Coded UI Test. In most of the scenarios, some additional information is sought after to debug and nail the issue. Tapas Sahoo has enumerated some basic validations that you (as a Coded UI Test user) can attempt to troubleshoot the problem. He also describes a few workarounds that you can try out for some common failure scenarios. The full post is available here.
Using Lab Manager 2010 with Windows Azure Web Seminar Nov 1st
Our enterprise team with sticky minds has put together a Webcast on Load Testing in the Cloud. Abstract:With the introduction of Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure we now have the ability to easily create load testing scenarios on the cloud. Using the infrastructure of Windows Azure can provide a cost effective way to performance test your application. In this session we'll explore: To registerhttps://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=342374&sessionid=1&key=850C0F81627F8CD0EA374B0CB176F2A6&sourcepage=register