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Mar

March 21, 2011 – VS/TFS Links and Quick Hits

Spring finally made it! On with the links…

Branching and Merging Improvements in TFS 2010 from the Visual Studio ALM Blog
In Team Foundation Server 2010, the most interesting new features related to version control are definitely the branching and merging improvements, such as tracking changesets across branches, viewing the branch hierarchy, and how branches are visually represented. This post provides a nice overview of these new features that will serve as a primer for those of you just getting your feet wet with TFS 2010.

Test Case Migrator Between Projects – WPF Metro from Shai Raiten
Shai has built a nice little tool that will copy Test Case work items and Shared Step work items from one Team Project to another. He’s included details and a brief how-to in order to get you going.

Hands-On Labs: ALM features in Visual Studio 2010 from Neno Loje
Neno has a nice run-down of the ALM related hands-on labs that are part of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Course. Included are labs on IntelliTrace, the architect tools, and Coded UI tests.

A Not Well Known Feature of TFS Web Access from Alkampfer
If you don’t use Team Web Access you haven’t seen it, but one of the nifty little features is the ability to see a state diagram of the work item type you currently have open and the ability to see a map of the transitions and states in the work item history control. Check out the post for details, or open TWA and see for yourself.

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Mar

March 18, 2011 – VS/TFS Links and Quick Hits

TGIF! On with the links…

Integrate Fitnesse with TFS 2010 Team Build – aka How to Use Build-Deploy-Test Workflow with Physical Environment from Definition of Done
This is a nice post that discusses Fitnesse testing and enabling Fitness testing with TFS build. More specifically, it involves implementing a Build-Deploy-Test build workflow for a physical test environment. You get two topics for the price of one.

Getting the WP7 SDK onto a Windows Server 2008 TFS Build Agent from Richard Fennell
If you want to build windows phone applications using TFS Build, you need the Windows Phone SDK to be installed on your build agent. If you’re using Windows Server 2008 as your build agent, your out of luck, because the SDK required Windows 7 or Windows Vista during the install process. Richard has an unsupported workaround that will get the SDK installed on Windows Server 2008, but use it at your own risk.

Hidden Gem in TFS 2010: How to Rollback a Changeset with tf rollback from Buck Hodges
Buck has a nice overview of the rollback capabilities in TFS. You can rollback via the command line, in case you weren’t aware. Apparently, it was planned to be available via a menu item but time constraints prevented that from happening. It’s still nearly unforgiveable, but here’s hoping it finds its way into the product in the next version of TFS and Visual Studio.

Copy TFS Queries Between Iterations from Alkampfer
This post follows up a previous post I linked with code that copies queries between TFS iterations. A number of teams struggle with the administrative effort to prepare a Team Project, specifically those using the MSF for Agile 5.0 template, for a new iteration. This should help alleviate some of that effort.

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Mar

March 17, 2011 – VS/TFS Links and Quick Hits

The good stuff keeps pouring in. On with the links…

Common Confusion I Have Seen with Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management from Richard Fennell
Richard has a nice FAQ on some issues and confusion that people often have in regards to some of the features in Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management. He explains features like network isolation, test agents, and connectivity, among other topics.

TFS 2010 SP1: Unknown Error (0x80005000) (type COMException) – Make Sure IIS 6 Compat Mode is Turned On from Buck Hodges
Buck alerts us to a potential problem that could derail a TFS 2010 Service Pack 1 installation that customers have reported. He also links to a KB article with some troubleshooting options should you run into issues.

My Source and Target Files are Different, But Merge Tells Me There are No Changes to Merge from Bill Heys
Bill has a nice post explaining some seemingly odd behaviors of the merge process that could indicate no changes to merge even though the source and target files are different. He also provides a few things you can do to overcome this scenario, and in doing so gives quite a bit of insight into how TFS keeps track of merges.

How to Install SQL Server 2008 for TFS 2010 from Tim Elhajj
Tim has posted a nice video that goes through the SQL Server 2008 installation for TFS 2010. If you’re working on getting TFS installed and are dealing with a fairly standard installation, take a look.

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Mar

March 16, 2011 – VS/TFS Links and Quick Hits

Halfway there! On with the links…

Quick Find extension in the Productivity Power Tools from The Visual Studio Blog
If you downloaded the latest release of the Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio, you’ve probably encountered the new Quick Find extension. This post has details on why it was created, how it works, and what’s in it’s future.

VS ALM March 2011 Library Updates and New VS SP1 Content from the Visual Studio ALM Developer Content Team
The Visual Studio ALM content team has an overview of all their March library updates. There are a number of new items related to the architect tools, code generation, and some new installation guidance for Team Foundation Components. It’s great work, as always.

Download files from TFS Version Control and Set the File Last Access Timestamp to the File's Last Check-in Time from Neno Loje
Neno has some insight into a tool called TfsExport.exe that allows you to just download items from TFS without creating a workspace, to specify that files don’t have read-only set, to show the last check-in time for files as the last write time, and more. Details at the link.

Scrat 2.0 – Quality Center To TFS 2010 from Shai Raiten
Shai has announced the release of Scrat 2.0, the migration tool for those who want to migrate their Quality Center items to TFS 2010. This new release has a number of bug fixes, performance improvements, and also allows customers to filter the items they want to migrate. If migrating from Quality Center to TFS is on your agenda, nobody does it better than Shai, so head over to the link and give him a shout.

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Mar

March 15, 2011 – VS/TFS Links and Quick Hits

Tuuueeeessdddaaayyyyy. On with the links…

Project Dependencies Will Break with Branching If Not Done Properly from Bill Heys
Branching and version control expert Bill Heys has a nice post on how to deal with shared references. Dealing with shared references is a common question posed by teams trying to get a handle on their version control practices. I’ve typically dealt with it by recommending that each project keep copies of the assemblies it needs in the local branch. This comes with a cost, but it makes your builds less fragile and enables teams to manage themselves independent of whatever else might be going on in an organization.

How to Manually Install TFS Extensions for SharePoint from Neno Loje
Neno encountered an error message when installing the TFS Extensions for SharePoint and had to do the installation manually. Details on how he accomplished it at the link.

Silverlight 4 Coded UI Tests + IE9: “No Silverlight controls were detected.” from Benjamin Day
Want to run Coded UI Tests with Silverlight controls inside of Internet Explorer 9? You’ll need to run IE9 in Compatibility Mode. Ben has details at the link.

6 Issues Identified Through Burndown Charts from Evan Leybourn
While this post isn’t exactly related to Team Foundation Server, the topic it discusses is worth a look. If you’re using the Burndown reports that ship with TFS 2010 or using a Burndown from a community process template, this post will help you understand exactly what the data in the Burndown is telling you. I’m a big fan of Burndowns for all teams, even those that don’t call themselves “agile” or use Scrum, so take a look.

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