Archive | July, 2014

Download Visual Studio Web Installers as a complete package

July 31, 2014 by Rene van Osnabrugge Comments Off on Download Visual Studio Web Installers as a complete package

When you download Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, Team Explorer etc. from the public Microsoft site you always get a small Web installer. Surely enough this does not contain al files, so when you click it, it starts downloading the remaining Gigabytes. This is nasty sometimes when you are at a server with slow connection […]

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Team Foundation Server, Tips & Tricks, Visual Studio
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Add permissions with TFSSecurity–The ultimate reference

July 28, 2014 by Rene van Osnabrugge 10 Comments

UPDATE 7/15/2015: Hayder Casey from Microsoft provided me with the details on using the Tagging namespace. You can use this one to set the [Create Tag Definition] security setting. UPDATE 4/25/2016: Microsoft has now updated MSDN to have  decent documentation on MSDN found here Sooner or later, every TFS Administrator will face the challenge to […]

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TFS API, Tips & Tricks
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TFS Reports–Unleash them with PowerPivot

July 17, 2014 by Rene van Osnabrugge 5 Comments

A long time ago I wrote a blog series about writing Custom Reports for Team Foundation Server. As you may or may not know, Team Foundation Server comes with a powerful reporting solution. A relational TFS Warehouse and a Data Cube which contains the aggregated and historical data. In my previous posts I talked about […]

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Guidance, Reporting Services, Tips & Tricks
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