Author: Rene van Osnabrugge
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Creating welcome pages on VSO made easy with Markdown files
In of the recent updates on Visual Studio Online a very nice feature was introduced. Welcome pages. When you want to share some information about you project or other information with your team, what is the place to do that? When working on-premise you maybe have a SharePoint portal or…
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Error in TFS 2013 build – Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.Services.WebApi
Recently I installed TFS 2013.2 and modified some Build Templates. I also installed a separate Build Server that executes these builds for me. My build template was based on the default TFS 2013 Build template (Tfvctemplate.12.xaml) When my build executed, it ran for a while, but eventually it stopped with…
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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…
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Add permissions with TFSSecurity–The ultimate reference
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…
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TFS Reports–Unleash them with PowerPivot
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…
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Printing work items with Team Foundation Server
With the introduction of TFS 2012 Web Access we lost the possibility to print work items from the web. The experience wasn’t great in the first place but now it disappeared. Also in Visual Studio we do not have great printing possibilities. For some teams this is a big issue.…
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The Road to Continuous Delivery–Part 1
Introduction Continuous Delivery. You hear and read a lot about it lately and it seems to be or become a trend. What I see in the field is that companies think about Continuous Delivery but are not completely sure what it actually means. Let alone that they can oversee the…
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Federated Identity in Visual Studio Online
Great post from Mitch Denny about using Federated Identities in Visual Studio Online. Gives a lot of insight!
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Integrate Uservoice with Visual Studio Online using ServiceHooks
At TechEd USA a very cool feature VSO integration was announced in the first keynote. It was short, but nevertheless very cool and promising. In this post I willI talk about the integration of Uservoice with Visual Studio Online. Uservoice Uservoice is a service that enables companies to manage their…
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TFS Build throws CRC in GZip footer error
This week I encountered a really nasty problem with the Team Foundation Server Build Agents. Before I walk you through the details let me first explain the situation. Scenario At a customer we are building a new build “farm” (a little farm 😉 ). Currently we have 2 build servers…
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Summary of TechDays 2014 Netherlands
This year I was invited again to speak on the Dutch TechDays. This Microsoft event is held once every year and is the largest MS event in the Netherlands. I had the honor to provide 2 break-out sessions, 2 lunch sessions and a full day Pre-Conference. In this post I…
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Visual Studio ALM MVP … 3rd time !
April fool’s day has been a good day for me the last 3 years. Today I received the email…. The “Congratulations 2014 Microsoft MVP!”. And again I was ver very happy. This is the third time I received the award. The first year was strange. Did not know what to…
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Combining TFS Version Control and Git with Git-TF
For a customer I am (together with my colleague Jasper Gilhuis) setting up a hybrid solution regarding Version Control. Some Scrum teams use Git as their primary Source Control system and most of them use TFS Version Control. What we see at different organizations is that it requires the…
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Hidden Gems in TFS – Part 12 – Link to Versioned Item
Originally posted on Jasper Gilhuis: This post is and addition to René van Osnabrugge’s great series of Hidden Gems in TFS. An overview of these Gems can be found at his blog “The Road to ALM” here: https://osnabrugge.wordpress.com/category/guidance/hidden-gems/ Just last week he showed me something that made me smile. His first response was “this…
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A practical guide for dealing with capacikill in TFS
Capacikill? What the … is that? Actually it is a word I made up. To be honest it was a colleague who talked about capacity in a noisy room and I thought I heard him say it. I understood capacikill and the word had a meaning to me right away.…
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Hidden Gems in TFS–Part 11 Sharing work the easy way
In this series of blog posts I like to highlight some features of TFS/Visual Studio that people seem to overlook. In my day to day job I often see that people don’t know about certain feature that are available in Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio or some of the Powertools.…
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Happy New Year to all my readers !
Happy new year ! Every year I receive a nice overview of all my activity on my blog. This year I wanted it to share with you! Thanks for reading! I hope to bring you more goodness about ALM, Scrum and TFS in 2014 ! Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre…
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Visual Studio 2013 freezes when performing Load Test on Azure
Since the release of Visual Studio 2013 a few weeks ago we have the possibility to use the immense power of the cloud to perform Load Tests on our public websites. This is a Team Foundation Service feature and can be used when you have a TF Service account. For…
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Use Visual Studio as your Diff and Merging Tool for local files
Probably you are familiar with the Diff tool that Visual Studio provides when doing Source Control. When comparing two files from Source Control Explorer or the Solution Explorer you get this nice tool that shows a nice visual compare of two files. You can choose 2 local files, a source…
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TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 5) – Sprint Review and Retrospective
This is the fifth and final part of the series TFS as perfect tool for Scrum. The series is based on my session that I presented at Microsoft TechDays. You can find more introduction in part 1 The agenda for this series is: 1. Introduction in Scrum and TFS 2.…
The Road to ALM 