Category: Guidance
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Using Custom Reports in TFS: Part 3 – How to set up my reporting environment and structure
This post is part of the series Using Custom Reports in TFS. The posts are more or less built on top of each other. Please read the earlier posts for a better understanding. Earlier in this series: Introduction in TFS Data What tools can I use to present some data?…
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Using Custom Reports in TFS: Part 2 – What tools can I use to present some data?
This post is part of the serie Using Custom Reports in TFS. The posts are more or less built on top of each other. Please read the earlier posts for a better understanding. Earlier in this serie: Introduction in TFS Data What tools can I use to present some data?…
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Using Custom Reports in TFS: Part 1 – Introduction in TFS Data
Introduction As a TFS user you generate data during your projects. Depending on the process you follow and the artifacts you store in TFS this can be a small or a large amount. In any case, the data you gather, is stored and will be stored in TFS for the…
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Walkthrough the Delta-N TFS Attacher App for Windows Phone 7
As I described in my previous posts, my company has been working on a WP7 app that allows you to upload attachments directly to your TFS server using the TFS Odata Service. Read about this here: Delta-N launches TFS Attacher for Windows Phone 7 Installing the TFS OData service on…
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Installing the TFS OData service on your corporate TFS server
This blog post describes how to install and configure the OData TFS Service on your corporate TFS Server. I made this post because the TFS OData documentation does not really cover this topic very well. It covers the installation on Azure and on CodePlex. A little background My company Delta-N,…
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Where to store my documents in TFS
As a Team Foundation Server user you have several possibilities to store your documents. Multiple options are always nice but it is also confusing if you do not exactly know what to do. As a result of this, I often hear the same question. Where to store my documents ?…
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Hidden Gems in TFS–Part 7 Searching and Finding Work Items in Team Foundation Server
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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TFS API – WorkItemStore is null and throws NullReferenceException
In the last weeks I wrote a migration tool to migrate test cases from Rally to Team Foundation Server. This tool is deployed to a server and runs as a Windows Service. After I made a small update to this tool suddenly my tool stopped working. My log file gave…
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Hidden Gems in TFS–Part 6 Managing workspaces in TFS with Workspace templates
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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Hidden Gems in TFS–Part 5 Handling alerts and notifications
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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Hidden Gems in TFS–Part 4 Finding status in Source Control
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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Hidden Gems in TFS–Part 3 Editing multiple work items at the same time (Bulk Edit)
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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Hidden Gems in TFS–Part 2 Work Item State Diagrams
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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Hidden Gems in TFS – Part 1 Annotate
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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My favorite TFS tools and links
I use TFS for a number of years now and I have a few tools and links that I always take with me. Let me share them with you Team Foundation SideKicks by Attrice http://www.attrice.info/cm/tfs/ This tools has some great features for doing administration tasks in TFS. Looking at checked…
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Solving TF30042: The database is full. Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator.
I got this message a few weeks ago and it scared me. Why? Let me tell you. The company where I do a lot of consultancy called me in the middle of the day that users started receiving this message. People could not check-in, create work items or add/edit any…
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Using Config Transformation for easier (Azure) Development
Visual Studio 2010 has this nice feature for config transformations. When adding a new build configuration you also get the possibility to add a web.[Configuration].config file which contains specific settings for that specific configuration. When using the publish function, the transformation uses pretty slick XSLT transformations to update the web.config…
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Distributing Work Items Queries to others via mail
When working with work items, sometimes it is useful to send the results of a work item query to other people. Even people from outside of your development team. For example the customer wants to know the status of his bugs and does not have access to your systems. In…
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Removing speaker notes from PowerPoint
It is not really ALM related but man…I am so glad I know this feature that I really want to share it here. When I speak at seminars or conferences, people always ask you for the slides. I always have a lot of notes in my slides that I don’t…
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Use the MSF Agile workbooks in the MS Scrum template
The MSF Agile 5.0 Process Template in Team Foundation Server 2010 comes with a great set of Excel workbooks. These workbooks allow you maintain your Product and Iteration Backlog with Excel. The workbooks contain a set of macros that are very useful, because they transform information from the workbook in…
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