Road to ALM

Category: Guidance

  • Connect older Visual Studio to TFS 2010 (VS 2005 & VS 2008)

    It is certainly possible to connect older Visual Studio clients to TFS 2010. Most of the functionality just works. In order to make it work you need a compatibility update. The updates can be found here: VS2008 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=cf13ea45-d17b-4edc-8e6c-6c5b208ec54d&displaylang=en VS2005 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=22215e4c-af6f-4e2f-96df-20e94d762689&displaylang=en Beware !: SP1 (both VS2008 and VS2005) is needed for…

  • The Team Tab has disappeared from the Ribbon in Excel (or error TF80012)

    Sometimes it happens that because of a crash or unknown issue the Team Tab in Excel disappears. Usually you will notice this, because you get an error when you try to open a excel sheet with TFS data. The reason is that this Add-In is disabled. To make it appear…

  • Unit Test Deployment files not found in VS2010

    When writing Unit tests, it is sometimes useful to use specific files for a specific Unit test. With help of the TestContext object in a Unit test class you can easily deploy files along with your Unit Tests. Everytime a Unit test is executed, the file(s) is published to an…

  • TFS 2010 Web Access Client shows Error 500 (Request was rejected by http filter)

    We recently published our TFS Web Access Client via HTTPS to the outside world. Everything was working fine until we pressed the “Edit Query” button. A Internal Server Error (500) appeared with the extra info “Request was rejected by http filter). We are using Microsoft TMG server to publish the…

  • Change Environment settings in VS 2010

    If you first start up VS 2010 you have to choose your environment settings. Once chosen, you will never get this screen back. Sometimes you choose the “wrong” one and you cannot find your stuff anymore. How to reset this. After searching in Options etc. I could not find it.…

  • (De) Attach Team Project Collections

    In TFS 2010 Team Project Collections are introduced. This is great because it allows you to maintain your Team Projects in a better way. With TFS 2008 you had to build a complete new server for it. For an overview of Team Project Collections read this article by Brian Harry.…