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Changing the Available work Items in Visual Studio 2012

December 13, 2012 by Rene van Osnabrugge 6 Comments

Visual Studio 2012 drastically changed the Team Explorer. Not only the UI Changed a lot. Also the way of working within Team Explorer changed. Team Explorer now has the notion of a “My Work” tab, that displays all relevant information to you. It displays In progress Work Items, Available Work Items, Allows you to Request […]

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Using WorkItemTrackingCacheRoot in your web.config files

August 13, 2012 by Rene van Osnabrugge 2 Comments

I frequently build custom tooling against the TFS API. Sometimes Windows Applications but most of the time I build Web Applications. When building Web Applications it is no secret that your application runs under the credentials of the application pool. When accessing work items via TFS API from your web application you can get the […]

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

March 10, 2011 by Rene van Osnabrugge 1 Comment

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 this update. Make sure SP1 […]

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

March 10, 2011 by Rene van Osnabrugge 3 Comments

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 again do the following Start […]

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

February 18, 2011 by Rene van Osnabrugge Comments Off on 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 Web Access Client. This link […]

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