Category: Team Foundation Server
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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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Delta-N launches TFS Attacher for Windows Phone 7
Last week Delta-N, the company I work for, launched the TFS Attacher for Windows Phone 7 on the marketplace. This is great news. We built this application with the following scenario in mind, During Sprint planning meetings or just 1 on 1 meetings we work our way through Product Backlog…
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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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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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Managing your sprint backlog easier with Excel
In my previous post I talked about the Excel workbooks in combination with the MS Scrum template. Excel is a great help in quickly organizing and editing your work items. It is however kind of hard to see a good status overview of your work in the current sprint. Main…
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DevDays 2011 Session, Tfs Reports
In my previous post I mentioned my session on the Dutch Event DevDays. The session was recorded and is posted on Channel 9. Unfortunately for the english readers, the session is in Dutch. You can find the video here on Channel 9 You can find the slides in my previous…
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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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Microsoft DevDays 2011–Garbage In–Garbage Out. Inzicht in TFS Reports
On the 29th of April I presented on the DevDays 2011 Conference. I talked about TFS reporting and what you need to do to properly fill the reports. Also I showed how to access the warehouse with tools like Excel and Report Builder and what you can do to enter…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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