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 out files, workspaces or doing […]
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Solving TF30042: The database is full. Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator.
September 5, 2011 
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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 TFS information. The support engineer […]
Continue readingUsing Config Transformation for easier (Azure) Development
July 21, 2011 Comments Off on 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 with the settings you specified […]
Continue readingDistributing Work Items Queries to others via mail
May 26, 2011 2 Comments
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 this case you can use […]
Continue readingTwitter Summary of the Future of Visual Studio ALM @ TechEd US
May 18, 2011 Comments Off on Twitter Summary of the Future of Visual Studio ALM @ TechEd US
Yesterday I was looking the video of TechEd US. The Future of Microsoft Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management. This session of Cameron Skinner gives a really nice overview of the new features that are coming up in Visual Studio vNext. During the session I twittered some things that eventually give a nice summary of what […]
Continue readingManaging your sprint backlog easier with Excel
May 13, 2011 11 Comments
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 problem is, that Parent Items […]
Continue readingUse the MSF Agile workbooks in the MS Scrum template
May 4, 2011 9 Comments
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 a visual appealing way. You […]
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TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 5) – Sprint Review and Retrospective
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