There is a lot going on in the TFS/VSTS world. I hear more and more customers talking about the move to VSTS and I think this is a very good trend. Many scenarios that were showstoppers before are in place on VSTS and some scenarios are coming on short –term. To get a good overview […]
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Tag Archives: TFS API
Bulk destroy Work Items from Team Foundation Server
January 14, 2015 
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WARNING: Destroy work items is a irreversible action so use with caution and at your own risk! Lately I am quire busy with all kinds of migration work to Team Foundation Server. This means a lot of testing, modifying and re-testing. Because the target Team Project has quite some modifications and custom work it is […]
Continue reading Insert an inline image into a Work Item with the TFS API
December 31, 2014 2 Comments
On the verge of 2014 I wanted to share a last post with you. At the moment I am working on a migration tool to migrate from another system to TFS 2013. The source system contains a lot of items with a description that contains images. Not as an attachment but as an inline image into […]
Continue reading Add permissions with TFSSecurity–The ultimate reference
July 28, 2014 10 Comments
UPDATE 7/15/2015: Hayder Casey from Microsoft provided me with the details on using the Tagging namespace. You can use this one to set the [Create Tag Definition] security setting. UPDATE 4/25/2016: Microsoft has now updated MSDN to have decent documentation on MSDN found here Sooner or later, every TFS Administrator will face the challenge to […]
Continue reading Keep track of your Team Projects Process Template Version
April 4, 2013 6 Comments
The company I work for (Delta-N), is a service company. We built software for various customers and we do so by means of projects. It should not surprise you that we maintain all our development projects in Team Foundation Server and, since we use TFS since the first version (TFS 2005), we do have a […]
Continue readingDeleting (or destroying) a Global List with the TFS API
January 9, 2013 12 Comments
One of the most used features in TFS Work Items are Global Lists. We use global lists very frequently because it save a lot of time in maintaining list data amongst different Team Projects. What we also do very often is adding and removing items to and from a global list. This article from Shai […]
Continue readingUsing WorkItemTrackingCacheRoot in your web.config files
August 13, 2012 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 […]
Continue readingTFS API – WorkItemStore is null and throws NullReferenceException
November 4, 2011 14 Comments
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 me the following error: Error […]
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