When you work iterative, you might just want to replace your current release or iteration in the query definitions, instead of creating a bunch of new queries. This post shows you how you can perform a quick and simple replace mechanism to achieve this. using System; using System.Collections.Gene... [More]

Times are coming closer to the launch date of VS ALM 2010. Microsoft has just released the pricing for the new products. To refresh the memory, the features in the different SKU’s look like:  The prices that belong to these SKU’s are Suggested Retail Pricing (USD) for Visual Studio 2010 ... [More]

Almost two months ago, I posted the following blog item TFS Sidekicks minor release update (2.4)and indicated that there would be support for TFS 2010 Beta 2 at the end of 2009. Attrice has announced that they just released an update for the version 2.4 that supports TFS 2010 Beta 2. For more info... [More]

In Part 1 I have described how to access the Application Instance of the TFS server. This post describes how you can create a new test case based on the TestManagement capabilities. In later posts I will show what you can do more with the test management. In order to get access to the work items, a... [More]

I created a new Team Project in TFS 2010 Beta 2 and choose not to configure SharePoint during the creation of the Team Project. Of course I found out fairly quickly that a portal for TFS is very useful, especially the Iteration and the Product backlog workbooks and the dashboard reports. This blog ... [More]

In Part 1 I have described how to access the Application Instance of the TFS server. This post describes how you can create access to your work items: In order to get access to the work items, add a reference to: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client.dll You can find the dll&rsquo... [More]

In Part 1 I have described how to access the Application Instance of the TFS server. This post describes how you can create new work items, including a new linked work item. The new link makes use of the new link type in TFS 2010, so it shows up on the correct tab page. In this example a new User St... [More]

In Part 1 I have described how to access the Application Instance of the TFS server. This post describes how you can create access to your build controller and agents: In order to get access to the work items, add a reference to: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Build.dll You can fi... [More]

This is the first post in a series that describes how you can work with the TFS Object Model, API or SDK. In this first part we will open a connection to the team project collection that opens the ability to access all artifacts of TFS. Create a new project and add the following references to your ... [More]

Today Microsoft has released the first two extensions on TFS: MSSCCI provider TFPT MSSCCI provider With the MSSCCI provider, you can connect to TFS Version Control with environments other then Visual Studio 2008/2010. This provider has shown its relevance to have great adaptation in the ... [More]

Reporting (SSRS and Excel) in TFS makes use of Sql Server Analysis Server, or OLAP cube. This cube is by default refreshed every two hours. This is in most cases frequently enough to get the correct information. You can however change this default behaviour. You can either change the interval of the... [More]

Team Queries are a great way to share queries over the team. In TFS 2008 you had to have the role of a Project Administrator to create Team Queries. Since Project Administrators can do much more, such as the adding and removing users to the team project and change the Team Project settings, you do n... [More]

Microsoft has announced today at TechEd that it acquired TeamPrise Client Suite. The best known component of this suite is the Eclipse plug-in that allows Java users to integrate with TFS. This is just release by Brian Harry: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2009/11/09/microsoft-has-acquired-the... [More]

I am very excited to show the latest and greatest that is available in TFS 2010. Hassan Fadili from the VSTS track in the DotNed community user group and MVP Team System has asked me to do together with him a presentation on this topic. Most of the new things in TFS 2010 will be shown: Administr... [More]

On of the pillars of TFS 2010 is the “No More No Repro”. This statement is based on the exceptional tooling to improve the communication and information hand-over between the developer and the tester. The tooling that is used is the IntelliTrace (aka Historical Debugging) and the Test Ce... [More]

Finally, Microsoft has released today the beta 2 for MSDN subscribers today. With the release of this beta 2, Microsoft has also announced a new SKU model. In Visual Studio 2008, the following model was valid, which consisted of four SKU's. The branding of Visual Studio had terms of ... [More]

TFS 2010 beta 2 will arrive very soon. This version is very stable, and Microsoft is very confident so it is giving a Go Live license to all customers. You can find more details on the blog of Brian Keller. The blog says: "But the best news is that beta 2 of Team Foundation Server 2010 will ha... [More]

Inspired by agile development methodologies, these two free applications have been designed to make working with Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server faster and easier. By promoting robust yet flexible project management practices, TFS Work Item Manager Beta and TFS Project Dashboard Beta allow ... [More]

Doug Holland posted a very nice suggestion to improve the performance of Code Analyze. Bottom line is to add an option to only analyze the code files that have been checked out. If you like the suggestion, please vote on Microsoft Connect: https://connect.microsoft... [More]

Update #1 January 8th, 2010: There is an updated post on this topic for Beta 2: http://www.ewaldhofman.nl/post/2009/12/10/Configure-TFS-portal-afterwards-Beta-2.aspx I created a new Team Project in TFS 2010 Beta 1 and choose not to configure SharePoint during the creation of the Team Project. Of co... [More]

By default the description field in the work item definition (for example the Task work item), is plain text. To modify the type of the field to Html, you have to do the following: Step Action 1 Open the command prompt (Run as Administrator) 2 Go to the folder %Program Files%... [More]

When you create a new work item, you don't always know who exactly should pick up the work. In that case you want to introduce a role to the work item's assigned to field. To do this, you have to make a modification to the work item: Step Action 1 Open the command prompt (Run as Admi... [More]

When you add files to Source Control, some of the files are excluded automatically, such as dll files.   You can change the default setting by modifying one of the following registry keys: Per-User: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<version>\TeamFoundation\SourceControl\AddOpt... [More]

There is in the Beta 1 version a bug that blocks processing the OLAP cube when you install a fresh instance of TFS 2010. This issue is solved in Beta 2. To workaround this, do the following: In a browser navigate to this URL: http://<servername>:<port">http://<servername>:<p... [More]

When I created a Team Project under the same account as the TFS installation was performed, I was able to create a new team project. Unfortunately, I got an error message that I did not have enough rights: ---begin Exception entry---Time: 2009-06-23 09:28:24ZModule: WSSException Type: Microsoft.Te... [More]

To calculate the project velocity, TFS summarizes all remaining work of all work item types in the iteration. Imagine you have a breakdown of work items, such as at the top level a User Story, which is broken down into Tasks. The project velocity should be calculated by summarizing the Remaini... [More]

I have installed on Windows XP the Visual Studio 2010 Team System Beta 1. When playing around with the iteration Backlog workbook, I was unable to retrieve the Historical Data. The VB editor popup up with the following error. When looking at the references of the workbook, it was indicating ... [More]

Since a few days, the first beta of TFS 2010 is released. The installation went very smooth. Microsoft has put a lot of effort in the installation experience of TFS. I choose the run Default Configuration wizard. At my installation on Windows Server 2008 there were some caveats: 1) The Readiness C... [More]