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Should I wait for VS\TFS 2012 SP1 ?
27 November 12 08:09 AM | BaruchF | with no comments

Update 1 for VS\TFS 2012 is out. Read about it in Buck Hodges detailed screencast post. Now the question rises again: Should I wait for VS\TFS 2012 SP1 ? The one word answer is: No . Why ? Because there will be no SP1 … - Microsoft has change the update model between major versions from one or two big service packs to sequence of "Updates". As Brian says and I quote : " So you can , kind of, think of Update 1 as SP1". Microsoft will ship several updates between VS 2012 and VS...

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, DEV, Visual Studio, VS2012, ALM, TFS2012

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Final CTP – Great News
31 October 12 10:49 AM | BaruchF | with no comments

Microsoft announced the final CTP for VS 2012 Update 1 and it seems that the release is already in sight … This update includes many fixes and requested features. Here are some of the news: Version Control path limit is expanded to 400 character (you will need to update both client and server)   Cross browser support for Coded UI test Safari is still not supported …   Pause Resume and Update Test Case from Test Runner One of the most missing requests   OOB support for Kanban process...

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, DEV, CTP, TFS Web Access, VS2012, MTM, ALM

What’s new in Microsoft Test Manager 2012 RC
10 June 12 09:23 AM | BaruchF | with no comments

As the main focus of the Visual Studio 2012 is productivity, usability and user experience. The MTM 2012 RC release takes it further by adding new abilities. Here short summary of the news: Moving between Team Projects and Test Plans made easier   Copy link in various activities (Test Case, Test Run) Assigning configuration made easier New Exploratory Testing toolbar New Video Recorder a Media Foundation based video recorder has been integrated with the product, which means that you don’t have...

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, VS2012, MTM

TFS Web Access – Init Linked Query as Collapsed
18 August 11 08:43 AM | BaruchF | with no comments

When you open a linked WorkItem Query in TFS Web Access the default initial state is expand all and if you have massive tree of linked WorkItem it’s kind of annoying: Today one of my customers asked me if I can change this default behavior and make it appear by default with all nodes collapsed. BTW, in Team Explorer there are buttons for collapse and expand all but Web Access doesn’t offer this option as described here . After a little digging in pages an java scripts I found the solution. Disclaimer...

תגים:ITPRO, DEV, TFS 2010, TSWA, TFS Web Access

Workflow Designer Patch
09 August 11 08:58 PM | BaruchF | with no comments

Everyone who works with workflow designer (and if you are TFS Build Developer – you do it a lot ) encounter the problem with Workflow Designer slowness and crashes (happened to me like 20 times today ) . Today, Microsoft announce a patch for that ! This patch includes fixes to ASP.Net & Silverlight as well and other 35 issues and 6 features as you can find in KB 2468871 . Read more in Buck Hodges post . Grab it from Here .   Happy Building.

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, DEV, VS2010, Team Build, Performance, Tech, Workflow

Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools–New Release
04 March 11 07:32 AM | BaruchF | with no comments

Brian Harry has just announced a new release of the Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools that includes new features, improvement and bugs fix for existing features. What I really liked is the enhanced Windows Explorer Extensions: With much more options. Another graet improvement occurs in the Backup & Restore tool . You can read about all new stuff  in Brian’s blog . Download it from here .

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, DEV, VS2010, TFS 2010

CustomizableOutDir In Team Build 2010
22 February 11 10:48 AM | BaruchF | 2 comment(s)

The default behavior of Team Build is to override the Output Directory defined in the compiled project and direct all outputs to Binaries Dir. But, sometimes this behavior is not good either because of Solutions dependencies either because we want our outputs in specific structure. In Team Build 2008 there was a predefined property for that reason “CustomizableOutDir” that if it set to true output directories  are not overridden. In Team Build 2010 (as part of moving from MSBuild to Workflow...

תגים:ITPRO, DEV, Team Build, MSBuild, TFS 2010

Msbuild for Website & the slippery “_PublishedWebsites” folder
13 February 11 03:30 PM | BaruchF | with no comments

I got request from one of our clients about wired behavior of the Team Build. In some of the builds for Web projects the build creates a _PublishedWebsites folder under drop location and arranges all WebSites\WebApplications\WebService under this folder very nice. But in other builds this folder is missing even though all web projects compiled successfully. It just drops all compiled materials under drop location. As I remember it should just work Out Of The Box. For testing I created new solution...

תגים:ITPRO, DEV, Team Build, MSBuild, TFS 2010

TFS 2010 - Build Details Log View Is Very Slow
08 February 11 08:32 PM | BaruchF | with no comments

A while ago I posted about a bug in viewing the Build Details Log inside Visual Studio. I’ve also submitted bug on the Connect web site, but the answer was “suppress warning level”. Now there are  news : A good one and A bad one. I’ll start with the good one: This is officially a bug and will be fix in the next release. The bad one is that right now, if you have a big Project to build that includes a lot of solutions and projects (we have like 70 solutions with more than 700 projects that all...

תגים:ITPRO, DEV, VS2010, Team Build, Visual Studio, TFS 2010

TFS 2010 Upgrade Issue
28 June 10 04:05 PM | BaruchF | with no comments

If you already upgraded from TFS 2005/2008 to TFS 2010 or you are about to. You must read Brian Harry Blog Post about potentially serious issue of losing Labels content and Merge Data here . According to Brian: ” Under no circumstance will it cause the contents of any source code to be modified or lost ”. This issue caused by change of handling items in source control between TFS 2008 Version Control and TFS 2010 Version Control, you can read about this change here . Since that change caused the...

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, DEV, Upgrade, TFS 2010

WSS 3.0 – Change Web Site Administrator
05 December 09 08:04 PM | BaruchF | with no comments

WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) not like other systems doesn't inherit permissions from the parent automatically. Means that even though you are site collection administrator and farm administrator and local computer admin (even if you are domain admin…) you wouldn’t have access to Website created under that web collection.Unless the owner (Website administrator) gave you explicitly permissions on the Website. If the user created the Website left the company (or was recreated for some reason...

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, Tech, WSS

How to avoid annoying authentication window when connecting to TFS
08 September 09 04:56 PM | BaruchF | 4 comment(s)

When connecting to TFS through Team Explorer it uses the windows login credentials. If the logged in user has no rights to connect to TFS an authentication window appears that allows you to enter another credentials in order to connect to TFS.    But sometimes even though the logged in user has the required permission this annoying window appears and you must enter your credentials again. This happens every time you open Visual Studio and is really bothering. This problem may lead to another...

תגים:TFS, ITPRO, C#, Visual Studio

Windows 7 & Network Loopback Adapter Settings
09 July 09 12:10 PM | BaruchF | 3 comment(s)

If you are running virtual machine on windows virtual PC and you want to connect the host to the guest, for example: your virtual machine hosts TFS server and you want your VS on the host to connect to it. You can use Microsoft loopback adapter to create virtual network that connects the computers. Here is great post (A lot of pictures :-)) how to install it on windows 7. In virtual machine settings choose the loopback as the network adapter. configure the network adapter on the host and on the guest...

תגים:ITPRO, Visual Studio, Windows 7, Network

Picasa on windows 7
10 May 09 12:02 AM | BaruchF | with no comments

If you plan to install Picasa on Windows 7 , do not install the latest version. Install version 2.7 instead  and disable automatic updates. Worked for me !

תגים:ITPRO, Windows 7, Tech

mstsc /console on xp sp3
28 April 09 10:13 AM | BaruchF | 3 comment(s)

This morning (5 AM if you asking…) while trying to connect to one of our client’s server I got the known message: So, I tried to connect to session 0 using mstsc /console. Nope, got the same error . Quick search found that on vista sp1 and windows server 2008 and xp sp3 the switch changed and it’s now /admin . But, here is the catch if you specify the switch in the computer name field: You get error massage: If you type mstsc /console in command line the RDC window opens and ignores the switch without...

תגים:ITPRO