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Couple of days ago Brian Harry post about the new release of Update 2 for Visual Studio and TFS 2012, and today another release of Update 3 that isn’t big a Update 1 and 2 but contains a set of bug fixes that can ease you work. Before jumping to Update 3, if for some reason you’re not using Update 2 this is the time to read about it and install it! Update 2 VS/TFS 2012.2 (Update 2) Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS 2012.2) ISOs available Team Explorer Everywhere 2012 Update 2 Update 3 – CTP Visual...
אחד השינויים ב – TFS 11 מאפשר לנו להגדיר קבוצות פיתוח והגדרה של סבבי פיתוח עם תאריך התחלה וסיום (Sprint, Iteration וכו). כאשר מתחילים לתכנן סבב פיתוח נראה חישוב של סה”כ ימי העבודה בסבב הנוכחי, אך סה”כ הימים לא יסתדר לכם כי הוא מחשב שיום ראשון אינו יום עבודה. זאת שאלה שאני מקבל מהרבה לקוחות – איך אני משנה את תצוגת ה – Backlog שתתאים לימי המנוחה בארץ (שישי ושבת ולא שבת וראשון). לדוגמא – אם הגדרנו סבב פיתוח מה – 3 לפברואר עד ה – 14 לפברואר – מדובר על 12 ימים סה”כ ו- 10 ימי פיתוח אבל אנחנו נראה...
There are many improvements in TFS API for 2012 version, in my previous post I’ve talked about TFS API Part 48 – WorkItemControl And Bypass Work Item Rules that allow work item creation with bypass rule mode in WorkItemStore that allow you to create and change any field value without applying the WorkItem template rules. in this post I’ll show how to delete Team Project using TFS API, be aware Delete Team Project is unrecoverable! Download Demo Project Step 1: Connect TFS and Getting Team Projects...
It’s been a while since I wrote about TFS API, not because there is no more about it is because I worked on Windows Store for the past couple of months so I didn’t had the time. More About TFS API So today post will be about two changes in TFS 2012, the first one is WorkItemControl based on WPF that replaced the WorkItemFormControl based on WinForms, the second will be about WorkItemStore bypass rule – Allowing you to save and change work item values without obeying the work item rules. Download...
Git-TF tool release by Microsoft allowing developers to work locally using Git repository without any connection to TFS, if you wanted to work on your files locally (In case you don’t have internet connection) you had reopen the solution and work offline. TFS 2012 comes with new feature called – Local Workspace allowing developers to work locally on their files but without tracking the changes history – here comes Git-TF tool. Brian Harry’s Blog Distributed Version Control (DVCS) has a growing following...
In previous post “ Visual Studio 2012–News (iPhone, Web Test Management, 260 Limit and more) ” I talked about the new Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 and what’s new for Visual Studio and TFS 2012. So today Microsoft release : Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 – Download TFS 2012 Update 1 – Download Update: Error when installing TFS 2012 Update 1 - dbo.typ_BuildControllerTableV2 is incompatible with dbo.typ_BuildControllerTable 260 Character Path Limit Some call this Microsoft “Achilles’ heel” but I’ll not...
If for some reason you or your company is still using VSS it’s time to move forward! Team Foundation server supports VSS Migration, until today there were a command line tool allowing you to migrate VSS repository to TFS Source Control – this tool is called – VSSConverter. VSSConverter command line tool requires configuration file that need manual authoring, but no More! Microsoft has announce a new wizard based UI tool for upgrading VSS repositories to Team Foundation Server 2012/2010. Open the...
With Visual Studio 2012 and TFS 2012 we have a lot of new stuff for Developers, Testers, Managers customers and more, and this is not the end…. Microsoft continues to develop new features for 2012 version. Test Case Management On The Web Brian Harry - We’ve heard from a number of customers that in final acceptance testing, they don’t want to install anything on the test environment that’s not going to be in the production environment. That’s understandable. In our first update, we will...
Tweet As Sela Group continues to move hundreds of customers from Quality Center to TFS we have upgrade our migration tool called – Scrat to support migration to TFS 2012 RC. The migration process is Easy, Fast and doesn't required any special customization it’s just a simple wizard application that will allow you to migrate everything from Quality Center to TFS. Requirements, Bugs, Test Cases, Attachments, Links between items and more. Just download the trial version and follow my steps: Step...
Tweet Couple of hours ago Brian Harry post about the RC version for VS and TFS 2010 + Alex Golesh post about Windows 8 Release Preview . As we know VS/TFS 2012 comes with many great improvements and new features that push forward the ALM platform allowing more and more people to work as team more easily and much more productively. Visual Studio Product website Eclipse update site for the latest Team Explorer Everywhere preview or the download page Overall summary of changes since the Beta Jason’s...
Tweet Over the last posts I talked about “ TFS API Part 46 (VS11) – Team Settings ”, in this post I’ll show how to get and change Iteration Dates from TFS API. We’ll show all Teams under a specific Team Project and once you click on a Team you will see its Iterations and Dates. Download Demo Project Step 1: Create Project and Add Reference Create an WPF application and add the following references: First add reference for: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client (11.0.0.0) Microsoft.TeamFoundation...
Tweet In the previous posts “ TFS API Part 45 (VS11) – Modify Teams and Team Members ” I talked about Teams, from getting all team to modify and creating new Team using TFS API. Now, Teams are more than just a “Security Group”, they hold specific settings such as relevant Areas/Iteration for that Team. The “Team” can be assigned to Backlog Iteration (Set as Team’s backlog Iteration), this takes all paths under that iteration and add them to the team backlog. You can also change the Iteration backlog...
Tweet In my previous post “ Teams and Team Members ” I talked about new Service in TFS API called – TfsTeamService. Using this service we can control Teams and Team Members under TFS. We can create and remove Teams and Team Members using TFS API. I know this can be quite confusing but Teams in TFS are simply Group (Security Group), same as Contributors, Administrators etc. If you open Security tab under TFS Web Management you can see that there is two separate lists of Groups – Teams and TFS...
Tweet TFS 11 comes with many great changes for software development, the first and super important is Teams, until TFS 11 Task work item or any other work item has to be assign to individual, means that you can’t assign a Task to a Scrum Team etc… So many people has built customize solution to handle this but no need! because TFS 11 comes with this great Feature! In TFS Web Management site you can add as many teams as you want under One Team Project. If your team works with Scrum then you should...
Tweet In previous post - TFS API Part 21: Delete Work Item using WorkItemStore (Demo Application) I showed how to delete Work Items from TFS using TFS API. My problem was that it not easy to delete work items one by one so I decided to build a tool based on TFS Queries to allow me easily select the work items I want to delete. You can download executable from Here You can download Source Code from Here *** Deleting Work Item Action Is Not Recoverable *** Enjoy
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