My name is Esteban Garcia, I am a part-owner and principal consultant for a software company called M2E Solutions. We are a Microsoft Certified Partner based out of Orlando, FL and we focus mostly on custom application development using Microsoft technologies. Most of my posts will have something to do with the .NET framework.
I’ve thought about blogging for a while, but I either never had the time or always thought that my topics would be lame. Well, I still don’t have the time, and haven’t solved the ‘lame’ problem, but I figured I’ll give this a try. My friend and co-worker Mikey tells me that blogging is cool, so I’m gonna do the Gatorade thing and be like him.
Mark Allen
Another approach which works well is to have the XML tag reference a custom TFS group. In my case there is a master contributor group shared between projects so rather than list all the contributor users in the template AssignedTo list boxes I created a TFS group called ‘TeamAssignments’ and within security I referenced the team. Then in the templates I added the tag ListItem value=[project]\TeamAssignments. Now when anyone is added to the team they are displayed in the AssignedTo List box. This also means that another team can be created without changing the templates as the changes can be done in security.
TFS Team Name: Blue (example set up in security)
TFS Group Name: TeamAssignments
Members: Team Blue