Last week I joined Greg Duncan and Martin Woodward from the Radio TFS podcast on their last show of 2015. It was a lot of fun to hear about the latest ALM news and share about what I’ve been doing the past year and about Nebbia Technology. Radio TFS is the podcast about Microsoft Visual […]
This Saturday I’m giving 2 talks at South Florida Code Camp: 8:30 am – TFS vNext: A lap around the new features coming in TFS vNext. The next version of TFS will give you the option of an on-premise solution and an Azure-hosted service. The session will cover both scenarios and new features such as: […]
By default, TFS 2010 installs with SharePoint Services 3.0. This gives you basic dashboards and reporting. In order to take full advantage of what TFS 2010 provides, you should integrate it with SharePoint 2010 (aka MOSS). This is what you get when you add that integration: SharePoint 2010 introduces 5 new dashboards that were not […]
I needed to insert a Work Item into TFS at a specific state, rather than following the predefined state transitions. Well, not just one work item, but thousands of them, since I’m working on migrating items from another system which is not yet supported by the TFS Integration Tools. I had to write some custom […]
Last Saturday, I did a presentation on “Managing Team Foundation Server 2010” at ITPro Camp – Orlando. It was a great event and it’s awesome to see more and more community events popping up throughout the state. Thanks to everyone that came to my talk and for all the great questions. Here are my slides: […]
If you are using Microsoft Test Manager on a Team Project that was created prior to TFS 2010 (and was later upgraded to 2010), or you built your own process template, you will need to use the TCM tool to enable the automatic creation of a work item when a test finds a bug through […]
I was recently connected to a client’s TFS through VPN and the Team Explorer interface didn’t let me add users from their domain into one of the TFS groups. I could only see users from my local domain. In order to get around this, I used TFSSecurity.exe (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252504.aspx). It lets you create and modify groups […]
Next month, on January 21st, I will be speaking at the Orlando IT Pro Camp. My session will cover “Managing Team Foundation Server”, here is the abstract: “Your company decided to adopt Team Foundation Server and now it’s your job to manage it and make sure that it’s always available and you can restore it […]
TFS has had an event system since it’s first version, but prior to TFS 2010 that system consisted of SOAP and SMTP events. For SOAP events, you need to create your own Web Service, then subscribe it to a TFS event using BisSubscribe.exe. TFS 2010 introduced a new concept with Server-side event handlers, which use […]
I’m working on some build customization and I needed to be able to access parameter values from my build definition programmatically. It turned out to be pretty easy once I knew where to look: We start off by connecting to TFS and then to the Build Service: TfsTeamProjectCollection server = new TfsTeamProjectCollection(new Uri(“http://myTFS:8080/tfs”)); server.EnsureAuthenticated(); IBuildServer […]