BitLocker Featured Temporarily bypass Bitlocker encryption requirement for removable devices Microsoft allows a system administrator to set a policy that requires the users to enable Bitlocker encyption on any device before it can be written to. This is a pretty foolproof system to ensure that company data is always encrypted (except that you can always turn off encryption on a
XAML Build Staged execution of unit tests on Team Build > Using Team Foundation Sever 2015 or newer or are you on Azure DevOps? Find updated guidance here [https://jessehouwing.net/staged-execution-of-tests-in-azure-devops-pipelines/]! When running Unit Tests in your build system, you may want to first run the most important suite, the one that should never fail, the ones that are
TFS 2013 Configure Git for Visual Studio to use a proxy server Unlike most features of Visual Studio, the Git tools do not (always) automatically pick up the Widows proxy settings, being dependent on a number of open source libraries which don't seem to be benefiting from the same Windows Proxy Auto-Detection. This is a shame, really, but it doesn&
Team Foundation Server Enabling Requirement based suites for other work item types (without putting them on your backlog pages) A few weeks ago a client asked me whether they could link test cases to the Feature and Epic work items and whether they could create a Requirements Based Suite for these work items in Test manager. And while investigating the new "Bug on the Backlog" feature of
Team Foundation Server Enabling "Bug on the Backlog" feature for the Scrum template TFS 2013 update 4 has been out for a few weeks now and one of it's features allows you to easily put Bug work items on the backlog. This feature is very useful for users of the MSF Agile and MSF CMMI process templates, but is not enabled
Agile Agile Chair Game - Some alternate suggestions If you've been at an Agile conference, been a Scrum Master for quite some time and joined an Agile meetup group (here in The Netherlands there are several), then you probably found that games can be very quick ways to energize any meeting and to drive learning through
Books Amazons entry into the Dutch book market is not without issues... Amazon has finally announced that it opened its digital book store in The Netherlands. Due to the protected pricing on books in The Netherlands that took way longer than many people hoped for. Like me, a lot of fellow Dutchmen have found their way to the US Amazon Kindle store
Team Foundation Server Changes to the Scrum 2013.4 process template In 2013.3 Microsoft did a number of massive changes to support Test Suites and Test Plans as work items. In 2013.4 only a few changes were made [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2014/10/16/visual-studio-and-tfs-2013-4-update-4-release-candidate.aspx] . There currently is no "upgrade my template"
Android Removing Device Encryption from an LG G2 (International) running CM11 I decided to turn on Device Encryption on my LG G2 International yesterday. Boy was that a mistake! My phone hasn't been as unstable in years. And, as it turns out, once device encryption is enabled, it's quite a mess to turn it off. Before I
Team Foundation Server Showing Test Results on the Test Case work item in Visual Studio and TFS Web Access There are times you hear nothing about a topic for over a year and then suddenly 2 clients and an MSDN forum post [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/df481a58-35be-4557-ba12-6c10f0a9933a/results-from-test-runs-on-web-in-tfs?forum=tfsreporting#38d11198-9341-4f9a-bc36-242125a89948] come up with the same request: Can we show the test results in Team
Stack Overflow Featured Effectively use StackOverflow as a contributor A couple of colleagues asked me last week how I manage to wade through StackOverflow to find interesting questions. They also asked why I'm active on Stack overflow at all. Let's first dive into a couple of tips for more effective management of the incoming flow
XAML Build Building a .NET application using the GitUpgradeTemplate.xaml Today I received a request which I first found strange. A team that migrated to Git, but still wanted to use their TFS 2008 era TFSBuild.proj. After seeing the investment made in that build file, I understood :). So we though to simply use the GitUpgradeTemplate.xaml which is provided
Azure DevOps Codelens features and Visual Studio versions [Updated for 2013.3ctp1] Update:Visual Studio 2013.3 CTP 1 Adds support for Git repositories! If you're as happy with the new CodeLens features in Visual Studio 2013 ultimate as I am, you've probably found out that some of the features rely on server side features. This means that
TFS 2013 Controlling whether CodeLens runs Don't get me wrong, I just *LOVE* CodeLens, but I've found a few times where I want to control it's server jobs. A few scenario's where I don't need CodeLens running for my Project: * The project is an archive and
TFS 2013 Work item customization doesn't get reflected in Web Access (2012 and 2013) In our company we have quite a few custom process templates for TFS, most of these have been around for quite some time and have been updated as new versions have come along. Recently I was asked by a number of people why their changes made to the Form Layout
Visual Studio Extensions Book Review: Resharper Essentials - Or: Find your way around Reharper's Shortcuts I received an ebook copy from Packt Publishing for an honest review, So here we go :). I've been a long time, on and off user of Resharper. But it has taken me a long time to learn most of its features. Even today I still find little gems
TFVC Checkin Policy Ask a developer for confirmation in a TFS checkin policy A TFS checkin policy can normally only be dismissed by overriding the policy. There is no way to selectively allow a user to override one, but not another policy. And there is no way to interact with the user from the Check-in dialog using custom UI other than the message,
Avanade partners with scrum.org As many of you probably already know, I became a trainer with Scrum.org for the Professional Scrum Developer curriculum a year ago, and now Avanade (my previous employer) and Scrum.org have partnered up to improve Software Delivery.
Team Foundation Server Creating a Check-in Policy to warn when checking into multiple branches at once > Update: Project has been uploaded to GitHub [https://github.com/jessehouwing/tfstools]. One of the teams I work with recently had strange issues when they tried to merge their feature branches to the main branch. It turned out that one developer had accidentally misconfigured his workspace and was check-in
TFVC Checkin Policy Creating a custom check-in policy pack that works with multiple versions of Visual Studio. Anyone who has ever tried to create a custom check-in policy for Visual Studio probably knows that the policy isn't specific to the TFS server version you're using, but to the version of Visual Studio that is connecting. This can be confusing for companies that are
Visual Studio 2012 One of my new favorite plugins for Visual Studio and TFS Today I stumbled upon a new Team Explorer extension for TFS in Visual Studio. It almost immediately made it on my shortlist of things that I need to have on every Visual Studio installation. It's simple, but brilliant. Ok, enough praise :). This extension nests itself into Team Explorer
Windows Devices Installing Windows 8.1 to a Samsung Series 7 Slate Note: I already had the latest firmware version installed. If you haven't upgraded your firmware, do so before installing Windows 8 or 8.1 RTM. For the //Build tablets this is firmware version 05WJ [http://www.samsung.com/global/buildpc/data/WIN_05WJ.zip]. If you don'
Visual Studio 2013 Resolving test run issues in Visual Studio "Some or all identity references could not be translated" One of my devs ran into a strange bug in the Visual Studio test runner today. It manifests itself in the fact that tests won't run and you'll find the following error message in the Output\Test window: ------ Run test started ------ Some or all
Azure DevOps Red-Gate releases Reflector .NET 8.3 And they finally integrated the Analyzer feature into Visual Studio. Now you can find out where a specific call is bing used, right from your editor. I find this feature immensely handy when trying to figure our how to use a certain feature. This is especially handy when you'
XAML Build Resharper 8.1 goes gold & Resharper CLI For those of you who are using Resharper, version 8.1 was just released with Typescript support and better integration with Visual Studio 2013. The full release blog can be found here [http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2013/12/resharper-81-goes-rtm-along-with-dotcover-dottrace/] . [http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2013/12/resharper-81-goes-rtm-along-with-dotcover-dottrace/] With Resharper
