Team Foundation Server Convert a TFS 2010 Group to a 2012 Team after upgrade Update I've since uploaded a patch to the TfsTeam quick response sample to also include functionality to convert a Group to a Team. [https://jessehouwing.net/vsts-tfs-team-tools-convert-security-group-to-team] With TFS 2010 it was already a common practice to create security groups as subgroups of the Contributors group to define
Team Foundation Server Which UIEditors are available for Team Build by default | | | Types inheriting from UITypeEditor | Recently I was asked to extend a Build Template for Team Build. There were a few fancy things which were required for this template, including picking files and folders in Source Control, selecting Work Items etc. I looked around the documentation on msdn.microsoft.com, but
TFVC Checkin Policy Which Check-in policies do you use with your projects? Team Foundation Server allows an administrator to define a Check-in policy to ensure all code that is checked in conforms to a certain standard and that a minimal set of quality attributes have been applied to that code. Not all of these policies make sense in every situation and implementing
Visual Studio 2012 Red-Gate releases Reflector 8.0 Red-Gate just released Reflector 8.0 [http://shop.reflector.net/download]. Not with a lot of fanfare, as I only noticed because my Early Access Program Build wouldn't start and because there was no new EAP build available to download. They improved searching and filtering inside Reflector by
Static Analysis FxCopContrib Alpha for Visual Studio 2012 I've just ported, fixed, compiled and released a version of my FxCopContrib library that should work under Visual Studio 2012 and Team Build 2012 [http://fxcopcontrib.codeplex.com/releases/view/100250]. The following rules are included: * Performance * FxC1801:DoNotUseParseAndToStringToConvertTypes [http://fxcopcontrib.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=DoNotUseParseAndTostringToConvertTypes&referringTitle=
Team Foundation Server Make you custom TFS tools clever by automatically figuring out the Project Collection As you might have noticed, most TFS Command Line tools will automatically figure out the TFS server to connect to by somehow figuring out the TFS Server from the current folder you have open. When you're anywhere in a mapped workspace, most tools will automatically connect to that
TFS 2012 Set your TFS profile or team image from the commandline Update * I've since uploaded a patch to the TfsTeam quick response sample to also include functionality to convert a Group to a Team. [https://jessehouwing.net/vsts-tfs-team-tools-convert-security-group-to-team] * Download the latest beta version here. [http://tfsteamtools.codeplex.com/releases/view/101316] One of the cool new features of Team
TFS 2012 Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 Hotfix released If you've already upgraded your Team Foundation Server 2012 to Update 1, you might have encountered issues after attaching a project collection to your server. This is caused by a bug in Update 1 that removed all permissions from your Project Collection. Microsoft has just released a Hotfix
Windows Devices Take a screenshot on a Windows 8 slate I was working on a post the other day and needed a screenshot. I didn't have a keyboard with me and that makes a screenshot very hard to take... I remembered the Windows Phone shortcut key (Win+Pwr), but that didn't work at all on the
Windows 8 Replace the default user logon screen in Windows 8 Windows 8 comes with that nice Seattle abstract image on the background, but you might want to put your own there. That turns out to be hard. There's this nice blog post that breaks down all the steps into one nice script [http://yorkitacademy.wordpress.com/2012/11/
Azure DevOps Install Word4TFS on a machine with Office 2013 and Visual Studio 2012 (UNSUPPORTED) The Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Rangers have released a new version of the Word4TFS add-in for Word. But if you're like me, and you've already upgraded to Visual Studio 2012 and Office 2013, then your out of luck. Both are not yet supported. But, they probably
Azure DevOps Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 is now live Update A hotfix has been released to resolve issues with attaching a project collection to TFS 2012 Update 1. [https://jessehouwing.net/tfs-2012u1-released] Just a quick note, Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server Update 1. I'd been using the CTP ever since October and
Windows 8 Windows 8 - Remote desktop tips and tricks If you're using Remote desktop a lot, you'll find that a few things are changing with Windows 8. Here are a few tips and tricks to make your life easier: * On the Windows 8 Pro and Enterprise version the classic desktop version of Remote desktop comes
Team Foundation Server Updating your Team Foundation Service Uri to the new tfs.visualstudio.com Microsoft has decided that the Team Foundation Service (I'll start calling it TFSvc for short) has had enough testing and that it is now live and out of preview [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/10/31/team-foundation-service-rtm.aspx] . They've also put it under
BitLocker Backing up your BitLocker keys to Active Directory Ok.. So I've learned the hard way that BitLocker doesn't automatically backup the security keys to Active Directory if you join the domain AFTER you've encrypted your machine. Or if you start encryption before the group policy has been pushed to your machine. And
Azure DevOps Quickly generate Work Item Query for use in the TFS API Some time ago I responded to a question on StackOverflow [http://stackoverflow.com/a/9267123/736079]regarding a couple of ways to optimize a team query. The query was used in from the TFS Client Object Model and one of the things that was clear from the way the original
Windows Devices Cisco responds to WPA2-Enterprise issues > UPDATE: Both Microsoft and Cisco now have an official knowledge base article available for this issue: * Windows 8 clients may not be able to connect to wireless network [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2749073] * Windows 8 clients can't associate to Cisco Unified Wireless [https://supportforums.cisco.com/
Windows 8 WPA2-enterprise and Broadcom Wireless N network controller under Windows 8 A colleague came to me today, having heard of my attempts to get my Samsung //Build slate to work on our internal (Cisco AP) wireless network. And he was indeed experiencing the same issues, where connections would always fail at work, but not at home. Except, I had not yet
Windows Devices Installing the Apps you loved from Windows 8 CP and RP on RTM I found that a couple of apps I got very used to weren't among the apps in the Windows 8 RTM appstore, but I found that you can install them anyway. The ones that were still missing for me were Sketchbook, MetroTwit and a couple of games. To
Visual Studio 2012 Windows 8, Visual Studio 2012, Team Foundation Server 2012 and ALM Ranger Guidance now available! It has been a long wait for some, others, like me, have been running the beta's for months and have been impatiently waiting for the RTM release of all the tools of our trade. Yesterday Microsoft released the following products to the MSDN developer audience [http://msdn.microsoft.
Windows Devices Installing Windows 8 RTM on a Samsung //Build slate Note: I already had the latest firmware version installed. If you haven't upgraded your firmware, do so before installing Windows 8 RTM. For the //Build tablets this is firmware version 05WJ [http://www.samsung.com/global/buildpc/data/WIN_05WJ.zip]. If you don't your tablet
Visual Studio 2012 Will you be installing a leaked Windows 8 image? I've seen the links come by. If you follow news sites such as Winbeta.org [http://www.winbeta.org/?q=tags/windows-8] or Neowin.net [http://www.neowin.net/news/tags/windows_8]it isn't hard to find your way to the iso images for Windows
Static Analysis Is NDepend 5 coming soon? My Visual Studio 2012 is hinting towards the release of NDepend version 5. It's very soon after the release of 4.0, so it kind of surprised me a little. The download link isn't working yet [http://www.ndepend.com/NDependV5.aspx], so no way to
Team Foundation Server Connecting Visual Studio 2008 to TFS 2010, 2012 and the TFS Service Preview Update: I've posted a consolidated post for all versions of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server here. [https://jessehouwing.net/vsts-tfs-connect-any-visual-studio-version] Not all of us are so lucky that we can work with the latest bits at all time. Especially the folks that are in the Microsoft BI
Tools Red-Gate silently releases 7.6.0.808 version of Reflector It looks like Red-gate pushed out their new version a little in advance of the official announcement [http://shop.reflector.net/download]. When you download the latest version from their site you will get 7.6.0.808, the new version that includes * Thenew installer experience [http://www.reflector.net/
