Scrum Bug (Page 7)

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

Ask a developer for confirmation in a TFS checkin policy

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

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.

Creating a Check-in Policy to warn when checking into multiple branches at once

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

Creating a custom check-in policy pack that works with multiple versions of Visual Studio.

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

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'

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

Upgrade your existing ASP.NET MVC4 application to MVC5

To upgrade your existing MVC 4 application to MVC 5 you need to go through a number of steps to replace the references and patch the web.config [http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-5/how-to-upgrade-an-aspnet-mvc-4-and-web-api-project-to-aspnet-mvc-5-and-web-api-2] . These steps are clearly explained in the original post, but when you're

Visual Studio Extensions

Enabling Mighty Moose for Visual Studio 2013

Warning: This is probably totally unsupported, and might come with its own class of issues, but so far it seems to work... To enable Mighty Moose in Visual Studio 2013 do the following steps: 1. Install Mighty Moose 2. Create a 2013 Addin file 3. Copy theC:\Program Files (x86)

ALM Rangers ship the TFS Reporting guidance books and samples v1

It has taken a lot of people a long time to work on an extensive guide on extending the TFS reporting capabilities and getting some report data out of the Team Foundation Service. Grab your copy while it's hot [http://vsarreportguide.codeplex.com/]! [http://vsarreportguide.codeplex.com/releases/

Enabling Resharper-CLI in Team Build

JetBrains is working on a Commandline interface that allows you to run the Resharper Code Inspections without opening up Visual Studio [http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/tag/command-line/]. Which is pretty cool! It's still in Early Access Program mode, but you can already download it and play around

Static Analysis

Updated MSOCAF for Visual Studio Code Analysis rules

2 years ago I worked on a huge SharePoint project where we had to run the MSOCAF wizard before deployment to the production environment. And of course, every time a few rules triggered that caused huge rework efforts. So I ended up recompiling the FxCop 1.36 rules that ship

Team foundation Service is now known as...

And I've updated the tags to all posts referencing TFSvc to now also include Visual Studio Online. This helps clear up the definition of TFS is that Server or Service? So, TFS is the on premise product and VSO is the one in the cloud (with a lot

Use Git commandline directly from Visual Studio

> Update: Instead of using the Package Management Console, you can now use The Whack Whack Console [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DanielGriffen.WhackWhackTerminal] , ConEmu Integration [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DavidRoller.ConEmuIntegration] or BuiltinCmd [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lkytal.BuiltinCmd] for a better interactive console.

Visual Studio Extensions

My must-have extensions for Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio 2013 has been available for a while now, and next week is the official launch party. Ever since I started using Visual Studio my life has been made easier by all the great extensions that people write for it. This is the list of things I install almost

Windows Drivers

TIP: Don't run the AMD Driver Cleaner Utility on Windows 8 or 8.1

Ok, let me repeat this a couple of times: * Do not run the AMD Driver Cleaner Utility on Windows 8 or 8.1 [http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=373750] * Do not run the AMD Driver Cleaner Utility on Windows 8 or 8.1 [http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.

Visual Studio 2012

Visual Studio Tip: How to always launch the debugger under a different user profile

One of my team members shared his debug workflow for a set of executables that manipulate Exchange and CRM through webservice calls. This tool always needs to run in the context of a specific service account, even when debugging and testing against the development environment. A practice that needs changing,

Change the "Sources", "Binaries" and "TestResults" folders in Team Build

Team Build by default creates 2 folders on your build agent: * 2010 * Sources * Binaries * TestResults * 2012: * src * bin * TestResults * 2013: * src * bin * tst These folder names were shortened as part of the 2012 release, partially to resolve "Path too long" issues with team build. But some of your

Visual Studio 2012

Update to WebTools 2012.2 to resolve System.ComponentModel.Composition.ImportCardinalityMismatchException

Today one of my teams was greeted by a Visual Studio crash upon opening their solution. It happened with no changes to the solution over the weekend, but some Windows Updates were remotely installed to the machines. After some testing we found that the crash will go away by ensuring

Properly incorporate MsBuild arguments into your build process template

Ever wondered how to put features like Architecture Layer validation into your builds? If you bingle it you'll find loads of posts that tell you which argument to pass to msbuild. The official MSDN docs for this feature can be found here [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/

Use local NuGet file repository to use NuGet on a Build Server that has no access to the webs.

Scott Hanselman has blogged about using your local NuGet cache as your private local NuGet server in case your connection is down [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToAccessNuGetWhenNuGetorgIsDownOrYoureOnAPlane.aspx] . And that works great when you're working locally. When working with Team Build you have multiple options, one is