TFS 2012 - Scrum Bug

Connect any version of Visual Studio to Azure DevOps or Azure DevOps Server

Visual Studio has been around for a long time and there are still people developing in Visual Basic 6 or Visual Studio 2008. Even if you're using a more recent IDE, you could need one or more hotfixes and/or service packs.

Team Foundation Server

Install Team Foundation Server Power Tools side-by-side

You might be connecting to multiple versions of TFS and use multiple versions of Visual Studio. Which Power tools work with which?

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!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 currently being changed, finally the

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

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,

XAML Build

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. Which is pretty cool! It's still in Early Access Program mode, but you can already download it and play around with it. It's actually not that hard to integrate

XAML Build

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. Basically, the trick is to either edit your

XAML Build

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. And that works great when you're working locally. When working with Team Build you have multiple options, one is to enable Package restore and use Nugetter to have

XAML Build

Update Build Quality and Keep Indefinitely in TFS from the commandline

As you probably know, TFS keeps all kinds of data behind when it finishes an automated build. Test Results, the stuff it copied to the drop folder, symbols etc. And by default it will keep the last 10 builds of data around and then starts cleaning up. When you deploy

TFS 2010

Connecting Team Explorer Everywhere to TFS results in Certificate error

When you're trying to connect Team Explorer Everywhere (or any other Java-based application for that matter) to Team Foundation Server you might run into the following, very helpful, message: An error occurred: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification

Team Foundation Server

Code Review Check-in Policy for TFS 2012

The question whether you can force that Code Reviews must be done before checking in a set of changes in TFS. And up until recently there wasn't. Colin created a check-in policy and shared it on the Visual Studio Gallery. It will show up like this: Grab it while it's

Code Review

Techdays 2013 presentation - Better code through review and tools

By request of the audience, a link to the slide deck of our Techdays 2013 presentation on Better code through review and tools (in Dutch). There isn't too much useful information in the deck itself, since Thomas Huijer and I provided a lot of anecdotal experience along with the rather

TFS 2012

New Tfs Team Tools beta release

Mattias, the main contributor to the Tfs Team Tools has published a new beta release which includes the changes I'd added to the project. So now you can download a pre-built copy of the tools that includes the ability to update user and team images and convert existing security groups

Team Foundation Server

Converting a Group to a Team in TFS 2012

Update Download the latest version here. Some time ago I blogged about the few lines of code required to convert a TFS Group to a Team. It's now available as part of the latest version of the Tfs Team Tools from codeplex. D:\Sources\TfsTeams\Main\TfsTeams CmdLine\bin\Debug&

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. With TFS 2010 it was already a common practice to create security groups as subgroups of the Contributors group to define teams. When you upgrade a Team

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

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. The following rules are included: Performance FxC1801: DoNotUseParseAndToStringToConvertTypes FxC1802: ConsiderMakingRegexReadOnlyAndCompiled Usage FxC2201: DoNotIgnoreResultOfImmutableMethods FxC2202: RegularExpressionDoesNotCompile FxC2203: RefererenceLocalStructCorrectlyInClosure Seems to be broken recently... And I've also included

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. Download the latest beta version here. One of the cool new features of Team Web Access is that you can now set a Team and Personal mugshot.

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 for this

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 work just fine. We

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. 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 it adds a number of really

Static Analysis

Using existing Code Analysis Rules with TFS 11 beta

Last week I explained how to get the Check-in policies from TFS 2010 working with TFS 11, today I'll demonstrate how you can modify the configuration of Visual Studio 11 to allow it to run your custom Code Analysis rules without any modifications or recompilation. The process is very similar.