TFS 2013 - Scrum Bug

TFS 2013

A collection of 11 posts

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

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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.

Install Team Foundation Server Power Tools side-by-side

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?

Staged execution of unit tests on Team 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

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&

Enabling "Bug on the Backlog" feature for the Scrum template

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

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"

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

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

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,

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.

Microsoft provides full Git support for Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Service

Today Microsoft publicly introduced the first Community Preview version of the Git tools for Visual Studio [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/01/30/git-init-vs.aspx] and the Team Foundation Service at the ALM Summit. Microsoft is fully committed to supporting this open distributed version control platform going