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TFS Client Object Model

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Make a Group Team Administrator in VSTS/TFS

Make a Group Team Administrator in VSTS/TFS

In case your organisation is depending on an Identity and Access Management tool to assign rights to the tools in the toolchain, then it's likely that all of your permissions are handled through Group assignments and not to individuals. Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server allow rights assignments

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

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 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 upgrading their Visual Studio,

Update Build Quality and Keep Indefinitely in TFS from the commandline

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

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. [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jessehouwing.azure-boards-teams-tool] Some time ago I blogged about the few lines of code required to convert a TFS Group to a Team [https://jessehouwing.net/vsts-tfs-convert-security-group-to-team]. It's now available as part of the latest version of the Tfs

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 teams. When

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 Server,

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 Web Access