Azure DevOps Pipelines Solving TFVC error TF14067 and Azure Pipelines When this happens you'll see the following cryptic error message that mentions: A path you are absolutely certain exists; A workspace name that was created minutes before when the build agent initialized; TF14067.
Azure DevOps Featured 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.
Azure DevOps 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 currently being changed, finally the regression suite that may be slower to execute.
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?
DevOps Featured Xpirit awarded Microsoft Global DevOps Partner of the year 2018 Wow! Just wow! Three and a half years ago our company didn't even exist yet. When I joined about 3 years ago our office was a small room on the 2nd floor with 3 desks and we sat on the floor doing our team meets. Shortly after that we achieved
Team Foundation Server Clean up your Team Project Collection prior to migrating to VSTS To prepare your TFS Project Collection for migration, you may want to remove (stale) old data to reduce the database size first. Most actions are already documented here. Queries that can aid in detecting where your space is allocated are also found in this recent support ticket. Delete old workspaces
Azure DevOps 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
TFS Aggregator TFS Aggregator featured on RadioTFS One of the projects I've been involved with is the TFS Aggregator. It's a rules processor which allows you to do creative and crazy things whenever a work item changes in TFS or Visual Studio Tea Services. People use it for calculating the Weighted Shorted Job First, automatically opening and
Team Foundation Server NDepend 6 offers native integration into TFS 2013 When Patrick Smacchia contacted me a couple of weeks back to look at his new TFS support for NDepend I was very excited. We've integrated NDepend through commandline calls with numerous clients and though that works, it's not very easy to get trend analysis or act upon the findings in
Team Foundation Server Enabling Requirement based suites for other work item types (without putting them on your backlog pages) A few weeks ago a client asked me whether they could link test cases to the Feature and Epic work items and whether they could create a Requirements Based Suite for these work items in Test manager. And while investigating the new "Bug on the Backlog" feature of TFS 2013
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 for users
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" wizard, but
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
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
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,
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 [http://www.colinsalmcorner.com/]created a check-in policy and shared it on the Visual Studio Gallery [http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c476b708-77a8-4065-b9d0-919ab688f078]
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 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
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,
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 a new domain name,
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
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 area always
Team Foundation Server Enabling TFS Reporting requires installation on a Windows *Server* I've been working on TFS report customization lately and today a new team member joined. We normally start by installing a local TFS instance with reporting enabled to be able to debug warehouse adapters and the like. But today we couldn't find the option to enable reporting anywhere in the
