Azure DevOps Connect any version of Visual Studio to Azure DevOps or Team Foundation 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?
DevOps 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. There currently is no
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 come up with the same request: Can we show the
Team Foundation Server Creating a Check-in Policy to warn when checking into multiple branches at once Update: Project has been uploaded to GitHub. 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
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
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
Team Foundation Server Converting a Group to a Team in TFS 2012 Update Download the latest beta 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
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
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
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
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
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. They've also put it
Azure DevOps Quickly generate Work Item Query for use in the TFS API Some time ago I responded to a question on StackOverflow regarding a couple of ways to optimize a team query. The query was used in from the TFS Client Object Model and one
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. Not all of us are so lucky that we can work with the latest bits at
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
Team Foundation Server Generating a changelog from TFS Update: I filed a request on the Visual Studio User Voice for an export to text and excel for this feature. Please vote for it! We have a requirement to deliver a list
Team Foundation Server Just-in-time updating of source files in an existing solution Today a developer on my team tried to create an MsBuild task that would re-generate a few generated files during a Rebuild or as part of a Clean. Turned out to be a