Visual Studio 2008 - Scrum Bug

Visual Studio 2008

A collection of 5 posts

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

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.

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?

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,

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,

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