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?
Azure DevOps Codelens features and Visual Studio versions [Updated for 2013.3ctp1] Update: Visual Studio 2013.3 CTP 1 Adds support for Git repositories! If you're as happy with the new CodeLens features in Visual Studio 2013 ultimate as I am, you've probably found out
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
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
XAML Build Resharper 8.1 goes gold & Resharper CLI For those of you who are using Resharper, version 8.1 was just released with Typescript support and better integration with Visual Studio 2013. The full release blog can be found here. With
Static Analysis Updated MSOCAF for Visual Studio Code Analysis rules 2 years ago I worked on a huge SharePoint project where we had to run the MSOCAF wizard before deployment to the production environment. And of course, every time a few rules triggered
XAML Build Change the "Sources", "Binaries" and "TestResults" folders in Team Build Team Build by default creates 2 folders on your build agent: 2010 Sources Binaries TestResults 2012: src bin TestResults 2013: src bin tst These folder names were shortened as part of the 2012
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
Visual Studio 2012 Red-Gate releases Reflector 8.0 Red-Gate just released Reflector 8.0. Not with a lot of fanfare, as I only noticed because my Early Access Program Build wouldn't start and because there was no new EAP build available
Static Analysis .NET Framework SDK 4.5 changes Visual Studio 2010 Code Analysis and FxCop There have been a few reports in the MSDN forums[1][2] that Code Analysis 2010 or FxCop 10 will trigger more often after installing Visual Studio 2012 or the .NET Framework SDK
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
Tools Red-Gate silently releases 7.6.0.808 version of Reflector It looks like Red-gate pushed out their new version a little in advance of the official announcement. When you download the latest version from their site you will get 7.6.0.808,
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
Team Foundation Server Why I like TFS :) As a response to Joe Ferner's post on why he dislikes TFS. I'll first touch upon the items brought forward by Joe. Some of them are just true, and I won't put too
Visual Studio 2012 Speaking at the dutch TechDays conference Thanks to all the votes my readers, followers and colleagues have put on my wildcard talk at the dutch Techdays website, I'll be speaking about the (code) review features of the upcoming version
Team Foundation Server Solving: MSBUILD : error : Unable to read Code Analysis output report. Make sure that the directory is writable (default is the project output directory). Today a new error popped up in Team Build. One we've never seen before and one that doesn't happen in Visual Studio during the build. The error was: MSBUILD : error : Unable to read
XAML Build Funny issue with Code Coverage and Reflection Just stumbled upon a tricky change which happens to your assemblies when you're running your tests with Code Coverage enabled. Take the following piece of code: var types = typeof(Program).Assembly.GetExportedTypes(); foreach
.NET Windows Azure Appfabric RelayConfigurationInstaller and FileNotFoundException After installing the 1.6 version of the Azure SDK I tried re-registering the service bus bindings to the machine.config. In v1.5 this was pretty easy, open an command prompt (with
XAML Build Referencing Public/Private/Reference Assemblies folder from your project When you're working on Code Analysis Rules, Custom build activities, MSBuild tasks or anything that integrates directly in Team Build or Visual Studio for that matter, you often need to reference assemblies that
Team Foundation Server Things that make your unit tests unreliable Over the past few months I've come across a lot of Unit Tests that triggered all kinds of crazy corner cases inside mstest. The most interesting observation is that the behavior inside Visual
Team Foundation Server Helpful Visual Studio Add-ins Over the past years I've found myself to rely more and more on a number of very handy, some well known, Visual Studio add-ins. I've split this list into two parts, the free
Static Analysis FxCopContrib project and DoNotIgnoreResultOfImmutableMethods custom rule Already a month ago I needed a place to store the code of the FxCop rules I was working on. I ended up at Codeplex, not only because they offer native TFS integration,