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Visual Studio 2012

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

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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?

Configure Git for Visual Studio to use a proxy server

Unlike most features of Visual Studio, the Git tools do not (always) automatically pick up the Widows proxy settings, being dependent on a number of open source libraries which don't seem to be benefiting from the same Windows Proxy Auto-Detection. This is a shame, really, but it doesn't make it

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 that some of the features rely on server side features. This means that some Code Lenses only

Ask a developer for confirmation in a TFS checkin policy

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 way to interact with the user from the Check-in dialog using custom UI other than the message,

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,

Visual Studio 2012

One of my new favorite plugins for Visual Studio and TFS

Today I stumbled upon a new Team Explorer extension for TFS in Visual Studio. It almost immediately made it on my shortlist of things that I need to have on every Visual Studio installation. It's simple, but brilliant. Ok, enough praise :). This extension nests itself into Team Explorer and adds

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 [http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2013/12/resharper-81-goes-rtm-along-with-dotcover-dottrace/] . [http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2013/12/resharper-81-goes-rtm-along-with-dotcover-dottrace/] With Resharper

Upgrade your existing ASP.NET MVC4 application to MVC5

To upgrade your existing MVC 4 application to MVC 5 you need to go through a number of steps to replace the references and patch the web.config [http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-5/how-to-upgrade-an-aspnet-mvc-4-and-web-api-project-to-aspnet-mvc-5-and-web-api-2] . These steps are clearly explained in the original post, but when you're done you'll

ALM Rangers ship the TFS Reporting guidance books and samples v1

It has taken a lot of people a long time to work on an extensive guide on extending the TFS reporting capabilities and getting some report data out of the Team Foundation Service. Grab your copy while it's hot [http://vsarreportguide.codeplex.com/]! [http://vsarreportguide.codeplex.com/releases/view/115136]

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 that caused huge rework efforts. So I ended up recompiling the FxCop 1.36 rules that ship

Use Git commandline directly from Visual Studio

> Update: Instead of using the Package Management Console, you can now use The Whack Whack Console [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DanielGriffen.WhackWhackTerminal] , ConEmu Integration [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DavidRoller.ConEmuIntegration] or BuiltinCmd [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lkytal.BuiltinCmd] for a better interactive console. These

Visual Studio 2012

Visual Studio Tip: How to always launch the debugger under a different user profile

One of my team members shared his debug workflow for a set of executables that manipulate Exchange and CRM through webservice calls. This tool always needs to run in the context of a specific service account, even when debugging and testing against the development environment. A practice that needs changing,

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 release, partially to resolve "Path too long" issues with team build. But some of your scripts might

Visual Studio 2012

Update to WebTools 2012.2 to resolve System.ComponentModel.Composition.ImportCardinalityMismatchException

Today one of my teams was greeted by a Visual Studio crash upon opening their solution. It happened with no changes to the solution over the weekend, but some Windows Updates were remotely installed to the machines. After some testing we found that the crash will go away by ensuring

Properly incorporate MsBuild arguments into your build process template

Ever wondered how to put features like Architecture Layer validation into your builds? If you bingle it you'll find loads of posts that tell you which argument to pass to msbuild. The official MSDN docs for this feature can be found here [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/dd409395.

Use local NuGet file repository to use NuGet on a Build Server that has no access to the webs.

Scott Hanselman has blogged about using your local NuGet cache as your private local NuGet server in case your connection is down [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToAccessNuGetWhenNuGetorgIsDownOrYoureOnAPlane.aspx] . And that works great when you're working locally. When working with Team Build you have multiple options, one is to enable

Visual Studio 2012

First ALM Ranger guidance in Ebook format

By based on a Visual Studio User Voicerequest [http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2639467-make-alm-ranger-guides-available-on-msdn-and-ebook] and a lot of internal discussions we, the ALM Rangers, are proud to present our very first official ebook formatted guidance [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2013/05/29/better-unit-testing-with-microsoft-fakes-guide-a-la-mobi-and-epub.aspx?

Code Review Check-in Policy for TFS 2012

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]

CodedUI Testing

Creating a Custom Unit Test Generator Provider Plugin for Specflow 1.9

After getting CodedUI Code First and Specflow to play nicely together in the past week, we ran into a few issues with the distribution of the Custom Code Generator Provider assembly to all team members. The SpecFlow binaries installed under a path that contains a random character string and I

Static Analysis

Combining CodedUI Code first, SpecFlow and Visual Studio 2012

Today we tried to combine a number of different test technologies on the latest version of Visual Studio and ran into a few small issues. We found a work around for all of them. So if you want to use the BDD style of Specflow to test the UI of

Techdays 2013 presentation - Better code through review and tools

Techdays 2013 presentation - Better code through review and tools

By request of the audience, a link to the slide deck of our Techdays 2013 presentation on Better code through review and tools [http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/techdays/SessionDetail.aspx?sessionId=3780] (in Dutch). There isn't too much useful information in the deck itself, since Thomas Huijer and I

Bring back the "Create Unit Tests" feature from Visual Studio 2010?

There's a feature request on User Voice that requests Microsoft to bring back the "Create Unit Test" menu item which was removed in Visual Studio 2012 [http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2748862-add-create-unit-tests-menu-option-back-] . I've seen it come up as a potential Ranger solution and it's been getting a lot

Microsoft provides full Git support for Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Service

Today Microsoft publicly introduced the first Community Preview version of the Git tools for Visual Studio [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/01/30/git-init-vs.aspx] and the Team Foundation Service at the ALM Summit. Microsoft is fully committed to supporting this open distributed version control platform going

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