Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Code Management and Build
Branching Merging and Build are two parts of the overall software development cycle. In the Branching and Merging session, we cover industries standard approaches to branching and merging, the pros and Cons of the standard approaches, and how each strategy might fit your company needs. In the Build section we cover how to setup a […]
Visual Studio 2010 Overview – IntelliTrace and Test Impact Analysis
Intellitrace was built in response to the #1 and #2 demands from TFS 2008 customers: help us find bugs faster so we can fix them faster. As a configurable “flight data recorder” for all aspects of debug and test, it provides advanced and integrated logging so devs can locate and reproduce the bug exactly the […]
Visual Studio 2010 Overview – A day in the life of … Plan, Code & Test
This session shows the Day in the Life of a project using TFS from the context of a Developer, Tester, and Program Manager. The purpose of this session is to give a clear picture of how someone in the role of the Developer, the Tester and Program Manager would use TFS in his/her role. Update […]
Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Introduction
A high-level overview of ALM and how the features in Visual Studio 2010 support ALM. This presentation touches on all the features shown in the rest of the deeper-dive sessions. If attendees don’t know which other sessions they want, watching this presentation might help them decide. This post is part of a series of Visual Studio ALM […]
Visual Studio 2010 Overview Webcasts
Over the last year I have delivered a variety of high-level overviews of Visual Studio ALM and the features that are available within it. These are all high level overviews even when talking about specific topics, and I have occasionally had to hand wave where things did not go well (Cough… Sharepoint Dev… cough) but […]
Do you want to be an ALM Consultant?
Northwest Cadence is looking for our next great consultant! At Northwest Cadence, we have created a work environment that emphasizes excellence, integrity, and out-of-the-box thinking. Our customers have high expectations (rightfully so) and we wouldn’t have it any other way! Northwest Cadence has some of the most exciting customers I have ever worked with […]
Syncing many Dynamics AX instances to a single TFS 2010 Team Project
I have been working with a customer who had been frustrated with the need to have new Team Project for every instance of AX that they use. In fact with 3 instances per customer and lots of customers it can very quickly get complicated and I wanted to see if there was a solution for […]
Database corruption in TFS 2005 causes TF246017 during upgrade
Today I was on-site to do a test upgrade of TFS 2005 to TFS 2010 and we encountered an error that would have caused major delays while we investigated and perhaps requiring additional help from Microsoft. Everything progressed smoothly until we tried to run the actual upgrade command and I encountered a message I had […]
Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with Subscribers
There is a lot of references and blog posts on how to handle SOAP events raised by Team Foundation Server 2005, 2008 and 2010 but is there anything new in 2010 that supersedes this? Even though I knew it was there, n o amount of google-fu brought back any results relevant to anything new, so […]