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I am having a problem on my blog with comments. Namely that you cant see any! This is the downside of relying on a third party tool, but do the problems out weight the benefits? Comments not loading I am …
I have been working with a rather large customer that have over 150GB in Team Foundation Server with over 10GB in SharePoint. They are also using the Scrum for Team System v2 (SfTSv2) Process template that is not supported under …
We have a customer who really, really want to ship source code from Team Foundation Server (TFS) to Perforce. Why you might ask… Well for many companies they can’t just migrate, they either need some sort of safety net, or …
As Lead developer for the TFS Iteration Automation my goal this weekend is to provide a framework for the developers to give both architectural and development guidance for the tools and methods we are going to be using to construct …
Well, it has been a long road from misery to hope with a little disbelief thrown in for good measure, but I finally have a working Adapter for the TFS Integration Platform. Acknowledgements Jose Luis Soria Teruel – For his …
As you may know, I have been having lots of problems with creating a Test Track Pro Adapter for the TFS Integration Platform. You may have been following my trials and tribulations in trying to get the data through. It …
If you have no history in the system you are migrating to TFS, you may have problems when you try to do a continuous unidirectional sink due to your system not having a “revision” of the work item. WARNING: I …
I have recently been working on a TFS Integration Platform Adapter for integrating with Test Track Pro. The problem with TTP is that it does not contain any history. Update 2011-06-03 – Found the problem with the “index” and I …
If you can’t wait for the Tfs Automation Platform, but you still want to eventually deploy your extensions using it, what can you do? We would really like for you to still be able to build out automations without the …
As we get organised to start development on the Tfs Automation Platform there is the need to do in-depth investigations into the way things are going to work. “Epic 1: As Dave or Gary I want WIQL queries to be …
I have been asked what would be the process or support for hosting the Tfs Automation Platform either from a hosting provider, or in the cloud if we have server side components. If you are not familiar with TFS on …
The TFS Automation Platform is a project that will be developed initially as the TFS Iteration Automation project for the Rangers, but which has a grander vision to solve a need for customers to have things just happen within TFS. …
I had a particularly complicated upgrade this time that required me to do two things: In-Place upgrade of TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 Move new TFS 2010 server from one domain to another I followed Vasu Sankaran’s post on Guidance …
Over the last year I have invested a lot in Scrum. A few months ago I was assigned to teach a two day Scrum course for which I had to build and deliver the material. The team that received the …
As has become customary when the product team releases a new patch, SP or version I like to document the install. This post seams almost redundant as I had no problems, but I think that is as valuable to other …
As has become customary when the product team releases a new patch, SP or version I like to document the install. Although I had no errors on my main computer, my netbook did have problems. Although I am not ready …
For some reason this year some of my peers decided to vote for me as a contender for Visual Studio ALM MVP of the year. I am not sure what I did to deserve this, but a number of people …
There are a number of reasons why you may want to change the folder that you store the TFS Cache. It can take up “some” amount of room so moving it to another drive can be beneficial. This is the …
Geekswithblogs was my first ever blog and my first post was on 22nd June 2006. Since then very little functionality has been added. This is not a complaint, but rather an observation that it is very hard to keep up …
Early on in the Team System (now Visual Studio ALM) cycle a new product surfaced within Team System that was affectionately called “Data Dude”, but had the more formal name of “Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals”. The …