Presenting Visual Studio ALM and upgrading TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 in production – Done
I was actually a little surprised by one of my customers this week. I was there to help them finalise their deployment of TFS 2010 (that they were currently using only for Source Control) and to present the features to them and ended up upgrading them to TFS 2012 as well!
Installing Eclipse on Windows 8 and connecting to TFS 2012
I will be running a bunch of demos on a couple of weeks with TFS & Eclipse working together. Although I have a cloud instance that I can connect to, what about when I have no network.
Installing Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 8
As I have mentioned before I run all of my heavy weight software in a VM . That is one of the reasons that I love Windows 8… I can run Hyper-V. I want to be able to reinstall my local computer quickly, and to get back up and running fast.
Installing TFS 2012 on Server 2012 with SQL 2012
I need a TFS environment to use for demos and what better time to do a full upgrade than when we get some nice prizes from Microsoft. Today the Release Candidate for both Windows and for Visual Studio was released to the public. You can download it off the public sites or you can use you MSDN account to get all of the goodies.
Full-fidelity history and data migration are mutually exclusive
If you have ever had to migrate data from any system that contains lots of data and especially history then you will have run into this problem. Effectively you have two choices:
Process Template Upgrade #7 – Rename Work Items and Import new ones
A little while ago I was looking into the best options for upgrading a process template but still keep your data intact , but there is still a little bit of ambiguity on how that is achieved. Although the original list had only #6 options lets look at the #7 option…
Unit Testing against the Team Foundation Server 2012 API
I have been working a lot recently with the new Team Foundation Service (TFS Preview) that Microsoft is providing in Azure. I was building an application called TFS Field Annotate that allows you to spelunk a fields changes. One of the problems I ran into is how to Unit Test this. I have been doing a lot of work in Test Driven Development (TDD) recently and after running a Bowling Kata (thanks David Starr) for the last month I don’t want to work any other way.
TFS Service Credential Viewer
If you want to connect to the Team Foundation Service (TFS Preview) API you are going to need some credentials in order to connect. That’s right, where do you expect to store your Live ID for connecting? Do you expect to add it to the windows credentials store? What about having the user manually add it? Both these options suck… so introducing the TFS Service Credential Viewer.
TFS Field Annotator
Do you make lots of edits to your TFS Work Items? Do you ever look at a field in the UI and think… last time I looked that was a 4? Why is it a 6? Who changed it?
What's in a burndown?
I was recently in Park City, Utah to teach the Professional Scrum Foundations course and i just got an email from one of the students. As I want to help everyone I will answer here:
