TFS & Visual Studio ALM – by Neno Loje

(formerly Team System, VSTS)

Entries from January 31st, 2007

[Team Build] Why is the "DropBuild" target *after* the "AfterDropBuild" target?

January 31st, 2007 · No Comments · Team Foundation Build (TF Build)

People tend to ask me why the order for the build-in Team Build targets usually is: BeforeSomething CoreSomething AfterSomething Something (Replace “Something” with a action like “Get”, “Compile”, “DropBuild”, or similar …) You can find the execution order of the Team Build Targets published in the MSDN Library: Order of Target Execution The order of execution […]

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How to implement ‘blocked’ Work Items if you are waiting for someone else

January 31st, 2007 · No Comments · TFS Tips and Tricks, TFS Work Item Tracking

A Work Item is blocked since you are waiting for someone else? Or maybe someone else is blocked and waiting for you to deliver something? These are always problematic situations which might result in issues not getting fixed because someone didn’t know you were waiting for him. With Work Items in Team Foundation Server you […]

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[MS Project Integration] Open work items right inside of MS Project

January 31st, 2007 · No Comments · Downloads, TFS Tips and Tricks, TFS Work Item Tracking, Tools and Utilities

Working inside of MS Project and getting your data synchronized with TFS is a great thing. But there might be a reason why you want to access the work item details form and until now you needed to start Visual Studio 2005, invoke the Team Explorer, look for the exact same work item etc. Ognjen Bajic, a […]

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Managing Test Lists with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers using Ekobit Test Manager

January 29th, 2007 · No Comments · 2915, Team Foundation Server, TFS Tips and Tricks, Tools and Utilities, VS Development Tools

As you probably know the Test Manager within, which is needed to create test lists for your build process and/or check-in policies, is only available in the Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers. Ognjen Bajic has the solution: Earlier today Ekobit (www.ekobit.com) released “Test Manager Add-In for Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers”.  This […]

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Test post with image

January 14th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized

This is a test post –

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Microsoft Knowledge Base-Articles for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

January 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment · VS Database Tools

Although the Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers is a relatively new product addition of the Team System product family there a quite a lot of articles waiting for you to read in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: KB 928968: You may receive error messages when you build a team project that contains a database unit […]

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