Content abstract: We all know that listening to our customers and getting early feedback is very important. This talk focuses on how this can be achieved in the real world with the ultimate goal: to ship software that delight our customers! This session focuses on the front end of continuous delivery: using PowerPoint Storyboarding to […]
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Video: From Continuous Integration to Continuous Feedback using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012
July 2nd, 2013 · No Comments · 17990, Events and Conferences, Team Foundation Server, VSTS
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Continuous Value Delivery at Microsoft TechEd Europe 2013
June 27th, 2013 · No Comments · 17990, Events and Conferences, Team Foundation Server, VSTS
Here are the sessions that relate to “shorter cycle times” and continuous delivery of value: From Continuous Integration to Continuous Feedback Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 (Neno Loje) Continuous Deployment with Team Foundation Service and Team Foundation Server 2012 (Brian Randell) Continuous Integration with Team Foundation Services and Windows Azure Websites (Rainer […]
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Getting Updates for the Visual Studio 2010 Documentation
July 8th, 2010 · No Comments · TFS 2010, TFS Clients, VSTS
Microsoft ist frequently updating the docs for Visual Studio 2010. You can easily update your offline help files by using the "Manage Help Settings" tool… … with the option to check for updates (of the topics you have chosen to be installed):
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How to integrate Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) into your TFS process template
October 5th, 2009 · No Comments · 1531, TFS Process Customization, VSTS, Work Item Customization
Downloads: The Microsoft SDL Process Template for Visual Studio Team System Whitepaper: Manually Integrating the SDL Process Template Additional information: The Microsoft SDL Process Template and the Future Seven steps for manually integrating SDL into your team project
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Tip: How to shrink TeamCompanion’s ribbon commands
August 27th, 2009 · No Comments · TFS Clients, TFS Tips and Tricks, VSTS
TeamCompanion, the popular Outlook plug-in for TFS, adds pretty wide command icons to Outlook’s mail window ribbon bar, as you can see here: Before: You can control it using the following registry entry: Key: HKCU\Software\Ekobit\TeamCompanion.Outlook Value: DisplayButtonCaptionsInRibbon (DWORD) must be 0 (= hide captions) After: Download: TCO_DisableButtonCaptions.zip
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Why is there no 64-bit version of Visual Studio?
August 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · 2909, VS Development Tools, VS Test Tools, VSTS
Currently Visual Studio runs as a 32-bit process on 64-bit Windows operating systems. Rico Mariani knows why and posts why he wants to "load less, not more". A small side note: TFS 2010 will support 32 and 64-bit Windows on the server side.
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See and possibly unlock files checked out by other team members
August 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Team Foundation Version Control, TFS Tips and Tricks, VSTS
Ed Hintz points out that this is easily done with TFS Power Tools and wrote about it in 2007. In the Source Control Explorer, right click on a parent folder that contains the pending change and choose, “Find in Source Control”. Choose "Status…". Press the Find button. (optionally you can type in a user and\or […]
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Customizing the folders and file extensions automatically excluded
August 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Version Control, TFS Installation and Configuration, TFS Tips and Tricks, VSTS
When adding items to source control a list of excluded folders as well as file extensions is shown. You can customize those defaults in the registry. Matthew Mitrik has the details: If the add operation is successfully completed, the list will be saved to the registry. Order of finding masks to filter: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\[Version]\TeamFoundation\SourceControl\AddOptions\ExcludeMasks HKLM\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\[Version]\TeamFoundation\SourceControl\AddOptions\ExcludeMasks (Thanks […]
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Recommendations for Virus Scanning on TFS computers
August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Team Foundation Server, TFS 2008 SP1, TFS Installation and Configuration, VSTS
Anti-virus software can badly impact the performance of your Team Foundation Server. Therefore make sure the following folders are excluded from scanning for viruses: TFS Version Control Cache Folder Team System Web Access Cache Folder SQL database folders SQL backup folders Additionally Microsoft published virus scanning recommendations for: Windows Server SQL Server WSS/SharePoint Server (Thanks […]
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Setting Remaining Work to Zero when closing a work item in TFS
July 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Team Foundation Server, TFS Process Customization, TFS Tips and Tricks, TFS Work Item Tracking, VSTS
Question: How can I make sure that the "Remaining Work" field is set to 0 when the work item is closed (for example when associating a work item during checking-in)? Short Answer: You can achieve this using the <COPY> rule on the transition to the "Closed" state. Step-by-Step instructions: For the desired transition (in this […]
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