TFS Kanban Board Swim lane Customization To Better Manage The Product Backlog
Brian Harry announced the customize columns feature on the TFS Kanban board that enables you to define new swim lanes based on the work item state right from Team Web Access. This feature has...
View ArticleUsing the DIR command in the TFS 2010/12 Team Build Invoke Process Activity
I found that using a loop activity to build up a filtered list clutters up the build report with repetitions of activities inside the loop. I could write a custom activity to create the list. However,...
View ArticleList of Software on TFS Service Hosted Build
A couple of weeks back I had posted a blog post on getting a list of software installed on the build agent by simply customizing the build process template. Building on top of the same solution, I have...
View ArticlePresenting at TechEd 2013-TechDays 2013 India ALM Track
I’ll be presenting at TechEd and TechDays in India, there is a lot to look forward to as the events will be hosted across India. Bangalore will be hosting TechEd on 18-19th March, Delhi will be hosting...
View Article2010 version of TF (TFS command tool) unable to determine the workspace that...
We upgraded to VS 2012 and TFS 2012 a month ago.I have a backupShelve.cmd that used to work before upgrade, but when I run it yesterday caused the errorUnable to determine the workspace. You may be...
View ArticleUsing MSBuild to publish a VS 2012 SSDT .sqlproj database project the same...
Post and code updated on March 21, 2013, and again on March 22, 2013.We recently upgraded from VS (Visual Studio) 2010 to VS 2012, and with it had to upgrade our .dbproj database project to a .sqlproj....
View ArticleVisual Studio 2012.2 Hanging When Editing Razor Pages
Since I installed the v2 update, Visual Studio has been hanging on occasion. The CPU for the process jumps to 25% and stays there and Visual Studio stops responding. I found a Microsoft Connect...
View ArticleTFS Lab Infrastructure Planning / Scaling
I’ve been working with a lot of clients over the past couple years helping them adopt TFS Lab Management. One discussion that always comes up is how to architect the infrastructure required to run TFS...
View ArticleCruise Control.net and Team Foundation Services
Recently I have been working with a customer where we wanted to migrate some source code to TFS Services for source control but we had an existing Build Server setup running on-premise with Cruise...
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