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Microsoft provides full Git support for Visual Studio 2012 and Team...
Today Microsoft publicly introduced the first Community Preview version of the Git tools for Visual Studio and the Team Foundation Service at the ALM Summit. Microsoft is fully committed to supporting...
View ArticleConverting a Group to a Team in TFS 2012
UpdateDownload the latest beta version here.Some time ago I blogged about the few lines of code required to convert a TFS Group to a Team. It's now available as part of the latest beta version of the...
View ArticleNew Tfs Team Tools beta release
Mattias, the main contributor to the Tfs Team Tools has published a new beta release which includes the changes I'd added to the project. So now you can download a pre-built copy of the tools that...
View ArticleBring back the "Create Unit Tests" feature from Visual Studio 2010?
There's a feature request on User Voice that requests Microsoft to bring back the "Create Unit Test" menu item which was removed in Visual Studio 2012. I've seen it come up as a potential Ranger...
View ArticleTechdays 2013 presentation - Better code through review and tools
By request of the audience, a link to the slide deck of our Techdays 2013 presentation on Better code through review and tools (in Dutch). There isn't too much useful information in the deck itself,...
View ArticleCombining CodedUI Code first, SpecFlow and Visual Studio 2012
Today we tried to combine a number of different test technologies on the latest version of Visual Studio and ran into a few small issues. We found a work around for all of them. So if you want to use...
View ArticleCreating a Custom Unit Test Generator Provider Plugin for Specflow 1.9
After getting CodedUI Code First and Specflow to play nicely together in the past week, we ran into a few issues with the distribution of the Custom Code Generator Provider assembly to all team...
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Connecting Visual Studio 2005 to TFS 2012 and the Team Foundation Service on XP
In a previous post I explained how to connect Visual Studio 2005 to Team Foundation Server 2012 and the Team Foundation Services. This solution works for Windows 7 and 8, but not on Windows XP, since...
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Code Review Check-in Policy for TFS 2012
The question whether you can force that Code Reviews must be done before checking in a set of changes in TFS. And up until recently there wasn't. Colin created a check-in policy and shared it on the...
View ArticleFirst ALM Ranger guidance in Ebook format
By based on a Visual Studio User Voice request and a lot of internal discussions we, the ALM Rangers, are proud to present our very first official ebook formatted guidance. Available in epub and mobi...
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Connecting Team Explorer Everywhere to TFS results in Certificate error
When you're trying to connect Team Explorer Everywhere (or any other Java-based application for that matter) to Team Foundation Server you might run into the following, very helpful, message:An error...
View ArticleUpdate Build Quality and Keep Indefinitely in TFS from the commandline
As you probably know, TFS keeps all kinds of data behind when it finishes an automated build. Test Results, the stuff it copied to the drop folder, symbols etc. And by default it will keep the last 10...
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Use local NuGet file repository to use NuGet on a Build Server that has no...
Scott Hanselman has blogged about using your local NuGet cache as your private local NuGet server in case your connection is down. And that works great when you're working locally. When working with...
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Properly incorporate MsBuild arguments into your build process template
Ever wondered how to put features like Architecture Layer validation into your builds? If you bingle it you'll find loads of posts that tell you which argument to pass to msbuild. The official MSDN...
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Enabling Resharper-CLI in Team Build
JetBrains is working on a Commandline interface that allows you to run the Resharper Code Inspections without opening up Visual Studio. Which is pretty cool! It's still in Early Access Program mode,...
View ArticleUpdate to WebTools 2012.2 to resolve...
Today one of my teams was greeted by a Visual Studio crash upon opening their solution. It happened with no changes to the solution over the weekend, but some Windows Updates were remotely installed to...
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Change the "Sources", "Binaries" and "TestResults" folders in Team Build
Team Build by default creates 2 folders on your build agent:2010SourcesBinariesTestResults2012:srcbinTestResults2013:srcbintstThese folder names were shortened as part of the 2012 release, partially to...
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Visual Studio Tip: How to always launch the debugger under a different user...
One of my team members shared his debug workflow for a set of executables that manipulate Exchange and CRM through webservice calls. This tool always needs to run in the context of a specific service...
View ArticleTIP: Don't run the AMD Driver Cleaner Utility on Windows 8 or 8.1
Ok, let me repeat this a couple of times:Do not run the AMD Driver Cleaner Utility on Windows 8 or 8.1Do not run the AMD Driver Cleaner Utility on Windows 8 or 8.1Do not run the AMD Driver Cleaner...
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My must-have extensions for Visual Studio 2013
Visual Studio 2013 has been available for a while now, and next week is the official launch party. Ever since I started using Visual Studio my life has been made easier by all the great extensions that...
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