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Naming Restrictions for Team Foundation Server

If you ever had questions like: How long is the team project's name allowed to be? How many levels may an work item area hierarchy have? Which characters are allowed in build type names ? What is the maximum supported size for work item attachments ? Those are answered by the MSDN topic: Naming Restrictions...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Wed, Jun 3 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Administration, TFS Tips and Tricks, TFS 2008, VSTS
What are Test Name, Test Id, and Test Path used for?

If you create a work item out of a test result like this… … the three test fields get populated by Visual Studio: Read all details here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms194965.aspx

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Sat, May 30 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, TFS 2008, VS Test Tools, TFS Process Customization
Using TFS to develop custom SharePoint applications (revised)

The first article is created during a real world customer engagement and answers dozens of frequently asked questions and how-tos in a real world context vs. theoretical discussions. The 2 nd package addresses very common questions around setting up and using TFS features for a MOSS development project...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Wed, Mar 11 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Training and Learning, TFS 2008, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication
Q: How Do I link work items with SharePoint documents?

A : Two possible ways: Step 1 : Get the URL of the document saved in a SharePoint document library From the project portal : Right-click the file and select Copy Shortcut . Done. From the Team Explorer window in Visual Studio : Right-click the file under the Documents folder and select Properties . The...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Tue, Oct 7 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, TFS Tips and Tricks, TFS 2005, TFS 2008, VSTS
TFS Tip: Enabling Work Item meta data filtering

Beginning with TFS 2008 SP1 you can specify that only the necessary part of the Work Item meta data will be transferred to the client caches, e.g. not the meta data for project you have no permission on. This is not done by default. You can read all the glory details in Martin Woodward's blog . Short...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Mon, Oct 6 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Tips and Tricks, TFS 2008, Team System Web Access (TSWA), Work Item Customization, TFS Installation and Configuration, VSTS
Ways to access Team Foundation Server

Pick your favorite tool for your task/job: From Visual Studio : Visual Studio 2008: Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Explorer (+ SP1 ) Visual Studio 2005: Visual Studio Team System 2005 Team Explorer (+ SP1 ) older Visual Studio versions and VSS clients: via MSSCCI -Provider* (includes Visual Studio...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Sat, Oct 4 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Third-Party Solutions, TFS 2005, TFS 2008, Project Management with TFS, TFS Clients, Team Explorer, VSTS
Using TFS to develop custom SharePoint applications

Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications Summary: Use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server to support SharePoint application development, and provide an integrated development environment and single source code repository for process...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Wed, Oct 1 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Training and Learning, TFS 2008, Project Management with TFS, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication, VSTS
Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5 and TFS 2008 Service Pack 1 released

Service Packs for VSTS/TFS do not only contain bug fixes, but quite a few nice new features as you can read here (more general) and here (TFS-specific). Download links: TFS Installation Guide Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1 (full) (updates TFS, Team Build and TFS...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Mon, Aug 11 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Downloads, TFS 2008, Issues and Hotfixes, VSTS
Users can see all team projects after upgrading from TFS 2005 to 2008

Make sure all team project members are added to the appropriate groups ( Project Administrators , Contributors and Readers ). For every team project remove the "[Server]\Team Foundation Valid Users " group from the team project settings ( Team Project Settings » Securty ). Done. Regular members...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Wed, Aug 6 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Administration, TFS Tips and Tricks, TFS 2008, Issues and Hotfixes, TFS Installation and Configuration, VSTS
Version Control Tip: Excluding specific files from multiple checkout

Question : Can I define a file name, not only a file type (extension), if multiple checkout is allowed for the whole Team Foundation Server? Answer : Yes, that is possible, although the UI shows "file extensions" and displays it in a way that you might think that it's not supported. As...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Wed, Aug 6 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Administration, TFS Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, TFS 2005, TFS 2008, VSTS
FIX: TFS 2008: Delete lost when you merge from delete-branch to trunk

> KB article > Hotfix download

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Thu, Jul 10 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Administration, Team Foundation Version Control, TFS 2008, Issues and Hotfixes
Team Foundation Proxy - Your friend for distributed development teams

Since you can only deploy one master TFS server and replication mechanisms are not supported you might consider using a TFS Proxy server, which caches the downloads from the Team Foudation Version Control. Functionality / What it does: Cache downloads from Version Control only. Control Messages and other...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Wed, Jul 9 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Team Foundation Version Control, TFS 2008, TFS Installation and Configuration
Screen Gallery: Creating a Team Project in TFS 2008

Screenshots from a successful team project creation.

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Sun, May 11 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Administration, Screen Galleries, TFS 2008
Screen Gallery: Upgrading WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0

You updated to TFS 2008, but since the upgrade process doesn't touch your already installed WSS you are responsible for upgrading it yourself. Official Guidance: Upgrading SharePoint Products and Technologies for Team Foundation Server Step 1: Run Prescan.EXE Resulting log file: Resulting XML file...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Sun, May 11 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Administration, Screen Galleries, TFS 2008, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication
Screen Gallery: Installing TFS Power Tools 2008

Screenshots from a successful Power Tools installation Step 1: Installing Windows PowerShell Step 2: Installing TFS Power Tools

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Sun, May 11 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Administration, Downloads, Screen Galleries, TFS 2008
TFS 2008: Team Build doesn't get subfolders of team build type folder by default

In TFS 2005 subfolders of your team build type folder were copied recursively to the build temp directory. In TFS 2008 only the contents w/o recursion is copied. To change this behavior, Aaron tells us , you need to modify the following line <add key="ConfigurationFolderRecursionType" value...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Sat, Mar 15 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Team Foundation Version Control, TFS 2008, Team Foundation Build (TFS Build)
Documentation: Team Foundation Server SDK (online version)

From the contents: Team Foundation Server Extensibility Team Foundation Server SDK Architecture How to: Run Team Foundation Server SDK Samples Team Foundation Core Services Work Item Tracking Extensibility Source Control Extensibility Data Warehouse Extensibility Reference for Team Foundation Server...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Sat, Feb 23 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Third-Party Solutions, TFS Extensibility, TFS Administration, Training and Learning, Team Foundation Version Control, TFS 2005, TFS 2008, Team Foundation Build (TFS Build), TFS Process Customization
How code churn is calculated in TFS 2005/2008

Code churn [1] in TFS 2005 and TFS 2008 is calculated using a very simple algorithm: inserted + changed + deleted lines [2]. This is done independently of the contents of the line, which means that everything - incl. comments, blank lines, etc. - is counted. -- [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/mohamedg/archive...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Sat, Feb 23 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS 2005, TFS 2008, VS Development Tools, Software Quality, Team Foundation Build (TFS Build), TFS Reporting
Known Work Item History Limitations for Links & Attachments

They are two major problems when looking into the history with regard to links. 1. No clue what has changed : If you remove an attachment and add a completely different one the history will indicate that there was a change (revision gets in incremented by 1), but it won't tell you what has changed...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Tue, Feb 19 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Tips and Tricks, TFS 2005, TFS 2008, Project Management with TFS, Troubleshooting TFS, Issues and Hotfixes
TFS 2008 Trials: How to extend the trial?

Since Team Foundation Server 2008 was released end of November 2007 the early adopters which for some reasons have not obtained a product key yet are facing the problem of expiring trial licenses on their TFS servers. I definitely recommend to find out when your TFS trial expires. You can use the Version...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Tue, Feb 12 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Unreleased, TFS Administration, Team Foundation Version Control, TFS 2008, Issues and Hotfixes

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