TFS, Visual Studio ALM, and Team System by Neno Loje

Microsoft releases Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template

neno — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:00:40 GMT

As announced here. From the description:

This template includes:

Work Item Types

Sprint

Product Backlog Item

Bug

Task

Impediment

Test Case

Reports

Release Burndown

Velocity

Sprint Burndown

Build Success Over Time

Build Summary

Test Case Readiness

Test Plan Progress

SharePoint Project Portal

Below are screenshots of the Sprint Burndown and Release Burndown reports included with the template.

(All images in this blog post: Copyright by Microsoft Corp.)

Team Web Access 2010 has no Documents and Reports tab

neno — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:51:58 GMT

If you were wondering why the Documents and Reports tabs are missing in TWA 2010:

This is by design. Here's how Microsoft explains it:

Portal and Reports are not necessary in TFS2010, and Web Access is included in TFS now, so Web Access does not show the content of Portal and Reports, these content is included in Project Portal.

In TFS2010, the project portal is more powerful. Project Portal will display dashbord(reports) of the project, also the documents are stored in portal. You will find that the portal is very useful in TFS2010.

We suggest that use WebAccess to manage Workitem and Build, Portal to view document and dashboad. If you are using Sharepoint 2010 with Office Web App, you can open word, excel or PPT in browser directly.

So the (new) recommandation for TFS 2010 is:

Team Web Access for managing Work Items, Build and Source Code
Project Portal for viewing Documents, Reports and Dashboards.

Screenshot of Project Dashboard (from MSF Agile):

Getting Updates for the Visual Studio 2010 Documentation

neno — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:18:45 GMT

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):

Updated Area Import/Export Tool for TFS 2010

neno — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:30:33 GMT

You can download a new version of the Area Import/Export Tool, compiled against Team Explorer 2010, to be used with TFS 2010, here.

Supported Scenarios:

Backup area/iteration structures
Move area/iteration structures from one team project (or server) to another
Import existing areas/iteration structure from text files

Configure Microsoft Test Manager for Video Recording

neno — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:25:58 GMT

Error message:

Steps

Install Windows Media Encoder 9 (32-bit version!)
(on Windows Vista and higher) Install Hotfix KB 929182 for Windows Media Encoder
(on Windows Server only): Add "Desktop Experience" feature)

What's new in Visual Studio & Team Foundation Server 2010?

neno — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:26:33 GMT

Focusing on Visual Studio ~~Team System (VSTS)~~ ALM-related parts:

Visual Studio Ultimate 2010

NEW: IntelliTrace® (aka the historical debugger)
NEW: Architecture Tools
- New Project Type: Modeling Project
- UML Diagrams
  - UML Use Case Diagram
  - UML Class Diagram
  - UML Sequence Diagram (supports reverse enginneering)
  - UML Activity Diagram
  - UML Component Diagram
- Layer Diagram (with Team Build integration for layer validation)
- Architecuture Explorer
  - Dependency visualization
- DGML
Web & Load Tests

Visual Studio Premium 2010

NEW: Architecture Tools
- Read-only model viewer
Development Tools

Code Analysis

New Rules like SQL Injection detection
Rule Sets

Code Profiler
Code Metrics

Test Tools
- Code Coverage
- NEW: Test Impact Analysis
- NEW: Coded UI Test
Database Tools (DB schema versioning & deployment)

Visual Studio Professional 2010

Debuger
- Mixed Mode Debugging for 64-bit Applications
- Export/Import of Breakpoints and data tips

Visual Studio Test Professional 2010

Microsoft Test Manager (MTM, formerly known as "Camano"))
Fast Forward Testing

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010

Work Item Tracking and Project Management
- New MSF templatesfor Agile and CMMI (V 5.0)
- Hierarchical Work Items
- Custom Work Item Link Types
- Ready to use Excel agile project management workbooks for managing your backlogs (including capacity planing)
- Convert Work Item query to an Excel report
- MS Excel integration
  - Support for Work Item hierarchies
  - Formatting is preserved after doing a 'Refresh'
- MS Project integration
  - Hierarchy and successor/predecessor info is now synchronized
NEW: Test Case Management
Version Control
- Public Workspaces
- Branch & Merge Visualization
- Tracking of Changesets & Work Items
- Gated Check-In
Team Build
- Build Controllers and Agents
- Workflow 4-based build process
NEW: Lab Management (only a pre-release is avaiable at the moment!)
Project Portal & Reporting
- Dashboards (on SharePoint Portal)
- Burndown Chart
- TFS Web Parts (to show data from TFS)
Administration & Operations
- Topology enhancements
  - Application tier network load balancing (NLB)
  - SQL Server scale out
  - Improved Sharepoint flexibility
  - Report Server flexibility
  - Zone support
  - Kerberos support
  - Separation of TFS and SQL administration
- Setup
  - Separate install from configure
  - Improved installation wizards
  - Optional components
  - Simplified account requirements
  - Improved Reporting Services configuration
  - Setup consolidation
  - Upgrading from previous TFS versions
  - Improved IIS flexibility
- Administration
  - Consolidation of command line tools
  - User rename support
- Project Collections
  - Archive/restore individual project collections
  - Move Team Project Collections
  - Server consolidation
  - Team Project Collection Split
  - Team Project Collection Isolation
- Server request cancellation
Licensing: TFS server license included in MSDN subscriptions

Removed features (former features not part of Visual Studio 2010):

Debug » Start With Application Verifier
Object Test Bench
IntelliSense for C++ / CLI
Debugging support for SQL 2000

Overview of Visual Studio ALM Whitepapers by Microsoft

neno — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:20:05 GMT

Overview

Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance

Installation, Configuration & Administration

Requirements

Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Requirements Management Guidance

Version Control & Configuration Management

Visual Studio TFS Branching Guide 2010

Some guide or whitepaper missing? Let me know!

How to set the Default Team Project for a SharePoint site

neno — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:56:11 GMT

You have probably created a SharePoint site after creating the Team Project and a receiving the error message:

"This site doesn’t have a default Team Project."

Solution

You have to configure the project portal using Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 using Team Project Settings » Portal Settings…

More Information

MSDN Library: Add a Team Project Portal

TF255357: The following query was not found: Product Planning

neno — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:56:00 GMT

If you add a project portal to your team project (i.e. by running tfpt addprojectportal) you might receive the error message

TF255357: The following query was not found: Product Planning. Download the process template, open it, and verify that the query exists.

Reason:

The site template expects certain work item queries to exist (e.g. product planning).

Solution:

On upgraded team projects, create the missing work item queries (you can copy/paste them from other MSF/Agile 5.0 projects).
If you removed/renamed the default queries, undo that.

(Thanks to Rich Day for the post and the solution for this issue.)

Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2

neno — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:00:00 GMT

Be aware:

Read the installation guide first.
This still is a Beta version and not a final product. It has several bugs in it.

Downloads

Screenshots from Installation

Supports & Licensing

The Beta 2 release comes with a a Go-live license.
You can register for Microsoft support.

Updating Visual Studio 2008 in order to work with TFS 2010

neno — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:06:00 GMT

The update for VS2008, called General Distribution Release (GDR), allows you to:

“The GDR enables teams to use TFS 2010 even if part of the team uses the 2008 client. Some new functions will require the 2010 client. However, the GDR lets you use the 2010 server to perform the same functions that you were able to perform in the 2008 client.”

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=CF13EA45-D17B-4EDC-8E6C-6C5B208EC54D

Further information

Unsupported scenarios in VS/Team Explorer 2008 when working against a TFS 2010
(found here)

Creating new team projects
Destroying Work Items or Work Item Type and Renaming Work Item Type,
Uploading Process Templates
Uploading Work Item Definitions
Uploading TFS Field Mapping for Microsoft Project

Screen Gallery: Installing Team Explorer 2010 Beta 2 and Creating a new Team Project on TFS 2010 Beta 2

neno — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Screenshots of a successfull installation of Team Explorer 2010 according to the Team Foundation Installation Guide 2010.

Part 1: Installation

Part 2: Creating a new team project

Screen Gallery: Installing Team Foundation Build 2010 Beta 2

neno — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Screenshots of a successfull installation of Team Foundation Build Service 2010 according to the Team Foundation Installation Guide 2010.

Installation

Screen Gallery: Installing TFS 2010 Beta 2

neno — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:00:00 GMT

Screenshots of a successfull installation of Team Foundation Server 2010 according to the Team Foundation Installation Guide 2010.

As prerequisite make sure you configured the following components for use by TFS:

Part 1: Installation

Part 2: Post-Install Configuration

Note: These screenshots show the “Advanced” wizard option. There are also “Standard” and “basic” wizards available.

Part 3: Validation

Screen Gallery: Preparing WSS 3.0 for TFS 2010 Beta 2

neno — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 GMT

Screenshots of a successfull installation of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 according to the Team Foundation Installation Guide 2010.

Part 1: Installation

Part 2: Post-Install configuration

Screen Gallery: Preparing SSRS for TFS 2010 Beta 2

neno — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00:00 GMT

Screenshots of a successfull installation of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) from SQL 2008 according to the Team Foundation Installation Guide 2010.

This step required the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 to be installed.

Part 1:Installation

Part 2: Post-Install Configuration

Screen Gallery: Preparing IIS7 for TFS 2010 Beta 2

neno — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Screenshots of a successfull installation of Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 according to the Team Foundation Installation Guide 2010.

During this process you will add:

ASP.NET
Windows Authentication
IIS 6 Management Compatibility

Screen Gallery: Preparing SQL Server 2008 for TFS 2010 Beta 2

neno — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:30:00 GMT

Screenshots of a successfull installation of SQL Server 2008 according to the Team Foundation Installation Guide 2010.

In this case TFS is installed in a dual-server configuration, meaning:

Data Tier: containing SQL Server and Analysis Services
App Tier: containing Reporting Services, Windows SharePoint Services and TFS itself

Installation

Note: In the sceenshots a new SQL instance is added to an existing database server.

TF30207: Can't create team project on TFS itself / red X on documents and reports / insufficient SSRS or WSS permissions

neno — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:16:37 GMT

Problem description

Team Project creation fails on the Team Foundation Server itself due to insufficient permissions although the user has all neccessary permissions in SQL Server Reporting Services (Content Manager role) as well as Windows SharePoint Services.

or

A red X is shown next to the Reports and Documents node when running Team Explorer on the Team Foundation Server itself.

Further obervations:

You can access http://<server>/reports without problems.
You can access the SharePoint Central Administration without problems.
Creating team projects with Team Explorer from other machines work fine.

Workaround

Follow the steps outlined in the following KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861

How to integrate Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) into your TFS process template

neno — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:13:00 GMT

Downloads:

Additional information: