TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje

Links from the Team System interactive sesssion at Basta

Documentation

• Team Foundation Installation Guide
  https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E54BF6FF-026B-43A4-ADE4-A690388F310E
  
• Team Foundation Administrators Guide
  https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2AED0ECC-1552-49F1-ABE7-4905155E210A
  
• Branching Guidance
  http://www.codeplex.com/BranchingGuidance
  
• TFS Guide
  http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide
  
• VSTS Guidance
  (including Managing Source Control Dependencies in Visual Studio Team System )
  http://www.codeplex.com/VSTSGuidance

Tools

• Team Foundation Power Tools
  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718351.aspx
  
• Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider
  (for VB6, VC6, etc.)
  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=87e1ffbd-a484-4c3a-8776-d560ab1e6198&DisplayLang=en

Method not found: 'Void Microsoft.Reporting.PreviewItemContext.SetPath()' when using Report View in TSWA

If you get the following error message above when using the Report View in Team System Web Access…

… you need to install the Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 on your TFS App Tier (as described here) to make it work again.

How it looks when it works

1. Open a work item or a execute a work item query.
   
2. Click “Tools” > “Report View”
   
   
   
3. This report should appear now:
   
   

Check-In is slow when using exclusive check-out?

It’s still hot: Microsoft released a fix for slow check-in’s if you’re using exclusive check-out feature yesterday:

FIX: The check-in process may be very slow when you use the Source Control feature in Visual Studio 2005 Team System

Read more here.