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Workflows of MSF Agile and CMMI Process Templates for TFS
When trying to decide which of the two MSF Process Templates - Agile vs. CMMI Process Improvement - for TFS is the right starting point for your company, it helps to compare the work item types and its workflows. You can download the full guidance from...
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...
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...
How Microsoft uses Team Foundation Server internally
A good read: Applying Value Up at Microsoft by Sam Guckenheimer (also available as 60-minute-webcast ) (see also: attached image about Scenarios, Value Props, Experiences, Features ) Managing work for Team System by Jeff Beehler Internal TFS Usage: Tracking...
Using images in description fields
Requires : The use of HTML description fields in stead of the default description field. Team System Web Access (TSWA) to insert the pictures. Steps : Use a HTML fields for your descriptions instead of plan text fields (might need to copy the old descriptions...
FIX: An unexpected error occurred while trying to add a web part to a project portal in TFS 2005
Due to a lot of requests about this pretty common problem. Steps you did: You browsed for a web part: You selected one and hit "Add": You got the error message: "An unexpected error occurred." This is a know issue with WSS 2.0 and...
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...
V-Modell XT Generator creates TFS Process Templates
Microsoft Germany [1], The Center of Software Concepts at the Technical University of Munich [2] and Zühlke [3] released the V-Modell XT Generator [4] that creates process templates for working with the V-Modell, which is a process modell widely asked...
Changing TFS email notifications to link to Team System Web Access
Thanks to this MSDN Forums post I was able to change the link included in every TFS notification e-mail to point to TSWA instead of the project portal. Here’s the full story: When using project alerts to get notified about work item changes you get an...
Tool for creating links to pages on Team System Web Access
Would you like to send links to work items, team projects or source files on  Team System Web Access ? For work items … you can find the answer in the offical TSWA FAQ : Q: What’s the URL to use if I want to send the link of a specific work item...
Use SnagIt to capure your screen and create a new Work Item quickly
Capturing screenshots and new bugs quickly is a everyday task for software developers and testers. The default Work Item form does not handle this scenario very efficiently, i.e. you have to click too many times until the new bug is created. One nice...
Validation error when saving Work Items after a user is removed from Active Directory
Problem : If you remove a user from Active Directory or the local machine (depending where you store your user accounts for TFS), all work items that were assigned to that user cannot be modified anymore , at least if you use the default MSF process templates...
Available Check-In-Policies for Team Foundation Server
Included in Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Work Items Code Analysis : Check-in policy can be used to control and improve the quality of code that is checked into the code base. Testing Policy As part of the Visual Studio SDK September 2006 (can be downloaded...