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• 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... Posted Feb 20 2008, 12:30 AM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Change Management, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, Version 2008, Project Management with TFS, For Business Analysts, Troubleshooting, Quality Assurance (QA) with VSTS, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes

• Can't find Team Foundation Server 2008 Standard Edition?

  TFS 2008 is released! Well… at least the Workgroup and Trial Editions are available. And the Standard Edition won’t be available until January (when the product keys are available as well). So the solution for now Microsoft recommends you to use the Trial... Posted Nov 22 2007, 12:21 AM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Unreleased, TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Tips and Tricks, Version 2008, For IT-Administrators

• Whitepaper: Operations Guidance for Team Foundation Server

  Summary: You can manage your deployment of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server more effectively if you create your own operations plan. As you create your plan, you should understand key elements of the architecture of Team Foundation... Posted Oct 05 2007, 02:25 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Training and Learning, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, For IT-Administrators, TFS Administration

• 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... Posted Sep 21 2007, 07:53 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Tools and Utilities, Training and Learning, Tips and Tricks

• 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... Posted Sep 07 2007, 12:46 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, Team System Web Access (TSWA), Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes, Issues and Hotfixes

• 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 . Posted Sep 06 2007, 09:53 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Software Developers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes, Issues and Hotfixes

• 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... Posted Aug 31 2007, 04:44 PM by neno with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, TFS Server Administration, TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, Project Management with TFS, TFS Administration, Project Portal and Team Communication, Team System Web Access (TSWA), TFS Customization, Notification and Alerts

• 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... Posted Aug 31 2007, 04:34 PM by neno with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, Tools and Utilities, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Project Management with TFS, Team System Web Access (TSWA), TFS Customization

• How to remove someone else's workspace in TFS

  A customer asked: “During my vacation my collegue was working on my machine and mapped the solution file to D:\Projects. Now I returned and wanted to map the solution to that folder as well, which obviously doesn’t work since it is already... Posted Aug 30 2007, 05:59 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Software Developers, For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, TFS Administration

• Creating a separate work item form layout for Web Access

  Right now custom work item controls [1] are not supported by Team System Web Access [2]. Instead your custom control you will see this unpleasant message: “Unable to create workitem control ‘ControlName’”. While this is a sad thing for us users does that... Posted Aug 29 2007, 06:32 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, TFS Administration, Team System Web Access (TSWA), TFS Customization, Work Item Customization

• Listing version control changes with check-in comments using TFS

  You can easily query for changes on a team project or a specified version control folder underneath and display them in a list with the check-in comments. By using Team System Web Access (TSWA): Note: I’m showing this first because the dialog is... Posted Aug 27 2007, 06:36 PM by neno with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: For Software Developers, For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Change Management, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, For Release Managers, TFS Clients, Team Explorer, Team System Web Access (TSWA)

• Enabling email functionality in Team System Web Access (TSWA)

  By default, the email functionality in Team System Web Access (TSWA) is disabled and users will receive the following message when trying to use it: “Sending email is not enabled. Please contact your administrator.” To enable you need to change... Posted Aug 27 2007, 06:28 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, For IT-Administrators, TFS Clients, Team System Web Access (TSWA)

• Enable logging to troubleshooting Team System issues

  Here’s a list of how to enable logging for the various client and server components of VIsual Studio Team System: TFS Client (Visual Studio IDE and command line tools) : devenv.exe.config (for Visual Studio IDE), tf.exe.config (for command line... Posted Aug 24 2007, 05:07 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Tips and Tricks, VSTS Test Edition, Team Build Server

• Copy area and interation structure using the Area Import/Export Tool

  If you look for a way to export and import your area and/or iteration structure the Team Foundation Object Model (TFOM) is your friend. However it’s only your friend if you know where to look for. While the export works perfectly using the WorkItemStore... Posted Jul 07 2007, 09:21 PM by neno with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Extensibility, TFS Server Administration, TFS Work Item Tracking, Downloads, Tools and Utilities, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, Version 2008, Work Item Customization

• Getting started using Custom Work Item Controls

  Since Service Pack 1 [1] we have the ability to create our own controls to display field value within a work item form which gives us great flexibility. However there are two caveats with custom work item controls right now that aren’t solved: They... Posted Jul 07 2007, 05:26 PM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Extensibility, TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, TFS Customization, Work Item Customization

• Undocumented attributes for controlling the Work Item form layout

  Naren [1] revealed a few very interesting on hidden attributes his blog [2] which you definitely should take a look at since they let you solve some problems as the following ones: Control the height of two text boxes that were placed vertically on one... Posted Jul 07 2007, 04:42 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, TFS Customization, Work Item Customization

• 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... Posted Jul 07 2007, 01:06 AM by neno with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: For Software Testers, For Software Developers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, Tools and Utilities, Tips and Tricks, Screen Galleries, Project Management with TFS

• How Do I: Customize TeamPlain? and How Do I: Create Custom Work Items in Team Foundation Server?

  What do both topics have in common? Well, Microsoft started to publish How-Do-I-videos for various technologies and these two were the same topics covered on Visual Studio Team System. How Do I: Customize TeamPlain? In this video, Scott Golightly shows... Posted Jun 24 2007, 10:48 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Project Managers, TFS Extensibility, TFS Work Item Tracking, Training and Learning, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005

• Communicating via Work Items or: "Description" vs. "History" fields

  When working with Work Items often the questions comes up how to efficiently communicate between team members within TFS (not using e-mails) or what the difference between the Description field and the Comments field on the History tab is. Description... Posted Jun 18 2007, 11:55 PM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005

• PRB: Nothing happens when trying to create new Performance Session in VSTE/SD

  You want to create a new performance session, therefor click on the corresponding menu item and NOTHING HAPPENS ? This behavior happens when the Performance Add-In got disabled somehow. To re-enable it try running: devenv /ResetSkipPkgs If this doesn’t... Posted Jun 18 2007, 11:22 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Software Developers, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, VSTS Developer Edition