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How to integrate Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) into your TFS process template
Downloads: The Microsoft SDL Process Template for Visual Studio Team System Whitepaper: Manually Integrating the SDL Process Template Additional information: The Microsoft SDL Process Template and the Future Seven steps for manually integrating SDL into...
Tip: How to shrink TeamCompanion’s ribbon commands
TeamCompanion , the popular Outlook plug-in for TFS, adds pretty wide command icons to Outlook’s mail window ribbon bar, as you can see here: Before: You can control it using the following registry entry: Key: HKCU\Software\Ekobit\TeamCompanion.Outlook...
Why is there no 64-bit version of Visual Studio?
Currently Visual Studio runs as a 32-bit process on 64-bit Windows operating systems. Rico Mariani knows why and posts why he wants to "load less, not more".   A small side note: TFS 2010 will support 32 and 64-bit Windows on the server...
See and possibly unlock files checked out by other team members
Ed Hintz points out that this is easily done with TFS Power Tools and wrote about it in 2007 . In the Source Control Explorer, right click on a parent folder that contains the pending change and choose, “ Find in Source Control ”. Choose " Status...
Customizing the folders and file extensions automatically excluded
When adding items to source control a list of excluded folders as well as file extensions is shown. You can customize those defaults in the registry. Matthew Mitrik has the details: If the add operation is successfully completed, the list will be saved...
Recommendations for Virus Scanning on TFS computers
Anti-virus software can badly impact the performance of your Team Foundation Server. Therefore make sure the following folders are excluded from scanning for viruses: TFS Version Control Cache Folder Team System Web Access Cache Folder SQL database folders...
Setting Remaining Work to Zero when closing a work item in TFS
Question : How can I make sure that the "Remaining Work" field is set to 0 when the work item is closed (for example when associating a work item during checking-in)? Short Answer : You can achieve this using the <COPY> rule on the transition...
Hotfix KB 971092 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 install problems
Applies to : Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (KB971092) Symptoms : The update installs successfully and but will be offered again by Windows Update as a new update. This can be repeated indefinitely. or the standalone installer...
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TSWA: Report view not showing all work items
If you have more than 100 work items in a query and you use Tools » Report View to prepare the list for printing you might notice that not all work items are shown on the report. Here’s what Hakan Eskici , the father of Web Access, has to say about this...
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...
Setup up an e-mail notification on other user's check-ins
Open Alerts Editor (required TFS Power Tools to be installed locally). Create new alert. Choose “Check-In of a specific file happens”:     Enter a name for the alert subscription, the destination e-mail address , desired team project name (...
Tool for creating direct links to TSWA
Buck Hodges from Microsoft blogged about all the possible links you can construct to point to TSWA pages. For example the following URL opens the Work Item Editor: Open the existing work item with ID 1234: http://mytfs:8090/ wi .aspx? id = 1234 To make...
Security Update for TSWA 2008 SP1
From Hakan Eskici's blog : A security issue has been identified with Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 and we have recently published an update that fixes it. Installation Notice Please note that this is a full release, so you will need to uninstall...
VSTS Whitepapers by Microsoft
Planning Visual Studio Team System 2008 Licensing White Paper (pdf/xps/docx) Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Guide (pdf/ book ) Team System Web Access 2008 Scalability Limits White Paper (pdf/xps/docx) Installation, Configuration...
How TFSDeleteProject Works
There are some areas where data may remain behind after you use TFSDeleteProject . The TFS Warehouse is untouched. In order to remove the data from the warehouse, it must be rebuilt. (It is important to notice that, when the warehouse is rebuilt all the...
Specifying a user upfront or: How is the developer supposed to know who will be the responsible tester?
In a small team this sounds like oversize, but in mid-sized large teams it's common that you do not know who is going to be the tester. Looking at the Bug workflow from MSF Agile: while " Active " the project lead decided if and when the...
Using rich HTML descriptions instead of plain text
Objective Allow rich HTML formatting in description fields of the MSF Agile process template. Note : The MSF CMMI process does support HTML formatting by default. In order to use it you have to enable the formatting toolbar (see Step 6 below). Work Item...
Adding TFS tools to your path environment variable
For easier access to the various command line tools of TFS you can add the necessary directories to your %PATH% environment variable. Paths to add (on a TFS client ) Drive: \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE Paths to add (on a TFS...
Hardware Recommendations for Team Foundation Server 2008
What hardware do I need to run TFS? Well, it depends on how much load you are going to generate. But what is a solid hardware configuration to start? Microsoft recommends for the Single-Server installation of TFS: Additionally they recommend switching...
TFS Branching Guide 2.0
Original announcement: Since the first release, we have received lots of feedback and change requests. Most feedback indicated a desire for a more practical approach to branching compared to the first release which is more theoretical. With that in mind...
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