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Publishing Requirements from Word to TFS (via WordToTFS)

neno — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:00:00 GMT

This post is part of a blog series:

Part I : Exporting TFS Work Items to Microsoft Word (via WordToTFS)
Part II: Publishing Requirements from Word to TFS (via WordToTFS)

Steps:

Download and install the freeware tool AIT WordToTFS from here (registration required).
Start Microsoft Word (winword.exe). You should see a new "WordToTFS" ribbon.
Choose the layout template you want to use (the names correspond to TFS process templates, but it's possible to furhter customize those layout templates).
Once, you are ready to publish, click 'Connect' on the 'WordToTFS' ribbon and choose a team project to connect to.
Start by creating an outline, headlines, introduction text as you would normally do when creating a requirements document in MS Word.
Once you are ready to add a requirement, choose "Empty Product Backlog Item" (in the case of the "Visual Scrum Scrum" template; the name differs for other process template, e.g. "Requirement" in MSF/CMMI or "User Story" for MSF/Agile).
This will insert a table with the typical fields to describe a requirement. Replace 'Title' and 'Description' with appropriate values (you can edit those defaults by clicking "Edit Default Values" on the ribbon).
Repeat Steps 5 to 7 for additional requirements.
Once you're happy with your requirement(s), click 'Publish' in the 'WordToTFS' ribbon.
The work item is now created in TFS.
After publishing the requirement table looks smilar to this:

Notes:

Keep in sync: After initially publishing your work items you can either change those in MS Word and re-publish those changes, or change the work items with a different TFS client and click 'Refresh' on the 'WordToTFS' ribbon to import those changes into your MS Word document.
Images: You can insert images in the description field (if the process template is using an HTML-based field) and those will be updated as attachments:
Test Cases with Test steps: You can enter a numbered list of steps for a Test Case, which will be translated to test steps (as they are required by Microsoft Test Manager):

Disclaimer: This MS Word integration is not part of Visual Studio or Team Foundation Server. The plug-in was developed by a Microsoft Partner (AIT) and not by Microsoft itself.

Exporting TFS Work Items to Microsoft Word (via WordToTFS)

neno — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:00:00 GMT

This post is part of a blog series:

Part I : Exporting TFS Work Items to Microsoft Word (via WordToTFS)
Part II: Publishing Requirements from Word to TFS (via WordToTFS)

Steps:

Download and install the freeware tool AIT WordToTFS from here (registration required).
Start Microsoft Word (winword.exe). You should see a new "WordToTFS" ribbon.
Choose the layout template you want to use (the names correspond to TFS process templates, but it's possible to furhter customize those layout templates).
Click 'Connect' on the 'WordToTFS' ribbon and choose a team project to connect to.

If the "missing mapping fields" dialog appears, you probably choose the wrong layout template (you can still change it before the next steps).
Click 'Get Work Items" from the ribbon.
On the 'Get Work Items' pane to the ride, select a stored query.
Click on 'Find' button.
Optionally, deselect work items in the list if you want to exclude them.
Click on 'Import' button.
Enjoy!

Disclaimer: This MS Word integration is not part of Visual Studio or Team Foundation Server. The plug-in was developed by a Microsoft Partner (AIT) and not by Microsoft itself.

VS 2010 Extension Manager: How to turn off update checks

neno — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Option 1: Manually in Visual Studio 2010 using Tools » Options:

Option 2: Using a registry key

Download .REG file: DisableAutoCheckForUpdates.reg (.ZIP)

(Thanks to Robert MacLean for this tip and both screenshots.)

VS 2010: How to find out if VS SP1 is installed?

neno — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Question: How can I easily see if VS SP1 is installed on my machine?

Answer: Run VS 2010, open Help » About. Look for "SP1Rel" after the version number.

Screenshot:

Download: Team Foundation Server Power Tools (September 2010)

neno — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 05:00:00 GMT

An updated version of the "must-have" Power is available:

TFS Power Tools

Cross Platform Build Extensions

MSSCCI Provider (no updates this release)

What's new in this Power Tools release?

Admin Console Backup/Restore Wizard
Team Explorer Enhancements
TFPT Branches
Bugfixes

More Information

Sept 2010 TFS Power Tools Release Available - bharry's WebLog

Update for TFS 2010 (RTM version) including all hot fixes

neno — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Microsoft released an update (KB 983578) for:

Team Foundation Server 2010
All Team Foundation Server 2010 clients (aka Team Explorer)

It's the same update package that will update the client and server components.

What's in that upgrade?

According to Brian Harry and the KB article:

Enables Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management functionality

Improves performance for Lab Management Workflow Wizard.

Improves performance for running automated test cases on Network Isolated Lab environments.

Fixes an issue in which a Test Controller service account that is the same as a Lab Service account causes issues with environment capabilities.

There is a new Expression Encoder 4.0 based Video Diagnostic data adapter to collect video recording when you perform tests. This diagnostic adapter replaces the Windows Media Encoder base video diagnostic adapter.

Install/Upgrade

Labels created in TFS2008 do not contain items after migration to TFS 2010 under certain rename/delete conditions.

TFS Cannot be re-installed (ATOnly) targeting a database that was patched before.

Tfs2010Beta2ToRTM operation is not executed when RC database is upgraded by post RTM server (RTM + Patch1 or SP1).

TFS Build

VS2008 “smart device” projects pick up the 2010 MSTEST rather than the 2008 one.

Unavailable build agents are pinged indefinitely rather than giving up after an hour.

Duplicate changeset listings in build report.

Test results for VS2008 solution not published in case of a failed test.

Cannot delete build drops if a controller goes down

Open Process File Location” grayed out on menu- right click on a build definition when connected to a TFS 2008 server

Version Control

Branch from label has been removed in TFS 2010 – now it’s back.

Convert folder to branch on a hierarchy root folder with children and cycle renames crashes VS.

Unshelve reports bogus errors about a null DownloadUrl when dependent renames are shelved and child item names overlap.

Incorrect query plan on QueryPendingChanges when querying all users pending changes can lead to bad performance.

merge /discard in both directions causes unnecessary “empty” merges in future merge attempts.

Issue in merge causes a conflict not to be generated when there is a rename in the target and source.

Overly aggressive automatic detection of file encoding can result in inappropriate encoding mismatches during merges.

Work Item Tracking

Work item queries containing references to deleted fields can cause a red X on the work items node.

Team Web Access

Firefox Browser: "Link Selected Items to a New Work Item" and other dialogs don't launch pages successfully

Chrome Browser: Adding an attachment doesn't work

Chrome Browser: Select Query Dropdown doesn't work in Choose Work Items window

Chrome Browser: Retain/Delete a build in Build Report page will get an exception “Unexpected callback response”

Query Picker Web Part Incorrectly Renders List Items (Rows) in List View (Overflow DIVs) within WebKit-based Browsers (including Safari, Chrome, etc)

Where should I apply the upgrade?

TFS component:	Applies to:
TFS Application Tier	Yes
TFS Data Tier (SQL Server)	No
Team Explorer 2010	Yes
Visual Studio 2010	Yes
Visual Studio 2005/2008	No
Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)	Yes
TFS Build Controller	Yes
TFS Build Agent	Yes
TFS Test Controller	Yes
TFS Test Agent	Yes
TFS Lab Agent	Yes
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)	No
SQL Server Reporting Services	No
SQL Server Analysis Services	No
SharePoint/WSS	No

Download the update package now.

Frequently asked questions

Should I install the update although I do not use Lab Management?
Yes, it contains all TFS fixes that have been made since TFS 2010.
Is this a Service Pack?
No.
If I reinstall or add TFS components later, do I have to reapply this patch?
Yes.
Should I stop TFS service prior to installing?
No, this is not necessary and will be done automatically by the update.

Getting Updates for the Visual Studio 2010 Documentation

neno — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:00:00 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):

Updating Visual Studio 2008 in order to work with TFS 2010

neno — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:00:00 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

Tip: How to shrink TeamCompanion’s ribbon commands

neno — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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

Value: DisplayButtonCaptionsInRibbon (DWORD) must be 0 (= hide captions)

After:

Download: TCO_DisableButtonCaptions.zip

Setup up an e-mail notification on other user's check-ins

neno — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:00:00 GMT

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 ($/Teamproject), if applicable, as well as your account name (to be excluded).
The “Filter Expression” (2nd tab) looks now similar to:

'Artifacts/Artifact[starts-with(translate(@ServerItem, "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"), "$/playground")]' <> null AND "Committer" <> 'TFS\neno'