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One of my standard demos lately is to show off the new Feedback client – lately I have also been showing how you could launch the feedback client using our URI syntax i.e. mfbclient://chassALM:8080/DefaultCollection/p:LureCo?rid=1,2,3    Where ChassALM is an on premise TFS instance DefaultCollection is my project collection (duh) ...

(Reposting for Christophe from: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chrisfie/archive/2012/08/08/team-foundation-server-2012-and-project-server-2010-integration.aspx)   Following last week’s RTM announcements for Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 I have been upgrading a few PCs including one of my favorite demo virtual machine: Visual Studio Team Foundation Se...

In the last couple of weeks we have seen a lot of voting in user voice for the ability to rename/change your TFS Account name in the TFS Service Preview (e.g. XYZ.TfsPreview.com).  Please note you can now do this yourself at: https://aka.ms/ChangeTFServiceAcct

Join Cheryl Hammond for this introduction to the major new features and improvements in Team Foundation Server 2012.  Expect to see the new enhanced User Interface, Agile Planning Tools, Requirements Gathering Tool, Stakeholder Feedback Tool, Updates to the Developer and Tester Experience, Version Control Improvements, and DevOps Integration.  The ...

Visual Studio 2012 comes with an extensible Unit Test Framework. Many of your favorite Unit Test frameworks (xUnit.Net, nUnit..) already have built adapters to Visual Studio.  Peter Provost maintains a list of adapters here.  If you have another unit test framework you like, you can build an adapter super easy. In this article, I will walk you thro...

You may encounter problems when opening an RC version of an Office Integration Team Foundation client after you install the Visual Studio 2012 RC.These problems occur when you install the following products in the indicated sequence: The issues that you might encounter are:  These issues are fixed in the RTM release of Office.ResolutionTo ...

If you are looking for answers to questions like above then read on. It has been a frequent asks to have an easy way to figure out when a particular test artifact got deleted and by whom. At present all this information goes in TFS collection database table ‘tbl_AuditLog’. But it’s not straightforward to interpret various column...

The control search in Coded UI Test playback is essentially a breadth first search. For extension plugins that have in-built search capability, the plugin writer can implement its own search logic. What typically remains the same is the way the search is done for the top level window of the application. Consider a top level window UI object su...

 In the last 6 months, I have been able to spend some time with one of the pioneers in the keyword and Data-driven Testing space, Hans Buwalda.  While at Star East Hans agreed to do a MSDN Webcast on this exciting topic – So naturally I jumped on the opportunity!  Session Details: Starts: July-18-12 10:00 AM Time zone: (...