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When you create your first connection to TFS the local client downloads the metadata required to work with the TFS work items. By default it downloads the metadata for all team projects in a collection, including the ones that you don't have access to. Martin Woodward has a great blog post if you want to read more on the background info, however th...

While we don’t usually do organization announcements on our blogs I thought I would make an exception in this case as Ed Blankenship has been one of the earliest and most active ALM MVPs-and he just joined the ALM Team focusing on Lab Management scenarios. I started working with Ed back when he visited Microsoft for a week of his vacation when he ...

In Jason Zander’s blog post: Announcing the Release Candidate (RC) of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 he showed a new Coded UI feature  -capturing playback logs.   Please note this blog post has been updated.  Please see: Enabling Tracing and HtmlLogger in Coded UI Test             ...

With Visual Studio 11 Beta, we had started sharing the code index SDK.Last week, we shipped the Visual Studio 2012 RC Visualization and modeling SDK (VsVmSDK RC), which, among other features, contains the Code index SDK build tasks. This is an opportunity to explain what changed in the Code Index SDK.Modifications to the bulk indexing Update...

During the Visual Studio 11 Beta I created the post Enabling Feedback Requests for Team Foundation Server showing you that you needed to enable alerts so “Request Feedback” would show up… In the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate an additional step is required to enable the **Request and Manage Feedback **and the **Backlog and Sprint Planning ...

Since the release of the Visual Studio 11 Beta I have had several questions about load testing in Visual Studio.  All of the questions to date have been around getting started… Unlike Visual Studio 2010 that had Test > New Test > Load Test on the menu you have to create a new project of one of the three Test projects.    ...

The other day I wrote a post with a summary of links for upgrading team project settings to turn on all of the new features, such as code review, task board, and more.There are a couple more things I want to point out that you’ll want to tweak after the upgrade.more…

In a previous post, I have told you how the Configure Features wizard works to upgrade the team projects on your TFS server. It works great. However if you are an administrator of dozens of team projects, you don't want to walk through the wizard for each team project. Luckily we have a solution for you, which is outlined in this post. You can eit...

Upgrading is hard. We have heard a lot of comments about the pain that people had to deal with during the upgrade of the team projects from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. For TFS 2012 we make this upgrade much easier for customers with none to limited customizations with a wizard. This post is in addition to the documentation on MSDN, and will go deeper int...

JasonZ announced the Visual Studio 2012 RC, which triggered a SIMultaneous-SHIPping event for the Visual Studio ALM Rangers. // updated 2012/06/15 – v2 CodedUI Add-In has shipped! I am happy to announce that the Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness RC “Gig” solutions are now available for download from CodePlex as listed below: So...