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Apr 4, 2012
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TFS Integration Tools – March 2012 Release

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Last month the team silently released a new release of the TFS Integration Tools on the Visual Studio Gallery, which now includes support for Team Foundation Server 11 and Team Foundation Service. The list of resolved bugs which we received from the community and from internal dogfooding environments is substantial: General Version Contro...

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Apr 4, 2012
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Test Tooling Guides BETA has shipped!

Willy-P. Schaub

We are pleased to announce that we have released another one of the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” projects, delivering guidance for both Coded UI and MTM testing. For more information on the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” please refer to here or click the image above. For more information on this project, please vi...

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Mar 27, 2012
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Build on the Team Foundation Service

Aaron Bjork

Today we are pleased to enable another great capability of Team Foundation Server on the Team Foundation Service Preview, Build. With the introduction of build we are combining the power and flexibility of Team Build with the low friction setup of the Team Foundation Service and continuing our efforts to provide the most powerful cloud based ALM so...

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Mar 24, 2012
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Changing the default filter for exploratory testing

Nitin Gurram

For performing exploratory testing with Microsoft Test Manager, when we go to Test -> Do exploratory testing   we see a list of work items that are of requirement category and have the same area path and iteration path as that of the test plan. The idea behind having these conditions in the default query is that in most cases, the user will be e...

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Mar 21, 2012
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The Code Index – Part 3 – Code samples for using indexed information

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We have published two samples, on the Code Gallery showing how to get data from the code index.The first sample, Code Index - How to get statistics about your code, shows how to retrieve some statistical information from the code index, and in particular: Looking at the sample’s s...

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Mar 20, 2012
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Visual Studio 11 Beta – Changes in Web Performance Test / Load Test Workflow

RubelS_MSFT

With Visual Studio 11 Beta, you will see some changes in Web Performance Test / Load Test workflow.  In this post, I’ll be highlighting those changes.          Creating Web Performance Test / Load TestThere has been some changes around creating Web Performance Test / Load Test. Now we've separ...

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Mar 16, 2012
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Running IntelliTrace on Applications in Production

Esther Fan

After we released IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, customers commonly asked us about debugging applications with IntelliTrace outside Visual Studio or Microsoft Test Manager. This can be very useful in an environment where your application has a repeatable problem, but you can’t attach a debugger, and you have to dig into code to ...

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Mar 15, 2012
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March 21st MN User Group: Visual Studio 11 Beta Upgrade Pleasant Surprises and Lessons Learned

Charles Sterling

While at the TAP kick off I spoke with Dave about doing a presentation on Intertech’s lessons learned while upgrading to Visual Studio 11 Beta- and he has finally found time March 21st at the MN User Group…Should be a great meeting!Session Abstract: Dave Zimmerman has been a part of the TAP program which began with a presentation/quest...

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Mar 15, 2012
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The Code Index SDK – Part 2 – Bulk indexing assemblies into the code index

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Note that this post was updated on June 5th to provide updates concerning the Visual Studio 2012 RC. The changes are highlighted.In my last post, I’ve introduced the Code Index, explaining why use it, and how to get it. This post is about the first scenario that I mentioned: bulk indexing assemblies into the code Index. This topic requires th...

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Mar 15, 2012
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Various test attachment size reduction features in MTMTFS 11

Gautam Goenka [MSFT]

Some of you may have faced the problem of test attachments growing too fast in TFS with Microsoft Test Manager (MTM).  As you know, the test attachments can be cleaned using Test Attachment Cleaner tool which is part of TFS Power Tools.  However, even with the cleaner tool, the experience is not ideal and based on feedback, we did release...

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