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A few words about me and about this blog. I am a developer at Microsoft; have been working here since 2000. I am a member of the Team Foundation Server team (client side of the work item tracking). I have been involved in development of things like work...

Querying in TFS is easy. You run a query specifying a filter; you walk through returned items performing certain actions on each returned item. Now after a few runs you start asking yourself: why is it so slow? Here are some non-obvious implementation...

There's not much optimization you can do when saving work items. But when your application updates multiple work items, consider submitting results in a single batch using WorkItemStore.BatchSave method. Here are some important notes about this method...

It turned out that the article about EMPTY rule in work item type definition XML is incomplete. It doesn't say one very important thing: EMPTY rule not only clears content of the field, but also makes the field read only. If your work item type uses a...

There was some confusion regarding how the migration toolkit synchronizes work item tracking metadata between two systems, so I have decided to explain it a little bit. During every synchronization pass the toolkit calls non-TFS work item store's SynchronizeMetadata...

Some important information for the Team System Web Access administrators. If your TSWA account does not have full permissions to the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\WorkItemTracking\Cache registry path, you may be wasting a lot of resources....

If you customize work item type definitions in TFS, you may have already encountered this error. Witimport works fine and imports your type with no errors; however, saving your work item gives you the following error: "TF26201: This work item has unsupported...

Another MSDN chat is coming on 8/1/07. We will be holding two sessions: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM and 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM. Times are in PST.

Here's probably the most important thing everyone should know before using the migration toolkit : you must add accout the toolkit will be running under into the TFS Service Accounts group. Here's the command for doing that: tfssecurity.exe /server...