July 2010 Doc Updates for VS ALM

Visual Studio Scrum 1.0

Learn how to use the artifacts in the first official version of Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0. These artifacts include work items, reports, and team queries, and your team can use them to track information, analyze progress, and make decisions.

Create and Modify Areas and Iterations

Use the new guidelines, examples, and procedures to create and manage areas, iterations, and permissions more effectively.

Assigning Permissions to View and Manage Reports for Visual Studio ALM

Use new information about permissions to more easily assign permissions to manage reports, to perform specific activities, and to access specific data stores, such as the different options for authenticating viewers of enterprise dashboards.

Excel Reports (Agile)

Excel Reports (CMMI)

Grant access to reports by using the clarified and corrected the information about permissions required to view, refresh, and create Excel reports.

Designing the Workflow

Design your work item workflow more effectively using this completely revised topic which provides more information, examples, and a summary of all WORKFLOW elements and attributes.

Enabling Interfacing with Microsoft Test Manager for Upgraded Team Projects

Use the new and corrected information about potential conflicts that occur in test case work item definitions to manage those conflicts.

Defining Link Controls to Restrict Link Relationships

Reference a complete list of names that are available for use with the ExternalLinkFilters element when you define your link controls.

Structuring Modeling Solutions

Suggests how you can divide the project into separate solutions that correspond to the components on layer diagrams.

Visual Studio Architecture Tooling Guidance

Provides practical guidance about how to use the modeling features in Visual Studio Ultimate by addressing various scenarios and including a list of frequently asked questions.

Accessing Models from Text Templates

Explains how to access a model by using the DSL directive processor.

Integrating Models by using Visual Studio Modelbus

Explains how to make links between models, and how to navigate the links in program code.

Using Visual Studio Modelbus in a Text Template

Describes how to handle interlinked models in a text template. This topic includes a walkthrough in which you set up a DSL that is accessed in both a text template and in other code.

How to: Add a Drag and Drop Handler

Let your users drag elements from one diagram to another. Shows how to include objects in the dragged prototype, and how to drag to or from a UML model.
Shows how to define your handler as a MEF component. Includes brief discussion of ElementGroupPrototypes.

Walkthrough: Define a Custom Workflow to Deploy a Database from Team Foundation Build

How to: Deploy Changes using Team Foundation Build

Now you can deploy your database by using Team Foundation Build and a custom Workflow. Previously, you could only use Team Foundation Build to deploy when you ran automated database unit tests. Now you can define a custom Windows Workflow that can deploy to a target database by using VSDBCMD.EXE. You then use that custom workflow as part of your build definition. This enables you to create continuous integration builds for your database project, just as you can do for your application code.

How to: Compare Database Schemas

Now you can use the VSDBCMD.EXE command-line tool to compare .dbschema files. You can either create a script from the compared schemas, or you can deploy the differences directly to a target server that corresponds to the target .dbschema file.

How to: Specify the Maximum Size for the Log File

Edit the XML configuration file for the test controller to configure the size limit for the load test logging file.

Troubleshooting Network Emulation in Load Tests

Verify if network emulation is working correctly in your load tests.

Walkthrough: Adding a Loop to a Web Performance Test

Loop a web request multiple times in a Web performance test.

How to: Run a Load Test Containing Web Performance Tests that Collects ASP.NET Profiler Data

Describes the procedures and configuration settings required to use the ASP.NET diagnostic data adapter. Covers editing the test settings, installing a test agent on the IIS machine, and running the load test to collect ASP.NET performance data.

How to: Manually Create a Load Test Performance Report Using Microsoft Word

In addition to automatically generating Microsoft Excel load test reports, you can also manually create Microsoft Word reports. This topic explains the procedures to manually create a load test report in Microsoft Word.

Set Up Drop Folders

Team Foundation Build provides most of its value to your team in the form of outputs, such as binaries, test results, and log files. You must designate and prepare one or more drop folders so that your build system can deliver these outputs to your team. This topic provides both a functional overview along with detailed steps; information which was lacking in the last release of this topic.

Queue a Build

You can use a private build (also known as a “buddy build”) to validate changes to your code before you check them in. Added detailed background and procedures to support customers who need to use this capability.

Connecting to Team Foundation from a Console Application

Write code that acts on behalf of another user by using the new information about impersonation.