Usually I try not to repost the links, but in this case just could not; I must recommend absolutely awesome super concise and informative post on benefits of PDBs from John Robbins (author of debugging Necronomicon if you don’t know). And to add what...

In one of my previous posts I mentioned that I consider custom controls in WI one of the most complex types of customization to implement. Since I got asked related question let me expand on the topic. Custom work item controls provide a way to implement...

Today I’d like to talk about WIT customization recommendations that will mostly become applicable as your custom Work Item types increase in complexity. Keep the number of custom fields limited (per TFS server) One can have a maximum of 1024 fields...

One significant drawback of MSBuild UsingTask element is that you must specify exactly the task name you are importing. That is if the assembly you are importing contains 200 tasks, you will have to import them explicitly one by one. And since you probably...