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A friend of mine today was quibbling a bit while using Visual Studio 2010 to create a solution and then to add projects to it. The normal behavior one would expect is as follows: Create an empty solution. One would expect to see the solution name (say...

  Continuing the sequence of more love for Windows Live, I am posting a couple of  more videos which shows the kinds of consumer scenarios that are possible with Windows Live.   Girl From Mars – Just click on the link to left  or the...

  This question has come up a few times, so I thought I might as well blog. How to connect to Team Foundation Server from the Test Management console. You are connecting from MTM to TFS and you get the following error. Unable to connect to the server...

  In 2010 version of Visual Studio one can author Test Cases and associate to the Test Cases automation if one had implemented them. While most of the Test Planning, Test Authoring etc.,. can be done from within Microsoft Test Manager (aka MTM) 2010...

  Microsoft has released the final general availability of Windows Internet Explorer 9 in 39 languages across the world.  This is the ninth and final release of IE9 in less than a year – I can’t wait for you to download and experience it. The...

  Sometimes or really quite often it is necessary to run a Team Foundation Server(TFS) Work Item (WIT) query that will pull all the linked child work items(task or bug or test case) for a category of WIT say like a User Story or Requirement. You...

This is an often asked question and though the answer is very easy, I thought I will post it so that people can easily view or browse the documentation without needing TFS install. BTW personally I think the TFS process guidance document navigational...

This is a significant announcement and a much needed product to smoothen integrated deployment of various Web components and tools. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/web for more details. What is it? The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a free tool...

As promised in an earlier blog post of mine a System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) based Management Pack (MP) for TFS 2008 has been released to the public. This MP enhances an enterprises' ability to pro-actively manage our flagship product Team Foundation...

A question came up during a discussion and it was: Do I need to be connected to TFS to view and read the Process Guidance documentation?. Why cant I view it offline?. Yes you can view it offline and here is how to do it. Got to the TFS server node, Right...

A question came up - Is it possible to view all fields of the various types of Work Items ( which might be bug, task, requirement, Risk, Change Request, Review etc) from one place. Yes it is possible. The Process Template Editor that ships as part of...

There is a Management Pack (MP) for TFS currently in beta. This is referred to in Brian Harry's blog entry . This will eventually be posted to the catalog of Management Packs on the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) catalog of MPs when sufficient...

  MS has just announced RAD with LightSwitch. Here is my first peek at it, as I walk through it. Once you go to MSDN and download the package and install it, you will see it manifest as two project templates in VS IDE.     The basic idea...

  How does one read in and start processing an AD User Attribute when it’s value  is NOT SET? When it is set to some legal value it is very easy to read and extract the value and this is well documented. But when it is NOT SET, then there is...

This question keeps coming up frequently, and so I thought to make a succinct post on how to do this.   First install the TFS 2010 Power Tools by downloading it to your Client box. You can do a bing search to locate the “TFS 2010 Power Tools download...

TFS 2010 and the associated Testing infrastructure for Testing (aka Test Lab capabilities) are designed to work well together, because there are designed closely integrated with each other. In the design of the Test Agent process (QtAgent32.exe which...

Issue/Problem: I have a large number of build definitions, which are increasing by the day, as we are adding branches and along with that several builds per branch. Is there some way to “group” build definitions, and maintain some sanity, instead of pulling...

  Both Office 2013 Clients and as well as the Office 365 products now have a cool feature called “Apps for Office”. It is best to see what this is via an example. For example lets take the case of an e-mail. Depending on the content of the mail,...

Finally Microsoft has released something that should make all TFS and WP7 aficionados very happy. Microsoft (MS) has made access to the TFS Object Model via the Open Source OData protocol, and to boot MS has also provided a sampler to start playing with...

WoHoo! Two new certifications achieved. The logos are downloadable from MCP site, only of one passed the exams. 1. For .NET 3.5 I took earlier in the fiscal year 2. For TFS 2010 Administration and Configuration I took recently. Definitely feels good....

We released Internet Explorer 8 to the web for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows Server. Not only is this the best version of Internet Explorer that Microsoft has ever built, it’s the best browser available for consumers, businesses, and developers...

Today MS announced the  go live of DeepZoomPix , a technology demonstration of Microsoft® Silverlight™ , Deep Zoom and the Azure™ Services Platform . Using Silverlight’s exclusive Deep Zoom technology , DeepZoomPix enables you to interactively explore...

  This is a slightly fun video for you tech junkies out there. http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=9e1142a3-c13e-4156-9bc4-1096f6145434 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCApcSq1ke0   I will update as the other episodes in this series...

This question came up quite a few times. So I thought I will post it here. There are a few situations when the Out of the Box VSTS 2008 Web Test Recorder will not capture certain HTTP traffic, such as HTTP S . In such cases Fiddler comes in handy. Here...

This question came up at a customer and while there could be a few ways to do this, the following is one of the ways to do this.   The TF checkin command has an option called /author. Using the author option one could check in another user’s changes...