Allen Clark has published the Team Foundation Server process template schema files to Code Gallery: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/TFSchemas . Check out his blog post for a short helpful guide on how to use them to help you when you’re customizing your...

  Some folks have asked about how to program against the TFS Excel Add-In. The summary is that we don’t have a public API for the TFS Add-in but we do support using the ribbon. Here are the ribbon commands and an example of how to use them. List...

If you have or planing to have Team foundation server 2010 integration with SharePoint Server(MOSS) and unsure of the SharePoint configurations needed to get the dashboards(Tfs Excel reports that show as dashboards in team project portal site) working...

Live Labs Pivot is a great way to visualize sets of data, and glean insights/understand patterns that may not be as visible otherwise. In this post, we’ll walk through how easy it is to visualize Team Foundation Server work items using Live Labs Pivot...

Flat List Query (Old) The general Syntax: select <fields> from WorkItems [ where <condition>] [ order by <fields>] [ asof <date>] Link Query When querying across links, you specify three filters: · A filter...

This blog post was written by Hayder Casey, a developer on the work item tracking team. The work item tracking context menus in Visual Studio are extensible. You can add your own commands to them and interact with the work item tracking editors and...

The following post was written by Smitha Saligrama, a software development engineer in test on the work item tracking team for Team Foundation Server . To allow better organization and permissions on queries in Team Foundation Server 2010 we added...

Today , we’re announcing and releasing a brand new process template… Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta.  This is a new process template built from the ground up specifically for Scrum teams.   So, why a new template?  Quite simply...

TFS has changed how Excel interacts with HTML fields to only allow HTML fields to be editable on creation of a work item but read only when editing existing work items. What was the old behavior? With the 2008 TFS Excel Add-In you were able to edit work...

The following post was written by Smitha Saligrama, a software development engineer in test for the work item tracking team in TFS. With the release of TFS 2010, there are some new work item controls you can take advantage of. Stand-alone Label...

  A couple of customers have reached out recently with this question, so I wanted to elaborate how this scenario works. Here’s the scenario: “ I have an existing TFS 2005 or 2008 server with reporting enabled. I upgraded the server to TFS 2010 but...

You have installed Visual Studio 2010 and found out that the TFS Office Add-In is no longer working because you only a have Office 2003 and TFS requires Office 2007 or newer. Your company is not rolling to Office 2010 for another six months, what do you...

With the launch of Visual Studio 2010 last week I thought it would helpful to start a series of blog posts on how you can make the most out of the new MSF Agile 5.0 process template . If you’ve been following any of the beta releases you know that...

This post was written by Hayder Casey, a developer on the work item tracking team . If you have used Visual Studio 2010, you may have noticed the new “Connect to Team Project” dialog: This replaced the old DomainProjectPicker in Visual Studio 2008. The...

With the launch and release of Visual Studio 2010 we’re pleased to announce the new Visual Studio Certified Process Template Program . Visual Studio certified process templates are high quality templates created by certified partners from the Visual Studio...

I’ve had a few people ask where they can get unbound (not connected to a team project) copies of the Agile workbooks so I’ve written this quick post to show where you can download them. The unbound workbooks are stored in the process template and then...

TFS has continued to improve and add to the compatibility guidance. This blog includes links to the 2005 and 2008 forward compatibility updates as well as the forward and backward compatibility detailed scenarios. Read the rest of John Nierenberg's article...

  In my last post in this series I covered the new feature for generating reports in Microsoft Excel based on work item query. Let’s look at custom report authoring options available and a few tools next: Walkthroughs for out-of-the-box experience...

With the Visual Studio 2010 RTM family of products, including Team Foundation Server 2010, due to be released soon, here is some TFS upgrade guidance to help you prepare to upgrade from either Beta 2 or RC to the RTM release. This is supplemental information...

Custom Controls provide a mechanism to extend the work item form to include user developed controls. It enables various scenarios, that are difficult or not possible using the built in controls such as: extend event-based rules, custom user interface...

The Team Explorer 2005 Forward Compatibility Update (GDR) The VSTS 2005 Forward Compatibility Update is now available. It is more focused on development scenarios. For administrative, project management and test case scenarios, the use of Team Explorer...

Team Foundation Server 2010 supports integration with both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. For those of you who wish to integrate with 2007, this MSDN topic gives instructions for configuring SharePoint...

In 2005 and 2008 versions of TFS, the work item links control that displayed the links always showed all the links. For TFS 2010, we made a design decision based on the fact that whoever is designing a work item form, may want to display certain link...

  We have been working on getting a sample adapter ready for you to build a custom warehouse adapter in TFS 2010. I am happy to announce that we just published the sample and is now available at: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Tfs2010SampleAdapter...

  In my last post in this series, I covered the new SQL RS reports we have in TFS 2010. Let’s look at a cool new feature for generating a report in Microsoft Excel based on a work item query. Walkthroughs for out-of-the-box experience including customizations...