If you tried to create custom reports, you may have found that you needed more help than what was available. Today, we published new content on MSDN online to help you get started. Check it out, give it a try, and leave feedback so that we can continue...

I've got four new draft topics for you today about a very hot topic on the discussion boards: mirroring the Team Foundation data-tier server. Keep in mind that these documents are draft ONLY, and still subject to change. Any and all feedback on these...

If you are looking for answers to questions like above then read on. It has been a frequent asks to have an easy way to figure out when a particular test artifact got deleted and by whom. At present all this information goes in TFS collection database...

Today we are pleased to enable another great capability of Team Foundation Server on the Team Foundation Service Preview, Build. With the introduction of build we are combining the power and flexibility of Team Build with the low friction setup of the...

We have completed the release of the Test Case Migrator Plus (V1.2 RTM) on CodePlex. What's new for the V1.2 RTM version Support for connecting to Hosted Team Foundation Server Preview . Support for connecting to Team Foundation Server 11 Beta . Fix to...

Summary When a new version of TFS comes out, there are new features. Some of those features are backed by metadata such as work item types and work item categories. If you had to upgrade your TFS 2008 team project to TFS 2010 you know that this can...

UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here . This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast. In this post, we will show you how to...

Last week at the ALM Summit I ran the Visual Studio 11 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-On-Labs with a bunch of the MVPs from Imaginet .   In my opinion, this conference represents one of the best showcases of Microsoft...

Remember the last time you worked with unfamiliar code? It can seem like it takes forever to understand how to change it and even longer to see the potential impact. What if you had a picture that shows how the code is organized and gives you more information...

Visual Studio 2012 comes with an extensible Unit Test Framework. Many of your favorite Unit Test frameworks (xUnit.Net, nUnit..) already have built adapters to Visual Studio. Peter Provost maintains a list of adapters here . If you have another unit test...

Coded UI Test team has developed an extension model for enabling custom control identification, record and playback of automation tests using Coded UI Test. This hotfix will be available on top of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1). The...

Since the release of the Visual Studio 11 Beta I have had several questions about load testing in Visual Studio. All of the questions to date have been around getting started… Unlike Visual Studio 2010 that had Test > New Test > Load Test on the...

  Update: We have moved the test case management features for Web Access to Visual Studio Update 2.   So when you install the latest CTP for Visual Studio Update 1 these test features will no longer be present.  We plan to re-enable...

With this latest Team Foundation Service update , we have updated the process template versions for all the templates. Agile and CMMI are at 6.1. Scrum is at 2.1. This reflects a few minor improvements we've made: - For Agile, the User Story's state model...

Please find the support levels across platforms for Coded UI Tests for Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate or Microsoft Visual Studio Premium Also, over the past one year, several 3rd party control vendors have worked with us to add support for Coded...

  We just released a new Microsoft Exam  “Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012” which covers manage the process of running tests, creating and monitoring bugs, and managing and mitigating issues that a software organization has in controlling...

--> Run CI builds in your Git team project --> Does your team use continuous integration (CI)? Are you an early adopter of the new Git capabilities in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service? If so, you'll be glad to hear that you can define...

Create, Connect, and Publish using Visual Studio with Git --> By: Andy Lewis and Matthew Mitrik (MS) In the few days since we announced Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service support for Git , it's been exciting to see so much interest, along...

Following on from our last blog post on IntelliTrace enhancements for SharePoint , in this blog post we’ll talk about how the new analysis section for SharePoint can help you find the source of issues faster. The New Analysis Section IntelliTrace...

Visual Studio 2012 allows you to debug your application on your Windows RT device so that you can develop the application the same way that your customers will use it. Remote debugging is over your local network, which is really convenient when you are...

Earlier this morning at the Build conference here in Redmond we announced that Team Foundation Service is now out of Preview ! The new URL for the service is http://tfs.visualstudio.com . You can read about the changes here: http://tfs.visualstudio.com...

In a previous post , I have told you how the Configure Features wizard works to upgrade the team projects on your TFS server. It works great. However if you are an administrator of dozens of team projects, you don't want to walk through the wizard for...

UPDATE Feb 16 2012: All the videos referenced in this blog post have been re-recorded with the latest version of Team Foundation Service Preview. While the links remain the same, the videos pointed to by those links have been updated in-place. As...

Having developed a 3rd party control, wonder what it takes to go from NO support to FULL support for Coded UI Test? How to make the UI elements testable by Coded UI Test – to be able to create automated tests from manual recording, record user actions...

UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here . This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast. This post walks you step-by-step to...