I presented at the Black Marble Architecture Forum in the North event in December and one of the things I showed was how to create a toolbox item extension to add a UML design pattern into Visual Studio’s UML toolbox. Having done this I checked...

TFS support for Agile practices Tailoring TFS to support your Agile process with process templates Iteration planning Information radiators But I’m not a .NET developer Agile support in TFS 11 [Reposted from the old blog site...

TFS support for Agile practices Tailoring TFS to support your Agile process with process templates Iteration planning Information radiators But I’m not a .NET developer Agile support in TFS 11 I thought it would be interesting to get some guest writers...

The new Agile Task Board is an excellent way of working in a Sprint, visually keeping track of tasks on either a per PBI basis, or on a user-by-user basis. If you’ve not seen the board in action before I recommend you check our own Giles Davies...

The new Page Inspector in Visual Studio 2012 really helps with a common problem – where does something I can see in my web application’s UI actually come from? Where in my source code will I need to look? Page Inspector provides integrated browser diagnostic...

I’ve just updated my Design Patterns UML Toolbox extension for Visual Studio 2012. I’d noticed that the version I’d put together for the Beta was not installing correctly in the RTM version so this fixes that. I’m not sure exactly what the problem was...

A word of warning - If, like me, you thought: “I haven’t got time to upgrade my Windows 8 version but I’ll quickly upgrade Visual Studio 11 Beta to Visual Studio 2012 RC” Then hold on, don’t uninstall VS 11 Beta just yet! If you take a look at the system...

I’m at the world record attempting GameJam, Gameathon UK , supporting the teams using Team Foundation Service preview to produce their Windows 8 App games. A question that I got asked was how to use TFS source control with Expression Blend for Visual...

You may have clearly identified the new capabilities that you’d like to use in TFS 2012, but if you need some assistance in helping to demonstrate the benefits of upgrading then you might be interested in the presentation that Graham Pembery has put together...

The new Exploratory testing capability in Visual Studio 2012 is great, and I’ve been using it with Web based applications and thick clients such as WPF. If you haven’t seen it then it allows you to start a test without any test scripts, and to then create...

We held the Visual Studio 11 (Now known as Visual Studio 2012 as the Release Candidate shipped between announcing the event and delivering it) on-line event yesterday afternoon. To recap, we’d provided links to 5 videos covering Agile development , what...

Team Web Access in Team Foundation Server 2012 (and Team Foundation Service ) has been completely redesigned and contains some great new agile planning features. However, some of the features, Backlog Management, Sprint Planning and Feedback Requests...

Lee Stott recently told me about a course on Agile Software Engineering using Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 from the University of Calgary. What I find fascinating about this is: It’s a complete, tried and tested course, designed...

One of the new features coming in the next update wave for Team Foundation Server (TFS2012.2) and for Team Foundation Service (available now) is the ability to work with manual test cases from the web through a new web based Test Hub. Why? you may...

The Release Candidate is now available and the name for Visual Studio 11 is announced as Visual Studio 2012, complete with a new logo: Loads of updates included in this, with a couple that I’d highlight: 1. You don’t need to uninstall the Beta – the RC...

I really love the PowerPoint Storyboarding and the Stakeholder Feedback Client that are part of Visual Studio 11 and using the tools together is a great way of getting feedback on your proposed design. However, just hitting F5 in PowerPoint to launch...

RippleRock are one of our closest partners in the UK when it comes to facilitating Agile practices with Team Foundation Server. Colin Bird is the founder of RippleRock but formerly, as Conchango's CTO, he was responsible for their Agile consulting services...

I see a lot of different organisations and meet many development teams and the impression I get is that Agile, and Scrum in particular, is the main software development process in use. However, it’s hard to get clear statistics, and a lot of the industry...

This post draws on an interview with my Boss’ Boss, Anand Krishnan, and provides a good overview of the opportunity App developers have with Windows 8 . I won’t repeat the contents here but it covers the projected size of the Windows 8 market, the developer...

There’s a been a flurry of information last night about Visual Studio 11 Beta and I’ve been trying to work through it to provide a summary of what’s been announced: The “go-live” Beta will be available in 5 days time ...

A very short post to point out that the VS 11 Beta downloads, including TFS and TFS Express, are now available. Key links: Visual Studio 11 Beta downloads Jason Zander’s blog post explaining what’s new Rich and I are going to be installing the Beta and...

I’ve just been introduced to Anthony Borton, a TFS MVP, and he’s looking to run some TFS 2010 courses that he has developed and delivered in the United States, Australia and New Zealand in London this June and July. The details for the TFS 2010 courses...

I’ve been meaning to update the UML Design Patterns extension I put together a while ago and have finally got round to it. There are no functional changes, I’ve just changed the VSIX installer to allow it to be installed into Visual Studio 11 as well...

This is very cool: Today at the VS Live conference in Vegas, Microsoft announced a new cloud based build service for Team Foundation Service. Can't wait to try it out. More details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2012/03...

Team Foundation Service is now released! Here’s my summary of the key links and information: Announcement Does the URL change from <myname>.tfspreview.com? Yes, that will continue to work, but your account will now be available at <myname>...