This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See An index to all Rangers covered on this blog for more details. Who you are? I am the Engineering Director of the Black Marble Ltd a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the Yorkshire in North...

This morning, we published the latest (Beta November 2010) version of the popular WCF Load Test tool to Codeplex. This tool takes a WCF trace file and a WCF client proxy or a WCF interface contract, and generates a C# unit test that replays the same sequence...

We refreshed the documentation on http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com/ this afternoon, to create the base for the next readiness package that will be included with the product. The document that has been added to the guidance and reflected in the index...

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See An index to all Rangers covered on this blog for more details. Who are you? I’m somebody who is passionate about both my family and about technology.    I’m a Microsoft Senior...

When we moved to Vancouver in January 2009 we were told by friends and Canadians that is hardly ever snows in Vancouver. Well, the day after we landed in 2009 there was a snow blitz, forcing my wife to drive the kids to school even though she had never...

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See An index to all Rangers covered on this blog for more details. Who you are? I’m 29 years old and father of a girl born 2010. I’m working for Avanade Germany since 3 years...

Context The Rangers ecosystem is a complex one, made up of members who are full-time employees, contractors or partners of Microsoft, members who are dedicating their personal time and passion to the projects, and members who are distributed around the...

The Wall of Scrum project we started months ago ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2010/09/02/rangers-wall-of-scrum.aspx ) was our #3 most popular project based on voting results. After evaluating the wide range of available solutions...

The team has just published the first release since August on Codeplex ( http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com/ ) for the bleeding-edge early-adopter. If you are looking for the fully supported release, you must still use the August bits from http://visualstudiogallery...

The documents Migration Guidance, ClearCase Migration Guidance, Perforce Migration Guidance and Subversion Migration Guidance on http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com all highlight that there are different migration strategies, which should be carefully...

Bob has posted an excellent troubleshooting blog post when integrating Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on separate servers.   He states the purpose of the post as (quoted as is from his post): The purpose of this post is to...

We refreshed the documentation on http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com/ this morning, to correct errors, add more details around limitations that need to be known and adding new content to the documentation, such as the TFS_Integration_Platform-Subversion_Migration...

This post is a terse summary of major events that occurred in the Rangers community during October 2010, continued from the September 2010 updates . Rangers Index Updates Three Rangers introduced themselves this month on our Rangers Index Silfarney Wallace...

Controlled Vocabulary is a “cool” widget standardise emails and allow everyone to use effective email rules. … but, since we have been using the controlled vocabulary widget, we have also noticed an increasing number of emails with the “b” text in the...

Continued from TFS Integration Platform – Planning a migration … starting with a solid foundation … refer to TFS Integration Platform – Summary of Links , section “Migration & Planning” for a list of these posts. When there is a bug or anomaly smell...

We are busy with TFS Integration Platform and Tools training and I thought it may be an idea to share some of the discussions, based on the readiness package, on this blog. The topics we will cover include: Planning a migration Troubleshooting a migration...

Patrick Magee has shared new migration configuration templates for migrations to SfTS3.0 using the TFS Integration Platform, which is part 2 to his first post XML Mapping for SfTS2.2 to SfTS3.0 on TFS2010 . Go here for the links for SfTS 2.2 to SfTS 3...

In Requirements Management for Ranger Projects … Epics, Team and Personas we mentioned the Rangers requirements management and the concept of Epics, also referred to as Experience. Here is the list of Epics from the Rangers Build Customization Guide project...

We are often asked to offer our feedback and comments as part of a course, a presentation or a product review. Usually the feedback is given and received as candid feedback, as constructive criticism and as an opportunity to recognise areas of opportunity...

The Integration Tools are not designed to successfully migrate Test Cases at this stage. They need to be identified as Test Cases and processed as such, including the special XML encoded data fields, which should be cracked open and edited to point to...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. This is one of the final exam preparation posts and looks at some of the common deadlock avoidance approach algorithms and reviews the associated assignment from this year as an example...

As part of the Ruck prototyping, the Rangers have embarked on a more formalised requirements management process for all new Rangers projects. The intent is to create a repeatable and systematic way of finding and addressing the killer features and top...

In TechED 2010 South-Africa … meet the MVPs, the Rangers and win a “Zune” :) we mentioned that there will be one lucky winner of a Zune amongst the attendees of the session which was quite a success and mentioned in How Rangers laid...

See UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts for a list of related UNISA posts. This is one of the final exam preparation posts and looks at some of the common deadlock avoidance approach algorithms and reviews the associated assignment from this year as an example...