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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:06 PM

TFS Send Mail for Team Explorer

As Brian Harry noted in his Blog , Orcas SP1 will have the ability to email a list of work items from either a query or the results view in Team Explorer.  This is a feature that will have everyday application.  I personally love it as a PM
Posted by jonieren | 5 Comments
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:07 PM

LINQ to WIQL

Someone showed me this post , and I thought I would pass it along.
Posted by Gregg Boer | 2 Comments
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:53 PM

How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 5 (Tracking Progress)

Before we talk about tracking progress, it might be useful to review the feature crew lifecycle as described in a previous post . The picture below will be a reference point for this post. The picture below shows the "Progress" tab of our "Feature"
Posted by Gregg Boer | 6 Comments
Friday, April 25, 2008 5:50 PM

New Rosario specifications available

In an effort to gather your feedback very early on in the development process, we started publishing TFS specifications for the upcoming Rosario release. You might have already seen posts from Brian Harry announcing the availability. We have published
Posted by sunder | 0 Comments
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:27 AM

TFS Sticky Buddy from Martin Hinshelwood

Martin has put out a cool tool on CodePlex: Sticky Buddy !  It provides a WPF-based graphical view of work items by Area or Iteration.  It's really easy to see the user stories that are active & resolved in the active Iteration (Iteration
Posted by sbhatia | 3 Comments
Friday, April 18, 2008 5:37 PM

How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 4

In the previous posts , I spoke about how we used TFS to implement the process. In this post, I'll talk about how we went about planning a release. On the feature record, we had a "Planning" tab: Zooming in a bit: What we did is have people enter an estimated
Posted by Gregg Boer | 10 Comments
Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:31 PM

How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 3 (Addendum)

Michiel sent in a question about this blog post that I thought I would answer to everyone. The question is: How do you create relationships between the work items? For example, Scenarios to Value Props, Value Props to Experiences, Experiences to Features.
Posted by Gregg Boer | 7 Comments
Monday, April 14, 2008 9:45 AM

How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 3 (Implementing the Process)

In previous posts and I talked about out processes. Today I'm going to introduce how we implemented our processes using TFS.   In review, our process looks something like this. Read this post , for more information on the process. We used work items
Posted by Gregg Boer | 13 Comments
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:44 PM

Rich text in work items

It is probably common knowledge by now that the history and html fields allow rich text input. Since there is no toolbar to edit rich text, I have seen users even compose text in editors like Microsoft Word and then paste it in the work item. But looks
Posted by sunder | 6 Comments
Thursday, April 03, 2008 2:56 PM

Restarting the TFS Add-Inn (Excel 2007)

· These instructions will help determine if the Team Add-In is disabled in Excel and will allow you to enable it. Open Excel Select the Windows Menu Select Excel Options Go to Add-Ins Manage Add-Ins Select TFS and OK! Team Tool Bar should be bac
Posted by jonieren | 2 Comments
Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:03 PM

How Microsoft/DevDiv uses TFS - Chapter 2 (Feature Crews)

One of the issues that Microsoft has to deal with on a very large scale is that while they are managing 1200 individual features, all of this works on a single code base. With all that activity going on, how do you maintain the quality of the code base,
Posted by Gregg Boer | 11 Comments
 
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