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TFS Integration Platform – Asking the right questions

The dust is settling after the TFS Integration Platform “Alpha” shipped, although the downloads indicate that the dust is far from over. While the platform team is working on the BETA release, the Rangers are continuing with the samples for the custom Read More...
Posted Friday, November 27, 2009 3:50 AM by willys | 1 Comments
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TFS Integration Platform – ALPHA Release is available on Codeplex!

The TFS Integration Platform has a new home on Codeplex, where the product group and the VSTS Rangers have posted the ALPHA release of the platform.  The intention of the Alpha release is to improve the transparency of the project, for the community Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:55 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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TFS Integration Platform – What is the EnableBypassRuleDataSubmission in the Configuration File? Question & Answer 7

When you have a look at most of the TFS Integration Platform configuration files, you will notice the EnableBypassRuleDataSubmission , as shown in line 23 and 37 in the following Sample Configuration file: 1: <? xml version ="1.0" encoding ="utf-16" Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:34 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers – New Quick Reference Posters on the Horizon

Here is a list of new quick reference posters that will be making an appearance in the specified projects shortly. We hope that these visualizations will add to the guidance documentation that they are part of … note that these are thumbnails and no attempt Read More...
Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 11:38 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration platform – Proof of concept for custom adapter writers

Working with a few early adopters and fellow VSTS Rangers (see picture on the right for a perfect VSTS Rangers and family life balance, as well as Springbok support from Robert and his son) it has become apparent that we need both a “Getting Started” Read More...
Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 9:17 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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TFS Integration Platform … To Err is Human … getting the conversion result right: Lesson #1

When I was debugging the custom adapter we developed for a proof-of-concept tonight, battling to keep my eyes open, I thought of a statement made by Paul Ehrlich … “ To err is human, but to really foul up things you need a computer ”. When I finally identified Read More...
Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 7:58 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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TFS Integration Platform – Provider not found Error. Question & answer 6

Context I have been battling with the following error and finally decided to delve into the debugger and isolate the gremlin. It just got worse, because when I finally found the method …LoadProvider(), which loads each Adapter DLL in the PlugIns directory Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:36 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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TFS Integration Platform – VSTS Rangers Log 20091022 … A minor mission update

If you have perused TFS Integration Platform – VSTS Rangers Log 20091014 … the mission and the results to date … the mission and the results to date you have a good understanding of what has transpired. To visualise the previous post, I created the following Read More...
Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 8:34 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – VSTS Rangers Log 20091014 … the mission and the results to date

The Mission When I started at Microsoft back in January, I was briefed on a number of strategic projects I would be responsible as the development lead. The TFS Integration Platform (TIP) was one of the projects, although it was still known as the TFS Read More...
Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 8:30 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – What Conflict Types do we know of? Question & Answers 6

As part of the TFS Integration Platform environment we will encounter conflicts in both the Work Item Tracking (WIT) and Version Control (VC) migrations and/or synchronization scenarios. Here is a list of known conflicts that I have harvested from the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:34 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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TFS Migration PLatform – Why are my labels not moving? Question & Answers 5

Common question : “Does the TFS Integration Platform support labels?” Current answer : The current  versions of the TFS Synchronization and Migration Toolkit and the latest TFS Integration Platform do not support the migration and/or synchronization Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:47 AM by willys | 1 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – Index Optimization a la Grant … Questions and Answers 4

Based on learning's from the Pioneer Dogfood environment it is important that we watch the fragmentation of the TFS Integration Platform Migration database indexes , as fragmentation can become excessive, leading to a degradation of performance. Grant Read More...
Posted Friday, October 09, 2009 4:43 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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TFS Integration Platform – System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Could not allocate space for object … Questions and Answers 3

The past few days have been spent with hectic testing in terms of a number of VSTS Rangers Projects that are on the verge of bubbling to the surface. One of them includes the TFS Integration Platform initiative, where our focus has been primarily on the Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 08, 2009 7:50 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform … YES, I can do a full TFS Server sync … but should I? Part 2

In TFS Migration Tools: Should we opt for migration or synchronization? Part 1 we explored the first thought patterns that we should be creating when considering the TFS Integration Platform (TIP). In recent discussions at a Scrum course we discussed Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 4:56 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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TFS Integration Platform – Summary of Links

As with SDLC and with the VSTS Rangers projects, I am creating a treasure map (more like Willy’s cheat sheet to counteract lack of indexing memory) of links relating to the TFS Integration Platform and the associated VSTS Rangers initiatives. Note that Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 5:10 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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