Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Awesomeness

There are a plethora of new features no matter what role you play in Visual Studio 2010 to help you increase your teams productivity. Roles Software Designers and Developers Build Users Testers and Quality Control Managers Project Managers and Team Members Version Control Users Administrators The new features available to your Team Projects after you […]

MSF-A+SDL is a TFS process template that incorporates the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) for Agile process guidance into the MSF Agile development framework.  With the MSF-A+SDL template, any code checked into the Visual Studio Team System source repository by the developer is analyzed to ensure that it complies with SDL secure development practices. The template […]

  Attrice announced a release of MSBuild Sidekick v3, supporting the full range of MSBuild versions from 2.0 to 4.0.  You don’t need to uninstall previous MSBuild Sidekick version, and no license is required for the beta (the beta expires on May 1st, 2010). NOTE: .NET 4.0 Beta 2 Runtime is required.  Please let Attrice […]

This is an update for the 2008 SP1 version of Visual Studio Team System Team Explorer and allows the 2008 SP1 version to work with the Team Foundation Server 2010. The update will allow teams to move forward and use the Team Foundation Server 2010 server even if part of the team continues to use […]

Attrice has released version 2.4 which will be the last release for Visual Studio 2005/2008 IDE. This particular release is made up of mostly bug fixes, but does include these new features: Labels Sidekick: Support filtering by file extension in Labels Comparison window Code Review Sidekick: Check-in policy violation indication shown next to changesets in […]

  A key announcement that you need to know about is what Microsoft is calling the “Ultimate Offer” — making sure that every MSDN subscriber gets equal or greater value (in many cases, a lot greater) as Microsoft transitions subscriptions into the new and simplified Visual Studio 2010 product line up. Here’s how subscription levels […]

This check-in policy will evaluate the current solution to determine if any build warnings and/or errors are detected and if so the check-in policy will fail.  You will see a list of policy failures in the Policy Warnings tab of the Pending Changes window. You can download the check-in policy from here. Technorati Tags: Visual […]

  These two free applications have been designed to make working with Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server faster and easier. Both applications were built by Imaginet Resources using Telerik RadControls for WPF. TFS Work Item Manager highlights Work Item grid filtering, grouping, and aggregation Area and Iteration filtering using single and multi select modes Filter query […]

  Notion Tools for Team System client tools include Notion Timesheet, Notion Work Organizer, Notion Work Planner, and the Notion Work Item Control Library to enhance the functionality of Team Foundation Server 2008. In addition to a few bug fixes, support in the primary tools (e.g., Timesheet and the Work Item Control Library) for VS […]

  Expression Blend 3 introduces support for Team Foundation Server. If you have access to TFS, you can perform common source control–related tasks on solutions and projects.  You will need to apply the following hotfix to get it all to work. Expression Blend 3 enables you to iterate and deliver on your ideas faster, creating […]