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Looking for tools to convert to, or integrate with Team Foundation Server (TFS)?  The featured tools and resources listed on this MSDN page can help to automate the process of moving data between other version control or work item tracking systems and Team Foundation Server. Some of the links you will find TFS Migration Tool […]

Automatically integrate the Microsoft SDL with the SDL Process Template for VSTS The SDL Process Template is a downloadable template that leverages the technology of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) to automatically integrate the policy, process and tools associated with the Security Development Lifecycle v4.1 into your software development environment. […]

You may have picked the Network Service account during the installation of Team Build and now want to modify it to use a Domain Account.  The steps to perform this task are easy enough and I will go through them here: On the Build Computer stop the Visual Studio Team Foundation Build Service Edit the […]

Provides server-side extensions for profiling JavaScript code executed in a client browser. It does this by modifying the JavaScript as it leaves your server to capture timings when JavaScript functions are called and when they return. The data on function entry/exit timings is then transmitted back up to the server, from where it can be […]

Have you ever wondered how your application performs from the users side of things? "74% of end user problems are not detected by IT." – Forrester Research AVIcode’s Intercept uX is the only client-side monitoring solution designed to automatically detect application problems from the end user’s perspective, and enable a definitive root cause diagnosis regardless […]

  In addition to providing support for SQL Server 2008 database projects, this release incorporates many previously released Power Tools as well as several new features. The new features include distinct Build and Deploy phases, Static Code Analysis and improved integration with SQL CLR projects.Database Edition no longer requires a Design Database. Therefore, it is […]

Right from the Visual Studio code editor, Pex finds interesting input-output values of your methods, which you can save as a small test suite with high code coverage. Pex performs a systematic analysis, hunting for boundary conditions, exceptions and assertion failures, which you can debug right away. Pex enables Parameterized Unit Testing, an extension of […]

Ever wondered if you could get a list of notifications from TFS daily?  You can receive a daily email that has a compiled list of notifications, but you will need to subscribe programmatically.  Please see this post from Mohamed Mahmoud at Microsoft for the source code.

Problems occur in the Create Unit Tests wizard when you create a unit test for a method in a solution that contains a GDR project, a Silverlight project, or a WIX project in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 KB Article ID: 962866 Consider the following scenarioYou open a solution that contains one of the […]

WIT Synchronizer lets you update Work Item Type and WIQL (Work Item Query Language) definitions between a Process Template and a Team Project (both ways). Among the possible actions Update the WIT and WIQL of a Process Template from a Team Project Update the WIT and WIQL of a Team Project from a Process Template […]