Tag Archives: Team Foundation Server

Migrate TFVC to Git

October 11, 2016 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Git is now the default version control provider for new Team Projects and it should be your first choice for version control unless you have a requirement for centralized version control system (TFVC). If you want to migrate from TFVC to Git you can use the git-tfs utility.  You can use two methods to install git-tfs, […]

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Visual Studio Team Services
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SonarQube Analysis during Build

SonarQube 6.0 integration with TFS15 RC behind ARR 3.0

September 26, 2016 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


If you have been thinking of moving to the latest version of SonarQube and you’ve been using the new Active Directory plugin unfortunately it is not compatible with this release, you can see reference to the issue here.   The StyleCop plugin for C# which I referenced in an earlier post has been deprecated. I will […]

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Open Source, Team Foundation Server, Technical Debt, Visual Studio
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Release Annotations

September 8, 2016 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


This functionality had been available previously under the name “Deployment Markers” back when Application Insights existed under Visual Studio Online.  Release Annotations for Application Insights is an extension for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015 Update 2 that will create annotations on the Application Insights Metrics Explorer timeline. To get started […]

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Application Insignts, Azure, Release Management, Uncategorized, Visual Studio Team Services
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SonarQube – Active Directory Plugin

June 13, 2016 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


If you’ve been using SonarQube with TFS on-premises chances are you using the LDAP plugin to integrate with your Active Directory.  We are currently running version 5.4 of SonarQube with v1.5.1 of the LDAP plugin and are migrating to SonarQube 5.6 which brought this to my attention. In Update Center in SonarQube you will see the […]

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Technical Debt, Uncategorized
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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Team Foundation Server 2012 Compatibility GDR

June 5, 2012 by Wes MacDonald 6 Comments


This patch will provide compatibility for all for the Visual Studio 2008 products that connect to Team Foundation Server 11/Team Foundation Server 2012. Before you apply this patch you must ensure you’ve already applied Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and of course you must also have Team Explorer 2008 installed or this patch does not apply […]

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Visual Studio 11 Beta, VS 2008
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Books You Should Pre-Order

February 6, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


  Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010 By Jeff Levinson Topics include: Planning your tests using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) Creating test settings, structuring test cases, and managing the testing process Executing manual tests with Microsoft Test Manager and Test Runner Filing and resolving bugs, and customizing your bug reporting process Automating test cases and […]

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Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2010
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 with Lab Management Enabled

February 5, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


This is probably one of the coolest features that shipped with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010. To start with if you do not have Hyper-V configured and you have a VMware environment then you should probably read this post to find out what is not supported. What’s in it for me (READ: Do Less, […]

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Visual Studio 2010
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