How I was able to get Visual Studio to stop complaining about the Source Control binding when using git locally.

The problem is that burndown charts lack two essential pieces of information. First, how much work was actually accomplished during a given iteration (as opposed to how much work remains to be completed) and second how much total work the project contains (or if you prefer how much scope has increas...

This blog is about what are some real world hindrances in total adoption of TFS as a complete SDLC tool. It also suggests why it's not hard to use it as one with a minor adjustment and discipline.

Git and Subversion are most popular and widely used version control system. What is the best situation to choose them? It is important to know its pros and cons, evaluate your requirement and choose the right one.

Yesterday I wrote about Continuous code quality measurement with NDepend and TeamCity where I looked at nightly builds that assessed code quality using the very excellent NDepend. These reports are great and it’s easy to configure but you need to make both a dollar investment in the software and an ...

today working requirement as increase in its dynamics and thus making us developer to be more flexible in how would we be keeping up with the demand of the never ending in changes. Sometimes you would need to starting programmer at 5 am in the morning in some hotel of Barcelona before you attend th...

How to automate it using MSBuild ?

Project management doesn’t seem to like it when they generate reports from Team Foundation Server and see tons of hours remaining for work that should have already be completed. In my organization, it’s not due to lazy developers not completing their tasks, but people tend to forget to zero out the ...

This post explains how you can display complex information during a build from a Custom Activity, thans to a Visual Studio plug-in dedicated to visualize this data.

There is a lot of references and blog posts on how to handle SOAP events raised by Team Foundation Server 2005, 2008 and 2010 but is there anything new in 2010 that supersedes this? Even though I knew it was there, n o amount of google-fu brought back any results relevant to anything new, so hopeful...

A customized build process template that parallelizes a build by platform/configuration. That is, if you use it to build multiple platforms (e.g. “x86” and “x64”) and/or configurations (e.g. “Debug” and “Release”), it will distribute the build of each platform/configuration to a separate Build Agent...

I want to make public one small project on CodePlex. Everybody knows that you can work with CodePlex like with TFS client and with SVN client as well. But really I can’t work with it from SVN client. When I tried to add some binary file (it was dll) I got the error “Server sent unexpected return val...

If you are using Team Foundation Server for managing projects and would like to integrate Code Reviews as a part of TFS, TeamReview is for you. What makes TeamReview unique is that it has a Visual Studio add-in that makes it easy to respond to code review requests.

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