Printing work items with Team Foundation Server
With the introduction of TFS 2012 Web Access we lost the possibility to print work items from the web. The experience wasn’t great in the first place but now it disappeared. Also in Visual Studio we do...
View ArticleHidden Gems in TFS–Part 3 Editing multiple work items at the same time (Bulk...
In this series of blog posts I like to highlight some features of TFS/Visual Studio that people seem to overlook. In my day to day job I often see that people don’t know about certain feature that are...
View ArticleHidden Gems in TFS–Part 6 Managing workspaces in TFS with Workspace templates
In this series of blog posts I like to highlight some features of TFS/Visual Studio that people seem to overlook. In my day to day job I often see that people don’t know about certain feature that are...
View ArticleHidden Gems in TFS–Part 7 Searching and Finding Work Items in Team Foundation...
In this series of blog posts I like to highlight some features of TFS/Visual Studio that people seem to overlook. In my day to day job I often see that people don’t know about certain feature that are...
View ArticleWhat If…You delete a work item field ?
Recently I was doing some work on Work Items. I had to remove a field from a Work Item and wondered what would happen with History etc.. In this blog post I describe the things that happen if you...
View ArticleUse Advanced search when TFS does not find text in work items
Alert: Editing the TFS Collection database is tricky and should be done with extreme care!! Recently I migrated a whole bunch of work items from a StarTeam repository. To keep some of the initial...
View ArticleA practical guide for dealing with capacikill in TFS
Capacikill? What the … is that? Actually it is a word I made up. To be honest it was a colleague who talked about capacity in a noisy room and I thought I heard him say it. I understood capacikill and...
View ArticleBulk destroy Work Items from Team Foundation Server
WARNING: Destroy work items is a irreversible action so use with caution and at your own risk! Lately I am quire busy with all kinds of migration work to Team Foundation Server. This means a lot of...
View ArticleMaking a Work Item Read Only when it has a certain state
I am busy at a customer with implementing some security rules on work items. As you might or moght not know the work item security is quite limited. My scenario is as follows: Only users in group XYZ...
View ArticleBuild fails when associating work items
Recently I ran into a strange problem. I modified a work item type definition and added a field. So far, so good. The field could be edited and everyone was happy. But after that, my build failed. As...
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