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It’s always been possible to descope work in the Scrum for Team System template. But the method employed in Version 2.2 whilst functional, was quite fiddly, overly manual and not very “Scrummy”. When building 3.0 we took the opportunity to revamp the way in which it worked and better utilise the power of the Event Service (something you can see ...

In October 2009 I created 2 codeplex projects which I would to tell you about: SQL Server Reporting Services MSBuild Tasks (ssrsmsbuildtasks) A few years ago I created some tasks for MSBuild to help deploy reports for my project, details can be found here,  since then my tasks have been re-used in a few other projects within my ...

This is part 3 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 2: Log On and Off with the AccountController Asp.Net MVC ...

My colleague Jon George has recently been posting about his experiences of performance tuning our latest web application, built on Asp.Net MVC. His introductory post talks briefly about how we spent a large effort in laying the correct foundations for the project, which have ultimately led to its success. Being the “technical lead who had ...

This is part 2 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 2: Log On and Off with the AccountController Asp.Net MVC ...

This is part 1 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 2: Log On and Off with the AccountController Asp.Net MVC ...

  One of the benefits of Asp.Net MVC is that it allows you to write easily testable code. One thing that has always been notoriously difficult to test is the HttpContext object and its associated values – the Request and Response etc. This is why I didn’t like it when dependencies on HttpContext started to creep into our Controller actions, ...

  One of the clear advantages of using the MVC pattern is that it encourages separation of concerns – it doesn’t enforce it by any means, but following the pattern results in a nice clean, maintainable, flexible solution. The architectural advantages of this are documented everywhere, but I also believe that it aids separation of concerns in ...

The new bug model in Scrum for Team System 3.0 might look obvious at first, but it's taken a long while getting to where it is. Before I start delving into how the new bug model works, it's worth taking some time to describe what came before it. Almost by coincidence, each of the three major versions of Scrum for Team System have had a different ...

There has been some small amount of confusion around the Scrum for Team System version numbers, especially with the popularity of the 2010 TFS Beta.   This short post should help clarify things.   Version Latest Release TFS version Next version Expected 1.x 1.2 ...