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As part of work recently to improve how we test the Scrum for Team System template and tools across different platforms, we have discovered there are a few additional manual steps to take when you are installing the template in a distributed environment (i.e. you are using a remote WSS 3 or MOSS 2007 server to host your Team Project Portals). ...

A colleague of mine this week showed me his code coverage as being over 94% for his production code, which impressed me so much, it spurred me on to ensure that all code paths in my code from now on go blue instead of red when testing with Team coverage, using the Test driven .NET addin for visual studio 2008. Not sure what I'm on about, then ...

It has been a busy time here at Conchango as we've been making plenty of changes to get Scrum for Team System working on Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server and also incorporating changes driven by community feedback and usage of the plugin on our own development projects. We should be ready to release after we ...

I won't call it a miracle as I've been using and developing for Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server for over 2 years now, but with the release of the MCTS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server exam recently, I figured I should go and do it before Orcas gets released later this year ...

I found a bug in datadude yesterday and, with a little help, I was able to come up with a workaround so figured I'd post here in case anyone else comes up against it. In the RTM version of Datadude it is possible to specify the name of the database when it is deployed. As you can see here: Note the specified name of the database ...

EXPORT From Visual studio command prompt, issue the following command to export your work item type. C:\>witexport /f "c:\BugWIT.xml" /t myservername /p mytfsprojectname /n "Bug" /exportgloballists Work item type export complete. IMPORT - Validation First validate the xml file, using the validate switch C:\>witimport ...

I thought it would be useful to know the version numbers for all the various builds of datadude seeing as there is nothing in the installed product that tells you. Gert provided the information here which I'm sure he won't mind me copying into this blog: version 2.0.50727.354 is service release 1  (Power tools v1.0 does ...

http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/000286.html Hack #1 - Stopping Team Explorer from connecting on Visual Studio 2005 Start-up Add a DWORD value called "AutoLoadServer" under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TeamFoundation.  Zero means do not reconnect automatically. I first read about this setting over at Tim ...

Change the old server name to the new one in the following places in order to rename a virtual PC that’s acting as a Team foundation server…Registry changes1.     HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\Secure\ConfigDb 2.     ...