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Get ready for the launch of Visual Studio 2013

Sep 12, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Visual Studio 2013 will launch on November 13. You can join the festivities virtually from your workstation or mobile device. Watch the keynote speech live or at a later time. You can also hear how …

Visual Studio

Story Mapping Software

Sep 11, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Updated 16 Sep, 2015 to freshen up the links A few weeks ago I ran a free, half-day Agile software requirements workshop in Boise. There were over 100 attendees and we had good conversations about …

Scrum Tools Azure Boards

Rename a TFS Project Collection

Mar 14, 2013 • 3 min read • Simon Reindl

I was asked the other day how to rename a Team Project Collection. There is a way, and it is more like a three card shuffle than anything else, and will work in TFS2010 and TFS2012. The super quick …

TFS SQL Server

Exporting TF Status to Excel

Dec 14, 2012 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

You can use TF.EXE STATUS to display information about pending changes to items in one or more workspaces. I use this prior to migrations to see what users have files checked-out and locked, and they …

TFS SQL Server

What’s new in the Visual Studio Scrum 2.1 Process Template?

Nov 28, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If you’ve connected to the hosted Team Foundation Service lately, you’ve noticed a new version of the Scrum template is available … Being the curious type, I connected to the service with Visual …

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Removing TFS bindings from solutions and projects

Oct 10, 2012 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

When you try to open a solution that is under Team Foundation Server Version Control for a TFS that you don’t have access to, you will receive the message "The solution you are opening is bound to …

TFS Visual Studio

Useful TFS Links

Sep 19, 2012 • 2 min read • Simon Reindl

I have just finished delivering a Team Foundation Course today, and we had some great discussions around TFS Administration, upgrading, adoption etc. As usual, there is a whole pile of questions that …

Preferred Practice TFS Visual Studio ALM Testing

Upgrade your Sprint Retrospective Meetings

Aug 14, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Tired of asking each other "how the Sprint went"? Try one of these alternate Sprint Retrospective activities to change the pace a bit: Retrospective Timeline Happiness Histogram Mad, Sad, Glad The 4 …

Scrum

TFS #loc.MinimumNetFXVersion and Windows 2012 0x0000005D

Jul 3, 2012 • 2 min read • Simon Reindl

A tale of two error in the path to RC install. I wanted to install the RC of TFS2012 to do some upgrade proving. To keep up to date the target is Windows Server 2012, running SQL 2012, and …

Misc TFS Windows SQL Server