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Exporting all work items from all team projects

Dec 18, 2009 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Somebody asked me a simple question the other day: "how do I export all of my work items at once". I suspected they were looking to perform a backup, but it sounded like they might want to import into …

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Lower Alabama .NET User Group

Dec 17, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I was in Mobile Alabama for the week talking Team System and got invited to the Lower Alabama .NET User Group (LANUG) to speak on VS 2010 and TDD. This was a fun evening, good pizza, and test-first …

Visual Studio Community Testing

Custom Check-in Policy for Exactly One Work Item

Dec 15, 2009 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Out of the box, Microsoft has a Work Items check-in policy which requires you to select at least one work item when checking in your code in TFS 2008. If you install the Team Foundation Server Power …

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Unit Testing and Test Driven Development in Visual Studio Ultimate 2010

Oct 29, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’ll be presenting a talk on Unit Testing and TDD using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 in Mobile, Alabama next month. If you are in the area, please join us at the ITT Technical Institute on Tuesday, Nov …

Visual Studio Community Testing

Changing the licensed to user in Visual Studio 2008

Oct 20, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If you’re like me, then you don’t pay attention when you install a lot of software. Often times I just click Next > Next > Finish without reading the screens. For example, I guess I wasn’t paying …

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Team Foundation Server 2010 Installation Guide

Oct 19, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Don’t trust the install guide that you find inside your Beta 2 download media. It’s an older version that was from last month. Instead, download the latest, beta 2 guide (TFSInstall-beta2-9192009.chm) …

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DeployToDatabaseAddToServerExplorer

Oct 19, 2009 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’ve been doing a lot of work with the Database, er Development edition of VSTS 2008. Of course I’m running the GDR-R2 version which really changed the architecture of the database projects, as well …

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Everybody Lies

Oct 16, 2009 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I was at a client site last month where they have TFS2008SP1 installed and running on Windows Server 2008 SP1. Everything was working fine. We created several team projects. No problems. I come back …

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Microsoft releases SharePoint Application Development guidance

Sep 4, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

The Developing SharePoint Applications guidance helps architects and developers design and build applications that are both flexible and scalable. It shows developers how to provide IT professionals …

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