Hi all, recently I came over a consult of a friend, on a situation he wanted to solve in his company. Basically was that they had a call center, external to them, those who wanted to give access to the Team foundation Server, but only to register and keep track of the Work Items created by the users of the call center (each user their own nothing else). Posed me questions about, whether to publis... [More]

As I am sure that almost everyone will remember, recently announced that Service Pack 1 for both Visual Studio 2010, and for Team Foundation Server 2010. And one of the questions I have received lately, it's "ok, but I have ridden Management Lab, with several virtual environments, what and where I have to install each service pack (TFS and VS)?" The answer is simple, in part, so let it... [More]

Two great news today for MSDN subscribers First one, the Service Pack 1 for Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio 2010 is available from today, as always, it has some improvements, but also hundred of bug fixes, so, if you are using any of this tool, go to MSDN Download Site, and start downloading them for installing. The SP1 for Visual Studio 2010 also includes bug fixing for Microsoft Test... [More]

Surely many of which you use TFS 2010, and you have the good habit of associating Work Items during the check-in, you have asked more than once if the default action, which is now "Resolve" the Work Item, you can switch to simply "Associate" because many times, with a single check-in, is not enough to close a task or whatever reason is in your case. Well this is already possib... [More]

Hello,  somedays ago I was asked in twitter about connecting to Team Foundation Server without Visual Studio 2010 installed, and one of the simplest options is to use the TFS Power Tools September 2010 http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/c255a1e4-04ba-4f68-8f4e-cd473d6b971f http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/c255a1e4-04ba-4f68-8f4e-cd473d6b971f But, be caref... [More]