Light Weight Testing with TFS 2013-09-17 Kevin Walker Application Lifecycle Management, Team Foundation Server (0) Visual Studio Update 2 added a light weight browser based test management to the TFS toolkit. This capability allows testers to perform step-based testing with only a browser. The tester no longer requires Test Manager to get to the functionality they need to perform their tasks. This is a si... [More]
Team Foundation Server 2012 Updates 2013-07-02 Kevin Walker Application Lifecycle Management, Team Foundation Server (0) The Microsoft TFS team has been busy releasing updates to TFS 2012 on rapid pace as promised. Some of the highlights of the releases are listed below. Update 1 TFS 2012 Update 1 (2012.1) was released in November 2012 and contained a long list of improvements and fixes including: Extend T... [More]
Agora presenting at the Microsoft Project Conference 2013-03-21 David Wright Application Lifecycle Management, Enterprise Project Management, PPM, Project Server, Team Foundation Server (0) Microsoft held their annual Project Conference last week in Phoenix. At the event, they invite customers and partners from around the world to attend presentations and meetings about all of the Microsoft technologies built around Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server. Agora was invit... [More]
New Visual Source Safe Upgrade Tool is Available! 2012-11-15 Kevin Walker Application Lifecycle Management, Team Foundation Server (0) From MSDN… The Visual Source Safe Upgrade tool provides a Wizard Based UI for upgrading Visual Source Safe repositories to Team Foundation Server 2012, 2010 or Team Foundation Service (http://tfs.visualstudio.com/) Upgrades the follow from Visual SourceSafe to Team Foundation Server (TFS) version ... [More]
Everything becomes Business Intelligence 2012-07-12 David Wright Business Intelligence, Enterprise Application Development, Enterprise Project Management (0) Our Enterprise Project Management (EPM) team was meeting with a client the other day to go over their requirements around the implementation of Microsoft Project Server. We spent a great deal of time talking about reporting and dashboards and the type of information that the different people i... [More]
Team Foundation Server–Project Server Integration Pack: Timesheets 2012-03-02 Kevin Walker Application Lifecycle Management, Team Foundation Server, Project Server (0) Customers using the timesheet capabilities of Project Server will be interested to know how the TFS-PS Integration Pack impacts timesheets. In a typical scenario tasks are created and assigned to a user either in Project Pro or Visual Studio. In the example below the task “Tax Calculator” has been ... [More]
TFS–Project Server Integration: Multiple Resource Assignments 2012-02-21 Kevin Walker Application Lifecycle Management, Team Foundation Server (0) One of the key differences to be aware of when using the TFS – Project Server Integration Pack is that TFS only allows one resource to be assigned to a task and Project Server allows multiple resources to be assigned to a task. So what happens if you have multiple resources assigned to a task ... [More]
Using Resource Files to Internationalize Applications 2012-01-12 David Wright Enterprise Application Development, software design (0) As a company developing enterprise applications in Canada, we are almost always required to write so [More]