Tarun Arora - Visual Studio ALM MVP

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Tarun Arora is a Microsoft Certified professional developer for Enterprise Applications. He has extensively traveled around the world gaining experience learning and working in culturally diverse teams. Tarun has over 6 years of experience developing 'Energy Trading & Risk Management' solutions for leading Trading & Banking Enterprises. His passion for technology has earned him the Microsoft Community Contributor and Microsoft MVP Award.

Quartz.Net Writing your first Hello World Job

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How to clear Visual Studio Team Explorer Cache

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TFS Kanban Board Swim lane Customization To Better Manage The Product Backlog

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VS 2012 Code Review – Before Check In OR After Check In?

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Using IIS Logs for Performance Testing with Visual Studio

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Apr 13

Book Review-Instant Team Foundation Server 2012 and Project Server 2010 Integration How-to

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Last week I was tasked with setting up Integration between Team Foundation Server 2012 and Project Server 2010. Being new to project server I started searching around for guidance online, I came across the book ‘Instant Team Foundation Server 2012 and Project Server 2010 Integration How-to’ by Gary P. Gauvin. The book has 60 pages of guidance you can ......

Posted On Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:15 PM Tfs2012 , Review

Apr 13

TFS Service - Configure Source and Symbol Server Settings

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I don’t think I need to call out the importance of Indexing Source Symbols, in case you need a reminder read the benefits of symbols here. Recently I wrote a blog post on the Microsoft ALM blog describing the improvements made to the Visual Studio debugger, this also improves the overall user debugging experience. TFS Service doesn’t index the source ......

Posted On Sunday, April 7, 2013 3:23 PM Tfs2012

Mar 13

Presenting at TechEd 2013-TechDays 2013 India ALM Track

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I’ll be presenting at TechEd and TechDays in India, there is a lot to look forward to as the events will be hosted across India. Bangalore will be hosting TechEd on 18-19th March, Delhi will be hosting TechDays on 22nd March and Pune will host its maiden TechEd on 25-26 March. The session line up across all location and technology tracks is very impressive. ......

Posted On Monday, March 11, 2013 7:34 PM

Notes Upgrading To Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Ctp4

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Last week I upgraded my TFS 2012 test environment to CTP4 to try out the new features rolled out in preview as part of the Visual Studio 2012 Upgrade 2. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the steps required to upgrade, you may find the quick notes section useful if you don’t have the time to read through the complete blog post. What is Visual ......

Posted On Monday, March 11, 2013 12:24 AM

Mar 13

List of Software on TFS Service Hosted Build

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A couple of weeks back I had posted a blog post on getting a list of software installed on the build agent by simply customizing the build process template. Building on top of the same solution, I have created a website “http://listofsoftwareontfs... which gets updated once every day with the list of software installed ......

Posted On Friday, March 8, 2013 1:26 AM

Mar 13

Power Shell Analysing Emails Trends

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I promised my friend Chuck that I would post the Power Shell script to get the list of most discussed topics and the tops writers in an email distribution list. Generally there are loads of emails that fly around on the ALM Champs and ALM Rangers distribution list. It is interesting to analyse what are the most discussed topics are and who are the most ......

Posted On Sunday, March 3, 2013 11:41 PM

Mar 13

TFS Kanban Board Swim lane Customization To Better Manage The Product Backlog

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Brian Harry announced the customize columns feature on the TFS Kanban board that enables you to define new swim lanes based on the work item state right from Team Web Access. This feature has officially been released on the TFS Service today. A shout out to Gregg Boer and his team for delivering this great feature! I was lucky to get early access to ......

Posted On Saturday, March 2, 2013 11:07 AM

Feb 13

Continuous Integration-Automated Deployments And Release Management

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A customer I am working with is interested in an ‘automated deployment and release management’ solution for their 160 applications scaling across 350 servers. There is a mix of Microsoft and Non Microsoft applications, some server based some desktop based, some are currently deployed using bat files, PowerShell, others require Unix/Perl scripts for ......

Posted On Saturday, February 23, 2013 1:14 AM

Feb 13

ALM Mag – Harnessing the cloud for Performance Testing

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Recently my blog post ‘Leveraging the cloud for Performance Testing’ got featured in the ALM Mag Vol. 1 Issue 1 – January 2013. Figure 1 – Visual Studio Load Testing using Windows Azure – featured in ALM Mag Vol. 1 Issue 1 – Jan 2013 Download the full article from here. What is ALM Mag? In case you haven’t come across ALM Magazine, it is an eMagazine ......

Posted On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:16 PM

Feb 13

Upgrading to Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 CTP3

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Last week I upgraded my TFS 2012 test environment to CTP3 to try out the new features rolled out in preview as part of the Visual Studio 2012 Upgrade 2 CTP. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the steps required to upgrade, you may find the quick notes in each section useful if you don’t have the time to read through the complete blog post. TFS ......

Posted On Sunday, February 17, 2013 11:54 PM