Tarun Arora [Microsoft MVP]

Till last year I was still checking in dll references (for libraries & packages) used by my software in TFS. I could then easily configure MS Build to…

I was recently tasked to review the performance of a data intense desktop application that uses WPF 4.5 for front end and streams data from the server…

As consumers of your Visual Studio extensions start to move over to VS 2013, you will have to upgrade the Visual Studio extensions you build for Visual…

Download – http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/591f2516-9aec-4892-be08-53c1d63bc5a1 var youUseTfsServiceBuildService =…

Brian Harry announced the customize columns feature on the that enables you to define new swim lanes based on the work item state right from Team Web…

It is common for your code projects to reference Microsoft or Non Microsoft SDKs, this requires that the build agents has the SDK’s installed. It is also…

Microsoft has just switched the flag ON and released a whole bunch of new features in CTP1 as part of the TFS 2012 QU2 release. In this blog post I’ll be…

Are you running Quartz.Net as a windows service on a remote server and trying to connect to it from a client to schedule jobs? Then I would highly…

Let’s start with a few interesting facts about Bristol, - Bristol is located just 120 miles west of London. - It is the largest city in the south west of…

In this blog post I’ll be covering, - 01: A few things to consider before you should schedule a Job using Quartz.Net - 02: Setting up your solution to use…

In this blog post I’ll be covering, - 01: Where to download Quartz.net from - 02: How to install Quartz.net as a Windows service - 03: Test the Quartz.net…

Note: Please do not use these steps to create pinned (favorite) builds, as the data will be wrong and cause an upgrade failure in TFS 2015 Update 1.

Release Notes – | | | | In this blog post, I’ll show you how to use the ‘TfsDemoSetup’ application to configure and setup the TFS 2012 task board for a…

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Issues you may run into while using Visual Studio need to be reported to the Microsoft Product Team via the Microsoft connect site. The Microsoft team…

As a consultant I have been selling Application Lifecycle Management services using Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. I’ve been contacted various…

> The two most asked questions in the Microsoft technology communities around the Microsoft MVP program are, > > 1\. How do I become a Microsoft MVP? > >…

Switching between Team Project Collections sometimes messes up documents and reports and gives a red X next to both these artefacts in Team Explorer. I…

In this blog post I’ll show you how you can play back the IIS Logs in Visual Studio to automatically generate the web performance tests. You can also…

Updated 29th June 2013: Microsoft is now previewing Load Test Service in TFS Service. Please check out more on the official offering by navigating to…

I am sure you have been in the situation where you start following a change through the list of builds and suddenly realize a lot of the builds have been…

The Community TFS Build Manager (TBM) is an open source build management solution developed by the ALM rangers, the build manager simplifies the…

With support for Windows XP coming to an end on the 8th April 2014 and IE6 standing in so many people’s way of migration, what better time to start taking…

January 2012 will go down as one of the most memorable months! What a fantastic way to start the year, received an email from Microsoft telling me that I…

Updated 29th June 2013: Microsoft is now previewing Load Test Service in TFS Service. Please check out more on the official offering by navigating to…

Welcome back, in part 1 of Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio 2010 I talked about why Performance Testing the application is important,…

Performance testing is almost always conducted to address one or more risks related to expense, opportunity costs, continuity, and/or corporate…

Welcome back once again, in part 1 of what is new in VS TFS 2011 I talked about the offering from a developers perspective, in part 2 of what is new in VS…

I have been part of the Azure TFS Technical Access Preview (TAP) since March 2011. TFS Azure has been previewed and officially announced as TFS Service in…

The Team Explorer is a wonderful view of the position of your version control in the team foundation server. However, there is no one window of such truth…

Download from here If you track your project tasks against work items, you would know the importance of Work Item History. This is one way for you to…

I will be covering three things in this blog post - Get the history i.e. all change sets of an item programmatically using the TFS API. - Download the…

Recently moved from TFS 2010 server to another TFS 2010 server and trying to configure a backup plan using the Backup plan wizard that comes along with…

Download a working solution I have seen a lot of questions in the community lately on how to use the TFS API to get a list of Team Projects, Iterations &…

The information available in the Merge window in Team Foundation Server 2010 is very important in the decision making during the merging process. However,…

Great! You have reached that point where you would like to extend TFS. The first step is to connect to TFS programmatically.

Often i have seen fellow developer working on one branch and later realizing that they intended to check in the code in a different branch, a simple…

I had been given a business requirement to provide a self service Website for job scheduling. Having worked with Quartz.Net, it seemed the perfect backend…

Release Notes – http://tfsdemosetup.codeple... | Download | Source Code | Report a Bug | Ideas Just pushed out the 2nd release of the TFS Demo setup on…