VSTSBlog: Visual Studio Team System и не только

As you may know I worked on TFS Branch Tool which is one of the ALM Rangers solutions. As usual we are dogfooding latest technology and at some point our builds started failing. We tried to investigate cause and found that product team deployed latest VS 2013 bits into golden image of the agent. We identified that some […]

ALM Rangers news: New Unit Test Generator and more Willy-Peter Schaub just posted new version of the ALM Rangers Flash. You can learn about updated version of Unit Test Generator, new e-book about building release pipeline, Ranger’s telemetry and more.

TFS Team Project Manager https://teamprojectmanager.codeplex.com/ Automates various tasks across Team Projects in Team Foundation Server. If you find yourself managing multiple Team Projects for an organization and have recurring tasks and questions that repeat themselves over and over again, Team Project Manager probably has some answers for you. TFS Event Manager https://tfseventmanager.codeplex.com/ Allows you to […]

Team Foundation Service is getting chart pinning and load imporvements Last Friday Visual Studio team has pushed new bits to Team Foundation Service – chart pinning and load improvements. Read details in Brian’s post.

Brian Keller posted new updated version of famous Visual Studio ALM virtual machine. This machine now contains RTM version of Visual Studio 2013, TFS and Release Management. As usual, there are hands-on-labs / demo scripts as well. You can download it from: http://aka.ms/vs13almvm. You can also find a consolidated list of all of the ALM virtual machines here: […]

Multithreading In C# 5.0 Cookbook New book by my friend and MVP colleague Eugene Agafonov. Worth to buy just for $5.00

As per Brian Keller’s message, the Visual Studio 2013 ALM Virtual Machine was recently upgraded to include the sample content and hands-on-labs / demo scripts which were previously introduced for Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 capabilities. This brings the total number of hands-on-labs and demo scripts which work with this VM to 24. He also used this […]

It’s pleasure to have it second year in a row. My congratulations to all the Visual Studio ALM Ranger 2014 Champions?!

Agile vs Scrum Process Templates in Team Foundation Server I would mostly agree with Martin’s conclusion…

Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 1 … Normali[s|z]ed estimations? Good reading about real experience of managing ALM Rangers teams