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TFS - Get List Of Software Installed On Build Agent [Technical Blog]
Posted: 7 Feb 2013   Updated: 7 Feb 2013   Views: 2,513   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
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Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/TarunArora/archive/2013/02/03/tfs---get-list-of-software-installed-on-build-agent.aspx Introduction 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 a

Smart Client

TFS 2010 SDK: Smart Merge - Programmatically Create your own Merge Tool [Technical Blog]
Posted: 27 Jul 2011   Updated: 1 Nov 2011   Views: 16,570   Rating: 4.50/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 5   Downloaded: 0
Technorati Tags: Team Foundation Server 2010,TFS SDK,TFS API,TFS Merge Programmatically,TFS Work Items Programmatically,TFS Administration Console,ALM   Download a working Demo: Smart Merge using TFS API The information available in the Merge window in Team Foundation Server 2010 is very importan
Configure Outlook as the TFS SMTP client [Technical Blog]
Posted: 18 Jan 2013   Updated: 18 Jan 2013   Views: 1,944   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 5   Downloaded: 0
  In this blog post, I’ll show you how to use Outlook.com as the SMTP client for your TFS.   Figure 1 – Email Alert Settings for Outlook.com as a SMTP client for TFS When I was asking around for these settings in forums people questioned me why I would want to set up outlook.com as the SMTP

Session State

TFS 2011 API–How to Get Exploratory Testing And Feedback Manager Session Information Programmatically [Technical Blog]
Posted: 13 Dec 2011   Updated: 13 Dec 2011   Views: 2,872   Rating: 4.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
  In this blog post I’ll show you how to use the TFS 2011 API to get the Exploratory Testing & Feedback Manager session information programmatically. Introduction TFS 2011 includes Exploratory Testing and Feedback Manager, the first empowers the testers to explore the application and second empow

Web Security

Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 [Part 1] [Technical Blog]
Posted: 2 Dec 2011   Updated: 2 Dec 2011   Views: 8,063   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 2   Downloaded: 0
Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 [Part 1]

Web Services

Quartz.Net scheduler exposed via a Web Service [Technical Blog]
Posted: 23 Jan 2013   Updated: 23 Jan 2013   Views: 4,504   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 6   Downloaded: 0
  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 engine to schedule and process jobs. I decided to expose the functionality of the Quartz.Net via a few web methods using Web services to allow

Azure

TFS Azure: Set up Visual Studio 2010 to work with TFS Azure [Technical Blog]
Posted: 18 Sep 2011   Updated: 18 Sep 2011   Views: 9,231   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 0   Downloaded: 0
Set up Visual Studio 2010 to work with TFS Azure
Part 1 - Load Testing in the Cloud [Technical Blog]
Posted: 2 Dec 2011   Updated: 2 Dec 2011   Views: 5,543   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 2   Downloaded: 0
I’ll try and cover the start to end of everything you need to know to use Azure to build your Test Rig in the cloud.

Database

COM

Database changes between TFS 2010 and TFS 2011 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 21 Sep 2011   Updated: 21 Sep 2011   Views: 9,355   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
  Our friends at Microsoft have done a wonderful job releasing TFS 2011 preview, there has been great amount of preview documentation and video samples released to help understand the new features. In this blog post I intend to dive deep and compare the database changes done between the two version

Other .NET Languages

Quartz.Net Windows Service on Server Important Configuration Steps To Remember [Technical Blog]
Posted: 23 Jan 2013   Updated: 23 Jan 2013   Views: 4,245   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 2   Downloaded: 0
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?

.NET Framework

Visual Studio 2012 Set Default Target Framework to DotNET4 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 28 Jan 2013   Updated: 28 Jan 2013   Views: 1,672   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 2   Downloaded: 0
First time you create a new project in Visual Studio 2012 the target framework is set us .NET 4.5.

Libraries

TFS API - Process template currently applied to the Team Project [Technical Blog]
Posted: 2 Dec 2011   Updated: 2 Dec 2011   Views: 5,553   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 2   Downloaded: 0
In this blog post I’ll show you how to use the TFS API to get the name of the Process Template that is currently applied to the Team Project.

Win32/64 SDK & OS

TFS SDK: Workspace Explorer & Statistics [Technical Blog]
Posted: 31 Aug 2011   Updated: 31 Aug 2011   Views: 10,707   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 5   Downloaded: 0
TFS SDK: Workspace Explorer & Statistics
TFS SDK Get Groups Users Permissions using TFS API with Linqpad [Technical Blog]
Posted: 1 Oct 2011   Updated: 1 Oct 2011   Views: 5,974   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 2   Downloaded: 0
In this blog post I'll show you how to use the TFS API to get the security groups, members, permissions and security settings of users in Team Projects in TFS.

Windows API

TFS API: Using LINQpad to query TFS [Technical Blog]
Posted: 13 Sep 2011   Updated: 13 Sep 2011   Views: 7,571   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
TFS API: Using LINQpad to query TFS
TFS API–Release Notes From TFS Builds [Technical Blog]
Posted: 25 Dec 2011   Updated: 25 Dec 2011   Views: 10,903   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 3   Downloaded: 0
  Agile taught us to release early and release often, Agile also taught us to get the end user involved more frequently and directly. Goes without saying that release notes are an important part of any release. But what you don’t want to be doing is manually putting together the release notes with

Design and Architecture

Introduction to Branching by Quality [Branching-Merging Techniques] [Technical Blog]
Posted: 2 Dec 2011   Updated: 2 Dec 2011   Views: 5,814   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 4   Downloaded: 0
Branch by Quality is one of the most popular branching patterns used, and can serve as a base pattern for more complex branch strategies.

Testing and QA

How to Troubleshoot TFS Build Server Failure [Technical Blog]
Posted: 1 Dec 2011   Updated: 1 Dec 2011   Views: 6,033   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 3   Downloaded: 0
Troubleshooting TFS Build Server failures.
Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 - Part 2 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 1 Dec 2011   Updated: 1 Dec 2011   Views: 4,764   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 3   Downloaded: 0
The details of web performance and load tests as well as why it’s important to follow a goal based pattern while performance testing your application.
Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 - Part 3 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 1 Dec 2011   Updated: 1 Dec 2011   Views: 3,207   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 3   Downloaded: 0
In part 3 I’ll be discussing Test Result Analysis, Test Result Drill through, Test Report Generation, Test Run Comparison, ASP.NET Profiler and some closing thoughts.
Part 2–Load Testing In The Cloud [Technical Blog]
Posted: 2 Dec 2011   Updated: 2 Dec 2011   Views: 2,341   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
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  Welcome to Part 2, In Part 1 we discussed the advantages of creating a Test Rig in the cloud, the Azure edge and the Test Rig Topology we want to get to. In Part 2, Let’s start by understanding the components of Azure we’ll be making use of followed by manually putting them together to create the
Part 3–Load Testing In the Cloud Automating Test Rig Deployment [Technical Blog]
Posted: 4 Dec 2011   Updated: 4 Dec 2011   Views: 1,576   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 0   Downloaded: 0
  Is this blog post worth your time? It’s not challenging setting up the Load Test Rig in the Cloud, it’s more challenging to convince enterprises to embrace the cloud. Not all enterprises will accept their business critical applications being profiled from a VM hosted outside their network. Thoug
Customizing TFS 2011 Process Template for Exploratory Testing Tours using MTM11 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 11 Dec 2011   Updated: 11 Dec 2011   Views: 12,238   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
The process of customizing the TFS 2011 Scrum 2.0 Process Template to add a new work item type, introducing new work item queries, modifying existing queries, adding new reports, etc.

Work Issues

TFS SDK: Work Item History Visualizer using TFS API [Technical Blog]
Posted: 22 Aug 2011   Updated: 22 Aug 2011   Views: 12,168   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 6   Downloaded: 0
  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 reflect on who did what and when, some organizations use it for auditing purposes as well. Using the WorkItemStore service it is possible to get the work item revisio
TFS - Get Latest VS Get Specific Version [Technical Blog]
Posted: 22 Aug 2011   Updated: 22 Aug 2011   Views: 11,834   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
Lately I have seen the below remarks coming through in the communities, Get Latest does not work in TFS I always have to use Get Specific version to get the server changes on my local Why get latest misses updating some files while get specific works I’ll be using the TFS API to show you how t
TFS SDK: Compare Changesets programmatically [Technical Blog]
Posted: 22 Aug 2011   Updated: 22 Aug 2011   Views: 10,915   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 2   Downloaded: 0
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 change sets programmatically using the TFS API Use WinMerge to compare those change sets programmatically 1. How do i get the history o

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

TFS Azure–Technical Access Preview Experience! [Technical Blog]
Posted: 16 Sep 2011   Updated: 16 Sep 2011   Views: 7,180   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
  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 2011 Build Conference, California. The Non-Disclosure Agreement has been lifted from the participants of the TAP program. The below excerp
MTM 11-Configuration, Settings, Customization & Troubleshooting [Technical Blog]
Posted: 14 Dec 2011   Updated: 14 Dec 2011   Views: 2,726   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 0   Downloaded: 0
MTM 11-Configuration, Settings, Customization & Troubleshooting
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 Tarun_Arora
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Tarun Arora is a Microsoft Certified professional developer for Enterprise Applications. He has over 5 years of experience developing 'Energy Trading & Risk Management' solutions using Microsoft Technologies. Tarun has great passion for technology and travel (not necessarily in the same order)!


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