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Migrate Team Foundation Server’s SQL Server to another SQL Server (same or new version)

by Raymund Macaalay

How to migrate Team Foundation Server's SQL Server to another SQL Server (same or new version)

Close a Work Item only if Child Work items are closed

by Suresh Malluri

Team Foundation Server is an ALM tool. It can be extended as per the business requirement. Controls can be created so as to populate them on the work item form. We can add additional business functionality by creating the controls. The API provided by TFS makes this possible.

Automated Creation of NuGet Packages

by DannyVarod

Fast, stable and powerful creation of NuGet packages

Programming against the (undocumented) Release Management API

by KevinPo

How to navigate and program against the Release Management API, even though it does not have official documentation.

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TFS: Universal Download task gives error "##[error]Failed to get artifact tool. Cannot read property 'toString' of null"

by Randy Kroeger

Build server fails when executing the Universal Download Task

Bulk Generation of Tasks in TFS

by Mykola Tarasyuk

Bulk generation of tasks in TFS

Retrieving TFS Test Case Parameters using C#

by PlebProgrammer

How to retrieve TFS test case parameters in C#

Testing using Newman on TFS with Docker

by Santosh Vijay Patil

Continuous Testing using Newman (Postman) on TFS 2017 with Docker

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Close a Work Item only if Child Work items are closed

20 Feb 2014 by Suresh Malluri

Team Foundation Server is an ALM tool. It can be extended as per the business requirement. Controls can be created so as to populate them on the work item form. We can add additional business functionality by creating the controls. The API provided by TFS makes this possible.

Programming against the (undocumented) Release Management API

8 Dec 2015 by KevinPo

How to navigate and program against the Release Management API, even though it does not have official documentation.

Integrating list of custom types in TFS Build Template

19 May 2014 by wliao

Integrating list of custom types into the TFS build template

Developing a Custom Comment Checkin Policy for TFS and Eclipse

2 Feb 2015 by Yildirim Kocdag

This article helps you develop, test and deploy a custom comment check in policy for Eclipse IDE and Microsoft TFS. A plug-in should be written for comment checkin policy development

Introduction to Team Foundation Services 2015

20 Jul 2016 by Dominic Burford

Configuring a simple build using Team Foundation Services 2015

Lotus Notes to Team Foundation Server

3 Aug 2015 by ambilykk

Emails to Work Items

TFS API Part 28 - Test Suite Hierarchy Builder

30 Jul 2010 by Shai Raiten

Test Suite Hierarchy Builder

TFS API Part 29 – TFS Impersonation

23 Aug 2010 by Shai Raiten

TFS Impersonation

Live Q&A with Microsoft CVP Brian Harry

12 Nov 2014 by CodeProject

On Wednesday November 12, Microsoft CVP Brian Harry will be available here for a live Q&A in the comment section of this article.

Experiment with ECMAScript 6 on Babylon.js with TypeScript 1.5

14 Oct 2015 by David Rousset

Since releasing babylon.js, the WebGL open-source gaming framework, a couple of years ago, we (with help from the community) are constantly exploring ways to make it even better.

Posting Externally Derived TFS Test Case Results

28 Jul 2017 by ergohack

This is an article on how to post automated test results to Microsoft's Test Manager Infrastructure from external sources (e.g. your home grown automated test harness).

Find Changeset Details for All Work Items in a TFS Query

14 Apr 2016 by Asmita Bhurke

Generate work items report from TFS including their associated changeset details

Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider 2010

21 Jul 2011 by Shai Raiten

Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider 2010

TFS Rev-Up, A Utility to Increment Build Revisions

25 Aug 2013 by Tim Golisch

A utility to increment build numbers for TFS

Connect to TFS using Microsoft Excel

1 Jan 2016 by HadyAllam

Use Microsoft Excel to generate TFS reports and Create/Modify Work Items

TFS API Cloning Work Items with Children

18 Aug 2016 by Metaphysico

Clone a TFS Work Item and Its Children with links

How to Change TFS 2010 Attachment Size

21 Jul 2011 by Shai Raiten

A post on how to change attachment size in TFS 2008.

Using PowerShell to Generate TFS Change Manifest for Build Artifact Delivery

10 Aug 2012 by Gary Stafford

Use PowerShell 2.0 to aid in the delivery of build artifacts for release, by generating a manifest of file changes.

Mirroring a Team Foundation Service Git Repository to GitHub, Bitbucket, or a Similar Public Git Service

28 Aug 2013 by NickClarkIO

A custom build activity to mirror a TFS Git repository to a public Git repository.

Continuous Delivery with TFS: Standing up an Environment

5 Mar 2015 by Graham D Smith

Continuous Delivery with TFS: Standing up an Environment

Unit Testing with Team Foundation Services 2015

4 Aug 2016 by Dominic Burford

Adding unit tests to a Team Foundation Services 2015 build

Continuous Development and Integration with Git, TFS, Nuget and Artifactory – Part II

4 Oct 2016 by Kausik J. Nag

In this article, we will optimize our continuous integration and development model with the use of JFrog Artifactory.

Testing using Newman on TFS with Docker

18 Oct 2018 by Santosh Vijay Patil

Continuous Testing using Newman (Postman) on TFS 2017 with Docker

TFS 2010 Changesets to Changed Assemblies Mapper

20 Sep 2011 by rawwool (Rahul Kumar)

TFS 2010: Changesets to changed assemblies mapper

The Future of Testing: Quality Center vs Team Foundation Server

29 Dec 2011 by Shai Raiten

An overview of the benefits of Quality Center against Team Foundation Server

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Avoiding Database Deployment Disasters – 7 Tips

14 Jul 2014 by Redgate Software

If you’re thinking about adopting database source control, or have a system but aren’t using it consistently yet, here are seven tips to avoid deployment disasters.

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Why Put Your Database into Source Control?

28 Oct 2014 by Grant_Fritchey

Grant Fritchey argues that getting your databases under source control is not only vital for the stability of development and deployment, but it will make your life easier when something does go wrong.

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Octopus Deployment Basics

3 Mar 2015 by Ian_Paullin

For the past few months, I’ve been analyzing Octopus Deploy in terms of it’s components, architectural design and benefits of said design decisions. In this article, we’re going to bring everything together to see the sum of all the parts.

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Reason-Based State Transitions for TFS WorkItems

16 Aug 2017 by ergohack

Reason-Based State transitions for TFS WorkItems provides better usability and flexibility over the current State-Based transitions that place the collection of the Reason as secondary and often optional.

How Toad DevOps Toolkit can help with the DevOps process

30 Jan 2018 by Quest Software

If you wanted to ramp up database DevOps, which development tasks would be most important for you?

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Visual Studio Add Ins - In Depth

5 Sep 2013 by Shining Dragon

A more in depth look at Visual Studio Add Ins with a fully worked example.

TFS, Automated Testing and Continuous Integration

10 Feb 2013 by Shining Dragon

Automated testing and continuous integration in TFS

Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2013

24 Apr 2016 by Shashangka Shekhar

In this post we will focus on how to configure and administration with Team Foundation Server (TFS – 2013)

Know your application better with visual studio 2010 load testing

9 Aug 2012 by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

Configure visual studio load testing tool and utilize to scale application by analyzing testing results

Project Definition and Versioning

25 Feb 2013 by Suresh Malluri

Project Structure and build scenarios

Automated penetration testing in the Microsoft stack with OWASP ZAP

27 Jan 2014 by GustavoMartins

Automate your penetration testing using the pentest tool ZAP and the

Release Management with Team Foundation Server 2015

15 Sep 2016 by Dominic Burford

Creating releases and deployments using Team Foundation Server 2015

Clone VSTS/TFS 2015 Test Suite with TFS API

18 Aug 2016 by Metaphysico

How to clone Test Suites with Test Case References

How to Work with TFS

30 Oct 2011 by Bangla Gopal Surya Prakash

TFS Build agent, Build definition, TFS Build Custom Task

Team Foundation Server 2012 RC – Install & Configure

21 Nov 2012 by kishore Gaddam

In this post, we will walk through the process of Installing & Configuring Team Foundation Server (TFS)2012 on a Windows 8 machine that has Visual Studio 2012. If you are using TFS 2010 for the Scrum Process , see the blog post @ http://kishore1021.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/scrum-process-for-software

Automating Task Creation in Team Foundation Server with PowerShell

14 Aug 2012 by Gary Stafford

Automate the creation of Task-type Work Items in TFS using PowerShell

Getting HTML Fields Data into your TFS Warehouse

30 May 2013 by Gordon Beeming

A small trick on how to get HTML data into your warehouse.

TFS API: TFS Work Item All Changes History

30 Aug 2016 by MittalManglani

TFS WorkItem History