Take a brief look at the Agile management features in TFS 2012 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn189203.aspx Team Foundation Server Agile Project Management using TFS 2012 Suliman Battat
eBook - Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes–available now… I was fortunate enough to work on a team for the past year on producing an eBook that covers the Microsoft Fakes Framework that shipped as part of Visual Studio 2012. Note that Fakes is or will be available in the Premium edition of VS2012 with Update 2. Download the
Cleaning up IIS Express Sites Over time, you may end up with lots of sites running in IIS Express. I like things neat and tidy, and periodically, I’ll run a little cleanup command as follows: From PowerShell: $appCmd = "C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express\appcmd.exe" $result = Invoke-Command -Command {& $appCmd '
Querying a SharePoint 2013 Task List for Subtasks The CAML for the query easily enough includes a ParentID reference. However, if you’re spelunking around in SP 2013 using the OData services, you might have a hard time finding the ParentID field. However, if you just issue the query: //web/_api/Web/Lists/getByTitle('TaskListName')/Items/
Get your VHD images for testing–all prepped and ready to go… IE6 – WinXP, IE7 – Vista, IE8 – Win7, IE9 – Win7, and IE10 – Win8… http://www.modern.ie/virtualization-tools
Disable swipe on synaptics touchpad in Windows 8 If you're using a touchpad on a laptop, like me with some fat fingers, the swip action is actually quite intrusive. you can turn if off with the following Disable swipe on Trackpad Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\TouchPadPS2\Right
Updating your TFS Service urls to from TfsPreview.com to VisualStudio.com If you haven’t heard, TFS Service has gone live at http://tfs.visualstudio.com/. While the old DNS name works, at some point it may retire. So, Jesse Houwing has a post/script that makes it easy. http://blog.jessehouwing.nl/2012/11/updating-your-team-foundation-service.html Here’s the script