Anybody knows custom or free available process templates for TFS 2010? Right now, I have only 2 default templates with Server. I am looking for couple of other templates too.
In addition to the default MSF Agile and CMMI templates, Microsoft also released the popular Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 and MSF-Agile plus Security Development Lifecycle (SDL).
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I've had a browse around the Visual Studio 2013 online capabilities but can't see any wiki as such. By wiki I mean somewhere to capture enduring product related info e.g. info on how to support product xyz, how to setup a new dev workstation, how to workaround that annoying "msshrtmi.dll" Azure bug that continually crops up. Stuff like that.
Currently using Google sites wiki which is awful!
We have launched a set of features to enable a Markdown-based project documentation solution. Users can now edit and create their VSO project docs right in the browser.
Do check out our blog post and video here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2014/12/18/improved-welcome-wiki-experience.aspx
Let us know if you have any comments on the features!
Yi-Wei Ang
Program Manager
VSO Enterprise Social
Unfortunately the Visual Studio Online does not support wiki for project now. I miss this feature too. You can vote for the feature on uservoice to accelerate its development.
Update: Issue is completed on 9 January 2015. Thanks to developers and to all who voted. For more information, see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2014/12/18/improved-welcome-wiki-experience.aspx
There is now a Wiki from Microsoft DevLabs for Visual Studio Team Services in the Visual Studio Marketplace. At the time of writing it is still in beta. When it is finished it will be installed as an integral part of Visual Studio Team Services.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-devlabs.wiki
As of 7/6/2017, Microsoft has released the public preview of the Visual Studio Team Services Wiki. The Visual Studio Marketplace extension has now been deprecated.
You can read more about the capabilities of the Wiki in VS TS here:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/07/06/33855/
I am setting up a new development environment for a small team, currently we are only 2 developers, and mainly we will be using the following frameworks:-
Asp.net MVC framework to build some web application from scratch.
SharePoint 2010 or 2013 to build an intranet/extranet application.
So I have settled on the following development tools to be able to build asp.net MVC web applications + to extend and build SharePoint application:-
Visual studio 2012 for building the web applications for both MVC & SharePoint.
Team foundation server 2012, to have version control, bug tracking , etc.
My question is the following:-
Since I will need the SharePoint 2013 templates so I cannot go with the express version of visual studio 2012? since the VS express version does no provide enterprise features such as SharePoint templates.
But will using TFS express suit my situation?
I have read that Microsoft provides a free plan where I can get free Visual Studio Professional 2012 & Team Foundation Server with all the enterprise features since I have less than 5 users (in my case 2 developers) and of course I can upgrade the free plan when the team grow.
So will getting the free plan from Microsoft work well in my case, especially
for having the SharePoint templates inside the visual studio 2012?
Best Regards
We are a small design agency based on .net. The devs use VS and TFS. Is there a way of setting up the designer with some kind of way of getting source code and building it on their machines without the full version of VS which is pretty expensive for people who only want to change CSS and odd bit of HTML. The designers currently use Dreamweaver.
Visual Studio 2010 Express does not have a support for TFS.
But now you can use Visual Studio 11 Express which supports TFS.
Visual Studio 11 Express Features
In TFS2010, you can install the Team Explorer and use your favorite file editing tool. The designer then only needs a TFS CAL to connect to the TFS server.
Where can I find a bug-tracking system that integrates with Visual Studio 2010 as an addin, and supports online support (so that anonymous people can add bugs to the buglist)?
You could use TFS and write a simple web frontend utilizing the TFS webservices. Perhaps there are bugtrackers that support TFS integration.
Unfortunately, I do not know of other solutions integrated into VS.
I ended up building my own system based on a database and a webserver. I then created a Visual Studio Package (add-in) through the Visual Studio 2010 SDK for managing bugs that were synced live from the website.
Way better for my needs, and only took 1 week of development.
I'm currently in the process of investigating TFS 2010, as it's been agreed that we'll be getting VS2010 Professional when it's released and it comes with TFS Basic (we're currently stuck with VSS, and were considering moving to SubVersion prior to the TFS Basic announcement).
I've downloaded an installed the Beta 2 of TFS 2010 and installed it using the Basic installation, which I'm led to believe is what the actual TFS Basic would be equivalent to. I configure it all, install the Team Explorer into Beta 2 of VS2010, and begin nosing around. I see lots of interesting looking options, and turn on one for my test project that says Check-in Policy - Code Analysis. I then try checking in something to that project, and a little dialog pops up saying
Evaluation of Code Analysis Policy
requires Visual Studio 2010 Premium
Beta 2 or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
Beta 2 to be installed
However, I can't find any reference to this or other limitations online anywhere. The MS VS 2010 feature comparison page gives all three versions 4 stars for TFS product features, and the pages I've read on the limitations of TFS Basic only say it lacks Sharepoint and Reporting capabilities.
Am I missing something here? Is there an article somewhere on the limitations, or perhaps some confusion between a product TFS Basic and a basic install of the full version?
Sorry this is so confusing. Few things first of all.
VS 2010 Professional with MSDN comes with TFS. Not just TFS "Basic" but a full server license to TFS and a CAL (client access license) to access it. When you install TFS you can then pick what installation option you require. You can go for "Basic" which configures all the pre-requisites for you (such as IIS, SQL Express etc). Or you can go for Advanced if you want the more traditional TFS installation where you can install IIS, MOSS, full SQL Server with reporting services etc first and then install a full TFS that is integrated with these products. You can think of "TFS Basic" - as "Easy TFS". It's the same TFS, just easy to install (including on non server operating systems such as Windows 7 etc). You can move your project collection created on a basic installation of TFS to a full blown TFS installation in the future if you find you outgrow the basic installation.
Check-in policies are bits of client side code that run every time you perform a check in. The particular one that you selected actually runs some features in visual studio to do with code analysis. The problem you are running into is that those features are only available with the premium editions of Visual Studio and is not included in Professional. The feature on the TFS (server) side is just being able to run check-in policies. The feature on the client side is what the check-in policy is calling. Confusing I know.
My tip with check-in polcies would be to not enable them at first and switch them on gradually (see http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/policy_override.html for my rationale behind this).
Hope that helps.
Martin.