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VS ALM
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What’s New Series: Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2 RC1
In this What’s new post, I will highlight the new updates in TFS 2018 Update 2 RC. Microsoft have added a lot of new value to Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2. Some of the highlights include: View pull request merge commit Help reviewer
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DevOps Series – Part 3 (4/4)
Monitor and diagnose an ASP.NET Core application on Service Fabric This post is part four of a series. It goes through the steps to set up monitoring and diagnostics for an ASP.NET Core application running on a Service Fabric cluster using
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DevOps Series – Part 3 (3/4)
This post is part three of a series and describes how to set up continuous integration and deployment for an Azure Service Fabric application using Visual Studio Team Services. An existing Service Fabric application is needed, the applicati
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DevOps Series – Part 3 (2/4)
Deploy an application to a Service Fabric cluster in Azure This post is part two of a series and shows you how to deploy an Azure Service Fabric application to a new cluster in Azure directly from Visual Studio. In this tutorial you learn h
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DevOps Series – Part 3 (1/4)
I’m cooking a new DevOps series Azure flavored! Let’s start cooking on the cloud 🙂 Create and deploy an application with an ASP.NET Core Web API front-end service and a stateful back-end service This tutorial is part one of a series. You w
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What’s New Series: Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 1
In this What’s New Series, I will post about the new updates in TFS 2018 Update 1. In this post, you will find information regarding the newest release for Team Foundation Server 2018. Click the button to download. Direct upgrade to Team Fo
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How Do I Series: Editor and Language Service Extensions
In this How Do I Series, I will post about the Editor and Language Service Extensions in Visual Studio. You can use editor extensions to add language service features such as outlining, brace matching, IntelliSense, and light bulbs to your
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Introducing Team Foundation Server 2018
I’m happy in this post to introduce for Microsofties and developers Team Foundation Server 2018 🙂 Microsoft have added a lot of new value to Team Foundation Server 2018. Some of the highlights include: Microsoft improved the Project Creati
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How Do I Series: Build and deploy to an Azure Web App
In this How Do I post, I will write about how can developers build and deploy to an Azure web app. Here’s a walkthrough on creating, publishing, building and deploying an Azure Web App using Visual Studio Team Services vNext builds. To keep
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How Do I Series: Creating a Visual Studio Extension with a Menu Command
In this How Do I series, I will show developers how they can create a Visual Studio Extension with a Menu Command. Let’s Start. Creating a Menu Command Create a VSIX project named FirstMenuCommand. You can find the VSIX project template in
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What’s New Series: Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 2 Release Notes
In this What’s new series post, I will summrize the updates in TFS 2017 Update 2. Here we go 🙂 Microsoft have added a lot of new value to Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 2. Some of the highlights include: Work items now have icons assoc
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How Do I Series: TFS Extensions
In this How Do I Series blog post, I will blog about how you can install extensions for disconnected TFS. While you’re disconnected from TFS, you can install free and preview extensions, but not paid extensions, by downloading them, uploadi
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What’s New Series: Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3
In this What’s new series I will write about the new features in TFS update 3. Let’s start. Microsoft announced the availability of the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3. This is the newest version of Team Foundation Server
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How Do I Series: Configure Kanban Board in TFS 2015 (2/2)
In this post, Let’s Play with Kanban board and see how can we track work in progress and monitor metrics and fine tune. 3. Track work in progress Once you’ve configured your Kanban board to match how your team works, you’re ready to use it.
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How Do I Series: Configure Kanban Board in TFS 2015 (1/2)
I this post, I will show you how you can use Kanban board in TFS to maximize a team’s ability to consistently deliver high quality software. Kanban emphasize two main practices. The first, visualize the flow of work, requires you to map you
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DevOps Series – Part 2 (5/5)
This blog post is part 5 of Automate Build and Deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. In part 5, we will play through How to setup a local build agent How to configure a build task How to con
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DevOps Series – Part 2 (4/5)
This blog post is part 4 of Automate Build and Deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. In part 4, we will play through How to configure release environment and deployment workflow. How to conf
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DevOps Series – Part 2 (3/5)
This blog post is part 3 of Automate Build and Deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. In part 3, we will play through How to setup your own internal nuget feed for Azure SQL Database. How to
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DevOps Series – Part 2 (2/5)
This blog post is part 2 of Automate Build and Deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. In part 2, we will play through How to configure a build definition for your database project How to enab
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DevOps Series – Part 2 (1/5)
In this post, The flavor of this DevOps series is SQL Server 🙂 I will start my new DevOps series writing about automate build and deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. One of key benefits o
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DevOps Series – Part1 (3/3)
In this Post, I will write about planning and traking work with Agile tools and DevOps feature (Build-Test-Release). Plan and track work with Agile tools Use Agile tools to plan and track work using Scrum and Kanban processes or a mix of bo
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DevOps Series-Part 1 (2/3)
In this post, I will take about how developer can develop code using their IDE of choice. VSTS supports two types of version control Git and Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC). Use Git, Team Foundation version control (TFVC) or both to
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DevOps Series – Part1(1/3)
in this Series I will walkthrough how we can Implement the development operations with TFS 2015, using Microsoft’s integrated tool set to speed the development and delivery of your software applications. Build better apps for any platform,
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Speak: Introducing Microsoft ALM and Team Foundation Server 2015 for KPMG ITA team.
It was a true pleasure to conduct a session for my colleagues in the ITA team @ KPMG to introduce Microsoft ALM and Team Foundation Server 2015 to manage the application lifecycle and development practices through an awesome capabilities an
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Announcing my new book! {Implementing DevOps with Team Foundation Server 2015 Community Edition!}
Hello Everyone, Its a true pleasure to share with you my new book Implementing DevOps with Team Founsation Server 2015 Community Edition! Alhamdulillah 🙂 To download your free copy please click here. Hope you like the new book 🙂
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How do I series:Storyboard your ideas using PowerPoint using Visual Studio Team Services
Hi folks, Today I would like to write about a very important activity we do at the beginning of each application development to illustrate the application mockups in smart and exciting way through TFS which is the storyboarding feature that
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How do I series: Planning manual tests using the web portal
Hi folks, in this post I will show you how you can plan for your manual tests using TFS web portal client. The way you can see when the testing for a specific sprint or milestone is complete. you have to create test plans to track manual te
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How do I series: Connect to Visual Studio Team Services from Eclipse, Xcode, Visual Studio, and more!
Hi Folks, In my next posts in “How do I series” I will spot the light on Visual Studio Team Services. To get started to upload and share code after creating your Visual Studio Team Services account, you have to connect to your private Git r
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How do I series: Connect clients to on premises TFS 2015
In this post I will give you a quick steps to connect to TFS 2015 from any version of Visual Studio and other platforms such as Eclipse and PowerBuilder. Hope you get enjoyed 🙂 Visual Basic 6, Visual Studio .NET and Visual Studio 2003 on W
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How do I series: Set up Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) on your development machine
To set up Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) on your dev machine, you just need to create a workspace and then add your code. Before you start you have to create a team project as the following: Connect to the server and team project co
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Speaking about Team Foundation Server 2015 Capabilities to manage enterprise applications development for Jordan Armed Forces
It’s a true honor and pleasure to take the opportunity through Microsoft Jordan Office to deliver a speak for Jordan Armed Forces IT development team at HQ premises, demonstrating Team Foundation Server 2015 and the product capabilities to
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Speaking about DevOps automation and development process customization using TFS 2015 @ Bank of Jordan
Today, I talk about how we can automate the development operations and customize the development process workflows in session conducted for Bank of Jordan IT development team.
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Speaking about DevOps implementation using TFS 2015 @ Bank al Etihad
Today I was lucky to meet Bank al Etihad IT development team @ Itihad Bank HQ in Amman through my session talking about how we can use Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 to automate the development operations and make development mor
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Visual Studio 2015 Release is here!
Hello Folks!, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10 @ Build Event, Welcome Visual Studio 2015! Everything we need to create great apps for devices or desktop apps, for the web and in the cloud. Write code for iOS, Android, a
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What’s new in TFS 2015?
What’s new in TFS 2015? Team Rooms and Chart Authoring are included in the TFS CAL. Visual Studio Ultimate and Premium will be merged to Visual Studio Enterprise Agile planning There are lots of new things simplifies Agile planning, here ar
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Introducing Visual Studio Release Management!
Release Management By using Release Management for Visual Studio 2013, your development and operations teams can enable additional capabilities in Team Foundation Server 2013 so that they can more easily and more confidently configure and a
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Introducing Visual Studio Code!
Hi folks, I would like to take the opportunity to introduce a new member to the lovely Visual Studio family “Visual Studio Code!” is a new, free cross-platform code editor for building modern web and cloud applications on Mac OS X, Linux an
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Introducing Build VNext!
At the Connect() developer event in November 2014 Microsoft’s showed a sneak peek at the investments we are making for our build automation features in TFS and Visual Studio Online. These new capabilities will be available in TFS 2015 and i
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ALM Woskhop for Wosool Consulting – Second Session
Today I completed the ALM workshop conducted for Wosool Consulting team as part of sharing knowledge community activities in the firm. i was talking about how to build the right software by generating storyboards and collecting stakeholder
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Presenting What’s new in Visual Studio 2015 and Team Foundation Server 2015 “Visual Studio team session presented @ Build 2015!”
It was a great opportunity to share what Visual Studio team announced in Build 2015 event to the community and Microsoft partners in Jordan @ Microsoft Jordan Offices. in this session i was talking about Visual Studio and TFS 2015 features
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an ALM session about how to make team more productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 for Etihad Bank Application development team!
Today I was visited Etihad Bank HQ – Amman, Jordan to present and demonstrate the power of TFS 2013 and how they can make their development team more productive by using the powerful features of Team Foundation Server 2013. Here’s some demo
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ALM Workshop for Wosool Consulting Team
Today I conducted the first session of an ALM workshop for my lovely colleagues @ Wosool Consulting HQ in Amman, Jordan introducing the ALM concept and focus on Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Solution and the powerful features of Team Foundati
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Troobleshooting TFS 2013: Customize Bug States in MSF CMMI 6.0 Template in TFS 2013
Hello Readers, From few weeks ago, I was faced a problem in adding a custom state to the bug work item which placed in “MSF CMMI 6.0” template in TFS 2013. my mates in the ALM Rangers team (Vinicius Moura and Baruch Frei) was helping me sol
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presenting continous integration (Build – Deploy-Test) for Trust Insrance group Development & Quality Team
Today I was visited Trust Insurance group – Jordan Branch to present the power of TFS 2013 continuous integration (Build – Deploy – Test) for their development and quality team after their interest and believe in VS ALM so
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ALM Lecture for Software Engineering Students @ Petra University
Today I was very excited to present a lecture @ Jordan University for software engineering students talking about the evolution of software engineering and the new trend @ the market which’s “Application LifeCycle Management” and how they c
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Making Team More Productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013
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ALM Lecture for Software Engineering Students @ Petra University
Today I was very glad to present a lecture @ my beloved university which I graduated from for software engineering students talking about the evolution of software engineering and the new trend @ the market which’s “Application LifeCycle Ma
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ALM workshop for N2V Startups
Hello, Today I as very excited to start a one day workshop for N2V Startups, N2V is a big incubator for Jordanian startups, the main objective was spread the awareness of ALM and how they can build a capacity for their development teams and
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Team Rooms in Visual Studio 2013
In TFS 2013, Brian Harry on behalf of Visual Studio Team introduced a new feature called “Team Rooms” that keep a record of things that happen in your team – checkins, work item updates, build failures, code reviews, etc. And you can have c
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Visual Studio 2013 is now available!
Hello Developers! I’m excited to announce that Visual Studio 2013 is now available to you to download. For developers and development teams, Visual Studio 2013 easily delivers applications across all Microsoft devices, cloud, desktop, serve
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ALM workshop for STS Jordan
Hello, Today I as very excited to start a two days workshop for STS Jordan application development team, one if the biggest software houses in Jordan and middle east to spread the awareness of ALM and how they can make their team more produ
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What’s new ALM features in Visual Studio 2013?
From ten days ago at TechEd, Brian Harry, Team Foundation Server Product Unit Manager, announced Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 and many of the Application Lifecycle Management features that they include. Some of those f
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Running Automated Tests from the Command Line
Hello Everyone, In this post I would like to share with you some very cool command line tools shipped in Visual Studio 2012 to automate your applications test; VSTest.Console.exe You can use the VSTest.Console.exe program to run automated u
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Storyboard your ideas using PowerPoint
My friend from the ALM Ranger team Mike Douglas have created a free Windows 8 Store App called Team Planning Poker to help distributed and co-located teams run agile planning poker sessions. It uses TFS (using TFS OData Services) to pull in
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Planning and Tracking Projects – Part 3
Today I will talk about documents and reports in TFS 2012; You can share documents and files that you want to make available to all team members by uploading them to the project portal for your team project. To track your team’s progress, y
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Planning and Tracking Projects – Part 2
Today I will keep what we stopped last post which is the team Projects, The starting point for working with Visual Studio ALM is to create a team project to track information and to organize source code, builds, tests, and plans for your te
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Planning and Tracking Projects – Part 1
Hello Everyone, Today we will write about the first step in ALM which is planning and tracking stage, Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) provide teams with the tools to effectively manage the lifecycle to develop applicati
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Setting Up Automated Build-Deploy-Test Workflows with TFS 2012
In this Post I will clarify how can you use a build-deploy-test workflow on Visual Studio 2012 to deploy and test your application when you run a build. This lets you schedule and run the build, deployment, and testing of your application w
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Using Version Control – Part 3
In this post I will go deeper with the version control stuff and the new improvements in TFS 2012, one of the most improvements in TFS 202 version control is Managing Pending Changes, Most changes that you make to your files are queued as p
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Introducing Visual Studio ALM and Visual Studio 2012 testing capabilities – Ministry of Information and Communication Technology
In This Session I was introducing Visual Studio ALM 2012 and the new testing enhancements and features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Microsoft Test Manager 2012 for Ministry of Information and Communication Technology development team
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Visual Studio ALM training for MS Jordan Partners & Startups
Today I covered a full day free training workshop for Microsoft Partners and Startups in Jordan about Visual Studio ALM with some technical demos for developers and testers. Lab Links: Making Developers More Productive with Visual Studio Te
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Exploratory Testing and Other Enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager 2012 – TAGI
I covered today Exploratory Testing and Other Enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager 2012 for TAGI Telco Quality team as part of the ALM Awareness workshop tour for enterprises in Jordan. Lab Link: https://cmg.vlabcenter.com/lab/c3e05f0a-df
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Exploratory Testing and Other Enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager 2012 – Orange
I covered today Exploratory Testing and Other Enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager 2012 for Orange Telco Quality team as part of the ALM Awareness workshop tour for enterprises in Jordan. Lab Link: https://cmg.vlabcenter.com/lab/c3e05f0a-
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Using Version Control in TFS 2012 – Part 2
Today I will talk about the core of the version control which is the Source control. In this post we will see how can we use Source Control Explorer to Manage Files under Version Control. You can use Source Control Explorer to browse and wo
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Making Developers More Productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 – Orange Telco
today it was Orange Telecom’s practical part of the ALM awareness workshops tour for the Enterprises in Jordan, my demos was focus on making developers more productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012. I used Microsoft Visual
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Using Version Control in TFS 2012 – Part 1
Today I will focus the feature the version control stuff in TFS 2012, Whether you are building software at a large company or with a few friends in your garage, on a good day you are able to focus all your energy on researching, designing,
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Making Developers More Productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 – Tala Abu Ghazaleh
Today I keep the practical part of the ALM awareness workshops tour for the Enterprises in Jordan with TAGI, my demos was focus on making developers more productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012. I used Microsoft Visual Stu
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Making Developers More Productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 – Arab Bank
Today I started the practical part of the ALM awareness workshops tour for the Enterprises in Jordan, my demos was focus on making developers more productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012. I used Microsoft Visual Studio Vir
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Visual Studio ALM 2012 Overview – Orange Telecom
This is the third ALM workshop of the ALM awareness tour in cooperation with Microsoft Jordan for Enterprises and Companies to improve the ALM awareness for their development units and help them deliver a continuous value by using Visual St
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Visual Studio ALM 2012 Overview – Tala Abu Ghazaleh Institustion
this is the second ALM workshop of the ALM awareness tour in cooperation with Microsoft Jordan for Enterprises and Companies to improve the ALM awareness for their development units and help them deliver a continuous value by using Visual S
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Visual Studio ALM 2012 Overview – Arab Bank Jordan
Today I start the first ALM workshop of the ALM awareness tour in cooperation with Microsoft Jordan for Enterprises and Companies to improve the ALM awareness for their development units and help them deliver a continuous value by using Vis
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Announcing My First ALM Atrticle on MSDN Magazine
Agile Planning is one of the major stuff that Microsoft focusing on with the new Visual Studio ALM Solution, I loved to highlight the new agile planning capabilities using Team Foundation Server 2012 and share it with you via my first artic
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OData Service for Team Foundation Server v2 (Beta) is released
Last week, Brian Keller, Visual Studio ALM Principal Technical Evangelist @ Microsoft announced that OData access for Team Foundation Service has been enabled. Developers can now write applications for multiple device types (such as smartph
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Rangers shipped Team Foundation Server Word Add-in
Visual Studio ALM Rangers Team have successfully completed the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in on Codeplex. Kudos to Rob Jarratt/dev lead and the project team for this special achievement which promotes Word to a new client for TFS, simi
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Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate is here!
Get Visual Studio 2012 RC today and start preparing for the next generation of development. You can’t predict the future, but you can get there first! http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads
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Working with Workspaces in TFS 2010 – Part 3
Hello my friends, Today I will close “Working with Workspaces in TFS Series” in how to use multiple workspaces to work on multiple branches: You typically create multiple workspaces to work on two versions of your software at the same time.
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Working with Workspaces in TFS 2010 – Part 2
Hello my friends, I will talk in this post about creating a Workspace manually as the end part of “ Working with Workspaces in TFS 2010 Series“, let go! You should create a workspace manually if you plan to work with version-controlled file
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Working with Workspaces in TFS 2010 – Part 2
Hello my friends, In my last post I was talking about workspaces in TFS 2010, lets continue today talking about how to get files quickly by using the default workspace, lets go! When you work on files that are under version control in Team
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Working with Workspaces in TFS 2010 – Part 1
Hello my dears, First of all, please accept my apology for being late in writing a new post, I was a in a long business trip and I am so happy to catch you again through a new post, I will take today about dealing with workspaces which is s
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Working with Team Foundation Server – Part 4
Hello my dear readers, After adding a new solution to the new team project, Our solution is ready for work items, lets start! You can create work items directly inside Visual Studio using the Team Explorer, through the web front end, and th
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Working with Team Foundation Server – Part 3
Hello my dear readers, In my last post I create a new team project, now it’s ready to hold source control and other stuff, lets add our solution( which we’ve created in part 1) inside the team project source control: At this point you can u
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Working with Team Foundation Server – Part 2
Hello my dear readers, In my last post I stop writing at the beginning of creating new project, let’s create it! After entering the data, click Next on the project creation wizard: The Agile template is the default but you can also select C
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Working with Team Foundation Server – Part 1
Hello my dear readers, This month I will start a new wave of Team Foundation Server learning series, In my earlier posts, I start introducing VS ALM and TFS 2010, now I will start writing about working with Team Foundation Server 2010. so l
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Inroducing Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 3
Hello again My friends, In my last post I was start talking about TFS 2010 deeply and we talked about the product architecture, and know that TFS is a server product which be used through client application. In this post I will show you som
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Inroducing Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 2
Hello again My friends, In my last post I was introducing TFS 2010 product in a general overview, let’s go in this post deep dive to know more about this great product! So What is Team Foundation Server? Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a se
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Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part1
My Dear Readers, Welcome to my new blog section “I Think ALM!”, In this section I will talk about Application Lifecycle Management using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ALM Solutions and the hero of ALM tools Visual Studio Team Foundation Serv