http://davefancher.com/2011/05/18/vsts-2010-load-test-browser-definitions/

-paul

Urban Turtle is an extension to Team Web Access that provides tools for managing your backlog, planning your sprints and then managing sprint execution. It provides a very nice and intuitive drag and drop task board interface to TFS

Free Microsoft Press eBooks Available for Download

Enjoy free offerings from Microsoft Press! Here’s an updated list of some of their free eBooks:

Free eBook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (10 chapters by Patrice Pelland, Pascal Paré, and Ken Haines)
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Client;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.Net;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Common;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client;

namespace TFS2010ProjectList
{
class Program
{
// without collection name
public static string url = @”http://tfsserverurl:8080/tfs”;

static void Main(string[] args)
{
GetProjects();
}

private static void GetProjects()
{
TfsConfigurationServer srv = GetTfsConfigurationServer();
if (EnsureAuthentication(srv))
{
CatalogNode configurationServerNode = srv.CatalogNode;
// Query the children of the configuration server node for all of the team project collection nodes
ReadOnlyCollection tpcNodes = configurationServerNode.QueryChildren(
new Guid[] { CatalogResourceTypes.ProjectCollection }, false, CatalogQueryOptions.None);

foreach (CatalogNode tpcNode in tpcNodes)
{
Guid tpcId = new Guid(tpcNode.Resource.Properties["InstanceId"]);
TfsTeamProjectCollection tpc = srv.GetTeamProjectCollection(tpcId);
//Console.WriteLine(“{0}”, tpc.Name);

var workItemStore = tpc.GetService();

// go over the next node if no projects available
if (workItemStore.Projects.Count <= 0)
{
continue;
}
// iterate over the projects
foreach (Project project in workItemStore.Projects)
{
Console.WriteLine("\tProject: {0}", project.Name);
}

}

}
}

[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough]
public static TfsConfigurationServer GetTfsConfigurationServer()
{
return new TfsConfigurationServer(new Uri(url), GetCredentials(), new UICredentialsProvider());
} [System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough]

private static ICredentials GetCredentials()
{
return new NetworkCredential("username", "password", "Domain");
}
[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough]
public static bool EnsureAuthentication(TfsConfigurationServer srv)
{
bool result = true; try
{
srv.EnsureAuthenticated();
srv.Authenticate();
result = srv.HasAuthenticated;
}
catch (Exception)
{
result = false;
}

return result;
}
}
}

The Team Foundation Server 2010 Monitoring Management Pack, which is created by Visual Studio ALM Rangers, provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010. It monitors TFS components such as application tier server instances, team project collections, build servers, and proxy servers.

Feature Summary
The monitoring provided by this management pack includes availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds. You can integrate the monitoring of Team Foundation Server components into your service-oriented monitoring scenarios.

• Auto discovery of TFS components
• Implements containment hierarchy, reflecting logical architecture of the Product
• Implements a proper health model using Monitors
• Contains tasks, diagnostic and recovery for certain failures
• Provides events that indicate service outages
• Provides alerts that show configuration issues and connected data source changes
• Verification that all dependent services are running
• Triggers targeted running of BPA against TFS Servers from Operator Console

Details can be found here

Date – Wednesday October 13th 2010
Time – 6:00 PM – 7:30PM
Place – Microsoft Office 500 E. 96th St. Ste 460
Topic – Lap Around Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools

Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010