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Hierarchical Work Items

TFS 2010 has hierarchical work items. This is something that we have been waiting for and are very happy about. Along with hierarchical work items you also get two new query types. Work Items and Direct Links - Which allows you to query for a work items Read More...

Branching & Merging in 2010

Branching & Merging has always been difficult. I have worked with teams who go out of their way not to branch the code. However sometimes it’s just necessary. Thanks to the Software Engineers at Microsoft it’s much easier now in TFS 2010 Source Control. Read More...

Build Process Templates

Making a build script do exactly what you want is easier with 2010? When setting up a build there has always been a separation of concerns. The Build Definition The Build Process Creating the build definition is much like you are use to in 2008. Right Read More...

Conflict Resolution in TFS 2010

The conflict resolution in previous versions of VSTS/TFS worked ok, but did not have the best user experience for the developer. When a conflict was detected on check in a modal dialogue was dispatched and the developer could resolve the conflicts from Read More...

Test Driven Development with VS 2010

Test Driven Development proposes you should: write the test, watch it fail, write the code, run the test to see it pass, refactor your code. This is difficult when your code won’t compile because you haven’t created the method or even the class you are Read More...

Reference Highlighting

I’m going to like the new Reference Highlighting in the 2010 code editor. This is like an in place version of the find all references feature. To enable/disable this feature: For C# Go to   Tools > Options >Text Editor > C# > Advanced Read More...

Gated Check-in Build Trigger

VS 2010 has a new feature that allows a developer to validate that their code change will merge and successfully build with the current code base on the server before ever checking it in. It’s called the gated Check-in. How it works Create a build type Read More...

Extending VS 2010

In VS 2010 MS has made adding extensions very very easy using the Extension Manager. First you may want to change one option under Environment > Extension Manager. You want to Load Per User Extensions when running as administrator. Once you do that, Read More...

Code Coverage in VS2010

VThis took me a few minutes to find. Perhaps I can save someone else those few minutes. To turn on Code Coverage locally you need to edit what used to be the <Local>.TestRunConfig , which is now called the <Local>.TestSettings . The section Read More...