Our project currently is using Scrumwise for our agile project planning and we want to migrate to either JIRA or Visual Studio Online.
Is it possible to migrate backlog items (xml/csv/excel format) into VSO? Does it require a plugin tool or utility?
Using Excel can help you add work items into a team project in VSO.
install Microsoft Excel 2007 or a more recent version.
install visual studio to get the Team Foundation add-in to Excel
in Excel, start with a blank worksheet, find Team ribbon and click New List to connect to your team project hosted in Visual Studio Online, then select Input list
specify the titles of the work items you want to add and their work item type.
publish your worksheet
Detailed information, you can refer to the MSDN documentation https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vs/alm/work/office/bulk-add-modify-work-items-excel
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I am trying to add vc_redist.x86 to InstallShield project but don't see those addition drop-down menus in solution explorer. However,when I create just a single InstallShield project those menus are available. I am using Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise and Install Shield Limited Edition.
If you have other suggestions how I can make program install vc_redist.x86 I will be glad to hear them.
Thank you.
Menus available
Menus not available
When trying to migrate from TFS 2010 to Visual Studio Online we are getting the error "Template Customization or Template Mismatch error". We know there have been a few customizations like adding more choices to dropdowns but don't know which ones or if there are other changes. A few people here suggested applying an uncustomized template to the projects in TFS but it's not clear which templates should be applied.
We have a project that uses the CMMI template but there are three versions of this on the TFS server - 4.0, 4.2 and 5.0. I don't see any way to tell which one was used to create the project. As a matter of fact the only reason I know it's CMMI is it errored when I created a project in Visual Studio Online with the Agile template and tried to migrate to that.
To add to the confusion, VSO only has templates with version 2013.3 so the project I'm migrating to uses the CMMI 2013.3 template. Should I add the older templates to Visual Studio Online and create my project using the same template?
Which template should I apply to the project to make it able to migrate? Should it be one of these or should I use the 2013.3 template?
Lastly, how do I get a copy of the uncustomized templates? Do I need to create a new project and export it?
Thanks,
Bill
You can use the CMMI process template from either TFS 2010, TFS 2012, or TFS 2013 with the OpsHub TFS to Visual Studio Online Migration Utility. It will attempt to move either of those three to Visual Studio Online's version of the CMMI process template.
You can use the TFS Team Project Manager on CodePlex to help you in comparing your team project's process template with a baseline CMMI process template to help you find the differences. You can create a default CMMI team project on a new TFS server and compare against your current team project.
I have been working on a Visual Studio solution template to be used internally and have been developing this in a Visual Studio 2012 Addin.
The addin is added to the tools menu of Visual Studio and all works fine.
The only question now is, how can I share this tool between my team?
I have added a VSIX project, which in turn references the Solution Template project (added as an asset) but will this alone do it?
I can't see how installing the VSIX I created is manually going to add my add-in to the Visual Studio Tools window.
Can anyone offer any advice as to how I can do this or is there some other way to deploy/publish a Visual Studio addin?
I have found a tutorial which is similar, but I just want to use the VSIX to install my add-in to Visual Studio tools menu, rather than add it as a project template. I have looked around and there doesn't seem to be much information on how to deploy your addin.
It seems addins are soon to be deprecated with the next release of Visual Studio, although I have found this article on how to convert an addin to a VSPackage.
And with a VSPackage I will be able to deploy using VSIX.
There are also some tutorials on VSPackages here.
I would like to know how to connect Xamarin Studio with a TFS (Team Foundation Server) for source control purposes or, if it's not possible, how to connect Visual Studio 2010 to Git.
I am already trying to use TFS from http://tfs.visualstudio.com/ and it's working great with VS2010 but I couldn't find a way to connect it to Xamarin Studio.
The goal is to manage all source codes in the same way - the developers are located in different places so the server should be placed in internet - and I think I will decide among TFS or Git. I tried to use the Git Plugin but it doesn't work with VS2010.
Is there anyone who already found a good solution? I know there's a plugin for VS2012 (Using Git with Visual Studio) but I found nothing for 2010 version.
I tried to use this too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efS0kKvfi6k but I think it's not what I am looking for (reliable way to manage source codes from a server)!
I am ready to install and use other source control systems too, if they can manage sources from VS and Xamarin Studio.
First, you have to have a git-enabled team project. Then from Xamarin Studio click on version control menu then choose checkout. Enter your team project url tfs credentials to git clone it.
Xamarin studio integrates with git and subversion out of the box now, and will connect to any tfs projects that have been git enabled. (i don't use subversion so i can't speak to that one)
I need to checkout and manage a project from TFS (Team Foundation Server) and was wondering if there is an easy way to do this.
I usually use SVN, but for this particular project, TFS is a requirement.
The best way I've found so far with a bit of Googling is at http://marceloverdijk.blogspot.com/2009/01/grails-netbeans-and-microsoft-team.html
Short answer, no I don't think there is any easy way to integrate the Netbeans IDE and TFS. However there are some options.
Firstly you could use the SVN bridge this allows subversion clients to connect to TFS. If that is viable then you should be good to go. Here are a couple of blog posts that you may find useful when using TFS if you have a SVN background. SVN to TFS. If SVN Bridge doesn't meet your needs then there are other ways to use TFS but none of them are integrated in to the Netbeans IDE.
If you're developing on Windows then you can install Team Explorer (Use the version that matches the version of TFS you're using e.g. if you're connecting to TFS 2010 then install Team Explorer 2010), this will install a Visual Studio Shell and the Team Explorer plugin. Along side that it will install the "tf" command line utility, you then have a choice of using either a GUI with the VS plugin, or the command line.
You should also install the TFS power tools, they add some usefull functionality such as extra command line tools (using the "tfpt" command) they will also install windows explorer integration, this will allow you to do some basic Source Control functions from the Right Click menu in windows explorer (Check out, check in, diff etc)
You should also look at Team Explorer Everywhere, I don't think it does Netbeans integration but it does do Eclipse. If you're developing on an OS other than Windows then this is your only option.
To use any on these tools you must have a TFS CAL to be licenced properly. If you have an MSDN licence that will probably include a CAL, if not then someone needs to spend some cash and buy one :-).
Since TFS started to support Git repositories, it is possible to:
create TFS project for Git
after project creation use url from Code tab
to configure Git Repository Location in NetBeans IDE
Once you have the tf.exe (from Visual Studio or Team Explorer) there is a plugin that can be configured to do the TFS commands from NetBeans:
Download plugin from: http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=676
Install the plugin in NetBeans: Tools\Plugins\Downloaded\Add Plugins…
Configure the plugin in NetBeans: Tools\Options\Path Tools
At Edit Commands For File enter: "c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\tf" checkout "{path}"
Press Ok
With a file selected in the editor, or the package explorer press the “Edit Path…” toolbar button.
The file is now checked out in TFS.
Make sure to use the proper path to tf.exe.
There are 3 buttons, so you can configure 3 TFS actions (I use checkout, add, delete).
Microsoft actively supports only Eclipse for TFS integration.
At this page there are more info and the possibility to upvote, to report your interest in such a feature directly to Microsoft.
In NB 8.2 you can setup Kenai Team Server.
then you will be able to login into a team server : menu Team->Team Server -> login