A better way of using TFS Community Build Extensions StyleCop activity so it can use multiple rulesets

Background The TFS Community Build Extensions provide many activities to enhance your build. One we use a lot is the one for StyleCop to enforce code consistency in projects as part of our check in & build process. In most projects you will not want a single set of StyleCop rules to be applied across the whole solution. Most teams will require a higher level of ‘rule adherence’ for production code as opposed to unit test code....

March 25, 2014 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Migrating to SCVMM 2012 R2 in a TFS Lab Scenario

Rik has just done a post on upgrading our SCVMM 2012 instance we use with Lab Management to 2012 R2, a good few gotchas in there as you might expect. Well worth a read

March 20, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Migrating a TFS TFVC based team project to a Git team project retaining as much source and work item history as possible

I have just had a guest blog post published on the Microsoft UK Developers site ‘Migrating a TFS TFVC based team project to a Git team project retaining as much source and work item history as possible’. It discusses alternatives to using TFS Integration Platform to migrate source code and associated work items.

March 14, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Guest post on Microsoft ALM Blog on Lab Management

A clarification blog post I wrote on what to do if you have multiple SCVMM servers in your network and want to use TFS Lab Management has just been published on the Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management blog. For more information on best practices with TFS Lab Management have a look at the ALM Rangers guide

February 25, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DDD South west

There is a call for speakers for DDD South West on the 17th of May in Bristol. I have submitted as proposal, are you going to? For more details see http://www.dddsouthwest.com/ 

February 25, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell