Score exam Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server exam

I already knew that i didn’t passed for my 071-510 exam, but today i received my score 625 points. This is a result i can live with for a few months (max 4). I will take this exam as soon as possible. First i have to do my first upgrade exam 70-553. When i finished this i will focus on the TFS exam. The subjects of the exam are:

• Installing and Configuring Microsoft Team Foundation Server
• Administering Team Foundation Server instances and Team projects
• Administering Team Foundation Server version control
• Administering work item types and process templates
• Administering a team build
• Managing team project reporting and documentation

Webcasts VSTS

Adam Gallant is giving multiple webcasts which will introduce you to multiple subjects in VSTS:

• Visual Studio Team System and MSDN licensing demystified
• Integrated Team Development with Visual Studio Team System
• Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
• Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals
• Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers

These webcasts will be giving up to and including June so there are a lot of subjects but still enough time to take a look at all of them. Check it out

TFS Fissum part 2

Hi there, well i told you in my previous posting that you are able to add new work items to TFS but i didn’t showed you some examples. my mistake! so here are some screenshot of workitems that we can add to our TFS enviroment at Avanade. This template based on a template that we developed based on ACM (Avanade Connected Methods).

Adding a new issue

Adding a defect

Adding a new scenario

The panel that are used to add new workitems are very familiair to the panels we see in VSTS. Hopefully this will give you a good impression about Fissum, when there a new cool features released on this tool i will post about it. Like i already said soon i will post about the funtionalities that Teamplain offer, to give you a good impression which tool you can use to manage your project. Thanks!

TFS Fissum

Today i downloaded Fissum version 0.4. This is a tray icon tool for TFS to manage some of your work. This tool is created by Michel Perfetti and can be downloaded on codeplex.

Figure1

How to configure this tool? First you need to connect Fissum to one of your team projects in TFS.

Figure2

Click on configure projects then the following panel will be opend. Fill in the url of the TFS server and choose a project that is available on the server. In the panel below you will see the already configured projects. When you click the add button your selection in the top menu will become available in the panel below.

Figure3

When you click on a the servername on the left in the panel then you can configure your project settings.  See the figure below.

Figure4

When you have a project configured then you can manage it. Press the right button on the icon in the tray. the menu in figure 2 will become available. This menu contains all the out of the box queries (which you configured in the panel above). You can add new workitems. These workitems are based on the template of your teamproject. In the template you are able to configure which workitems should be available in your project. This isn’t a subject for fissum, this is part of customizing VSTS.

Two other option that are available in the 0.4 version are The iteration manager and the area manager. These options are available below in the menu of your project. below you see how the iterantion and area manager look like.

Iteration manager

Figure5

The Area manager

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I think this tool is very welcome for project managers who don’t want to install huge application to have full control of there project. You only have to install framework2.0 and Fissum and you have the control. I am not sure if this tool will be a strong component when we take a look at Teamplain, but this is a light way to manage your project. Teamplain has the possibility to show the reports that are available in TFS which a missing part in Fissum. Later this month i will try to give a summary of the possibilities of Teamplain.

Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Exam 70-510 failed

Hi,

Well in Febuary i did the Beta exam for Team Foundation Server. I already had the feeling that it would be a miracle when i would pass this exam. Unfortunately my feeling was correct!! i will have to take the exam again later this year. My colleagues Dennis Mulder and Pieter de Bruin did pass the exam and i think this is a very good achievement for such a difficult exam. Hopefully i will fix this later this year.