Questions tagged [team-foundation-server]
Team Foundation Server (commonly abbreviated to TFS) is a Microsoft product offering source control, data collection, reporting, and project tracking, and is intended for collaborative software development projects.
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How to debug your collegues NuGet package
Disclaimer: This is a rather broad topic and there is probably no clear right/wrong. Still I would like to exchange experiences with experts of huge projects to learn and improve work between teams.
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TFS/Azure DevOps - how to use security to enforce triaging of new PBIs & bugs
I am looking for a way to configure TFS to enforce triaging of PBIs and bugs. At present, although "proper" practises have been discussed and agreed many times, they are not followed ...
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TFS Branching for Xamarin Common Projects
I have a solution for Xamamrin.iOS and Xamarin.Android application with structure as below,
Solution Root
Common Project
Xamarin.iOS Project
Xamarin.Android Project
I need to branch both iOS and ...
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How to prevent overwriting changes in TFS version control by another team member
Background:
I'm asking this question as a UI test engineer.
We have a small software team using TFVC on a TFS repository.
We use the mantis bug tracking system to follow up on issues.
Here's the ...
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Standard approach for tracking half-done features in Azure DevOps
We practice Scrum (SAFe) and use Azure DevOps to track features and PBIs. The team is unsure of how to handle features which have been started but not finished at the end of a program increment.
Half ...
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How do you manage development-only files in your source control? [duplicate]
When merging development code into the production code, what is the preferred method for handling items that should not be in the production code branch? For example, I have configuration scripts that ...
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Migration Of Demo Version Projects to Live Version in .Net MVC Applications
I have an application which is currently used by clients. So based on the feedback from the client, normally we are fixing bugs in a live application.Parallel I am adding new modules to demo projects....
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TFS branching strategy for a patch (bug fix)
I have the following branches in TFS
Dev
2.3.0-Printing
Main
Rel
2.3.0
Dev\2.3.0-Printing was branched off of Main and after completing and testing was merged back up into Main, which was then ...
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TDD how to avoid test duplication across team
Our team has decided to develop using BDD/TDD in an effort to become the Agile team we're supposed to be. Vertical slicing appears to be an important part of agile working and gaining the quick ...
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What are branching strategy pros and cons for 2 main types
So at a high level, we have multiple projects/solutions in company and we need to keep them in 1 source control.
Since the number of projects is around 50, we are not creating individual repositories ...
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Source control Sql Server multiple shards with minimal differences
One of the database systems I work with (I'll call it database A) was essentially sharded into 3 schema-identical copies. This was easy to source control, and when a change was made to any of the ...
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What are the risks of having a release branch?
Currently we manage our source code in a Microsoft Team Foundation Server project. We have the following branches:
Development
Feature 1
Feature 2
Etc.
Test
The process is that development is either ...
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How to version control common libraries? [duplicate]
For example, I have multiple projects which shares some common libraries:
ProjectA
CommonLib1
CommonLib2
ProjectB
CommonLib1
CommonLib2
At the moment, they are all in one big repository:
ProjectA
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How to run machine-specific tests during DevOps remote build
What are the generally accepted means of running tests that pass on the dev machine on the build server where they'll consistently fail due to missing dependencies? (In this case, a configuration file ...
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VSTS Scrum - What is the difference between Work Items vs Backlogs
Have a project setup in VSTS with the scrum template and one of my team has added several work items. We have several different teams setup and Ive added separate sets of iterations, 1 set per team. ...
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