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My First VSO Extension: Retry Build

Visual Studio Online (VSO) and TFS 2015 keep getting better and better. One of the coolest features to surface recently is the ability to add (supported) extensions to VSO. My good friend Tiago Pascoal managed to hack VSO to add extensions a while ago,

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Bulk Migrate Work Item Comments, Links and Attachments

I was working at a customer that had set up a test TFS environment. When we set up their “real” TFS, they did a get-latest of their code and imported their code – easy enough. They did have about 100 active work items that they

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Branch Info Team Explorer Extension (BITE) Now Available for VS 2013

Update 2013-09-12: I’ve updated the extension to work with VS 2013 RC (since there were some breaking changes from Preview). I wrote a Team Explorer Extension (BITE) a few months ago to show you which branch your solution is on and how to

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Using the Fakes Framework to Test TFS API Code (Part 2 of 2)

In Part 1, we started faking some TFS objects. We got as far as faking the TeamProjectCollection and WorkItemStore. In this post, we’ll complete the test for copying work items by providing a fake QueryHierarchy and a fake list of WorkItems. Binding IEnumerablesSince

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Using the Fakes Framework to Test TFS API Code (Part 1 of 2)

(Here’s the link to Part 2) If you’ve ever written a utility to do TFS “stuff” using the TFS API, you probably tested by hitting F5 and stepping through a bit before letting any large loops do their thing. So what happened

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Using the TFS API to display results of a Hierarchical Work Item Query

RunQuery won’t work for Hierarchical QueriesUsing the TFS API to display results of a flat query is fairly straightforward – once you have the WIQL you just execute the RunQuery() method and voila – a nice WorkItemCollection for you to enumerate over. However, if you