MyHistory

MyHistory.zip (8,5 MB)
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TFS Integration Platform

The TFS Integration Platform enables developers to build tools that integrate other systems with TFS. Building one way and bidirectional tools for VC and WIT is much simpler with this platform, as most of the TFS interaction and migration/sync actions are provided for you.

ALM Assessment Guidance

Use the ALM Assessment to evaluate where your organization stands in case of ALM Best Practices by using the assessment questions and qualitative discussions.

Visual Studio Architecture Tooling Guide

Visual Studio ALM Rangers practical guidance for Visual Studio architecture tooling, which is focused on modeling tools.

Version Control Guide (ex-Branching & Merging)

Practical guidance for version control strategies on TFS, TFVC, Git and NuGet.

BRDLite Reference Templates

vsarbrdlite.zip (12,3 MB)
Visual Studio ALM Rangers build templates and guidance for build, release and deploy (BRD) build automation.

Team Foundation Build Customization Guide

Visual Studio ALM Rangers practical guidance for the customization and deployment of Team Foundation Build activities such as versioning and code signing.

Visual Studio Coded UI Microsoft Word Add-in

Visual Studio ALM Rangers tooling and guidance for the VS Coded UI Microsoft Word Add-in, which extends the Coded UI feature support to Word documents.

Visual Studio and Cloud Based Mobile Device Testing

Practical guidance enabling field to remove blockers to adoption and to use and extend the Perfecto Mobile Cloud Device testing within the context of VS.

ALM Rangers DevOps Tooling and Guidance

vsarDevOps.zip (13,9 MB)
Practical tooling and guidance that will enable teams to realize a faster deployment based on continuous feedback.

Supporting Guidance and Whitepapers

vsarguidance.zip (301,1 MB)
This Visual Studio ALM Rangers project delivers research whitepapers and practical guidance for Visual Studio and TFS, which have and are being created as part

Practical Kanban Guidance

Visual Studio ALM Rangers practical and scenario based guidance for the use of Kanban in Team Foundation Server.

Visual Studio Lab Management Guide

vsarlabman.zip (15,7 MB)
Visual Studio ALM Rangers practical and scenario-based guidance, backed by custom VM Template automation for reference environments

TFS Planning and Disaster Avoidance and Recovery, and TFS on Azure IaaS Guide

Visual Studio ALM Rangers practical and scenario based guidance for the implementation of TFS and DR Avoidance.

Visual Studio ALM Quick Reference Guide

The VS ALM Guidance is a library of compact how-tos for TFS and VS for ALM experts who have no time and would like a "quick" overview.

Test Automation, Planning, and Management concepts

Scenario based and practical guidance for test automation, planning and management of test plans, test cases and shared steps as part of project lifecycle.

Visual Studio Test Tooling Guides

Visual Studio ALM Rangers practical and scenario based guidance for test tooling, such as Coded UI, MTM and Microsoft Fakes.

Team Foundation Server Process Template Customization Guide

Visual Studio ALM Rangers practical and scenario based guidance for Work Item Tracking (WIT) and Process Template customizations.

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Requirements Engineering Guidance

VS ALM Rangers Requirements Engineering Guidance, showing the best you can do with our current tooling to support RM best practices

TFS Upgrade Guide

How to deal with potential issues after upgrading to Team Foundation Server with special focus on process template, Reports, and Enhanced TFS Management (ETM)