I should have written this post a while ago, but as you may already know, I was on a business trip and just came back. I am excited to share that three of my posts were reviewed and mentioned by Ra...

This is a very straightforward post where I want to highlight some important notes about exception Re-throwing. Why Re-throw Exceptions? We re-throw exceptions in many cases, for example: For...

It has been some time since my last blog post here because I was on a business trip, and I just got back. I really missed my blog so much.. :-) Recently, my blog post “TF.exe Fast Overview” got fea...

Microsoft System Center 2012 is one of the perfect tools that integrate and work with ALM to provide a very powerful ALM environment in different areas. For example, SCOM (System Center Operation M...

layout: post title: “Installing TFS 2012 Express with SQL Server 2012 Express on Another Machine” date: 2013-03-07 01:41:17 +0100 — Four months ago, Buck Hodges from the VS ALM team announced a...

In this post, I will give a fast overview of the tf.exe command line. I will show how to use different options, like checkin, workspaces, view, diff, status, and workfold. The most important consid...

This is a very simple post. We know that custom assemblies or third-party libraries must exist on the build server or be checked into source control, and configure the build controller to point to ...

In the previous post (Understanding Build Controller and Build Agent), I explained that we can’t install multiple Build Controllers on the same machine. However, there is a workaround or hack that ...

In this post, I will explain the Build Controller and the Build Agent in Team Foundation Server (TFS). Below is a step-by-step video for the post: The Build Service is a Windows Service that can...

In this blog series, I explain a step-by-step tutorial on how to upgrade an existing TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 Update 1 with the migration to new hardware. The series includes videos and images as well....