5 minutes to cleanup your context menu from overloaded git commands …

How many git tools have you installed? Is your context menu overloaded like on the screenshot to the right? Git for Windows, Git Extensions, tortoisegit and other tools are creating lots of redundant command menu entries. Most of the time you won’t need multiple ways of doing a fetch or a command or even want to do all the stuff from the commandline. Take time to cleanup unnecessary stuff from your developer machine and because there will be the nice side effect of faster opening context menus.

But how, lets continue here …

Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?

Are you new to git our recently started working with git command-line?

Try it out inside your browser: http://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1

Learn how to master branches here: http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/

Visual Studio/TFS 2013 Patches

With the new version of Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation 2013 Microsoft has delivered lots of new features. Unfortunately they have also introduced some new bugs with their last minute changes however they have managed to provide some quick fixes for some of them.

Last update: 14.11.2013

08.11.2013	Updated Team Foundation Server 2013 download addressing web and installation path issues Fixed: Red error box when using Code (version control) in the web UI Fixed: Unable to install into a custom path	Updated install media
08.11.2013	Visual Studio and Team Explorer 2013 no longer require IE 10 for installation But check the KB article for known issues when not using IE10	Updated install media
13.11.2013	Patch for issue with Visual Studio 2013 Queue Build dialog	Hotfix

What’s installed on the build machine in Visual Studio Online(Team Foundation Service)?

Great question, great answers …

official	http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/get-started/hosted-build-controller-vs#software
in detail	http://listofsoftwareontfshostedbuildserver.azurewebsites.net
inside VS2012	Avanade Extensions for VS2012
inside VS2013	Avanade Extensions for VS2013

Keyboard shortcuts for working in Team Web Access and Team Explorer

Shortcuts, next round …

You can use the keyboard shortcuts listed in this topic when you work within Team Web Access (TWA) or Team Explorer. In addition to these shortcuts, you can assign your own shortcuts on the Tools/Options/Environment/Keyboard page.

• Navigate within Team Web Access
• Navigate within lists
• Navigate within Team Explorer
  • Execute work item commands in Team Explorer
  • Navigate within the query editor
  • Navigate within the query results list view
  • Open and close query views

Source: MSDN (Keyboard shortcuts for working in Team Web Access and Team Explorer)

Override the TFS Team Build OutDir property in .NET 4.5

Fighting against TFS Build default OutDir for binaries like:

• <drop>/Binaries (TFS 2010)
• <drop>/bin (TFS 2012, TFS 2013)

Instead you want to have for each project a separate folder like this:

• <drop>/<projectname>/*.dll

Thanks to .Net 4.5 there is an easy solution to solve this

Pass the following MSBuild-Argument to your BuildProcessTemplate:

/p:GenerateProjectSpecificOutputFolder=true

Source: http://blog.stangroome.com/2012/05/10/override-the-tfs-team-build-outdir-property-net-4-5/

Override the TFS Team Build OutDir property in .NET 4.5

Fighting against TFS Build default OutDir for Binaries like

• <drop>/Binaries (TFS 2010)
• <drop>/bin (TFS 2012, TFS 2013)

Instead you want to have for each project a separate folder like this:

• <drop>/<projectname>/*.dll

Thanks to .Net 4.5 there is an easy solution to solve this

Pass the following MSBuild-Argument to your BuildProcessTemplate:

/p:GenerateProjectSpecificOutputFolder=true

Source: http://blog.stangroome.com/2012/05/10/override-the-tfs-team-build-outdir-property-net-4-5/