LoggedOut Event is not firing in the Login Control

Hi Folks,
Happy New Year 2011, This is my first post in this year. Hope everyone will have happy and promising year.
In this post i'm showing an issue i faced when i was working with the login control in ASP.NET.
Problem:
If you tried to write code to clean up some resources when you log out from your asp.net application and you had an issue that the LoggedOut event handler is not firing.
Resolution:
Check the properties of your login control and if the Logout Action property is not set to Refresh, You need to update this property and set it to Refresh then your loggedout event will be handled.
I had the logout action property to redirect and that's why the loggedout event handler wasn't called in my code.

Hope this helps.
Regards,
Mostafa Arafatwitter.com/mostafaelzoghbi

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in Visual Studio 2008

Hi All,

A wonderful series of webcasts for managing application lifecycle in VS 2008, this series contains 4 webcasts each cover one role in SDLC activities.

If you are familiar with VS team system 2005, this series covers a little bit new features which shipped with VS 2008.

If you are not familiar with VS2005 or VS 2008 Team suite capabilities, then these webcasts are really a MUST good start to you.

The best is to watch all of them, but if you are playing a specific role in the application lifecycle, you can jump to the specific role which you play in your company as I will describe below.

Web cast 1: covers Business analyst and project manager roles
Including: Tasks, Different Reports, Code churn Report, bugs report, Qos(Quality of Service) document and Requirements, Persona, MSF and CMMI methodologies.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=127&webcastid=5404

Webcast 2: covers Architect role
Including: Application designer, system designer, logical data center designer & Top-Down Design
http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=127&webcastid=5405

Webcast 3: covers Developer role
Including: code analysis, code analysis configuration and code matrix.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=127&webcastid=5406

Webcast 4: covers Tester role
Including: Load, Unit, Manual, Web, Generic and Orders tests in VS 2008http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=127&webcastid=5407


Happy New Year for all and Happy New Hijri Year for all muslims.

See you all next year since this is the last post for this year 2008 :)




Regards,
Mostafa arafa

November Rosario CTP now available

7 days after Visual Studio 2008 RTM’d, we have a preview of the next version of VSTS available. Get it while it’s hot.


http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2007/11/28/november-rosario-ctp-now-available.aspx

I'm happy to announce that the next Community Technology Preview of Rosario (officially known as Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario” November 2007 CTP) is now available. Customers can immediately begin downloading the VPC images from our download page.

For this release we worked on a number of key scenarios that we'd like you to try out. To help facilitate your evaluation, we've included samples and walkthroughs within the VPC to demonstrate these new features. Here's a list of walkthroughs broken out by product:

Architecture Edition
• Visualizing Interaction Sequences between Service-Oriented applications
• Using the Distributed System Designers and the Web Service Software Factory to build WCF applications
• Designing and Visualizing Interactions between classes
Development Edition
• Simplify Code Analysis rule selection with Rule Sets
• Find and fix a bug using the historical debugger
• Identify the test impact of code changes
• Find a bug on a separate machine using the standalone debugger
Test Edition
• Planning a testing effort
• Executing manual test cases
Team Foundation Server
• Managing user stories with the Agile Process
• Managing features with the CMMI Process


Read more on Jeff Blog :

http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2007/11/28/november-rosario-ctp-now-available.aspx


Regards,
Moustafa arafa

Release of VS 2008 & .Net 3.5 by the end of november

Hi All,

For those who didn't go to TechEd 07 this year which is running nowadays,MS Announced the release date for VS 2008 and .Net 3.5 by the end of november this year.

It is amazing specially the release of .Net 3.5 which has alot of enhancement and new features which doesn't exist on .Net 3.0.

Read more on MS Press :

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/nov07/11-05TechEdDevelopersPR.mspx


Regards,
Moustafa arafa

VSTS Mind Map

Hi Folks,

You can check VSTS Mind Map which contains alot of resources,Guide,Blogs...etc and all related to VSTS.

Check it :

http://www.cshost.members.winisp.net/blog/vstsresources.html

Regards,
Moustafa arafa

Why Choose Team System ?

Hi All,

Alot of customer in the market still need to know the value of using Team System in your environment;Implementing TeamSystem in your organization is not just a developer tools,it manage the SDLC andincrease the productivity of your teams.

please read more on this,by reading the use cases of Team System on 1 central Place :

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb676820.aspx

Note : First CTP of Rosario (August CTP)- Next version of Team System is available here :

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8450EFF5-24AD-44C3-AB91-1ED88EF2F4F0&displaylang=en


Regards,
Moustafa arafa

Get Started with Team FoundationServer

HI,

if you are beginer or welling to learn all Ins/Out of TFS,simply download this guide from TFS Product team andread it.

This guide is enough without going to buy another resource as a start.

http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide


Regards,
Moustafa arafa

Great News : TS Web Access is available

Hi Folks,

MS has released Team System Web Access,now its available to download :

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2105C9EE-565E-47B9-A5AC-9A8FF8A07862&displaylang=en

Great Tool.............I will not use Team Explorer / Team Plain Any More :)



Regards,
Moustafa arafa

Get Latest Version while Check Out on VS 2005

Hi Folks,

This post is to highlight one of the important thing you have to take care when you upgrade your Source Control System from VSS to TFS,one of the major changes between both products is Checkout action is different than its behavior on VSS.

On VSS,Check out action get Silent Get latest action on the same action.

On TFS,Check out doesnt get latest of your files.

This feature is not available on V1 of TFS & VS 2005 and this will be availble on Orcas.

As a Temporarily solution,you can download an add-In to do that for you,Get Latest while checkout your files in TFS........

AddIn Download Link :

http://www.codeplex.com/TfsAddInCheckOut


Hope this helps.














Regards,
Moustafa arafa

Project Server 2007 VSTS Connector

Hi Folks,

New Connector is available for TFS with Project Server 2007..... Try It now.

http://www.codeplex.com/pstfsconnector


Regards,
Moustafa arafa

WSS sites Customization in TFS

Hi All,
If you want to customize the created portal over WSS installation,read this post on MSDN forums,its very useful to give your sites the same Look & Feel on your process documents template site.

read this post on MSDN Forums :
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1726035&SiteID=1&mode=1

Hope This Helps.

Regards,
Moustafa arafa

TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit

The purpose of the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit is to enable customers of Team Foundation Server to build custom tools that enable migration and synchronization from competitor version control (VC) and work-item tracking (WIT) systems. By enabling this migration and synchronization we will be enabling the adoption of TFS to a broader audience.

Download it now :

http://www.codeplex.com/MigrationSyncToolkit/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3540

Regards,
Moustafa arafa

Scrum for Team System

Hi All,

I found newly that you can download Scrum Process Guidance for Team System,and use it plus the existing process guidance MSF & CMMI in TS.

Read more on Scrum Process Guidance,below link:
http://scrumforteamsystem.com/ProcessGuidance/ProcessGuidance.html


Regards,
Moustafa arafa

TF42042: Failed to connect to the drop location

Hi Folks,

This post to show a Trick when you try to Start build in the TFS and you get this error when you try to start your build in TFS.

Make sure of the following :

1) the network path is created and shared.

2) not network connectivity problem.

And this trick is : this folder should be shared and give full previliges not to you even you are an administrator on the drop location,you have to give full access to the tfsSerivce account to that shared folder.

Regards,
Moustafa arafa

MS Process Editor Bug !!

Hi All,

This post i will show a bug in MS Process Editor, When you try to customize the Process (Workitems Types,Iteration,.....etc) when you try to create a new project with it,you will get an error,this error will be customized based on the customized portion in yur process:
1) Iteration Error or
2)Tasks Error or
3)Work Type Error.

if you want to produce this error ,Do the following:


1) Open Your process.


2) Delete and modify the existing iterations.


3) Upload your Modified Process.


4) Try to create a project using this Process Template,and you will get this error :


Click on the Log File,The first exception is :


---begin Exception entry---Time: 2007-05-30 11:50:22ZModule: Work Item TrackingEvent Description: TF26214: Cannot save the work item. Fields with errors: Iteration Path,IterationIDException Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client.ValidationExceptionException Message: TF26202: Validation failed. Field 'Iteration Path' not supported.Stack Trace: at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client.WorkItem.PreValidate() at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client.WorkItem.PreBatchSave() at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client.BatchSaveHelper.BatchSave(WorkItem[] items)--- end Exception entry ---





The Fix for this problem, The Editor doesn't change the other files which use the old values and when the TFS try to create the project it searchs for the old values which is not exist on the updated xml file.

This error usually happens on the "workitems.xml" which conatains a default tasks for each project,if you see the below work item :



Iteration 0"/>







Iteration value is wrong which makes this problem happen when you create new project in the TFS.


You might face the problem with Other customized items on the TFS.


Hope this helps.


Regards,
Moustafa arafa

TS Team Development Guide

Hi Folks,

MS Best practises Team has released new Guide for Team Development on TFS.....

Very Useful BDF File,Download it from CodePlex Now :

http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide



Regards,
Moustafa arafa

SnagIt- New Tool for TFS - Capturing Bugs on the Screen

Hi Folks,
New Tool has been released for TFS Called "SnagIt";SnagIt’s output for Team System lets you add screen captures to new or existing bugs with a single click. Stop trying to describe problems with tons of text – just show them. Plus, eliminate the hassle of attaching images!

COOOooool Tool download it now :
http://www.techsmith.com/snagit/accessories/teamsystem.asp



Regards,
Moustafa arafa

WI Creator 1.3

Hi Folks,
New tool has been released this month on 20 May ,This Tool allow you to create a new workitems on hierarchial way.

Download it ,

http://www.codeplex.com/wicreator/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4378




Regards,
Moustafa arafa

change email address for TFS email alerts

Hi Folks,
TO change the email address for email alerts in TFS,do the following:
1) Go to IIS Manager on TFS Server.
2) Expand TFS website,Right Click on Services virtual directory.
3) on ASP.NEt Configuration you will find email notification key "emailnotificationfromaddress".

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Moustafa arafa

Max Attachement Size in TFS

Hi Folks,

In TFS the maximum attachement file size is 4,096 kilobytes by default,if you want to increase the file size, open your browser and put this URL :

:8080/WorkItemTracking/v1.0/ConfigurationSettingsService.asmx?op=SetMaxAttachmentSize">http://<>:8080/WorkItemTracking/v1.0/ConfigurationSettingsService.asmx?op=SetMaxAttachmentSize

you will find a webservie you can put the max. file size and click on invoke.......

Cool Tip in TFS :)

Regards,
Moustafa arafa