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March 12, 2020
Top books every CTO should read
A CTO’s job is never finished. In a rapidly evolving industry, it is challenging to stay on top of the latest information. Between leading teams and hitting deadlines, keeping up with the latest technological trends and leadership methodologies is difficult. While reading blogs and newsletters can help, they provide high-level information without the depth needed … Continued
Crosslake Staff
April 23, 2014
BOOK REVIEW: ReSharper Essentials
We were asked to submit a book review of “ReSharper Essentials” by Łukasz Gąsior. This book provides a useful reference for anyone starting out with ReSharper or creating plug-ins. Our full review is below. More details on the book can be found here. “ReSharper Essentials” provides an excellent introduction to the world of ReSharper, from configuring … Continued
Crosslake Staff
April 10, 2014
BOOK REVIEW: TFS 2013 Customization
We were asked to submit a book review of “Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization” by Gordon Beeming. This book provides a useful reference for anyone getting familiar with customizing TFS. Although not quite everything it could have been, the book acts as an excellent introductory guide to customization. Our full review is below. More details … Continued
Crosslake Staff
September 18, 2013
Source control folder structures
We have spent a lot of time lately talking to clients about how to structure their source control system. There are lots of documented branching strategies (we can talk about those some other time), but not a lot of discussion on how to structure folders, particularly how they relate to branches. A couple of options … Continued
Crosslake Staff
August 27, 2013
Customizing exploratory testing in MTM
When you create a bug or test case during an exploratory testing session with Microsoft Test Manager, only 10 steps are retained by default. Many of our clients complain that this number is too little. There are two ways to override this limitation — one globally (to the workstation), and one per bug. Global customization … Continued
Crosslake Staff
June 7, 2013
How to rebuild a TFS Analysis database
Although not a problem we see often, some of our clients run into issues with a corrupt TFS Analysis DB, particularly after an environmental failure of some kind. This doesn’t lead to any permanent damage or data loss but needs to be addressed. Here is a set of instructions we developed for this. Note that … Continued
Crosslake Staff
March 13, 2013
TFS source migration opinions
We are often asked about source migrations that we have done for other teams. Below is an answer we posted to a thread on LinkedIn. We hope this helps you if you are considering migrating from another version control system to Team Foundation Server. Our team has done numerous source migrations in the past. Our … Continued
Crosslake Staff
July 10, 2012
Importing source code into TFS
Summary In this video, we discuss some of the challenges of migrating source code to TFS and how we approach these conversions. Also, we discuss our approach to branching source code during the migration to TFS. And finally, we will demonstrate a source code import into TFS using a custom application that we wrote. Importing source … Continued
Crosslake Staff