How to Programming with Visual-studio-online

visual-studio-2013,visual-studio-online

Thanks for the responses. We actually found a solution that works well for us. We branch our framework project into the implementation projects when we want access to the code base. If not we just use the DLLs If it is then altered and checked into the implementation project it...

Protecting a git branch in Visual Studio Online

git,visual-studio-online

You can protect MASTER in VSO pretty easily as TFS provides Enterprise Git. In the administration pages under the Version Control tab you can change permission for each published branch. You need to maintain access at the repo level, however on MASTER you can change "Contributor" commit permission to "not...

I have an existing solution in Visual Studio 2013. How do I import it to my VS Online workspace?

Make sure your source control plugin is set to Visual Studio Team Foundation server (Tools > Options > Source Control > Plug-in selection) Connect Visual Studio with your Visual Studio Online account in the Team Explorer. (Open Team Explorer: View > Team Explorer). You will need the your VSO...

Visualstudio.com: Identity not verified

security,ssl,encryption,cryptography,visual-studio-online

Because the SSL certificate used by Microsoft doesn't have the Audit records that verify that the certificate was really handed out to the organisation claiming to be VisualStudio.com or Microsoft. I don't know why Microsoft chose such a certificate, but it's not uncommon. I suspect it is because while the...

Remove intermediate commit in Visual Studio Online

git,visual-studio-online,git-rewrite-history,tfvc

CAUTION History rewriting can get your source control system in a pretty messed up state. Make sure you have a good backup of your sources in case anything goes wrong. Git Depending on your Team Project setup, the Readme.md is stored in a Git repository you can absolutely rewrite history...

Build Definition: Copying the build output to the server?

azure,tfs,tfs2012,visual-studio-online

The Copy build output to the server will put the output of the build as a zip file attached the build that can be downloaded later. In a situation where you don't care about the build output because you have it setup to continuously deploy to Azure (or some other...

Azure hosted On-prem build controller + VSO: Error TF400106: Failed to register the build service (Exception Message: Could not find service)

azure,tfs,visual-studio-online,tfs2013,build-controller

We have rolled out the fix for this issue. Sorry for the disruption!

Visual Studio Azure build definition: what exactly is a 'Webspace'?

azure,visual-studio-online

A webspace is just a logical container of sites inside a scale unit (selected automatically based on available capacity) in a geographical region. The API version used in VSO limits only one webspace per region (enforced through naming convention: Region + "webspace"). However you can use the following API to...

Reestablishing branch relationships in TFS

visual-studio-2013,tfs,visual-studio-online

You need to reparent the branch. You can do this under the "Branching and Merging" menu on the context-sensitive menu when you right click on a folder in the Source Control Explorer.

Visual Studio Online Local Backup?

Take a look over at the discussion on this StackOverflow question: Is There A Way To Backup Visual Studio Online Projects? Here is Richard's answer: There's no out of the box backup ability. Now, if you are only referring to source control, and not work items, pull requests, builds, test...

Projects number limitation in free Visual Studio Online?

azure,tfs,visual-studio-online,continuous-deployment,azure-cloud-services

Every Visual Studio Online account is allowed an unlimited number of team projects, private repos, work items, test plans, etc. The only charges are if you have more than 5 users, if you need Advanced features for a user, or if you use any of the shared services like the...

Azure Continuous Deployment - Setup Publishing with VSO

Turns out the Azure Portal/VSO error message needs updated to reflect new Azure Continuous Deployment updates for TFS 2013 (Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client). Proper Error Message Unable to find TfvcContinuousDeploymentTemplate.12.xaml in [TeamProject] see [Link] The fix is to upload the TFS 2013 Azure CD template and create a build definition to register the...

How to set up a symbol server for Visual Studio Online

visual-studio,visual-studio-2013,visual-studio-online

Visual Studio Online doesn't currently have Symbol Server support built-in to host the symbol server itself. You may be interested in this User Voice item so feel free to add votes to it. Essentially, if you have your own build servers connected to Visual Studio Online, you'll want to give...

How to increase Work In Progress (WIP) limit

tfs,visual-studio-online,tfs2013,scrum

On the board, click on Customize columns. The limit is just below the title. ...

OpsHub TFS To Visual Studio Online Migration Utility - TFS_Temp folder

tfs,visual-studio-online,opshub

The TFS_Temp is the folder which the utility maps to an additional drive for the system (usually O:\ by default, and additional ones if the path is too long for some files). This is where the utility creates a workspace of your VSO. And the migration utility utilizes this space...

Visual Studio Online, sharing work items, using both Git & TFVC

git,visual-studio-2013,visual-studio-online

Currently you can't have both Git and TFVC repo's in the same Team Project. And there's not good support for managing (or replicating) work items across team projects. The best solution today would be to move your .Net code into a Git repo in the same Team Project as your...

Move local VS project GIT to Team visual studio on-line project GIT

You have to create the project in Visual Studio on-line in order to push your code there. Do that first. IT NEEDS TO HAVE THE SAME NAME After the project is created you will have this screen. The important parts are in red. Note from VS local you can open...

Getting git items for a particular branch/tag via TFS rest api

tfs,visual-studio-online,tfs2015

Yes you can. As or the link that you have above you can use the provided so to retrieve both branches and yes. In git they are really all the same thing, pointers. This use the "refs" api. https://www.visualstudio.com/integrate/api/git/refs...

Visual Studio and Release Manager

visual-studio-online,release-management,ms-release-management

Okay, there are a few pieces of the puzzle here: The Release Management client has to be on Update 4 (or later, when RM 2015 comes out later this year). If you're using Visual Studio Online, on-prem Release Management cannot talk to it. It's a weird limitation, but there it...

C# 6.0 TFS Builds

tfs,visual-studio-online,roslyn,visual-studio-2015,c#-6.0

For the compilation step, you have a couple of options: You can reference the Microsoft.Net.Compilers NuGet package on a per-project basis to use that version of the compilers. You can install the Microsoft Build Tools package that is part of the VS 2015 CTP package without installing all of VS....

Does VS Online support building ASP.NET 5?

visual-studio-online,asp.net-5

We haven't added it to the build machines yet. We are planning to do so in about a month.

Visual Studio Online when someone leaves the company

visual-studio,azure,tfs,visual-studio-online

To add or remove someone from the account, go to the Users hub on the home page for your account. If you remove a user from it, that user will no longer be able to access your account. When users connect to your account, they'll need to take some action...

Visual studio Online : how to Strcuture

The answer is Nuget. You should package you dal output as a nuget package and push it to a nuget server.a nuget server can be a network share our an application like ProGet. Preferably you have an automated build do there package and push. That makes it easy. Then each...

Is there a way to easily share Workspace settings (folder mappings) for Visual Studio Online / Team Foundation Server?

I'll answer my own question: yes, there is an easy way. Install "Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools": https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/f017b10c-02b4-4d6d-9845-58a06545627f After installing you will have a new option in Team Explorer: Team Members. Click it. Click "Team Utilities". Click "Add Template". Select the Workspace you want to create...

Get Latest Version using command-line from VSO?

You're right, you need to enable alternate credentials. You were looking in the wrong place to set it up, though. It looks like you were trying to use a service hook. Just follows steps 1 and 2 in the VSO OAuth documentation: Click on your user name, go to your...

Change Visual Studio Online team project source control from TFVC to Git

tfs,visual-studio-online,opshub

Currently No, but they are working on it, no release dates yet. See https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/3612921-support-converting-tfs-online-project-from-tfsvc-t

OpsHub: ERROR Object reference not set to an instance of an object

The Migration Utility expects "Project Collection Service Accounts" to be present in the VSO account Groups which is created by default when you create your VSO account, but due to some unknown issue some accounts created between the specific date this group was created as "Team Foundation Service Accounts" as...

How to Reassign Work Items in Visual Studio Online?

tfs,visual-studio-2013,visual-studio-online

The new identity control was deployed with the Sprint 74 release. You can simply start typing their name or part of their name & click Search. Over time, you'll have a Most Recently Used (MRU) list built-up with the people you commonly assign work items to. The new identity control...

TFS Online build server post build scripts not available

tfs,tfsbuild,visual-studio-online

Build process parameters are surfaced by the build process template. Build process templates in existing projects don't get upgraded because of the potential to break customizations, that's why you're not seeing the new parameters. To get the new build process template, you could create a new team project, create a...

Two-step verification for microsoft company account?

azure,office365,visual-studio-online,windows-live

What you need is Multi-Factor Authentication for Azure Active Directory. It is part of AAD Premium features. You can read how to enable and configure it here. And more info on it here. UPDATE As per documentation: Multi-Factor Authentication is now included with Premium and can help you to secure...

Where i can find user login and password on visual studio online page?

git,visual-studio-online

go to your project https://projectname.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection/Projectname/. Click on your name in right upper corner and select edit profile. A pop up will appear . In the pop up you can see GENERAL, LOCAL, ECREDENTIALS, CONNECTIONS 4 tabs . click under credentials . And select Enable alternate credentials and save . Hope...

Visual Studio Online Continuous Integration Build fails unexpectedly

azure,visual-studio-2013,continuous-integration,visual-studio-online

I have recreated the publish profile to fix the error: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-continuous-delivery-use-vso/ You could as well switch to TfvcContinuousDeploymentTemplate.12.xaml template manually, looks like the AzureContinuousDeployment.11.xaml template isn't compatible with latest updates....

I can't do forecasting on Team Foundation Server

c#,tfs,tfs2012,visual-studio-online,alm

The forecasting module will only forecast selected sprints: ...

Migrate from German TFS to VSO

visual-studio-online,tfs2013,opshub

I'm not certain, but I believe you would still have to rename your Work Item types even if you changed your server to English. Do you need the history in VSO? Would it suffice to export TFS Work Items to Excel, map the fields and import to VSO? Obviously version...

Branching Refresh in Visual Studio in TFS Online using Git

git,visual-studio-2013,visual-studio-online,tfs2013

Make sure your fellow developper fetches commits from the team first. Then he/she can create a local branch tracking that new remote branch. See "Visual Studio 2013 git, only Master branch listed" ...

Team Foundation Server script error in vs2012

visual-studio-2012,tfs,visual-studio-online

Visual Studio Online requires IE9 or later. You appear to be using an unsupported browser.

TFS / Visual Studio Online build definition backup

tfs,visual-studio-online

Thanks to jessehouwing, and some further web searches, the following works: tfpt builddefinition /dump "<projName>\<buildDefName>" /collection:https://<myOrg>.visualstudio.com/defaultcollection /filepath:<pathToBackup> If you get this error: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyTo ken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. You need to copy Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow.dll...

How do VSOnline Automated Test Runs/Builds Differ From Local?

unit-testing,msbuild,visual-studio-online

When VSOnline performs a build, the source files are located at c:\a\src\Branch Name\, but when it builds, it builds to the c:\a\bin folder. I'm guessing this is done to help minimize any long path name errors. The build is performed on the same server but the output is different than...

Azure WebJobs Deployment with Continuous Integration on Visual Studio Online

continuous-integration,visual-studio-online,azure-webjobs

The WTE team is aware of the TFS publishing issues. I've been personally working on developing a workaround with which I'm comfortable but haven't finalized it yet. My team is working on an improvement to the WebJobs publishing experience from VSO. This item is absolutely on our agenda to repair,...

The item $//Drops may not be cloaked because it does not have a mapped parent. (type WorkingFolderException)

continuous-integration,tfsbuild,visual-studio-online

You are getting the error as you don't have $/[collection]\drops mapped and thus can't cloak it. It is also worth point out that you need to have a $[collection][teamProject] in the path as "drops" is not valid at that level unless you have a team project called drops. In addition...

TF30063: You are not authorized to access - Visual Studio Online

visual-studio-2013,tfs,build-process,visual-studio-online

The problem seems to be resolved after establishing the connection via Test Explorer. After establishing the connection in Team Explorer 2013. I was able to choose the VSO collection in the build/test service configuration without experiancing the issue. In conclusion before you configure the build/test tools install Test Explorer and...

Could not copy. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

tfs,msbuild,tfs2012,visual-studio-online,tfs2013

I found the problem. Completely unrelated to the error above. I went into the msbuild log files and found this: Failed to produce diagnostics extension's config for MyRole\diagnostics.wadcfgx. Error : Could not find a part of the path 'd:\a\src...\MyRole\diagnostics.wadcfgx'. Done Building Project "d:\a\src...\MyCloudProject.Cloud.ccproj" (Publish target(s)) -- FAILED. I was missing...

Visual Studio Online TFS refuses to “source control” filenames starting with $

visual-studio-2012,tfs,visual-studio-online,visual-sourcesafe

The message in the exception is correct. Per Naming Syntax, Conventions, and Limitations: Most names in Team Foundation version control cannot begin or end with spaces or tabs. Any character can be used for names or labels, except ... A dollar sign ($) cannot be the first character in a...

Azure Continuous Deployment - Azure SDK Version Requirement

azure,tfs2012,visual-studio-online,continuous-deployment,azure-cloud-services

The build template activity DeployAzureCloudApp from Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Deployment.Worflow.dll references Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.dll 1.7.0.0. To work around this - we must copy the assembly to the TFS Build Controller folder on the server (where the TFSBuildServiceHost.exe resides). Another option would be to GAC the assembly. Source: Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.dll Azure SDK Path: c:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Azure.NET SDK\v2.5\bin...

VSO - 2 factor authentication

tfs,open-source,visual-studio-online,codeplex

Each user needs to configure two factor themselves. Send them to http://account.live.com.

using both TFS online and Codeplex for repository

There is not currently a way to share Any VSO content publically. However, if you use Git as your VCS in VSO you can easily add two Origins and push to both with "git push -all". If your codeplex repo is also git you can easily share....

Git Commit policy in TFS

git,tfs,visual-studio-online,git-commit

This is not currently supported out of the box. It is however on the product teams backlog and you should vote for it on http://visualstudio.uservoice.com...

Iterations with multiple releases in TFS

tfs,visual-studio-online,release-management

I've worked around this limitation by iteration splitting the branches into different child nodes of the iteration. After all, there isn't really the concept of "type" in the tree, so the nodes can be anything you want. Backlog Version 2.0 Backlog Iteration 1 Maintenance Release 1 Version 2.0 Roll-up Iteration...

amend all comments of all commits of a repository

visual-studio-online,libgit2sharp

I think you might rather be after some git filter-branch like feature. LibGit2Sharp exposes this through the HistoryRewriter type. You can peek at the FilterBranchFixture test suite for inspiration....

InstallShield broke TFS Build

visual-studio-2013,tfs,tfsbuild,visual-studio-online

InstallShield is not installed on the Hosted Build Services, so you'll have to disable the project for VSO. You don't have to remove it, it's enough to create a new build configuration and untick the "build" option. If you want to build your project including the installer, you'll need to...

What are Epics in regard of Features and Backlog Items in Team Foundation

tfs,agile,visual-studio-online,scrum

The general consensus is that: Product backlog Item is something that can be delivered in a single sprint. Feature is something that can't be delivered in a single sprint, but that can be delivered in a single release. Epic is something that transcends releases. In general the idea of theme...

Error during deployment to azure from visual studio online

azure,tfs,visual-studio-online

I was able to fix it by changing the Build Agent Folder to something that involves $(SourceDir).

How do I change the local path for VSO?

You need to change the mapping for your workspace. I would shelve all of my changes, then move the workspace by remapping and then do a full get....

How to create Multiple Project Collection in Visual Studio Online?

tfs,tfsbuild,visual-studio-online,tfs2013,team-build

The supported way to create multiple collections in VSO is to use multiple accounts. You can use your same MSDN subscription across all accounts and you can use the same AAD for single sign-on.

How can I change the “connect to team server as” user in TFS 2013 server?

If you are configuring a local build controller or agent to talk to VSO then this is the correct account. Every VSO account has a "service account" that can be used for unattended access. When you connect the build service it uses your MSA/AAD credentials to retrieve this account and...

What is the difference between Application Insights on VS Online or Azure?

azure,visual-studio-online,ms-application-insights,az-application-insights

I asked it on MSDN Forum and got the complete answer. Here it is. Application Insights for VSO is an older version of Application Insights. At this point all new Application Insights account are created in Azure portal and going forward Application Insights for VSO will not be supported. From...

Get GIT repo ID by commit ID with Visual Studio Online

git,jenkins,visual-studio-online

In Git a commit hash is unique (it's cryptographically calculated) to the history graph. When you push a commit from one repository to another, the hash stays the same. You can push the same commit (with the same unique hash) to multiple remote repositories. This will result in the same...

Jenkins does not find my git repository in Visual Studio Online

Well, I finally made Jenkins perform the clone of a Visual Studio Online git repository. The official Microsoft documentation is wrong. Jenkins and the Git plugin do not work as they explain there. In order to the clone operation to work, I had to put on the repository URL field...

Missing Mapping Pane for Agile Portfolio Management in Visual Studio Online

tfs,visual-studio-online

Update: The backlog hierarchy features in Visual Studio Online were moved down to the Basic level and every account includes five free basic licenses. This should now start showing up for everyone. Is your user account assigned a Visual Studio Online Advanced user plan or an eligible MSDN Subscription?...

VSO and multiple projects for a single product team

tfs,agile,visual-studio-online,tfs2013,scrum

You should have both teams in the same team project. You c Dan create multiple teams that all exist within the same team project and get their own backlogs. http://nakedalm.com/creating-nested-teams-visual-studio-alm/ Most of my customers have moved to a single team project and I have a simple rule: "If you have...

TF10175: The My Project team project does not exist

visual-studio-2013,tfs,visual-studio-online,tfs2013

I tried everything. What eventually worked was deleting my workspace and recreating it. A very frustrating issue....

How do I install a SQL Server on the hosted build agent in Visual Studio Online?

sql-server,unit-testing,tfs,tfsbuild,visual-studio-online

Thanks for all your help. I contacted @tamasf who is one of the developers for the Effort Testing Tool for Entity Framework, and he told me that Effort Testing Tool only needs to know about he EDMX file in order mock Entity Framework ( which means Database won't need to...

Why choose VSO over IaaS TFS 2013/15

I wrote a post a fre months ago on that very subject but: http://nakedalm.com/benefits-visual-studio-online-enterprise/ Its more secure - MS, while a biger target, spend hundreds of millions on security Better support & SLA - SAAS provides you with support and uptime for the application, not just the hardware. The experts...

Adding users to Visual Studio Online so they are on all projects

This is not possible out of the box. The closest you can get would be to create a "Unber_Contributors" at the collection level and add that to "Contributers" after the team project has been created. You could also use the API to add permissions with PowerShell and have a script...

How can I allow only certain people to commit in Visual Studio Online?