In this Blog I am going to explain how we can customize Task in VSTS/TFS to Prevent Users from Moving Task to Closed State with a non-Zero value Remaining Work field.

This is a web service which helps you to copy the VSTS dashboards from 1 team to another team easing the need of having the data like widgets, charts etc.

  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India — June 2, 2017 — Canarys Automations Pvt Ltd today announced it has been named a finalist in the 2017 Microsoft DevOps Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. “We are very proud and happy that Microsoft recognizes Canarys as a key DevOps partner. We continuously e...

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This is the second part of the Bugzilla to TFS Migrator blog series covering the installation of the migration tool for migration from Bugzilla to TFS 2013.The Bugzilla to TFS Migrator tool is available for download from the link http://ecanarys.com/products/bugzilla-tfs-migrator on the Canarys website. Click on the “Click here to Download” button, provide the requisite information and download the migrator tool from the download link emailed to your email address.Follow the below st...

This is the third part of the Bugzilla to TFS Migrator blog series covering the configuration of the migration tool for migration from Bugzilla to TFS 2013. The Bugzilla to TFS Migrator tool requires few configurations to be completed, prior to use. One of the requirements is to have a customized TFS bug work item as the default bug work item would not have placeholders to accommodate the data from all the fields from Bugzilla. This would require addition of fields, status values and state trans...

This is the final part of the Bugzilla to TFS Migrator blog series covering the actual steps of migration from Bugzilla to TFS 2013. To initiate the migration, run the Bugzilla Migrator Tool. The Bugzilla URL will be picked from the information provided during the installation. Click on the button beside the TFS Collection field to launch the Connect to Team Foundation Server window. In the Connect to Team Foundation Server window, select the TFS Server, TFS Collection and the TFS Team Project a...

How to enable logging verbosity process parameter in build definition?Verbosity for a build will help us to debug the build results to see what exactly went into build. In TFS 2013, default build process template TfvcTemplate.12.xaml verbosity level is set to “Normal” by default and if we need to change the verbosity level we have to download and open the template and set the Verbosity property value of RunMsBuild activity to Detailed or Diagnostic or Minimal (Figure 1.1) and then ch...

CruiseControl.NET (CCNET) is an open source tool used for continuous builds on server, where testing is required parallel to development. CCNET periodically checks the version control for changes to codebase, builds the source code if any modifications found, publish the build to website hosted location and notifies the build status software stakeholders.Here I am going to discuss on how to configure the CCNET for continuous builds using TFS as source control.What you need? CCNET Server Source C...

There are several articles on the web describing the migration technique with minimal details. This article is an effort to provide the complete information to successfully migrate from the TFS VC to the TFS GIT VC. TFS ‘out-of-the-box’ does not provide any tools to export import source code or changesets. Usually, if we want to move current source code, we can get the latest source to a machine, un-bind the source, check-in to new location. For the work items, we can export the...