work-item-tracking

Using Areas and Iterations in Team Foundation Server 2008

If you are using TFS 2005 or 2008, how do you user iterations and areas? Do you create an area for specific parts of the application you are building? Here is an interesting article on areas and how the TeamSystem team uses them: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlee/archive/2006/08/09/when-to-use-team-projects.aspx But, i'm even more curiou...

TFS: Stop Team Build process has updated the Fixed In field messages

We have an interesting situation. Our build server seems to want to go back to previously closed work items and update the Integration Build field. I understand the build server setting it the first time. I could even understand it updating that field in the event that the first build didn't complete successfully. However, I can'...

Is there a TFS query macro for the current iteration?

Is there a way in TFS in VS2010 to specify that a particular iteration is the current one, and then return that for use in queries similar to the way @Project works? If not is there a way to do sub-queries in TFS work item queries? ...

Do you allow check-ins associated with work items from another Team Project?

Team Foundation Server 2008 allows that every check-in is associated with a work item, but what do you do if you are developing some features which span several Team Projects? For example, you're developing a specific product for a client and that product has its own Team Project, but is also using some of your other components or tools...

TFS query mixing Tasks and Bugs, sorted by Priority

We're using TFS with MSF for Agile 4.2 on a project, and I have a bunch of work to do, both Tasks and Bugs. Both are prioritized by our managers, and assigned due dates and target releases. I use a Work Item query as my main TODO list, and I want to list all the Work Items assigned to me, in order by due date and priority. Problem: I...