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Required Permissions for Team Foundation Administration Console

2013-04-24T07:38:24Z

You can configure and manage various aspects of your deployment of Team Foundation by using the administration console for Team Foundation. For example, you can add a server for hosting team project portals, create and modify team project collections, and change the service account for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. This administration console is installed when you install one or more of the following components on a server:

An application-tier for Team Foundation Server

The extensions for SharePoint Products

Team Foundation Build

Visual Studio Lab Management

Required Permissions

You must be a member of the local Administrators group on the server where you want to open the console.
And either a member of the Team Foundation Administrators group or your Edit Server-Level Information permission must be set to Allow.

More information

Originally posted at "Hosam Kamel| Developer & Platform Evangelist" http://blogs.msdn.com/hkamel

ATL Cairo | Summer internship Program - 2013

2013-03-06T21:02:00Z

Apply now, Send your application to atlc-contacts@microsoft.com

Originally posted at "Hosam Kamel| Developer & Platform Evangelist" http://blogs.msdn.com/hkamel

ATLC- Graduation Project Sponsorship Program

2012-10-23T07:28:06Z

Originally posted at "Hosam Kamel| Developer & Platform Evangelist" http://blogs.msdn.com/hkamel

Introduction to the Multilingual App Toolkit

2012-08-22T16:00:51Z

The Multilingual App Toolkit will help you to create your apps in multiple languages to reach more markets.

Multilingual App Toolkit for Visual Studio 2012 is an extension that enables translation support through tools and guides by focusing on the following areas:

Integration with Visual Studio IDE enables you to add and manage translation files to a project solution using standard Visual Studio menus and dialogs.
Pseudo language engine gives you ‘in house’ testing of localized apps by identifying translation issues during development such as hardcoded, concatenated, or truncated strings and other visual issues that arise when working with languages. Pseudo translations are stored in the localization industry standard XLIFF file format and can be edited just like any other language translation. This gives you granular control over pseudo translation testing.
Translation file export & import roundtrip provides you with the ability to send and receive resources in XLIFF files to friends, family, or a translator services for review.
XLIFF lightweight editor provides a lightweight localization UI for editing translated strings. Get translation suggestions quickly by using the integrated Microsoft Translator (requires active Internet connection). It also allows you to quickly edit data stored in XLIFF files by adjusting pseudo and/or actual translations.

Check this introductory video for more details

Download the Toolkit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?linkid=245767
How to use it http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj569303.aspx

Originally posted at "Hosam Kamel| Developer & Platform Evangelist" http://blogs.msdn.com/hkamel

Microsoft Products Portfolio in One Page

2012-07-02T10:34:20Z

The one-page shows all of Microsoft products in a single scalable view.

The documents are viewable and available on the Internet (http://zoom.It)

Microsoft Product Portfolio – Enterprise View
http://zoom.it/S9R1
Microsoft Product Portfolio – All Up View
http://zoom.it/pR0h

Originally posted at "Hosam Kamel| Developer & Platform Evangelist" http://blogs.msdn.com/hkamel

End-To-End Application Lifecycle Management Presentation

2012-06-27T08:42:02Z

End-To-End Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Managment

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You can access the full slide-deck from here http://www.slideshare.net/HosamKamel/endtoend-visual-studio-application-lifecycle-managment

Originally posted at "Hosam Kamel| Developer & Platform Evangelist" http://blogs.msdn.com/hkamel

Introduction to Background Tasks

2012-06-16T20:52:28Z

Windows 8 Release Preview provides Metro style apps with the ability to run app code, even when the app is suspended, by using background tasks.

Windows 8 Release Preview provides Metro style apps with the ability to run app code, even when the app is suspended, by using background tasks. This paper describes the programming model to create background tasks, resource management policies for background tasks, and built-in user controls that allow the user to control per-app background task activity by using lock screen personalization. Some familiarity with Metro style app development is assumed.

Download Guidance document from here

Originally posted at "Hosam Kamel| Developer & Platform Evangelist" http://blogs.msdn.com/hkamel

New TFS Template Available - "Agile Dev in a Waterfall Environment"–GovDev

2012-06-13T13:38:46Z

Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 is the collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft’s application lifecycle management solution. In addition to core features like source control, build automation and work-item tracking, TFS enables teams to align projects with industry processes such as Agile, Scrum and CMMi via the use of customable XML Process Templates.
Since 2005, TFS has been a welcomed addition to the Microsoft developer tool line-up by Government Agencies of all sizes and missions. However, many government development teams consistently struggle with leveraging an iterative development process all while providing the structure, visibility and status reporting that is required by many Government, waterfall-centric, project methodologies.
GovDev is an open source, TFS Process Template that combines the formality of CMMi/Waterfall with the flexibility of Agile/Iterative:

The GovDev for TFS Accelerator also implements two new custom reports to support the customized process and provide the real-time visibility across the lifecycle with full traceability and drill down to tasks, tests and code:

The TFS Accelerator contains:

A custom TFS process template that implements a requirements centric, yet iterative process with extreme traceability throughout the lifecycle.
A custom “Requirements Traceability Report” that provides a single view of traceability for the project. Within the Traceability Report, you can also view live status indicators and “click-through” to the individual assets (even changesets).
A custom report that focuses on “Contributions by Team Member” tracking things like “number of check-ins” and “Net lines added”.
Fully integrated documentation on the entire process and features.

For a 45min demo of GovDev, visit: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032508359&culture=en-us

Download it from Codeplex here.

Originally posted at "Hosam Kamel| Developer & Platform Evangelist" http://blogs.msdn.com/hkamel

[Visual Studio Extension Of The Day] Test Scribe for Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 and Test Professional 2010

2012-06-11T10:01:50Z

Test Scribe is a documentation power tool designed to construct documents directly from the TFS for test plan and test run artifacts for the purpose of discussion, reporting etc...

Known Issues/Limitations

Customizing the generated report by changing the template, adding comments, including attachments etc… is not supported
While opening a test plan summary document in Office 2007, if you get the warning: “The file Test Plan Summary cannot be
opened because there are problems with the contents” (with Details: ‘The file is corrupt and cannot be opened’), click ‘OK’. Then, click ‘Yes’ to recover the
contents of the document. This will then open the document in Office 2007. The same problem is not found in Office 2010.
Generated documents are stored by default in the “My documents” folder. The output path of the generated report cannot be modified.
Exporting word documents for individual test suites or test cases in a test plan is not supported.

Download it from Visual Studio Extension Manager

Originally posted at "Hosam Kamel| Developer & Platform Evangelist" http://blogs.msdn.com/hkamel

Visual Studio 2012 RC InfoKit

2012-06-10T09:04:26Z

Download one page presentation: https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=72C46FD9081E6124!1446&authkey=!AJb6MgaJwNALwKU

Originally posted at "Hosam Kamel| Developer & Platform Evangelist" http://blogs.msdn.com/hkamel

[Visual Studio Extension Of The Day] PHP Tools for Visual Studio

2012-05-20T14:49:49Z

PHP Tools extend Visual Studio with the support for PHP code. The extension adds syntax highlighting, real-time checking of syntax errors, code outlining which makes it easier to understand code and navigation features, so that you can easily go to the required class or function.

PHP Tools extend Visual Studio with set of features to work more efficiently with PHP code.

Basic Features (FREE)

Syntax highlighting for PHP code and HTML outside of PHP tags.
Code outlining – Code collapsing for classes and functions.
Brace matching – Brace highlighting helps to quickly identify which braces belongs together to provide better overview over more complex functions and other structures.
Errors detection – Syntax errors are underlined in real time while coding to immediately see that something is wrong. As well as error underlining the errors are displayed in Errors list with more details.
Navigation bar – To navigate quickly through your code you can see all the classes, functions, properties and constants declarations in top navigation bar in Visual Studio.

Download it from Visual Studio Extension Manager

Originally posted at "Hosam Kamel| Developer & Platform Evangelist" http://blogs.msdn.com/hkamel

Microsoft Mondays– May Webcasts

2012-05-06T06:05:04Z

Introducing “Microsoft Mondays”. A program consisting of a series of Webcasts showcasing various Microsoft products and technologies. Each Monday we discuss a particular topic pertaining to development, infrastructure, Office tools, ERP, client/server operating systems etc. The webcast will be broadcast via LiveMeeting and can viewed from a web client. The idea behind the “Microsoft Mondays” program is to help you become more proficient in the products and technologies that you use and help you utilize their full potential.

SharePoint 2010 UI Customizations with Ribbon and Dialogs

Level – 300 ( Intermediate – Advanced )
SharePoint 2010 introduced the concept of Ribbons and Dialogs. In this session we will look at various methods that we can use to customize ribbon and dialogs. You will see how you can create custom ribbon controls that match any of the SharePoint 2010 out of the box controls. You will also learn how to link your ribbon to dialogs and create new dialogs. The session will also demo how we can work with the client object model and accept and do external and internal processing of data from dialogs.
Date: May 14, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (GMT+3)
Featuring: Jerry Yasir, SharePoint Consultant, EJADA

Introducing SQL Server Data Tools

Level – 300 ( Intermediate – Advanced )
This session introduces SQL Server Data Tools (previously called Juneau) and how developers can finally manage their SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS implementations and their databases through one central tool inside Visual Studio. Managing SQL Azure, as well as offline and online development will also be discussed. If you are a .NET developer or a SQL Server professional, this is a must-attend session.
Date: May 21, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (GMT+3)
Featuring: Nabeel Derhem, Senior Solutions Architect, AL-ELM

A Middleware in the Cloud: Windows Azure AppFabric

Level – 300 ( Intermediate – Advanced)
In this session you will learn about Service Bus for connecting on premise applications through the cloud without the hustle of network configurations and Claims-based authorization, Windows Identity Framework (WIF), and how to leverage the Access Control Service to enable claims-based access to your applications without having to manage user stores anymore.
Date: May 28, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (GMT+3)
Featuring: Mohamad Halabi, Microsoft MVP & DevLifeStyle Lead, Ministry of Higher Education

Originally posted at "Hosam Kamel| Developer & Platform Evangelist" http://blogs.msdn.com/hkamel

Developing JAVA Projects using jDeveloper and TFS as Source Control

2012-04-18T11:03:49Z

Oracle JDeveloper is a free integrated development environment that simplifies the development of Java-based SOA and Java EE applications.

One of main goals of Team Foundation Server 2010 is to support heterogeneous development environments and of course part of it is supporting Java developers to make use of team development features provided.

Eclipse developers have full ALM support through Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere and Team Foundation Server 2010

With JDeveloper 11g you can connect to Team Foundation Server and make use of Source Control features provided through Team System-Connect to Team System

You can refer to the following article for full details how to install the add-in Using Microsoft TFS as Version Control System with JDeveloper 11g

I have produce a small video demonstrate the whole steps

Developing JAVA Projects using jDeveloper and TFS as Source Control

Hope it help!

Originally posted at "Hosam Kamel| Developer & Platform Evangelist"

Developing PHP Project using Expression Web and TFS as SourceControl

2012-04-17T09:06:49Z

Expression Web is a great website development environment with Expression Web 4 SP1 you have several new productivity features, and updates to PHP support. The following link illustrates Expression Web’s updated PHP IntelliSense, the new “Open as PHP” feature, and IntelliSense for HTML extended characters Expression Web 4 SP1 PHP Authoring Demo.

Expression Web has also a great support for connecting to Microsoft Team Foundation Server to make use of great features provided like SourceControl management features and WorkItem managements.

Below is a very basic steps in order to get Expression web connected to Team Foundation Server SourceControl

1. Open Expression Web 4.

2. Site (top tool bar) > Manage Sites List… > Add > Select the directory which is mapped to your project workspace (created from Team Explorer or Visual Studio 2010) –> Select the website folder in the file system.

3. Save

4. Site (top tool bar) > Open Site (select the site you just added).

5. Now you will have the files connected to Team Foundation Server automatically

I have produced a small video demonstrating the above scenario

Developing PHP project using Expression Web and TFS as SourceControl

Hope it helps!

Originally posted at "Hosam Kamel| Developer & Platform Evangelist"

Microsoft Mondays - April Webcasts

2012-04-15T05:58:48Z


Introducing “Microsoft Mondays”. A program consisting of a series of Webcasts showcasing various Microsoft products and technologies. Each Monday we discuss a particular topic pertaining to development, infrastructure, Office tools, ERP, client/server operating systems etc. The webcast will be broadcast via LiveMeeting and can viewed from a web client. The idea behind the “Microsoft Mondays” program is to help you become more proficient in the products and technologies that you use and help you utilize their full potential.
How Microsoft IT does Lync Server 2010 Level – 300 ( Intermediate – Advanced ) This is an exclusive session which is an IT Showcase that is conducted by an SME from MSIT team to share a unique, inside view and experience into how Microsoft plans for, deploys, and manages MS Lync Server 2010 in its own enterprise environment. It’s a great chance to get you in touch DIRECTLY with our MSIT team to hear from them, learn the best practices and raise your questions to MSIT team.
Date: April 16, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (GMT+3)
Featuring: Bremen Lee, SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER, Microsoft IT


Running SharePoint Scrum Projects – Lessons learned Level – 300 ( Intermediate – Advanced ) SharePoint 2010 is considered one of best platforms for Rapid Application Development. Agile development is one of the best techniques to develop applications but it should be used with caution. In today’s session we will talk about how to use scrum to deliver SharePoint application why the two are best fit together. What are the pros and cons for this approach.
Date: April 23, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (GMT+3)
Featuring: Wael A. Kabli – IT Architecture and Planning Advisor Othman Al-Hukail – Microsoft Enterprise Services Consultant Mohammad Shobani – Microsoft Enterprise Services Consultant

How Microsoft IT Deployed Exchange Server 2010 Level – 300 ( Intermediate – Advanced) Exchange Server 2010 introduces numerous advances in performance, scalability, and reliability, while lowering the total cost of ownership. This Webcast discusses the Exchange Server 2010 deployment within Microsoft IT. The session includes descriptions of the Exchange Server 2010 roles, design criteria, hardware choices, and operational changes.
Date: April 30, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (GMT+3)
Featuring: Carl McBain, Microsoft IT

Originally posted at "Hosam Kamel| Developer & Platform Evangelist"

Hosam Kamel's Blog

Required Permissions for Team Foundation Administration Console

Required Permissions

More information

Understanding Administrative Concepts and Tools

Team Foundation Server Permissions.

The Team Foundation Administration Console

Administering Team Foundation Server

ATL Cairo | Summer internship Program - 2013

ATLC- Graduation Project Sponsorship Program

Introduction to the Multilingual App Toolkit

The Multilingual App Toolkit will help you to create your apps in multiple languages to reach more markets.

Multilingual App Toolkit for Visual Studio 2012 is an extension that enables translation support through tools and guides by focusing on the following areas:

Check this introductory video for more details

Download the Toolkit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?linkid=245767

How to use it http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj569303.aspx

Microsoft Products Portfolio in One Page

End-To-End Application Lifecycle Management Presentation

Introduction to Background Tasks

Windows 8 Release Preview provides Metro style apps with the ability to run app code, even when the app is suspended, by using background tasks.

Download Guidance document from here

New TFS Template Available - "Agile Dev in a Waterfall Environment"–GovDev

The TFS Accelerator contains:

For a 45min demo of GovDev, visit: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032508359&culture=en-us

Download it from Codeplex here.

[Visual Studio Extension Of The Day] Test Scribe for Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 and Test Professional 2010

Test Scribe is a documentation power tool designed to construct documents directly from the TFS for test plan and test run artifacts for the purpose of discussion, reporting etc...

Download it from Visual Studio Extension Manager

Visual Studio 2012 RC InfoKit

Download one page presentation: https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=72C46FD9081E6124!1446&authkey=!AJb6MgaJwNALwKU

[Visual Studio Extension Of The Day] PHP Tools for Visual Studio

PHP Tools extend Visual Studio with the support for PHP code. The extension adds syntax highlighting, real-time checking of syntax errors, code outlining which makes it easier to understand code and navigation features, so that you can easily go to the required class or function.

Download it from Visual Studio Extension Manager

Microsoft Mondays– May Webcasts

SharePoint 2010 UI Customizations with Ribbon and Dialogs

Introducing SQL Server Data Tools

A Middleware in the Cloud: Windows Azure AppFabric

Developing JAVA Projects using jDeveloper and TFS as Source Control

I have produce a small video demonstrate the whole steps

Developing PHP Project using Expression Web and TFS as SourceControl

Microsoft Mondays - April Webcasts

How Microsoft IT does Lync Server 2010

Running SharePoint Scrum Projects – Lessons learned

How Microsoft IT Deployed Exchange Server 2010