http://www.codeproject.com Latest Articles for Tarun_Arora from CodeProject en-us http://www.codeproject.com/App_Themes/Std/Img/logo100x30.gif http://www.codeproject.com 100 30 CodeProject Copyright CodeProject, 1999-2013 Webmaster@codeproject.com (Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 12:51:50 GMT 20 C# Hand-coded goodness Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/TarunArora/archive/2013/02/03/tfs---get-list-of-software-installed-on-build-agent.aspx Introduction It is common for your code projects to reference Microsoft or Non Microsoft SDKs, this requires that the build agents has the SDK’s installed. It is a http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/540168/TFSplus-plusGetplusListplusOfplusSoftwareplusInsta Tarun_Arora TFS Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:47:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/540168/TFSplus-plusGetplusListplusOfplusSoftwareplusInsta Technical Blog Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:47:00 GMT 2496 0 First time you create a new project in Visual Studio 2012 the target framework is set us .NET 4.5. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/534633/VisualplusStudioplus2012plusSetplusDefaultplusTarg Tarun_Arora VS2012 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:29:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/534633/VisualplusStudioplus2012plusSetplusDefaultplusTarg Technical Blog Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:29:00 GMT 1586 5 2.39 3 2   I had been given a business requirement to provide a self service Website for job scheduling. Having worked with Quartz.Net, it seemed the perfect backend engine to schedule and process jobs. I decided to expose the functionality of the Quartz.Net via a few web methods using Web services to allow http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/532574/Quartz-Netplusschedulerplusexposedplusviaplusaplus Tarun_Arora C++ Windows QA Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:04:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/532574/Quartz-Netplusschedulerplusexposedplusviaplusaplus Technical Blog Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:04:00 GMT 4434 5 1 6 Are you running Quartz.Net as a windows service on a remote server and trying to connect to it from a client to schedule jobs? http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/532575/Quartz-NetplusWindowsplusServiceplusonplusServerpl Tarun_Arora quartz.net Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:54:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/532575/Quartz-NetplusWindowsplusServiceplusonplusServerpl Technical Blog Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:54:00 GMT 4182 0 2   In this blog post, I’ll show you how to use Outlook.com as the SMTP client for your TFS.   Figure 1 – Email Alert Settings for Outlook.com as a SMTP client for TFS When I was asking around for these settings in forums people questioned me why I would want to set up outlook.com as the SMTP http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/529813/ConfigureplusOutlookplusasplustheplusTFSplusSMTPpl Tarun_Arora C# Windows .NET Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:49:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/529813/ConfigureplusOutlookplusasplustheplusTFSplusSMTPpl Technical Blog Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:49:00 GMT 1917 0 5   Agile taught us to release early and release often, Agile also taught us to get the end user involved more frequently and directly. Goes without saying that release notes are an important part of any release. But what you don’t want to be doing is manually putting together the release notes with http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/305598/TFS-API-ndash-Release-Notes-From-TFS-Builds Tarun_Arora Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:12:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/305598/TFS-API-ndash-Release-Notes-From-TFS-Builds Technical Blog Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:12:00 GMT 10848 5 1 3 MTM 11-Configuration, Settings, Customization & Troubleshooting http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/300009/MTM-11-Configuration-Settings-Customization-Troubl Tarun_Arora All-Topics Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:13:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/300009/MTM-11-Configuration-Settings-Customization-Troubl Technical Blog Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:13:00 GMT 2703 5 1   In this blog post I’ll show you how to use the TFS 2011 API to get the Exploratory Testing & Feedback Manager session information programmatically. Introduction TFS 2011 includes Exploratory Testing and Feedback Manager, the first empowers the testers to explore the application and second empow http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/299600/TFS-2011-API-ndash-How-to-Get-Exploratory-Testing Tarun_Arora C++ Windows Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:57:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/299600/TFS-2011-API-ndash-How-to-Get-Exploratory-Testing Technical Blog Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:57:00 GMT 2860 4 1 1 The process of customizing the TFS 2011 Scrum 2.0 Process Template to add a new work item type, introducing new work item queries, modifying existing queries, adding new reports, etc. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/298183/Customizing-TFS-2011-Process-Template-for-Explorat Tarun_Arora All-Topics Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:48:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/298183/Customizing-TFS-2011-Process-Template-for-Explorat Technical Blog Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:48:00 GMT 12203 5 1 1   Is this blog post worth your time? It’s not challenging setting up the Load Test Rig in the Cloud, it’s more challenging to convince enterprises to embrace the cloud. Not all enterprises will accept their business critical applications being profiled from a VM hosted outside their network. Thoug http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/294416/Part-3-ndash-Load-Testing-In-the-Cloud-Automating Tarun_Arora Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:49:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/294416/Part-3-ndash-Load-Testing-In-the-Cloud-Automating Technical Blog Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:49:00 GMT 1559 0   Welcome to Part 2, In Part 1 we discussed the advantages of creating a Test Rig in the cloud, the Azure edge and the Test Rig Topology we want to get to. In Part 2, Let’s start by understanding the components of Azure we’ll be making use of followed by manually putting them together to create the http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292127/Part-2-ndash-Load-Testing-In-The-Cloud Tarun_Arora Sat, 03 Dec 2011 07:30:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292127/Part-2-ndash-Load-Testing-In-The-Cloud Technical Blog Sat, 03 Dec 2011 07:30:00 GMT 2326 0 2 Load and Web Performance Testing using Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 [Part 1] http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/293891/Load-and-Web-Performance-Testing-using-Visual-Stud Tarun_Arora All-Topics Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:20:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/293891/Load-and-Web-Performance-Testing-using-Visual-Stud Technical Blog Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:20:00 GMT 8002 0 2 Branch by Quality is one of the most popular branching patterns used, and can serve as a base pattern for more complex branch strategies. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/293893/Introduction-to-Branching-by-Quality-Branching-Mer Tarun_Arora Architect Dev Intermediate All-Topics Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:45:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/293893/Introduction-to-Branching-by-Quality-Branching-Mer Technical Blog Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:45:00 GMT 5798 0 4 I’ll try and cover the start to end of everything you need to know to use Azure to build your Test Rig in the cloud. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292128/Part-1-Load-Testing-In-The-Cloud Tarun_Arora Dev Intermediate Azure Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:58:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292128/Part-1-Load-Testing-In-The-Cloud Technical Blog Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:58:00 GMT 5529 0 2 In this blog post I’ll show you how to use the TFS API to get the name of the Process Template that is currently applied to the Team Project. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292129/TFS-API-Process-Template-currently-applied-to-the Tarun_Arora C# Windows .NET Dev Intermediate Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:50:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292129/TFS-API-Process-Template-currently-applied-to-the Technical Blog Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:50:00 GMT 5537 0 2 In part 3 I’ll be discussing Test Result Analysis, Test Result Drill through, Test Report Generation, Test Run Comparison, ASP.NET Profiler and some closing thoughts. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292974/Load-and-Web-Performance-Testing-using-Visual-Stud Tarun_Arora Windows Visual-Studio Dev QA Intermediate Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:20:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292974/Load-and-Web-Performance-Testing-using-Visual-Stud Technical Blog Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:20:00 GMT 3151 0 3 The details of web performance and load tests as well as why it’s important to follow a goal based pattern while performance testing your application. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292975/Load-and-Web-Performance-Testing-using-Visual-Stud Tarun_Arora Windows Visual-Studio Dev QA Intermediate Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:19:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292975/Load-and-Web-Performance-Testing-using-Visual-Stud Technical Blog Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:19:00 GMT 4622 0 3 Troubleshooting TFS Build Server failures. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292973/How-to-Troubleshoot-TFS-Build-Server-Failure Tarun_Arora XML Dev QA Intermediate Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:27:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/292973/How-to-Troubleshoot-TFS-Build-Server-Failure Technical Blog Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:27:00 GMT 6016 0 3 Technorati Tags: Team Foundation Server 2010,TFS SDK,TFS API,TFS Merge Programmatically,TFS Work Items Programmatically,TFS Administration Console,ALM   Download a working Demo: Smart Merge using TFS API The information available in the Merge window in Team Foundation Server 2010 is very importan http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/231845/TFS-2010-SDK-Smart-Merge-Programmatically-Create-y Tarun_Arora C# Windows .NET Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:57:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/231845/TFS-2010-SDK-Smart-Merge-Programmatically-Create-y Technical Blog Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:22:00 GMT 16492 4.5 1.51 2 5 In this blog post I'll show you how to use the TFS API to get the security groups, members, permissions and security settings of users in Team Projects in TFS. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/262673/TFS-SDK-Get-Groups-Users-Permissions-using-TFS-API Tarun_Arora Dev LINQ Intermediate Development API TFS Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:56:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/262673/TFS-SDK-Get-Groups-Users-Permissions-using-TFS-API Technical Blog Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:56:00 GMT 5922 5 1 2   Our friends at Microsoft have done a wonderful job releasing TFS 2011 preview, there has been great amount of preview documentation and video samples released to help understand the new features. In this blog post I intend to dive deep and compare the database changes done between the two version http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/257062/Database-changes-between-TFS-2010-and-TFS-2011 Tarun_Arora All-Topics Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:15:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/257062/Database-changes-between-TFS-2010-and-TFS-2011 Technical Blog Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:15:00 GMT 9330 0 1 Set up Visual Studio 2010 to work with TFS Azure http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/256185/TFS-Azure-Set-up-Visual-Studio-2010-to-work-with-T Tarun_Arora Azure Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:27:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/256185/TFS-Azure-Set-up-Visual-Studio-2010-to-work-with-T Technical Blog Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:27:00 GMT 9190 0   I have been part of the Azure TFS Technical Access Preview (TAP) since March 2011. TFS Azure has been previewed and officially announced as TFS Service in the 2011 Build Conference, California. The Non-Disclosure Agreement has been lifted from the participants of the TAP program. The below excerp http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/255338/TFS-Azure-ndash-Technical-Access-Preview-Experienc Tarun_Arora Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:07:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/255338/TFS-Azure-ndash-Technical-Access-Preview-Experienc Technical Blog Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:07:00 GMT 7170 0 1 TFS API: Using LINQpad to query TFS http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/253589/TFS-API-Using-LINQpad-to-query-TFS Tarun_Arora All-Topics Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:38:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/253589/TFS-API-Using-LINQpad-to-query-TFS Technical Blog Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:38:00 GMT 7539 5 1 1 TFS SDK: Workspace Explorer & Statistics http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/247740/TFS-SDK-Workspace-Explorer-Statistics Tarun_Arora C# Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:04:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/247740/TFS-SDK-Workspace-Explorer-Statistics Technical Blog Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:04:00 GMT 10679 5 1 5 Lately I have seen the below remarks coming through in the communities, Get Latest does not work in TFS I always have to use Get Specific version to get the server changes on my local Why get latest misses updating some files while get specific works I’ll be using the TFS API to show you how t http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/243654/TFS-Get-Latest-VS-Get-Specific-Version Tarun_Arora All-Topics API TFS Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:55:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/243654/TFS-Get-Latest-VS-Get-Specific-Version Technical Blog Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:55:00 GMT 11716 5 1 1 I will be covering three things in this blog post Get the history i.e. all change sets of an item programmatically using the TFS API. Download the change sets programmatically using the TFS API Use WinMerge to compare those change sets programmatically 1. How do i get the history o http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/243655/TFS-SDK-Compare-Changesets-programmatically Tarun_Arora All-Topics API TFS Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:55:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/243655/TFS-SDK-Compare-Changesets-programmatically Technical Blog Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:55:00 GMT 10851 0 2   If you track your project tasks against work items, you would know the importance of Work Item History. This is one way for you to reflect on who did what and when, some organizations use it for auditing purposes as well. Using the WorkItemStore service it is possible to get the work item revisio http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/243653/TFS-SDK-Work-Item-History-Visualizer-using-TFS-API Tarun_Arora All-Topics API TFS Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:47:00 GMT http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/243653/TFS-SDK-Work-Item-History-Visualizer-using-TFS-API Technical Blog Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:47:00 GMT 12085 5 1 6