New to TFS configuration/manipulation and looking to be pointed in the right direction thanks.
Our bug reports are often posted with minimal information and its often necessary to call the creator to get clarification. It would be beneficial if we could display the phone number alongside the creators name. Is it possible to pull this info out of the directory ?
I cannot think of a simple way of doing it, apart from writing code. I can think of these techniques:
pulling data from Active Directory and updating work items;
a custom control that query AD (via a REST web service) just in time
This latter can evolve to became a 2015 extension
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I am reviewing a large shelveset from another developer in TFS web view, TFS server Version 15.117.26714.0. There are a large number of changes over a large number of files. I have been making comments on specific lines of code and using # mentions to notify the developer. They are getting the notifications but there is no link to the comment I made and no indication to which file or which line. Likewise if they reply I get a notification but again no indication as to which comment or file where the comment was made.
Is there a better way to manage this back-and-forth for code review? It's very convenient to make the comments in line but hard to track and manage. I know I can filter by comment type but the number of comments is still to large to identify a specific comment easily.
I realise this may not generally be an issue as shelvesets or changesets are typically not so big. This shevleset is big as a result of a first pass of a static analyzer on a large code base.
Thanks.
It seems like this is the default behavior that there is no link to the comment I made and no indication to which file or which line in the notification email.
I tested on TFS server and also on Azure devops cloud service. They have the same results that no links to the files or lines are included in the email.
You can submit a user voice to microsoft development team. Hope they will improve this feature and provide more detailed information in the notification email.
Alternatively, you can have a try reviewing the code in Visual studio. See tutorial here for reviewing code in Visual Studio.
I've been using Bitbucket for a week now. It seems like a capable platform. Personally in my development activities, I keep a daily "journal" of whatever I need to keep track of separately from any commits to the Git repo. It gives me a place to keep all my "thoughts and ideas" in one place.
Before I end a day's work, or I jot down what I last worked on and any thoughts I think I'll need on the following day. And before I begin each day's work, I just flip to the last page of my journal and it quickly brings me back up to speed of where I was at yesterday, no matter how little sleep I got. :-)
I see Bitbucket has "Comments", "Work Log", "History" and "Activity", but they seem to be tied only to user stories, todos and the like.
Does anyone know of a way where I can have something like a "Work Log" tied directly to my user account? I'm thinking I could use it for my personal "Journal".
Note: I'm using a locally installed Bitbucket server.
If you're using the online https://bitbucket.org (not specified in the question) rather than a hosted instance then you can do a couple of things.
1 Wiki
Create a repository which will act as your work log
Obviously if you want to keep notes with the same code base just enable the wiki for that repository. The question seemed to suggest you may want to be repository/project agnostic
Update the settings of the repository to enable a private or public wiki
This is probably the simplest and richest replacement to your note pad
2 Use a repository
Create a repository which will act as your work log
commit Markdown (i.e readme.md or index.md) files
Note: in the case of a hosted instance this could even be a repository associated to your user rather than a project.
This is very manual, though it does mean you can have an offline version of your "pad" that you can edit/search in your IDE with some IDE autocomplete. Just like the wiki you can use the code backtick escapes with syntax highlighting. Last I checked the these were rendered pretty well in the browser through bitbucket.org as well as any editor/IDE you might use.
Regarding todo's
I've found the best cheap todo solution for me is using a gist as described on life hacker. They are low ceremony and versioned which checks all my boxes (excuse the pun). If you couple that with the above you may actually be able to embed it into your bitbucket wiki, though I've not tried.
If you are using JIRA and Bitbucket already, maybe consider Confluence? Confluence has some convenient and easy to manage TODO functionality and it lets you expand on those thoughts with all the power of a wiki when you are done.
I keep a "TODO" page and additionally put the checkbox on any tasks in other pages. They are all aggregated together in a tasks view.
See:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf54/confluence-user-s-guide/managing-changes-and-notifications-and-tasks/managing-tasks-in-confluence
It remains unclear to me, how a Revit addin would know if there are other active local files (other active users) at runtime.
The plugin under consideration needs to provide all scheduled elements with their UniqueID in a shared parameter ‘SPuniqueID’ . The purpose being that this SPuniqueID can then be added to the schedule (it is a pity that it is not possible to add the UniqueID directly to the schedule via the Revit userinterface).
Next, the schedules, with field SPuniqueID added to the schedule, can then be exported to excel. Because SPuniqueID, containing the UniqueID, is added to the excel table, it is possible to then write a ScheduleCompare program, to compare 2 quantity surveys, generated on different moments in the lifetime of the revit project and find the differences (quantities that have changed for certain articles).
I already built this ExportSchedules plugin to work flawless on a standalone revit file, working even with linked elements from revit links. When I run this on a local copy of a central model however, I get of course an exception that some elements are borrowed by other users and that the SPuniqueID can’t be set.
I want to check beforehand if I have full rights on all the scheduled elements.
Is ‘WorksharingUtils.CheckoutElements()’ operating on the list of scheduled elements and catch exceptions, the only way to accomplish this?
I thought there maybe was a log file somewhere that would track the active local users. If and only if this list contains only my name, I would let the plugin proceed, because I would then automatically know all the elements are available for editing.
Kind regards
Paulus
Paulus,
Check out the WorksharingUtils.GetCheckoutStatus() method - it can tell you whether the element is checked out, and if so which user.
Beyond that, the only other place to go is by monitoring the SLOG file in the Central File folder (but - yuck!).
Best Regards,
Matt
Im developing a azure website where users can upload blob and metadata. I want uploaded stuff too be deleted after some time.
The only way i can think off is going for a cloudapp instead of a website with a worker role that checks like every hour if the uploaded file has expired and continue and delete it. However im going for a simple website here without workerroles.
I have a function that checks if the uploaded item should be deleted and if the user do something on the page i can easily call this function, BUT.. If the user isnt doing anything and the time runs out it wont delete it because the user never calls the function.. The storage will never be deleted. How would you solve this?
Thanks
Too broad to give one right answer, as you can solve this in many ways. But... from an objective perspective because you're using Web Sites I do suggest you look at Web Jobs and see if this might be the right tool for you (as this gives you the ability to run periodic jobs without the bulk of extra VMs in web/worker configuration). You'll still need a way to manage your metadata to know what to delete.
Regarding other Azure-specific built-in mechanisms, you can also consider queuing delete messages, with an invisibility time equal to the time the content is to be available. After that time expires, the queue message becomes visible, and any queue consumer would then see the message and be able to act on it. This can be your Web Job (which has SDK support for queues) or really any other mechanism you build.
Again, a very broad question with no single right answer, so I'm just pointing out the Azure-specific mechanisms that could help solve this particular problem.
Like David said in his answer, there can be many solutions to your problem. One solution could be to rely on blob itself. In this approach you can periodically fetch the list of blobs in the blob container and decide if the blob should be removed or not. The periodic fetching could be done through a Azure WebJob (if application is deployed as a website) or through a Azure Worker Role. Worker role approach is independent of how your main application is deployed. It could be deployed as a cloud service or as a website.
With that, there are two possible approaches you can take:
Rely on Blob's Last Modified Date: Whenever a blob is updated, its Last Modified property gets updated. You can use that to identify if the blob should be deleted or not. This approach would work best if the uploaded blob is never modified.
Rely on Blob's custom metadata: Whenever a blob is uploaded, you could set the upload date/time in blob's metadata. When you fetch the list of blobs, you could compare the upload date/time metadata value with the current date/time and decide if the blob should be deleted or not.
Another approach might be to use the container name to be the "expiry date"
This might make deletion easier, as you then could just remove expired containers
Does TFS 2010 have the concept of checking out work items and checking them in. This action would lock the item for edit by other users while it is checked out.
I know I can do this for files under source control, but what about regular work items?
I haven't yet come across any documentation around this. If it's possible, does someone have a code sample?
That is not possible. In TFS11 we have added 'merge on save' so there are less conflicts when saving a work item.
Would love to know why you want this feature though.
You could achieve a lock mechanism on work items if you write a custom control that allows or denies saving based on the result of some query you make to a custom service.
You would want to create a visual studio plugin that sets and resets the lock per work item.
While you're at it, you could write a server plugin that persists a serialized copy if the work item to disk or to the version control system.
I know it's a lot if work, but it should give you what you asked for.