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  1. Provide Central Overview of ALL Projects in the Team Foundation Service and allow Capacity to be set as a global value for each Member

    The Team Foundation Service would be an even more powerful tool to be able to see and set what the entire Teams capacity is in one place. This is for ease of project planning as opposed to setting this at the point of a sprint. Allow a central capacity value for each member and combine the Member remaining capacity in each project to stop over allocating or double booking a Member.

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      0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • Kanban for tasks

      Build a board that allow to split a space vertically and horizontally so we can have different groups with different logical steps.

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        0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Intelli-Sence for nullable enum properties and field

        example

        enum E { a, b, c }
        class Foo
        {
        public E? Bar {get; set;}
        }

        when I type "new Foo().Bar = " I expect, that popup with enum E will be shown like if property Bar is of type E.

        This also applies to "==" operator.

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          0 comments  ·  IDE  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
        • Re-enable key features from the Test Results window

          I can load a TRX into the Test Results window in VS2012, but I can't do anything with those tests. Run, debug, and open are all disabled. WHY would this window be available and not be allowed to run tests the way we did in 2010?

          We run 15,000+ tests nightly against our products and the lack of these features is keeping our QA team from moving to 2012. Update 2 did not address these issues. Personally, I'm not a fan of the Text Explorer, no matter how good you say it is because it doesn't fit OUR needs.

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            0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
          • New Window option for Razor views

            Although I can easily split a Window, it would be nice to have the ability for a second Window of the same view to maximum the use of having dual screens.

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            • Serching only in the current scope

              It would be nice to have a search option for looking only in the current scope when I "scope to this" in project explorer.

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              • provide to post json in HttpWebRequest/webClient , request body in windows phone 8.

                HttpWebRequest and web client only support parameter to post. but we need to post a REST service json in request body. my code is working on console app. but it didn't work on windows phone 8 app.

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                • Importing Testcases to MTM tool

                  There are couple of power tools available in market to import testcases from Excel to Team Fondation Server. However, there are no working tool available to import testcases written in Microsoft Word Document (.doc/docx).
                  Test Migrator Plus claims to suport importing of tests from word document but it doesn't work.

                  It would be good to have a tool which supports importing of tests from Miicrosoft Word Document as most of the process templates are created as word document (.doc/.docx) in many of the industries.

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                    0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                  • Add Style Rule

                    I have notices that Add Style Rule is missing in VS 2012. It was present in VS 2010. Could this feature be added to VS 2012?

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                      0 comments  ·  IDE  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • Option for exporting test results with the actuals in MTM tool

                      There is no option available to export test results along with the comments/actual results entered during manual test execution.
                      But, most of the companies demand the tesport along with actual results as part of quality process.

                      Ideally, the quality process expects the following as part of test report:

                      Testcase ID
                      Testcase name
                      Test Step/Action
                      Expected Results
                      Actual Results/Comments
                      LInks if any
                      Machine details: May be Operating systemm information will be enough
                      Build details

                      We can acheive this by creating our own SSRS schema and deploying it on TFS server. However, it would be good to have an option at Test…

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                        0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                      • Rename items in "Recent" list on Start Page

                        At my company, I can be working in different source branches at the same time, meaning I can have a list of many different recent projects on the Start Page. However, since all the solution files are named the same (just in different branches), I have to hover over each item in the list to see where it is physically located to determine which one I need to open.

                        If we had the ability to rename the entries in the "Recent" list, I could give each item a name that tells me which branch that specific solution is in.

                        It's…

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                          0 comments  ·  IDE  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • Make TFS source code compare better

                          We use TFS 2012 as our ALM tool and VS2012 as our development tool. I found comparing source code on web page(from TFS) is not as good as visual studio diff tool. Since TFS allow user to compare source code, it's better to make it more user friendly so customers can benefit more from their investment.

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                            0 comments  ·  Team Foundation Server  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                          • Chart axis numeric type property

                            Would it be possible to expand the Chart properties to allow the number format for the axis to be set as Integer/Decimal etc?

                            Even if IntervalType is set to IntervalType.Number, when the numbers are small integers (from a DataTable source) we still see decimal-placed numbers in the axis. This appears to conflict with the underlying DataTable.Column.DataType.

                            An example I found to illustrate this is here:
                            http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4069414/visual-studio-2010-chart-control-make-y-axis-an-integer-value-not-decimal

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                              0 comments  ·  .NET  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                            • Implement pull request for git repositories in TFS with online diff view and commenting much like on GitHub.

                              On GitHub it's possible to maintain a master repository to which contributers can issue pull requests from their forks or local repositories. You can then have gate keepers who review the changes and approve or reject them based on the quality. When rejecting a change they can add comments about necessary changes and so on. This is a great practice to ensure greater quality in the finished product and for some of our projects a requirement for us to consider TFS rather than GitHub. This functionality should be implemented in TFS online so that Visual Studio is not required for…

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                              • Add a Merge button to the Changeset Details dialog (Team Explorer)

                                Merging a changeset seems like an extremely common action from having it open in team explorer. The other ways to initiate a merge are long-winded and awkward (select full or partial merge, select source branch, wait for changeset list to load, find the wanted changeset etc.)

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                                  0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                • WF designer rehost on Silverlight

                                  The ability to rehost de designer on Silverlight. (Its time to make WF components as XAML...) This would be a major feature.

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                                    0 comments  ·  Windows Workflow Foundation  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                  • Easy non-enterprise applications for multiple companies

                                    Make it easy to create Lightswitch applications for the general market where many companies - each with their own user-base - can signup and use the Lightswitch application.

                                    It should be easier to leave the departmental paradigm behind and use Lightswitch to create standalone offerings for multiple and often smaller companies.

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                                    • Allow embedded resources in Database Project

                                      Database project doesn't allow to add new resource file (.resx) and doesn't compile it in right way, if existing resource files are added.

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                                      • Introduce data type "file" (not only "image") including upload/open commands

                                        In many cases, it would be helpful to add a file to a record (e.g. an office document or a PDF). There should be native support to upload a file and to open/download a stored file. I know there are workarounds using Silverlight/XAML, but we would appreciate having such functionality built-in.

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                                        • "Not in list" support for Playlist feature

                                          With the new Playlist feature a "Not in list" support is required, without which playlist is less useful for the tests added later in lists

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