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New Post: Link crawler

hinshelmw — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:33:25 GMT

I have tried that, but I ran into problems with capasity and load on the lient applicaiton...

New Post: Link crawler

plam — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:51:27 GMT

I'm really impressed with this tool. Would there be a chance of adding a feature where one can look at work items (across projects) linked to the currently-selected work item?

New Post: Is this app still active? Or is there...

hinshelmw — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:09:20 GMT

Hi Dylan,

I have been working on other things, but I do intend to return to it. I plan to wait for the TFS2010 beta (which will be soon) and fill any gaps. Currently 2010 does not have a "Sticky Buddy" type view, but it was on the cards for the RTM.

Martin

New Post: Is this app still active? Or is there...

Dylan72 — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:38:14 GMT

Is this app still active, or are people using something else these days.

I was using this app last year a bit, and it seemed quite good, but rudimentary. Has it gone any further? Will anything else happen now?

New Post: How do you want the dashboard view to be displayed?

initdotd — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:28:35 GMT

A quick note to say I really like the direction this app is going. Thanks!

I'm thinking about presenting Sticky Buddy on a flat panel in the office at all times. It would be nice if:

1. Having the ability to define multiple views and cycle through in a slide show configuration would be cool.

2. Maybe an additional Panel that provides high level rollup information related to the current project being viewed. Number of reqs (open, closed), number of bugs (submitted, opened, closed), or any other items and their related status values.

Keep up the good work!

NEW POST: Suggestion - hide empty iterations/areas

pzol — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:09:50 GMT

Yes, we have the same problem, this would be really, really useful!

NEW POST: Adding New Life Cycle Resources

hinshelmw — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:21:09 GMT

I found this a bit shonkey myself. You need to giggle it around untill it will compule once, and then add the resource...

Its a feature of WPF development....

NEW POST: Adding New Life Cycle Resources

rodclaar — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:40:44 GMT

I'm trying to add a new Life Cycle. When I copy and try to edit your default, the project won't build (Error 2 The tag 'WIItemFieldConverter' does not exist in XML namespace 'clr-namespace:RDdotNet.TFSStickyBuddy;assembly=RDdotNet.TFSStickyBuddy'. Line 8 Position 6.)

Should I be able to add a new Life Cycle Reource to the LifeCycles folder in the installed project? I can get it to recognize it but it does not seem to respond to my changes even after restarting.

I was able to change the default!

Thanks,
Rod

NEW POST: Fails on 64-bit Windows + Work-around

hinshelmw — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:04:53 GMT

The application is currently set to "Any CPU" so I can only assum that it is a problem when loading the TFS API which needs to run on WOW...

NEW POST: Working offline with source code

hinshelmw — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:03:57 GMT

Hi Dylan,

It sounds like your firewall is stripping the .xaml files out of the zip as they apier in all the zip files. Have you tried installing the application? The source files are hiden in the "Source" folder under the applications program files folder... ;) sneekie I know.. but I have run accross this issue before...

Martin

NEW POST: Fails on 64-bit Windows + Work-around

vhhughes — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:12:46 GMT

I just posted the issue (http://www.codeplex.com/TFSStickyBuddy/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=2141) for resolution by someone working on the code base, but in the meantime, there is a work-around for 64-bit Windows users. Details are in the issue.

NEW POST: Working offline with source code

Dylan72 — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:50:30 GMT

I thought I would have a look at the source and get a better understanding of my HTML description issue. I have the source that was packaged with the application installer.

My development environment is offline (no Internet access.)

I loaded up the .vbproj file, and when propted about source control, I elected to unbind all source control (as I don't have access to codeplex from my development environment.)

When the proejct loads, pretty much all the .xaml files are "missing" in the project browser. I have all the code-behind, but none of the xaml. Also no app.config in the project.

If I try to build, I get a raft of errors around missing files, including "Sub Main was not found in RDdotNet.TFSStickyBuddy"

How can I work offline with the project? We have a number of restrictions on downloading source code etc here, so anything that requires internet access is going to be painful.

Cheers,
Dylan.

NEW POST: HTML Description Field?

hinshelmw — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:33:20 GMT

Of this I am not sure, It will require further investigation.

A posible interim solution would be to write a convertor that strips out the HTML and compile it. Then add it to the LifeCycle xaml and apply it to that field...

NEW POST: Suggestion - Click on the work item

hinshelmw — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:29:01 GMT

This discussion has been copied to a work item. Click here to go to the work item and continue the discussion.

NEW POST: Multi-Project View

Dylan72 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:07:02 GMT

The biggest problem I have with that concept is that our different projects use different state codes, and sometimes different description fields, so we would need a separate xaml description of each project. Still thinking about this one.

NEW POST: How do you want the dashboard view to be displayed?

Dylan72 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:04:46 GMT

1) The last viewed dashboard state should be what the program opens onto. I am ususally looking at a particular query in a particular project, so it would be easier if the app opened up displaying whatever I was last looking at.

2) The display is not wide enough. With all my empty iterations, my active working area is way over to the right, and I can't scroll far enough to view it without zooming too far out to make it useful. Is there a way to either hide empty iterations (see my other suggestion) or to give a greater working area so you can scroll over to the right further?

3) How are work items ordered? Are they sorted by rank at all? That would be handy. I can see that they are grouped by state, which is nice, but sorting by rank within state would be great (assuming that is not what you are already doing. I haven't checked.)

4) Refresh on adding an area/iteration doesn't work. If you add an area to TFS, then re-run the query in Buddy, no work items are dispalyed. You have to go right back to the start and select TFS server, Project, Query.

5) A manual refresh (on F5 for example) would be useful.

Great work, guys. This tool has some nice potential. I have found it extremely useful already in identifying work items without an Area.

Dylan.

NEW POST: Suggestion - hide empty iterations/areas

Dylan72 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:56:24 GMT

Sorry - duplicate post.

NEW POST: Suggestion - hide empty iterations/areas

Dylan72 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:56:22 GMT

This is a bit harder.

If an area, and all the subareas of that area, are empty, there shoudl probably be an option to hide that area from the dashboard.

We have a number of unused areas, and a huge number of iterations, so when viewing a query we often get a lot of extraneous clutter, empty areas and iterations.

Dylan.

NEW POST: Suggestion - Click on the work item

Dylan72 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:54:09 GMT

The obvious suggestion: click (or double-click) on the work item to open it in TFS Web Access.

Dylan.

NEW POST: HTML Description Field?

Dylan72 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:52:36 GMT

We have a replacement description field that is in HTMLField format. When I pop it into the xaml to show in the WIPopup, I get all the html tags.

Is there a converter or something I can specify in the xaml to get it to format as html? Or would this be a code change?

Dylan.