TFS Attacher For Windows Phone 7
Delta-N TFS Attacher enables users of Team Foundation Server (TFS) to enrich their Work Items with photo attachments. Pictures of notes on a whiteboard, sketches or any other picture can now be attached directly from your phone.
The application allows you to search for work items, attach pictures to them by taking a photo or choosing a picture. TFS Attacher is fully integrated with your camera and picture library, which enables sharing photos by using TFS Attacher.
TFS Attacher is available in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Screen examples:
Prerequisites for this app are:
- Team Foundation Server 2010
- OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010
Instructions for installation:
To be able to use TFS Attacher on your own TFS server, you need to install the OData service. The Open Data Protocol (OData) provides a way to collect and send data from your phone to TFS and vice versa. It uses web technologies to accomplish this.
Download the OData service for TFS 2010 (installation guide is included in the package):
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=13576
Information on (and link to download) the service for TFS 2010:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2011/10/26/odata-service-for-team-foundation-server-2010-v1.aspx
More information on the OData protocol:
http://www.odata.org
Download and Configure
When you download the app from the marketplace (Download App from marketplace) and start up the first screen
shows your favorites. There are no favorites because you first have to configure
the app. Press the (…) button on the bottom of the screen to show the settings screen.
Fill in your TFS
credentials, the ProjectCollection you are working on and the url of the TFS OData
Service that you are using. (read here how to make this available). Save the settings
when you are done. If the url cannot be found or accessed, the settings will not
be saved.
Finding Work Items and Attaching Pictures
Once you are successfully connected to a TFS server, your app shows a list of projects
that are available on your server.
When you select a
project, all queries within this project will show up. Treeview queries or Direct
Link queries are ignored. Select a query to obtain the results.
Select a Work Item to see the details. Swipe to see the attachments. Select the camera button or storage button to add an attachment.
When you took
a picture or selected one from storage. You can modify the name and comment of the
picture. Press the send button to upload the picture to TFS. The TFS OData service
cannot accept attachments larger than 64 KB. The TFS Attacher will therefore resize
and compress the picture so that it is smaller than 64 KB. The upload is asynchronous.
It first gives a message that the picture is send. After that you will receive a
message that the upload succeeded.
Organizing and Quick Access To make it easier to access your favorite queries or work items we built in 2 features. Favorites and Work Item Search. Work Item Search On the main screen swipe until you find the “Search for Work Items” Screen. You can type a work item id and the work item is found. Press the work item to access it.
Favorites
On queries and work item details the “Star Symbol” appears. If you click this symbol, the query or work item is added on your favorites screen. You can now directly access it. You can add queries and work items from different projects.
The first screen
will show your favorites !
Have fun with the TFS Attacher !
If you have any further questions, please contact Delta-N, we are here to help you!