Creating new Team project group in TFS

You can create security groups for your team project to better meet the security requirements of your organization. Creating a security group is an efficient way to grant a specific set of permissions to a group of users on your team project. Make sure that you allow only the minimum permissions necessary for the group, and add only those users or groups who must belong to this new team project group. If you must create a group that is not project-specific, consider creating a server-level group instead

Required Permissions

To perform this procedure, you must be a member of the Project Administrators group

To create a team project group

1. In Team Explorer, select the team project for which you want to create a group.
2. On the Team menu, point to Team Project Settings, and then click Group Membership.
3. In the Project Groups dialog box, click New.
4. In the Create New Team Foundation Server Group dialog box, in the Group Name box, type the name for the team project group.
5. In the Description box, type a description for the group.
6. Click OK.

Insights to Knockout JS (KO)

Introduction

Knockout is a JavaScript library that helps you to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model. Any time you have sections of UI that update dynamically (e.g., changing depending on the user’s actions or when an external data source changes), KO can help you implement it more simply and maintainably.

Headline features:

• Elegant dependency tracking - automatically updates the right parts of your UI whenever your data model changes
• Declarative bindings - a simple and obvious way to connect parts of your UI to your data model
• Flexible and sophisticated templating - construct a complex dynamic UI easily using arbitrarily nested templates
• Trivially extensible - implement custom behaviors as new declarative bindings for easy reuse in just a few lines of code

Additional benefits:

• Pure JavaScript library - works with any server or client-side technology
• Can be added on top of your existing web application without requiring major architectural changes
• Compact - around 25kb before gzipping
• Works on any mainstream browser (IE 6+, Firefox 2+, Chrome, Safari, others)
• Comprehensive suite of specifications (developed BDD-style) means its correct functioning can easily be verified on new browsers and platforms

Installation

Knockout’s core library is pure JavaScript and doesn’t depend on any other libraries. So, to add KO to your project, just follow these steps:

1. Download the latest version of the Knockout JavaScript file from here. For normal development and production use, use the default, minified version (knockout-x.y.z.js).
   For debugging only, use the larger, non-minified version (knockout-x.y.z.debug.js). This behaves the same as the minified version, but has human-readable source code with full variable names and comments, and does not hide internal APIs.
   
2. Reference the file using a

jStorage - store data locally with JavaScript

jStorage is a simple wrapper plugin for Prototype, MooTools and jQuery to cache data (string, numbers, objects, even XML nodes) on browser side. Note that functions, DOM nodes, host objects and such can not be saved.

jStorage makes use of HTML5 local storage where available and userData behavior in Internet Explorer older versions. Webkit SQLite is not supported.
Current availability: jStorage supports all major browsers - Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2+, Safari 4+, Chrome 4+, Opera 10.50+
If the browser doesn't support data caching, then no exceptions are raised - jStorage can still be used by the script but nothing is actually stored.
jStorage is really small, just about 2 kB when minified (under 1kB when gzipped)!

Browser	Storage support	Survives browser restart	Survives browser crash	Storage size
Chrome 4	+	+	+	5 MB
Firefox 3.6	+	+	+	5 MB
Firefox 3	+	+	+	5 MB
Firefox 2	+	+	+	5 MB
IE8	+	+	+	10 MB
IE7	+	+	+	128 kB
IE6	+	+	+	128 kB
Opera 10.50	+	+	-	5 MB
Opera 10.10	-	N/A	N/A	N/A
Safari 4	+	+	+	5 MB
Iphone Safari	+	+	+	5 MB
Safari 3	-	N/A	N/A	N/A

jStorage can be downloaded at github (direct download link)