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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Interacting with Redmine from Visual Studio


Integrating Redmine tasks into Visual Studio can help programmers get a better user experience, and improve effectiveness, as everything is integrated in their known environment. Most likely, developers will not even need to log in to Redmine, unless they have something to comment on tasks. Everything depends on the team's workflow organization.

Getting ready

A Redmine administrator account is necessary and Visual Studio 2010-2013.

Make sure that Administration | Settings | Enable REST web service is checked.

How to do it…

To integrate Redmine with Visual Studio, either install vsix from the Visual Studio Gallery or download and install it directly from https://redminetasklist.codeplex.com. So, to start using this excellent plugin, the flow should look like this:

  1. Download and install the plugin.

  2. Navigate to Tools | Options.

  3. Select Redmine Task List in Tree view.

  4. Enter values for Redmine's user values username, password, and URL:

To start using the plugin...