Lost licensed users in TFS workgroup edition HenriKluijtmans, January 1, 0001 What to do when the only domain controller in a network gets useless and Team Foundation Server is installed in the workgroup edition. I came accross this issue after a server broke down and there seemed ... Lost licensed users in TFS workgroup edition 0 0 4
TFS 2010 Beta 2 PowerTools Released Matt deClercq, January 1, 0001 Don't know how I missed this but the TFS 2010 Beta 2 PowerTools were released on December 17th 2009. Here is the link to the download page. TFS 2010 Beta 2 PowerTools Have fun ... TFS 2010 Beta 2 PowerTools Released 0 0 0
Drive Your Development with Visual Studio.NET 2010 – Midwes... Kevin Grossnicklaus, January 1, 0001 I wanted to share information on an upcoming development tour through the Midwest that I’m involved with. It’s called the Drive Your Development with Visual Studio.NET 2010 tour and you can find more information ... Drive Your Development with Visual Studio.NET 2010 – Midwes... 0 0 0
Two Major Milestones for RoundhousE and UppercuT Robz / Fervent Coder, January 1, 0001 This last year I had a focus to get more involved in Open Source (OSS). The year before I had been involved a little by submitting a patch here and there, but 2009 was a big year for me in OSS. I now manage ... Two Major Milestones for RoundhousE and UppercuT 0 0 0
Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts John Alexander, January 1, 0001 Recently I was in a meeting to discuss the new features of Team Foundation Server 2010. The senior management team asked many questions and was duly impressed. Afterwards, I thought that the QA would make ... Team Foundation Server 2010 Key Concepts 0 0 11
This is NOT another goodbye 2009 or 2000’s blog post Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 I’m really not one to reflect. I prefer to live in the present and consider the future. As such, rather than saying goodbye to 2009 I’m saying Hello to 2010. I’m looking forward to my first full year at ... This is NOT another goodbye 2009 or 2000’s blog post 0 0 0
just in time for Christmas, part 2… John Alexander, January 1, 0001 Visual Studio Team System 2008 vpcs with new expiration dates!!!! The last set of images was set to expire December 31, 2009. These images were updated with new expiration dates (January 31, 2011) and ... just in time for Christmas, part 2… 0 0 7
Just in time for Christmas, part 1… John Alexander, January 1, 0001 Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Team Foundation Server 2010 – Beta 2, WITH SAMPLE DATA This VM included everything you need to learn and demonstrate the ALM capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 (with ... Just in time for Christmas, part 1… 0 0 5
What Identity with IIS7 and ApplicationPoolIdentity? Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 With IIS7, we have a little bit more isolation with AppPool Identities For example, if you’re using the the DefaultAppPool, if you need to assign permissions to NTFS, SQL, etc., what you’d use instead ... What Identity with IIS7 and ApplicationPoolIdentity? 0 0 0
Common Components and Where You Can Put Them In Your Repository Carlos Santos, January 1, 0001 Its is very typical for companies to have a set of common components. These are typically in one or more assemblies and shared by more than one system.In this post, I'll walk you through my through process ... Common Components and Where You Can Put Them In Your Repository 0 0 0
Branching Strategies Carlos Santos, January 1, 0001 Unless you've developed a one-off application, you're more than likely going to need to need to branch. In this post, I'll point you to some great documentation on how to decide on what your branching ... Branching Strategies 0 0 0
Integration Testing WCF services with Unity Michael Ballhaus, January 1, 0001 Previously I wrote an article regarding Unit Testing WCF with Unity. Unit testing allows you to test a single component of your application, completely independent of any other components or systems. Once ... Integration Testing WCF services with Unity 0 0 5
Repository Structure Carlos Santos, January 1, 0001 The below repository structure is taken from a couple of sources and personal experience. Part of it is from the TFS Guide. Now don't dismiss it just because it comes from the TFS guide. It has great advice ... Repository Structure 0 0 0
TFS 2010 Beta 2 and MS Project 2007 Integration (New Parent/Child... Matt deClercq, January 1, 0001 Lately I have been diving deep into the world of TFS integration with MS Project 2007. What I mean by that is having a project plan that is created and then loaded into TFS as workitems. So the idea is ... TFS 2010 Beta 2 and MS Project 2007 Integration (New Parent/Child... 0 0 1
My most popular blog posts of 2009 Eric Nelson, January 1, 0001 [Updated 23/12/2009: You might also want to check out my colleagues Mike and Mike who did the same] For fun I thought I would have a look at which of my posts in 2009 were my most popular. The results ... My most popular blog posts of 2009 0 0 0
TechDays Winnipeg - Brrrr Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 Today is TechDays in Winnipeg. Today I’m doing a session on upgrading to TFS 2010 and new features in VS 2010. Tomorrow I’m doing a session on Configuration Management with TFS. I’m looking forward to ... TechDays Winnipeg - Brrrr 0 0 0
Platform Builder: Communicating Between the Bootloader and the OS Bruce Eitman, January 1, 0001 In the article Platform Builder: Setting Default Memory Divisions, I discussed using pOEMCalcFSPages() or pfnCalcFSPages() to set the memory division between storage and program memory. In that article ... Platform Builder: Communicating Between the Bootloader and the OS 0 0 1
Team Foundation Server Power Tools 2010 Beta 2 (Free) CatherineRussell, January 1, 0001 Technorati Tags: Tutorials Team Foundation Server Power Tools 2010 Beta 2 (Free) The following are the Power Tools supported in this release. Team Foundation Server Best Practices Analyzer Check-In Policy ... Team Foundation Server Power Tools 2010 Beta 2 (Free) 0 0 0
Platform Builder: Setting Default Memory Divisions Bruce Eitman, January 1, 0001 Windows CE divides the system RAM into two parts; storage memory and program memory. These two parts are equally divided by default. The problem with that is that some systems need to store files than ... Platform Builder: Setting Default Memory Divisions 0 0 4
How to properly use TFSFieldMapping.exe in 2010 Beta 2 Matt deClercq, January 1, 0001 After much frustration with MSDN and the instructions there here are the actual parameters to declare when using the TFSFieldMapping.exe for 2010 Beta 2. Team Foundation Field Mapping Tool Copyright (C) ... How to properly use TFSFieldMapping.exe in 2010 Beta 2 0 0 0
TFS 2010 – Managing Build Agents using the API Jakob Ehn, January 1, 0001 Moved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2009/12/08/tfs-2010-managing-build-agents-using-the-api/ TFS 2010 – Managing Build Agents using the API 0 0 5
How to setup a SQL Server alias and when is a connection alias us... Liam Westley, January 1, 0001 UPDATE: 5th January 2012If the client machine does not have SQL Server Configuration Manager, then head over to this MSDN article, http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... Qureshi has ... How to setup a SQL Server alias and when is a connection alias us... 0 0 21
Think you write good code???? David V. Corbin, January 1, 0001 I will formally announce that I have written some of the baddest [actually meaning worse, and not the venaculare where bad is really good] code in the universe. How do I know this? Because I have carefully ... Think you write good code???? 0 0 1
TFS 2010 Beta 2 Power Tools Released Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 UPDATE: There has been an updated version posted which resolves the Rules editing problem mentioned below. Way to go TFS team! A TFS 1010 Beta 2 version of the TFS Power tools has been released as announced ... TFS 2010 Beta 2 Power Tools Released 0 0 1
Scrum For Team System 3 (TFS2010Beta2) Released Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 The latest version of the Scrum for Team System * process template has now been released. This version is designed to work with Team Foundation Server 2010 (Beta 2) and introduces enterprise features to ... Scrum For Team System 3 (TFS2010Beta2) Released 0 0 1
MSBuild Exec task: using quotes in WorkingDirectory does not work Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 For a general applicability i tried to specify the WorkingDirectory attribute in a qotted manner: <WorkingDir>"... or ... MSBuild Exec task: using quotes in WorkingDirectory does not work 0 0 4
Stopping a build at the TFS Marko Apfel, January 1, 0001 Open a “visual studio command prompt” and try: tfsbuild stop https://*****:8143 RXXXXX_Sourcecode Gen_2.6_branch_test_20080827.1 ... Stopping a build at the TFS 0 0 0
Code Gallery Reshuffle EltonStoneman, January 1, 0001 [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/E... I've been posting code samples and walkthroughs on MSDN Code Gallery for a while now – keeping them distinct from CodePlex which I use for fully-fledged ... Code Gallery Reshuffle 0 0 9
TFS 2010 Beta 2 – Upgrading Builds from TFS 2008 Jakob Ehn, January 1, 0001 Moved to http://blog.ehn.nu/2009/11/24/tfs-2010-beta-2-upgrading-builds-from-tfs-2008/ TFS 2010 Beta 2 – Upgrading Builds from TFS 2008 0 0 1
Team Build (Msbuild) & missing Loosely Coupled and Satellite Asse... Jennifer Zouak, January 1, 0001 I noticed the problem yesterday and spent the whole day on this. Some of this is documented, some not yet. The problems: When building web applications with TFS's team build (we have 2005) the _PublishedWebsites ... Team Build (Msbuild) & missing Loosely Coupled and Satellite Asse... 0 0 1
Tools Roundup 2009 Jennifer Zouak, January 1, 0001 Here is a list of the items in my "essentials" toolkit this year (in no particular order): Remote Desktop + Citrix Metaframe + Rogers wireless USB key -- lets me work on the train!!! Microsoft Visual Studio ... Tools Roundup 2009 0 0 0
Visual Studio’s Cross-Platform Détente andrewbrust, January 1, 0001 I like it when Microsoft bridges its technologies out to other platforms. I like the PHP Driver for SQL Server and the samples in the PHP On Windows Training Kit so much that I did a whole session on them ... Visual Studio’s Cross-Platform Détente 0 0 0
Installing Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server SP1 Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Installing Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server SP1I have been trying since SP1 was released to get it installed at Aggreko, but due to our global, three time zones, development team and ... Installing Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server SP1 0 0 1
Huge news for mixed-technology shops using TFS! Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 Microsoft has purchased Teamprise, who created a Team Foundation Server plug-in for Eclipse as well as extensions for doing Java builds with Team Foundation Server. http://www.microsoft.com/pr... ... Huge news for mixed-technology shops using TFS! 0 0 0
TeamPrise acquired by Microsoft. Shawn Cicoria, January 1, 0001 TeamPrise – the cross platform “client” for TFS, with Eclipse support (plug-in), command line – has been acquired by Microsoft. So, we’ve been pushing folks to a 3rd parties to get back to the ALM Mothership ... TeamPrise acquired by Microsoft. 0 0 0
Inconclusive / ignored tests converted from NUnit to MSTest corre... martin, January 1, 0001 This article describes how to integrate NUnit tests into the TFS build. It also supplies a link to a XSLT file for the conversion between the NUnit results to an MSTest format. The result is great; in ... Inconclusive / ignored tests converted from NUnit to MSTest corre... 0 0 0
SharePoint ALCM: A real world example Kelly Jones, January 1, 0001 For the past year, I’ve been working with a client that is in a very unusual position, at least one that has been rare in my career. My client is an established business being spun off from their corporate ... SharePoint ALCM: A real world example 0 0 1
Diagnosing TFS builds martin, January 1, 0001 Build fails from some strange reason or build does not perform the things you expect it to do, what to do? Every team build in the TeamBuildTypes folder contains a TFSBuild.rsp file, perform a check out ... Diagnosing TFS builds 0 0 0
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2! MikeParks, January 1, 0001 We recently had Stephen Toub, a Senior Program Manager on the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft, swing by our office and walked us through some really cool ways to start implementing parallel ... Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2! 0 0 1
Sysprepping TFS 2010 Beta 2 – Not so easy Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I was trying to create a Sysprep’d VPC image containing VSTS 2010 Beta 2 + TFS 2010 Beta 2 to distribute to the rest of my team to try out some of the new features. Unfortunately, distributing a Sysprep’d ... Sysprepping TFS 2010 Beta 2 – Not so easy 0 0 1
Installing Team Build 2010 Beta2 Dylan Smith, January 1, 0001 I just went through the process of creating a VHD for use by myself and some other members on my team. I had a pre-built base image with Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Enterprise that I used to ... Installing Team Build 2010 Beta2 0 0 0
Windows CE Chat Transcript (October 27, 2009) Bruce Eitman, January 1, 0001 For those of you who missed the chat today, here is the raw transcript. By raw, I mean that I copied and pasted the discussion without any edits. This is divided into two parts, the top part is the answers ... Windows CE Chat Transcript (October 27, 2009) 0 0 1
Tips on Connecting to the New Team Foundation Server and moving a... Geordie, January 1, 0001 It can be a challenge to move a project from one TFS source control to another. This is because TFS has the concept of workspaces. These workspaces are generally behind the scenes so you do not know they ... Tips on Connecting to the New Team Foundation Server and moving a... 0 0 0
On branches and builds in Team Foundation Server terje, January 1, 0001 On codeplex the VSTS Rangers have published the Branching Guidance II (yes, a while ago, but still very true). The basic idea there is the separation between 3 major branches, the Main (or trunk), the ... On branches and builds in Team Foundation Server 0 0 0
Deploying Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 - Done Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Deploying Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 - DoneWell, nothing like hitting the ground running, my first job at SSW was to join the TFS Migration Team, it was a fun experience, ... Deploying Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 - Done 0 0 7
A change for the better #2 Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: A change for the better #2In the last 2+ years at Aggreko I have worked with Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and a number of WPF, Silverlight and ASP.NET ... A change for the better #2 0 0 0
Invited to present at MS TFS All Hands meeting Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 While in Redmond last week I was invited to attend and present at the TFS All Hands meeting. What a lot of brain power in one place (actually 2 places; North Carolina and Redmond.) I guess they usually ... Invited to present at MS TFS All Hands meeting 0 0 0
Branched history working in Visual Studio 2010 using TFS Server 2... terje, January 1, 0001 Visual Studio 2010 (beta 2) can be connected to an existing TFS 2008 Server. Much of the new great stuff is then not available, quite naturally. But I was quite positively surprised that some stuff I had ... Branched history working in Visual Studio 2010 using TFS Server 2... 0 0 1
New version of TFS Work Item Manager / Project Dashboard with Ite... Aaron Kowall, January 1, 0001 Today Telerik released our Beta 2 version of our FREE and popular Work Item Manager and Project Dashboard Tooling. There are a bunch of bug fixes (it was a Beta 1 after all) that have been made and one ... New version of TFS Work Item Manager / Project Dashboard with Ite... 0 0 4
Why Team Foundation Server did not work for us Liam McLennan, January 1, 0001 Between 2nd October and 18th October my current team was using Team Foundation Server for source control and integration. On Sunday I merged the changes from TFS back into our old subversion repository, ... Why Team Foundation Server did not work for us 0 0 1