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Today our team leader asked me to get someone in our team started on a new solution. This entails 2 things: A dev tree Tests and code (and yes, I choose this order on purpose) The Dev Tree Suppose you have to make a new solution. Create root: $/TeamProject/<SolutionName> Create main...
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Something really annoying happens in Visual Studio when I debug my tests. No tests run, because of a test run error: Code coverage collection error: The Visual Studio performance and coverage logging engine is already running on the computer. Therefore, the test run cannot continue. Close the pending...
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I had a problem today. My ASP.NET Development server wouldn’t start because the specified port was already in use. The port number was 50678, so it wasn’t very likely that it actually was in use. But I decided to check anyway. But as expected ‘netstat –a’ gave me no results for port 50678. Restarting...
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An exhausting day at PDC... Here are the sessions that I did: Keynote: Windows Azure Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: A Lap Around VSTS 2010 ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap Team Foundation Server 2010: Cool New Features WF 4.0: A first look I really love the new features of VSTS and TFS; I can hardly...
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Since Holland is kicked out of Euro 2008 , I found myself some extra time to investigate Visual Studio Team System "Rosario" CTP 12 . It's been a couple of months ago Microsoft released this fantastic platform, but almost nobody blogged about it. Of course three of the most interesting...
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This year I visited the Dutch Microsoft DevDays 2008 event. It's an event for Microsoft developers which targets several developer related subjects. I focused on SharePoint, Silverlight and Visual Studio Team System, and have seen interesting presentations on these subjects. If you haven't been...
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Lately I've been asked to install Team System Web Access on the same machine containing WSS 3.0. Officious I configured their SharePoint using a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) . This gives them the ability to open the TFS sites from outside their environment and on Internet as well. Since MS...
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The latest Project Server to TFS Connector was just released on CodePlex . This release of the PS2007 VSTS Connector is targeted to work with Team Foundation Server 2008 and resolves several bugs that were reported in the first two releases. They've done their best to ensure that this Connector is...
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A couple of weeks ago I posted a post about creating a couple of data generators for DataDude . In mine first data generator I used aggregation extensibility. Microsoft divided each form of extensibility in another section. Since I created one or more instances of the standard data generator classes...
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On June 11 and 12, I attended a 2-day Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals workshop at Class-A . This event was hosted by Gert Drapers (also aka DataDude), see his blog post announcing the event. Gert discussed all the important features of the tool and some of my fellow attendees complained...
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Last night I had a dream about the future of TFS. Wouldn't it be nice if we had one single portal on which all my team projects and their web interfaces resides. That you could easily search across libraries and projects and relate those projects by using site hierarchies. Reports and other functionality...
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As most of you TFS addicts, I also immediately installed the new TFS Power Tools. Like Marcel de Vries wrote in his blog "A must have is the new embedded in Visual Studio Process Template Editor". This editor is almost same as the one I used before, but it's using Visual Studio as a container to modify...
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If you’re going to analyze Visual SourceSafe databases for migration to Team Foundation source control, and to migrate Visual SourceSafe databases to Team Foundation source control, you’ll eventually meet VSSConverter . VSSConverter is a command line utility that uses XML configuration files to transfer...
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!! THIS BLOG IS OBSOLETE SINCE MICROSOFT IS DELIVERING A GUIDE ON MSDN !! I've just finished my guide about upgrading TFS V1 to WSS 3.0 and Microsoft immediately releases Service Pack 1 for TFS V1. This is good thing and I knew it was planned for half December, but I now have to write a second guide...
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This is the second article about Ten Must-Have Tools Every TFS User Should Download Now. Part I discusses : Joel Semeniuk ( Policy Template Editor ) Microsoft TFS Powertoys ( Annotate , TreeDiff ) Attrice TFS Sidekicks ( Team Foundation , add-in , MS Build ) Part II discusses: Naren Datha ( Workitem...