Dave's Team System Blog

Atlanta Code Camp Slides

David Scruggs — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:21:07 GMT

I’ve posted my Tips and Tricks slides from Saturday’s session at http://sdrv.ms/KlpvDF . Hope you enjoy them! Also, Zain Naboulsi has a lot of tips for Visual Studio 2010 at http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/VSTips ....(read more)

Visual Studio 11 Roadshow

David Scruggs — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:33:05 GMT

Next week, I’ll be presenting at two half-day events—one in Alpharetta, Georgia on Tuesday, and one in Durham, North Carolina on Thursday. If you’re a IT manager or decision maker, a project manager on software projects, a professional developer, or a...(read more)

Getting a successful Visual Studio 10 Team Build when Visual Studio 11 is installed locally

David Scruggs — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:41:53 GMT

I was trying to build a project with the Azure SDK, and the team build was breaking because it couldn’t find the Azure MSBuild targets. Precisely, I was getting this error: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio...(read more)

Having private properties in ASP.NET MVC model objects

David Scruggs — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:45:30 GMT

I have an ASP.NET MVC project in which I wanted to track which users created an item. I’m already using membership and authorization, so I just have to annotate my controller methods with an [Authorize] tag. I added a “User” property to the model objects...(read more)

Analysis Services 2008 R2 Team Build in TFS 2010

David Scruggs — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:41:02 GMT

If you’ve tried to build a BIDS project in a team build, you’ve noticed that BIDS doesn’t support MSBuild. There are a couple of workarounds for this. Find MSBuild extensions for the various BIDS projects. They’re out there. Run the build through Visual...(read more)

Using a config file to override targets in a Visual Studio test project

David Scruggs — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:44:23 GMT

I wanted one of my coded UI tests to work in different environments, and to do that I wanted to override one of the URLs. I wanted to set that up in a config file rather than a data source. So, I created my own configuration data class for a custom section...(read more)

Opening minidumps in Visual Studio—what to do when you get a “You cannot debug a 64-bit dump of a 32-bit prcess, you must collect a 32-bit dump of a 32-bit process”

David Scruggs — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:29:39 GMT

John Robbins has a few tips on collecting minidumps in a blog post . Unfortunately, you typically can’t debug a .NET mindump created on a 64-bit machine by Process Explorer or Task Manager. Satish Arvati describes how to get a 32-bit version of...(read more)

Ways to associate a host name with your machine

David Scruggs — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:09:47 GMT

I show a lot of web applications on my laptop. One of the nice things about IIS is that you can have multiple host names associated with your machine (like “www.contoso.com” and “ftp.contoso.com” and “finance.contoso.com”), but you can have several sites...(read more)

Setting up the SCOM TFS Connector CTP

David Scruggs — Mon, 23 May 2011 19:51:38 GMT

I’m glad I set up the CTP of the new TFS SCOM connector . For one thing, it prompted me to set up System Center Operations Manager, which has the TFS SCOM Pack for monitoring TFS. I haven’t been able to show that until now, and it’s a good add-in to have...(read more)

jQuery-validate in MVC

David Scruggs — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:58:19 GMT

Boy, is debugging in a strongly typed language easier than in JavaScript. I’m really glad to have NuGet in Visual Studio. Of course, I immediately ran “Update-Package jQuery”, and then merrily went along until I later discovered that my login and registration...(read more)

Some code to remove old build agent and test environment references

David Scruggs — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:39:49 GMT

Disclaimer: This is just a blog post, and this isn’t supported code by any stretch of the imagination. It hasn’t been certified by anybody. I can’t say that customer support will help you if you’ve used it. It’s just me using the TFS API. I have an unusual...(read more)

WebCamps coming to the Southeastern US—see http://www.webcamps.ms/upcoming-web-camps.aspx

David Scruggs — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:17:04 GMT

The next full (2-day) camp is in Atlanta, at the Microsoft Alpharetta MTC, on March 30th. Andrew Duthie and Chris Bowen will present on MVC, jQuery, Entity Framework, and OData on Day 1 . Day 2 should be all hands-on labs. There are also events...(read more)

Attrice Status Sidekick FTW

David Scruggs — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 19:52:49 GMT

I moved everything from one TFS server to another TFS server, and I decommissioned the old TFS server. I had some old workspaces from an old Team Build account, and they had left some items with pending changes. I’d tried Buck Hodges old blog...(read more)

Lab management – TF260078 error

David Scruggs — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:32:14 GMT

I moved a Team Project Collection from one server to another, and got a TF260078 error when I tried to run lab management. It turns out, I needed to add my machine name as a SCVMM administrator (or that just fixed the problem, and maybe I could...(read more)

If you’re adding a project portal and/or a reporting site to a TFS 2010 instance after project creation, give Jeremy Jameson’s blog a read…

David Scruggs — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:58:38 GMT

The instructions at Adding Dashboards and Reports to Upgraded Team Projects wasn’t really clear to me that you had to run the File.BatchNewTeamProject on the server where you were publishing the SharePoint site. In my case, SharePoint and TFS are...(read more)

Studio Styles - Visual Studio color schemes

David Scruggs — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:47:53 GMT

How did I miss this? It’s an entire catalog of Visual Studio color theme settings. And, they’re rated. I just applied “WekeRoad Ink”, and it’s changed the feel of my editor. You can get a nice, comfortable feel out of it. ...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 Visual Studio Training Kit

David Scruggs — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:23:01 GMT

There is a SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Course over at the Channel 9 Learning Center . There are a few places where I tweaked things a bit to make it work the way I wanted. One of the labs is a LINQ to SharePoint lab. It has two parts...(read more)

Handy load test feature—turn on logging

David Scruggs — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:29:11 GMT

If you’d like to see what an occasional test response looks like in your load tests, you can turn on test logging. That saves the individual test responses—you get unit test results for unit tests, and web performance test results for web performance...(read more)

Targeting different web servers in load tests

David Scruggs — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:30:23 GMT

You’ve been able to parameterize web servers in web (performance) tests since 2005. When you do this, it sets a context parameter that you can update to retarget to a different web server. Well, you can take advantage of that in load tests. ...(read more)

Reconnecting a “disconnected” lab agent

David Scruggs — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:28:06 GMT

There is a huge troubleshooting guide at http://blogs.msdn.com/lab_management/pages/troubleshooting.aspx . I was running into a problem about my test agent always being “disconnected”. The particular error I had was "TF276055: The machine...(read more)

Steve Dunn's Blog: A tool to switch project files between using Visual Studio 2008 and 2010

David Scruggs — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:51:33 GMT

I get asked or nagged about this every week—people want to work on the same projects and solutions in VS 2008 and 2010. Generally speaking, there is only one attribute in one XML tag different between the two files, but there may be other differences...(read more)

New VS2010-compatible WIX build (3.5.1512.0)

David Scruggs — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:36:48 GMT

I received a question about installers, and because of it I noticed that the latest WIX installer supports VS2010 and has the BURN chainer. The version I grabbed is from Index of /releases/3.5.1512.0 . Over the past few months, I’ve been looking...(read more)

Follow up from the 3-16-2010 ALEMUG meeting

David Scruggs — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:21:17 GMT

It was a great time at the ALEMUG meeting, even if I didn’t get a slice of pizza. It was an open space, so the agenda we had was quickly abandoned in favor of whatever people were interested in. Some people were interested in training for Visual...(read more)

Intellitrace and Video Settings

David Scruggs — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:12:07 GMT

I was asked about configuring how much file space Intellitrace and video capture take up. It’s something you can configure. For Testing, it’s set in the test settings—just open the test settings file for the solution. If you don’t have any...(read more)

Silverlight 4 RIA Breaking Changes

David Scruggs — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:10:39 GMT

If you’ve written anything in SIlverlight 4 RIA Services, you’ll need to rewrite it. There has been a lot of refactoring and namespace moves. They’re documented in the document at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload...(read more)