Developer Support Team Foundation Server

Using TFS 2012 Team Build to control build order of multiple solutions

Trevor Hancock — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:55:54 GMT

Nitish Nagpal brings us this support experience today.... Problem Description TFS 2012 with multiple C# solutions. One solution depended on the .DLLs from other solutions. Continuous Integration build definitions had been created for...(read more)

Error "TF254027: You must correct all errors before you continue.” upgrading TFS 2010 to TFS 2012

Trevor Hancock — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:39:11 GMT

Deepak Mittal brings us this support experience today.... Problem Description If you are upgrading from TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 and in 2010 you did not have build configured on the server, you may get this issue: “Build Service Verifications”...(read more)

Team Build \ Check-In Policy Error: "Internal error in the Policy. The calling thread must be STA, because many UI components require this."

Trevor Hancock — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:27:00 GMT

Deepak Mittal brings us this support experience today.... Problem Description Lets say you have created a check-in policy in TFS 2012 which should display a dialog box to perform some actions at the time of check-in, but this may not work and throw...(read more)

Test Attachment Cleaner for VS2010 - everything you need to know

Trevor Hancock — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:00:32 GMT

See the following blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsts/archive/2012/10/08/test-attachment-cleaner-everything-you-need-to-know-about.aspx...(read more)

Support Postmortem: Suddenly a build controller (that was previously functioning) has stopped

Trevor Hancock — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:34:48 GMT

Nitish Nagpal brings us this story of a recent support case. --Trevor PROBLEM DESCRIPTION ===================== One of my customers reported that suddenly a build controller that was previously functioning had stopped working and was unable...(read more)

Build GET hangs when using lab environment build and custom assembly check-in operation simultaneously

Trevor Hancock — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:58:54 GMT

Following comes from Deepak Mittal, Senior Developer Support Engineer. --Trevor H. ------------------------------------------- If you are using custom assembly check-in operation and lab build in the same build, you may notice that the build will hang...(read more)

"Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component" using TFS201 Team Web Access

Trevor Hancock — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:42:46 GMT

Following comes from Senior Support Engineer Nitish Nagpal. Problem: One of my customers was facing an issue with the TFS2010 Team Web Access in a collection that was ported over from another TFS 2010 install. They were not experiencing this issue...(read more)

What to do if you delete files or folders outside Team Explorer/Visual Studio 2010 from your local folder

Trevor Hancock — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:25:36 GMT

Following comes from Senior Support Engineer Nitish Nagpal. Problem: This is most common when you are initially learning Team Foundation Server, or if you are doing a lot of changes outside of the IDE. If you delete fi les from your local file...(read more)

Direction on changing SQL Service Start-up Accounts

Trevor Hancock — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:20:39 GMT

Following comes from Senior Support Engineer Nitish Nagpal. I have seen scenarios where TFS Engineers suggest changing the startup account of SQL Service(s) but often do not provide full instructions for doing it. As a result, customer will often...(read more)

Troubleshooting tips with Team Build 2010 for the projects migrated from 2005 or 2008

Trevor Hancock — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:59:29 GMT

Following comes from Senior Support Engineer Deepak Mittal. These are some troubleshooting tips which you may find useful in some scenarios. We've found them useful during troubleshooting of several cases reported to us. When you migrate your TFS...(read more)

Issue while building SharePoint workflow project with Team Build 2010 with duplicate call to Workflow.targets

Trevor Hancock — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:51:00 GMT

Following comes from Senior Support Engineer Deepak Mittal. Issue description: You may notice an error while building SharePoint workflow project with Team Build 2010. Detailed error message: Default Configuration and Platform 0 error(s),...(read more)

Junk characters in the Team Build 2010 log

Trevor Hancock — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:46:00 GMT

Following comes from Senior Support Engineer Deepak Mittal. Issue Description: You may notice junk characters in the Team Build 2010 log while copy operation on the dlls. Error messages were something like this: Overwrite D:\Builds\Microsoft...(read more)

A cumulative update is available for Team Foundation Server 2010 Service Pack 1…

Trevor Hancock — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:26:00 GMT

…and it’s here . Please review the update page and the linked KBs on it for further details....(read more)

Publishing TFS services to Visual Studio using UAG and SSL-VPN

Trevor Hancock — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:30:00 GMT

Our support team recently worked with Ben Ari from the Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) support team ( here’s his BLOG ) on a customer issue where we needed to provide client access to TFS through this gateway. Following are the steps...(read more)

Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1 is Available

Trevor Hancock — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:24:04 GMT

Download now from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=53c27216-c4f0-48b6-9bed-fe1718a2e3b0 Brian has some more details over on his BLOG about what’s in this release....(read more)

Upgrade Visual SourceSafe Today!

CSSTFSBLOG — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:07:00 GMT

Make the move to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 With modern features like state-of-the-art version control, integrated bug tracking and flexible build automation, Team Foundation Server 2010 ensures the delivery of quality software faster...(read more)

Now Available: Microsoft Code Sample Request Service

Trevor Hancock — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:41:42 GMT

The Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework team recently announced an innovative “FREE” code sample request service for customers. This service is a proactive way for our developer community to obtain code samples for certain programming tasks directly from...(read more)

Visual Studio improves Help Viewer for Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1

Trevor Hancock — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:03:07 GMT

The Visual Studio “Help” team received significant feedback requesting a Help experience that is more familiar to what shipped in previous versions of Visual Studio. Therefore, for Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1), they have been working hard to...(read more)

Need your feedback on revised MSDN Library topic: "Extending Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management"

Trevor Hancock — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:28:41 GMT

Allen Clark, the topic’s author, needs your help in evaluating how well our content improvements work for you: "I've been working on streamlining some content in an effort to make it easier for you to get the information that you need. The first...(read more)

New Team Explorer Everywhere Released

Trevor Hancock — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:09:00 GMT

FYI – We just released a new version of Team Explorer Everywhere! You can read about it here , and download it here . We are eager to get feedback from everyone. If you use Team Explorer Everywhere then we would love it if you could give the release a...(read more)

TFS 2010 Re-released

Trevor Hancock — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:51:00 GMT

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the need for a HOTFIX when upgrading to TFS 2010 from 05\08 . A few days ago we re-released TFS 2010 because of this issue. To quote Brian Harry: “The severity of the issue is bad enough that we decided to re-release...(read more)

Upgrading to TFS 2010? You need this HOTFIX.

Trevor Hancock — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:44:00 GMT

If you are in the process of upgrading to TFS 2010 from any earlier version, please be aware of this HOTFIX: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2135068 It is a very specific HOTFIX in that it needs to be applied *after* your upgrade to 2010 is complete...(read more)

Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 TFS Process Template has released

Trevor Hancock — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:42:00 GMT

Yesterday we posted our first version of Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0! You can download the template from the Visual Studio Gallery here . It was designed to be used with TFS 2010 only (uses hierarchical work items, and specific link...(read more)

Administrative Report Pack & Monitoring the TFS Data Warehouse - FAQ

Trevor Hancock — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:25:00 GMT

Two great posts this week from Grant Holiday on the TFS 2010 warehouse. I encourage you to check them out! Administrative Report Pack for Team Foundation Server 2010 Monitoring the TFS Data Warehouse - FAQ -Trev...(read more)

Error during upgrade to TFS 2010: System.Data.SqlTypes.SqlNullValueException: Data is Null. This method or property cannot be called on Null values.

Trevor Hancock — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:19:00 GMT

Worked a case recently where the customer was upgrading to TFS 2010 (from 08). During the upgrade – the last part specifically when the new project collection was being created – we received an error with these details (taken from the log): [Info ...(read more)