As part of making sure TFS server upgrade experience is enjoyable, your existing build definitions are supposed to work correctly with the new TFS 11 Beta build machines. However, as much as we wanted to cover, there is still something that is not fulfilled...

WIQL (Work Item Query Language) is the query language for Work Items that Test Management adopts for querying test objects. In Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), WIQL queries are hidden away from users and only the query results are displayed. Nevertheless...

On a side-by-side setup of your VS2010 and Visual Studio vNext, viewing the build default templates on VS2010 will probably fail with errors that are similar to: Compiler error(s) encountered processing expression "BuildDetail.BuildNumber". 'Microsoft...

We have just published KB article  2533860">KB article 2533860 "Error TF215106 or TF225000 when trying to Delete or Create a New Build Definition In Team Foundation Server 2010 Team Build" on updating the Build permissions for upgraded servers...

Hi, my name is Duat Le and I am a Software Development Engineer (SDE) in Visual Studio Team Test. I joined Microsoft in 06/2007 after graduating from the University of Waterloo. In the past two and a half years, I have been working on the Test Management...

Team Foundation Server 2010 Service Pack 1 was released in March. For Build, we contributed dozens of changes to react to the problems reported by customers. In this post, I will list a few of them that can visibly show the work that we did. No more...

I started to be a movie fan after getting married to a film editor, so occasionally I’ll share some thoughts about movies on this blog. Last Sunday we finally watched Black Swan after months of delay. This award-winning film is a psychological...

In TFS 2010, when Team Build component is uninstalled from a build machine (also known as build server), the controller and/or agents (also known as build resources) that have been registered against a TFS team project collection will be removed from...

I did a quick search on the internet and found very little information about this property. It was designed to help in the customization scenario. By default, all the build workflow variables and arguments are serialized into the AgentScope activity...