If you haven’t already checked it out, the Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit contains a rich set of additional controls to make your life easier when programming the Windows Phone. Not to be missed is the sample application you can download...

Last year I had a BLOG entry that talked about an issue where an Out of Memory Exception would occur if you did not delete your completed builds from TFS. I'm happy to announce that there is a fix available for this issue in KB2544407 here : ...

Our support website does a pretty good job for telling you how you can modify the MachineQuota setting for MSMQ here . Unfortunately, if you need a way to do this programmatically and your installation happens to be in "Domain Mode", then there really...

Internet applications using ASP.Net recently had an update ( MS11-100 ) pushed out of band back in December that set a limit of 1000 items to be accepted by a web form. While this is not the only limit imposed, it is the one that some applications are...

How many times have you used one tool for a job only to have the requirements change and you then realize the tool doesn't support the new requirements? It happens very often! Let's consider this requirement for a WinForms application: REQUIREMENT...

Versioning of SharePoint document libraries allows it to become a great repository for files. You can check items in and out and maintain the history of the file automatically. A powerful library tool in SharePoint document libraries is the ability to...

Comprehensive documentation on the various TFS Object Models is available on MSDN here . While the documentation is complete, sometimes it helps to see a sample to help you understand how to use a tool. In this post, I will show you how to do that. Say...

Developers writing Windows Phone 7 or 7.1 apps who use TFS to manage their builds can find that setting up machines to be build agents is a time consuming and problematic process. You have to make sure all the patches and updates for the OS are installed...

My customer performed an in-place upgrade of SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010. Unfortunately, several errors were left over and constantly flagged in the SharePoint Health Analyzer. The errors were like the below: [MissingWebPart] WebPart class ...

I recently had to find a way to add a value to the "Title" property of documents in a list. There are many ways to do this, but PowerShell seems to be pretty powerful when it comes to this type of direct manipulation. Since all my customer needed was...

By default all commands are logged in TFS 2010 in two tables; tbl_Command and tbl_Parameter. tbl_Command contains every command that was executed against TFS, while tbl_Parameter is only populated if there is an error executing the command or the command...

I'm re-BLOGing these IIS 7 settings because someone recently asked this question of me. The original information was pulled from Rakki Muthukumar's BLOG . maxURL The length of the URL would constitute just the length of the URL (/results.aspx) ...

When you create a coded UI test using Visual Studio 2010, the test only adds the controls you recorded or created assertions against; after all, why keep track of controls that your test will never use? While that seems like a pretty straight forward...

Ever wonder why your managed service may be slow to start up at times? The Microsoft assemblies that you depend on in your managed service are signed with both a strong name signature and an Authenticode signature. Authenticode signatures allow for the...

I've been researching an issue for a customer who was convinced that their Authorization header was being stripped out of their request to their REST service on a specific version of Windows Server. When a claim like this is made by a customer, the first...

I have been working on an issue recently where Visual Studio 2010 can crash while interacting with Team Foundation Server (TFS). What happens is that certain actions in the IDE send a request back to TFS to enumerate all of the builds associated with...

I recently investigated an issue for a customer around how to handle schema changes when their data was exposed using WCF Data Services. By default, if you add a column to a database table and refresh the Entity Data Model without updating the client...

My customer recently had a request for something they would like to see added to the Entity Framework. The functionality is best described as an event prior to a LINQ query being executed. This type of functionality would allow them to add security to...

While working on an issue today with one of my customers, we discovered an odd exception that was being thrown when his WCF service was deployed to Azure. The project was essentially a pub/sub service that used long=polling. The customer set all of his...

I recently assisted a customer who was having a problem with VS 2010's coded UI tests. The customer had recorded the web test using the recorder and then modified the generated code to complete his tests. In this particular instance, the customer copied...

I recently helped a customer resolve an issue where they kept receiving the following error every time they went to record a test using VS 2010: “Unable to cast COM object of type ‘mshtml.HTMLInputElementClass’ to interface type ‘mshtml...

I just had a run in with TFS 2010’s new impersonation APIs and thought I would share. My customer wanted to add some functionality to generate release notes and update the associated workitem for those release notes. The thought was since...

While working on another issue, my customer realized the the VS 2010 load test respository was full and he could no longer run load tests. There had been some crashes and it appears that there were orphaned entries in the repository. This can be a huge...