May 2009 - Posts

Every developer must read on PDB files
19 May 09 05:16 AM | eugene.z | 1 Comments   

Usually I try not to repost the links, but in this case just could not; I must recommend absolutely awesome super concise and informative post on benefits of PDBs from John Robbins (author of debugging Necronomicon if you don’t know). And to add what Read More...

Filed under: Best practices, PDB

Work Item customization tidbits: custom controls (part 14 of X)
10 May 09 07:19 AM | eugene.z | 1 Comments   

In one of my previous posts I mentioned that I consider custom controls in WI one of the most complex types of customization to implement. Since I got asked related question let me expand on the topic. Custom work item controls provide a way to implement Read More...

Filed under: TFS, WIT

Work Item customization tidbits: limits of complexity (part 13 of X)
07 May 09 07:18 AM | eugene.z | 2 Comments   

Today I’d like to talk about WIT customization recommendations that will mostly become applicable as your custom Work Item types increase in complexity. Keep the number of custom fields limited (per TFS server) One can have a maximum of 1024 fields defined Read More...

Filed under: TFS, WIT, Best practices

MSBuild UsingTask gotchas
02 May 09 06:15 AM | eugene.z | 1 Comments   

One significant drawback of MSBuild UsingTask element is that you must specify exactly the task name you are importing. That is if the assembly you are importing contains 200 tasks, you will have to import them explicitly one by one. And since you probably Read More...

Filed under: MSBuild, 3.5