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TFS 2010 – What’s New On The Build Explorer?

The Queued Tab: So, as you can see not much has changed on the Queued tab of the build explorer since VSTS 2008, but if you look close, there are a few changes. 1. There is a new filter you can apply - “Only show builds requested by me”. This filter will Read More...
Posted Monday, June 15, 2009 9:39 AM by Jason Prickett | 2 Comments
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TFS 2010 Beta1 – Build DEtails View Log View section

The picture above is of the Log View of the new Build Details View in Visual Studio Team System 2010. See my previous post on the Summary View for more information on the items above the words “Activity Log”. The log view can be seen by opening an in-progress Read More...
Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 2:55 PM by Jason Prickett | 2 Comments
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tFS 2010 Beta1 – Build Details View Summary section

The picture above is of the new “Build Report” in TFS 2010. I prefer the term Build Details View, because it is not actually a TFS report object. The view has completely changed, so let me take you on a quick tour: 1. The first thing you may notice is Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:23 PM by Jason Prickett | 5 Comments
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CollapsibleSection - Hiding Paragraphs until the user wants to see them in a FlowDocument

As I mentioned back in January , I created a collapsible section for use in a flow document. In my case, I was removing a treeView and replacing it with indented paragraphs in a flow document (see the previous post as to why). Some of the data that was Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:39 AM by Jason Prickett | 1 Comments
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WPF Documents - Indenting Paragraphs

As I promised, this is a post about what I learned while creating a flow document that had indented paragraphs. The hierarchy was dynamically built based on the data. The first thing I noticed is that indenting a paragraph is very easy, just set the left Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:01 AM by Jason Prickett | 1 Comments
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WPF FlowDocuments - What, When, Why, How?

As I learn more and more about WPF, I am continually amazed at how much I don't know. I recently discovered FlowDocuments (look here for more info on the basics of FlowDocuments) and how wonderful they are. Okay, I knew about them a little, but I ignored Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:53 AM by Jason Prickett | 2 Comments
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Keeping Version Control Labels When Team Builds Are Deleted in TFS 2008 SP1

We have had quite a few complaints about the fact that we delete the labels created during a build when the build is deleted. The reason this behavior was added was to keep from creating a ton of labels for CI builds. But some customers still want the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:42 AM by Jason Prickett | 2 Comments
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WPF - A Stretching TreeView

What is a stretching treeView? Recently, I found the need to have a TreeView in my WPF application that was only a few levels deep. I didn't want a horizontal scrollbar to appear and I wanted the long text nodes to wrap. So, I invented the StretchingTreeView Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:32 PM by Jason Prickett | 2 Comments
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Filtering the Build Status Change Event (BuildStatusChangeEvent)

In an previous post (long long ago), I described some scenarios around why you would want to subscribe to change the work item tracking subscription to the build completion event. The purpose there was to help users "correct" the subscription that came Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:10 AM by Jason Prickett | 1 Comments
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Where's the TfsBuild.proj file for this Definition?

In Team Build 2005, the "definition" of the build was the same as the TfsBuild.proj file. However, in 2008, we changed this so that the TfsBuild.proj only held some of the information for the build. The rest of the information (like retention Read More...
Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 8:58 AM by Jason Prickett | 2 Comments
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WF - Creating an Activity Base Class

(or Designing Your Workflow Activity Class Hierarchy) One of the questions that we've had to consider when designing our Workflow Activity Class Hierarchy is whether it is valuable to have our own Activity base class (derived from Activity and inherited Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:58 PM by Jason Prickett | 1 Comments
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WF - The Asynchronous Activity/Service Pattern

In my previous blog post ( Creating an Asynchronous Workflow Activity ), I explained why your custom activities should either be really fast or run asynchronously. But, I didn't give you a real world example of how to do this. In this post I provide an Read More...
Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 11:14 AM by Jason Prickett | 4 Comments
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WF - Creating an Asynchronous Workflow Activity

What a silly topic for a blog post! Workflow already runs my whole activity tree on a another thread, I don't have to worry about being Async, Do I? Yes, you do. While it is true that each Workflow gets its own thread (in the default setup), that thread Read More...
Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 9:57 AM by Jason Prickett | 1 Comments
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Changing the recursion type for the initial "Get" that Team Build does

In Visual Studio Team System 2008, the build machine downloads the files that it needs to launch MSBuild before it creates any workspaces. Because this initial "get" is before MSBuild is called, users don't get much say in what gets downloaded. By default, Read More...
Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 8:27 AM by Jason Prickett | 2 Comments
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Project Configuration File Wizard Scale Issue

In VS2008, you still have to run the Wizard to create a TfsBuild.proj file for your build definition. That wizard can be really slow to open. In fact, internally the wizard can seem to hang indefinitely. And if you have a large number of files checked Read More...
Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 9:44 AM by Jason Prickett | 1 Comments
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