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Symptoms Do you have an error during installation that looks something like this: Does your log file contain an error that like this: [Info @08:19:12.404] Starting website 8080 [Error @08:19:12.705] PRODUCT ISSUE: UNHANDLED EXCEPTION
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Please note: this post applies only to Team Foundation Server 2010 (Beta 1 to current). It does not apply to TFS 2005, 2008 or any future version (though I suspect that any future version would have similar capabilities). Were you asked to enable
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I wanted to read Twitter.com search results (tweets) using C#. I started by deciding that a tweet looks something like this: public class Tweet { public string Id { get ; set ; } public DateTime Published { get ; set ; } public string Link { get
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Prior to using Hyper-V as part of my daily development and test efforts I wasted man weeks every year. I lost days at a time configuring machines and recovering from updated NDP builds. I wasted hours every week repeating the same steps over
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I just installed Windows 7 beta on a Hyper-V VM (1GB RAM, single proc, 127 expandable drive) and found that the calculator has changed and I like it. Beyond Standard and Scientific there are two new modes, Programmer and Statistics. Programmer supports
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Brian Randell has been hard at work putting together a holiday surprise we all will enjoy. New Virtual PC/Server and Hyper-V images with VSTS and TFS and a 12/31/2009 expiration date. Please see his blog post for the full details - I will re-post a little
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The VSTS Ranger team has released TFS Branching Guidance II . This document describes pragmatic branching practices that are based on the real world experience of TFS professionals inside and outside of Microsoft. What's new? I'l just repeat their information:
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I hate repetitive tasks - especially ones that are easily automated. Generating code coverage runs using mstest is an example of that. The goal was to create a script that could do that following: 1) Validate that the input binaries were available 2)
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I'll be available to talk about TFS admin scenarios at PDC - my hours are: Monday - 12:30 - 6:00 in the VSTS Lounge Tuesday - 12:30 - 6:00 in the VSTS Lounge Wednesday 10:00-12:30 in the VSTS Lounge and Ask The Experts from 5:30-9:00PM I won't be available
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Coming to PDC? Interested in Team Foundation Server Setup, Configuration and Administration? Stop by the PDC Lounge and let's chat! I'll post the hours I'll be available tomorrow.
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Since life can't be all Team Foundation Server and rainbows I've started getting serious about learning more about Ruby and the Rails framework. To keep the TFS focus on this blog I've started a new blog dedicated to non-TFS tech topics http://www.GhostOnThird.com
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When installing a service path on Team Foundation Server one of the first things that needs to happen is that TFS is "quiesced" - which basically means "to make quiet" - i.e. it's running but it's not accepting new client connections. The tool that does
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At this time 98 people have downloaded the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit . Ok - some of you are saying "100? What's the big deal? A picture of a rabbit with a pancake on it's head gets more downloads every hour!" And they would be right. But
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Interested in writing a migration tool targeting (or synchronizing with) Team Foundation Server version control or workitem tracking? Then check out the pre-release of the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit on CodePlex! http://www.codeplex.com/MigrationSyncToolkit
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As Matt noted on the migration blog a working copy of the toolkit specification has been released. You can download it and leave feedback from this link: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948851.aspx If you have feedback on migration scenarios
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