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TFS Automatic Build Reporting Access to XAP Denied by jdanforth

If you’re working with TFS and automatic builds of Silverlight apps, you may happen to stumble upon this error in the end of the build: Copying file C:\Builds\2\xxx\yyy\Binaries\zzz.xap failed. Access to the path 'C:\Builds\2\xxx\yyy\Sources\www\ClientBin...
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Insufficient Permissions Problems with MSDeploy and TFS Build 2010 by jdanforth

I ran into these problems on a TFS 2010 RC setup where I wanted to deploy a web site as part of the nightly build: C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets (3481): Web deployment task failed.(An...
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Package and Publish Web Sites with TFS 2010 Build Server by jdanforth

To package and publish web sites with TFS 2010 Build Server, you can use MSDeploy and some of the new MSBuild arguments. For example: /p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:DeployTarget=MsDeployPublish /p:MSDeployPublishMethod=InProc /p:CreatePackageOnPublish=True...
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ASP.NET 4 Website Fails to Start on Your TFS 2010 Server? by jdanforth

Getting a “Could not find permission set named ‘ASP.Net’” error on your TFS 2010 server? It may have to do with the fact you’re trying to run ASP.NET as a child site of a SharePoint Web Site. The problem is described in the “ ASP.NET 4 braking changes...
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Compile ASP.NET MVC on TFS 2010 Build Server by jdanforth

Note to self: If you need to build ASP.NET MVC 2 applications on a fresh TFS 2010 Build Server without Visual Studio installed, copy the System.Web.Mvc.dll from your dev box to the build server and register it there.
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Upgrading TFS 2010 from RC to RTM by jdanforth

Just did a test upgrade on my virtual 2008 server from the RC version of TFS 2010 to RTM. I’ve a single-server installation and the instructions for upgrade is to first backup the server and the database, uninstall the RC version, make sure you really...
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