Ok, so Microsoft's Team Foundation Server has been available for several years. We've stuck with a couple of open source source control / project management apps. John keeps moving things around and trying new stuff. I've just stuck with the evil SourceSafe because it was simple and it worked and as...

I think I am finally going to change my Windows Live ID. I've always used autocrss@hotmail.com but honestly I have never used that email address, and I don't like it. So I am going to switch over to christoc@live.com . If you have me on your Live Messenger list go ahead and add that new address. I'll...

TFS does a great job of automating build. With out having to mess with msbuild , it will pull all the source code from source control, do the build label the build in source control etc. In our scenario we did not want TFS to label each and every build, but only builds that were of production quality...

Some information on Vistual Studio 2010 aka Rosario and .NET Framework 4.0 From Channel9 , From the Microsoft Web site , From CRN Also note that from October 1st all MSDN subscribers who get Visual Studio Team System Development edition will also get the Visual Studio Team System Database edition and...

As a part of the team build process, if you need to check out and check in a file and do not want that to trigger a CI build then the easiest way is to put ***NO_CI*** in the comment during check in.Easier than that there is built in property $( NoCICheckinComment) that you can use On finding find this...

Microsoft gick nyss ut med att Visual Studio 2010 (codename “Rosario”) och .NET Framework 4.0 kommer att finnas tillgängligt på MSDN 1 oktober. Det finns många nyheter, speciellt för testare. Jag har inte så mycket information om det än, annat än det som finns i länkarna nedan, men så fort jag får tag...

Scenario: You have a TFS.proj file that builds a solution file and you want to pass a dynamically generated property to the solution file you are building. Eg it could be the version number that had to be passed over to the solution / say web deployment project. < SolutionToBuild Include = " MySolution...

Chewing Glas (aka Paul Hacker ) and Daven Finesmith (aka Dave McKinstry ) are proud to announce a new users group forming in your area:  the Team System User Group (Virtual Edition)!!!!  In addition to the few user groups focused on Visual Studio Team System in major cities, now all Visual...

Awhile ago I was working with a client and received an error message " UTA052: MyNamespace.MyTest is not a test class " after converting a unit test project created in Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition. (Actually it was a VS 2005 nUnit/BizUnit test project converted to VS 2008 MSTest...

I usually try to avoid the "me too" style blog posts, but this one seemed like a good idea - especially since some of my clients will run across it and may not easily find the solution. I've been asked numerous times about any unexpected side effects of installing TFS SP1 and so far I've been able to...