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Team Foundation Server & Team System @ VSLive Boston and VSLive Dallas
I’m going to be speaking at VSLive Boston and VSLive Dallas on Team System and Team Foundation Server. The title of the talk is “Team Foundation Server: Beyond the GUI”. Here’s the abstract: Did you know that Team Foundation Server (TFS) has an API to control, customize and consume almost any piece of TFS functionality,…
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VS2003 Plus Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Plugin kills VSS
Microsoft released a plugin for Visual Studio 2003 (and some other IDEs **) that allows you to use Team Foundation Server as the source control repository. (Yay! Down with SourceSafe!) It’s called the Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider. I installed it in VS2003 and it works pretty well. The only problem is…
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Windows LiveWriter and .Text (dotText)
When LiveWriter got announced, I was totally bummed out that it didn’t work with the .Text (dotText) blog engine. Turns out that that was incorrect. Thanks to James W for this post describing how to set up the integration. -Ben
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Beantown.NET User Group Meeting (9/7/2006): Secure Code Reviews
The Beantown.NET User Group (INETA) is meeting again on Thursday, 9/7/2006. http://www.beantowndotnet.org This month we have Robert Hurlbut coming to talk about doing secure code reviews. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you want free pizza, send me an RSVP using the contact form (http://blog.benday.com/contact.aspx) by 1pm…
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Mysterious errors from dotText (.Text)
For years — pretty much since I started my blog — I’ve been getting emails from people saying that they get an error from my blog engine (.Text aka dottext). Value cannot be null. Parameter name: value Usually, by the time I get there to check it’s working fine. Somehow it fixes itself. Today…not so…
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VSTS / TFS Tips
Richard Hale Shaw and I just finished writing a few mini-articles for FTPOnline on VSTS and TFS. They just got posted as part of a special report that FTP is doing on Team System. Tip #1: How to deploy supporting files as part of your VSTS unit tests. This would be of interest for people doing…
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Import Visual SourceSafe into Team Foundation Server
I did a Visual SourceSafe to Team Foundation Server conversion today using VSSConverter. It was surprisingly painless except for 2 issues. 1. The documentation says that you need to install SQLExpress in order to do the migration. This made me go and install SQLExpress before I noticed that later in the documentation it says that…
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Beantown.NET User Group Meeting (8/3/2006): BizTalk Server 2006
The Beantown.NET User Group (INETA) is meeting again on Thursday, 8/3/2006. This month we have Kurt Guenther from Infusion Development Corporation coming to talk about BizTalk Server 2006. (NOTE: there’ll definitely be content about workflow and rule set development.) Also, I’ll be raffling off some more books from WROX and some other prizes supplied by…
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Force Team Foundation Server To Update The Warehouse
Ever sat in front of Team Foundation Server (TFS) pulling your hair out for why work item changes or builds that you KNOW exist aren’t showing up in the reports? The reasonis that the TFS Warehouse hasn’t been updated. It gets updated on a schedule and if the update hasn’t run, your reports are going…
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NUnit Test Attribute Execution Order
I went looking to find the order in which NUnit executes the test attributes/events. Oddly enough, I couldn’t find it. (Maybe I’m not googling it properly.) Anyway, here’s the NUnit attribute event order: TestFixtureSetUp SetUp Test TearDown Repeat steps 2, 3, and 4 for each test that’s being run in this fixture. TestFixtureTearDown -Ben