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Configure Windows to Log in to TFS Automatically
I got an email last night from a user of Dubbelbock who’s Team Foundation Server (TFS) is running in “workgroup” authentication mode. Workgroup mode means that you’ve installed TFS on a server that not part of an Active Directory domain. Since it isn’t part of an Active Directory domain, all the user accounts are defined in Windows…
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Speaking at Code Camp 8: "WiX Installers" & "TFS: Under The Hood"
Man! This just snuck up on me. Code Camp 8 is in less than 7 days! I’ll be doing two sessions. Come by and say hello. -Ben Date(s): 09.29.2007-09.30.2007 (GMT-5) Type: Code Camp Location: Microsoft New England District: 201 Jones Rd, 6th Floor, Waltham MA Update: 9/27/07 — Due to a scheduling problem (my fault),…
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Run Unit Tests With Automatic DBPro DB Deploy from a Team Build
This time I’m genuinely surprised that no one has tackled this and posted it on a blog or to the DBPro or Team System forums. When you add a unit test for a stored procedure in Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals (DBPro) for the first time, you get the dialog asking how you…
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Dubbelbock TFS 2.0 (Beta)
Back in May, I released version 1.0 of Dubbelbock TFS. Dubbelbock 1.0 let you access Team Foundation Server version control from Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) so that you could do check ins, check outs, get latest, and other common commands. Since then I’ve been fixing bugs and adding new features and now Dubbelbock TFS v2.0 is…
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Programmatically Set AreaPath on a WorkItem
I wanted to be able to programmatically change the AreaPath on one of my Team Foundation Server (TFS) Work Items but I kept getting validation errors from the WorkItem object. The idea was to download the list of Areas from TFS and then change an existing work item’s area to one of the other values. …
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Truncate and Shrink an Overgrown SQL Server Log File
I run my Team Foundation Server inside of Virtual Server 2005 R2. This morning I noticed that the virtual server’s disk usage had gotten over 50GB. That seemed like kind of a lot. Part of it was a bunch of nightly database backup files for TFS that had accumulated on the virtual disk. That was…
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Run Non-"Hello, World" VSTS WebTests As Part of a Team Build
We’ve all accepted the Continuous Integration religion here, right? Our Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) WebTests are part of our unit test suite and should be run as part of our continuous integration Team Builds, right? Well, if we want our VSTS WebTests do something more than just a couple of light-hearted clicks around our ASP.NET application…
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Want to access TFS source control from Explorer.exe? Announcing "Dubbelbock TFS"!
Ever heard of Tortoise SVN? It’s a great tool that lets you control Subversion source control from Windows Explorer. Right-click on a file or folder and you can do operations like check-in, check-out, add, etc. I use Team Foundation Server for my source control and have missed the convenience of being able to access source…
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Problem with VS2005 Data-Driven Unit Test with Excel 2007
If you haven’t checked out data-driven unit tests yet, you should. They’re great for those cases where you want to run your unit tests using a bunch of different data. The logic of your unit test doesn’t change — same calls, same asserts — but the data input and the expected return values change. When…
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Speaking at VSLive Orlando 2007
I’m going to be speaking at VSLive Orlando 2007 in just a few months — May 6 through May 10. I’m doing four 1-hour sessions: Serious WebPart Customization Ever tried to customize how your ASP.NET WebParts look? Sure, you can change colors and fonts, but what if you want to change the layout? What if you…