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Speaking at VSLive San Francisco 2007
I’m going to be speaking at VSLive San Francisco 2007 in just a few weeks — March 25 through March 29. I’m doing five 1-hour sessions and an all-day workshop. The talks: Serious WebPart Customization Ever tried to customize how your ASP.NET WebParts look? Sure, you can change colors and fonts, but what if you…
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Run tests from your TFS Team Build without a test list (.vsmdi) with code coverage
I got around to trying Buck Hodges’ power toy that lets you run unit tests in your Team Foundation Server (TFS) Team Build without having to use a test list (aka “.vsmdi” file). It works well but getting code coverage to run with it was kind of a trick. There’s a post on forums.microsoft.com that…
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"MSBUILD : Publish Failed. Test Type not installed on the server for test type"
Last week I stopped getting code coverage as part of the Team Build (aka TFS MSBuild) in my project. I started digging in and found the following error popping up in my build output file: MSBUILD : warning : Publish Failed. Test Type not installed on the server for test type: “Microsoft.Samples.VisualStudio.TestTools.HostAdapters.VsIde.RunConfigData”. This error ate…
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VSTS DBPro Talk at Michael Ruminer's Team System User Group in Waltham
Hey All, I’m going to be giving my Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals overview talk at Michael Ruminer’s Team System User Group in Waltham. When: January 18, 2007, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Where: Microsoft New England Office201 Jones Rd.6th FloorRoom MPR-B Waltham, MA 02451 Be sure to RSVP here if you plan to attend. BTW,…
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How to run an MSBuild "Desktop Build" without running tests.
I’ve been playing around with doing “desktop builds” with MSBuild. A “desktop build” is where you’d take the build script that describes a Team Foundation Server Team Build and run it on your local machine instead of through the TFS Build Server. There’s a page on the MSDN site that tells you how to do…
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Making pre- and post-deployment scripts run in a VSTS DBPro build.
I’m going to be doing the keynote at the launch of Visual Studio Team Editor for Database Professionals (aka VSTS DBPro, “data dude”) tomorrow. I wanted to play around with creating default values in lookup tables as part of my demo. DBPro gives you this functionality through pre-deployment and post-deployment scripts. You write your own…
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Team Foundation Server (TFS/VSTS) caching problem masquerading as a permissions problem.
I just got off a two hour troubleshooting call with one of my clients. I’d just done the install of their Team Foundation Server last week and everything was fine. Then they created a bunch of Team Projects in their Team Foundation Server and they couldn’t view any of the work item queries in the…
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Keynote @ VSTS Database Professional Launch in Waltham, MA
Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals is being released in a matter of days (11/30/2006) and Microsoft is putting on a series of launch events around the country. Want to see what it can do? I’ve been asked to give the keynote at the Boston-area launch event. “Joining Forces: Assimilating Data Experts into the Development Team…
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Looking for a C#, ASP.NET Developer
I’m looking for a mid/senior-level C# / ASP.NET developer to join my project for a major financial institution in Boston, MA. The project is an n-tier app written with C#, ASP.NET, NHibernate 1.2, Visual Studio Unit Tests, and Team Foundation Server. Required Skills: NHibernate, Test-Driven Development (test first!), C#, ASP.NET, database design, object modelling Nice-to-have skills: Visual…
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NHibernate and VSTS/TFS at Code Camp 6
Code Camp 6 (free conference) is happening this Saturday from 9am – 6pm at the Microsoft office in Waltham. The session schedule got published last night. I’m going to be doing 2 sessions: 10:45am – 12:15 — Introduction to NHibernate 1:15pm – 2:45pm — Team Foundation Server: The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread -Ben …