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TFS2010: Reconcile Workspace after Gated Checkin is weird if Visual Studio 2010 is Elevated
Problem: After running a TFS2010 Gated Checkin Build, Reconcile Workspace leaves pending changes if Visual Studio 2010 is running with “Elevated” permissions. Description: First off, I’ve got to give credit where credit is due. The “what’s going on?” section for this post comes from Philip Kelley from Microsoft and the “fix” for this comes from…
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Article: Load Testing with Visual Studio 2010 (+ how to set up your Load Testing Rig)
I wrote a two part article for Visual Studio Magazine on Web Testing & Load Testing in Visual Studio 2010. Here’s the second part. This second part focuses on how to do Load Tests with a Load Testing Rig with an emphasis on how to actually install and configure your rig. (Here’s the link to…
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Article: Web Performance Testing with Visual Studio 2010
I wrote an article for Visual Studio Magazine a while back on Web Performance Tests in Visual Studio 2010. It’s part 1 of 2. Enjoy. In web performance tests, the addition of Loops and Conditions enables developers to write more complex and intelligent tests against their applications. For load tests, the addition of 64-bit agents…
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Beantown .NET / Boston .NET meeting — Thursday, 5/6/2010: Chris Dias from Microsoft
Hi All — Beantown .NET is going to be doing a joint meeting with Boston .NET meeting on Thursday, 5/6/2010. This month we have Chris Dias from Microsoft. Chris is the Visual Studio Group Program Manager and he’ll be talking about what’s new in Visual Studio 2010. As always, our meeting is open to everyone…
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TFS2010 Build failed — “Microsoft.Silverlight.Common.targets (104): The Silverlight 4 SDK is not installed”
I ran in to a problem trying to compile a Silverlight 4 project with Team Foundation Server 2010 and Team Build. I ran the build and got the error: C:Program Files (x86)MSBuildMicrosoftSilverlightv4.0Microsoft.Silverlight.Common.targets (104): The Silverlight 4 SDK is not installed I found Andru’s blog post with a solution for this in Silverlight 3.0 where he…
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Team Foundation Server 2010 – Team Build fails because build log file already exists
I ran in to a problem this morning with a TFS2010 Build. The build ran and was looking like it was going to succeed and then at the very end I got an error saying – The file ‘bendaytfs2010dropBendayUserGroupManager CIBendayUserGroupManager CI_20100420.1logsBendayUserGroupManager.log’ already exists. – Cannot cancel the workflow. Agent needs to be restarted. Details: The…
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TFS2008: Get the current TFS Data Warehouse update interval
It’s always strange to find out what stuff on The Internets is hard to find that you’d think would be a piece of cake to find. Today, I needed to find out what the current Team Foundation Server 2008 data warehouse update interval was for my customer’s TFS instance and I was surprised by how…
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Updated Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 Install Guide – Now with Virtual Lab Management
A few weeks ago, I published v0.1 of our Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 installation guide. Since then, we’ve fixed a few bugs and added a walk-through for installing Team Foundation Server 2010 Virtual Lab Manager. There are definitely more bugs to be found. If you find bugs or run in to problems with…
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Hook Visual Studio Web Tests in to TFS Team Build
SearchWinDevelopment.com has posted another of my Team System “tips” on their site. This one walks you through running Visual Studio Web Tests from a Team Build. Run Visual Studio Web Tests from a Team Foundation Server Build By Ben Day 13 Nov 2009 | SearchWinDevelopment.com One of the great features of Visual Studio 2008 is…
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Incorporate Windows Azure unit tests in to TFS Team Builds
I’ve started writing “tips” for SearchWinDevelopment.com on Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, and Unit Testing. Look for them to trickle out over the next few months. They’ve posted one that I wrote about making Team Foundation Server Builds work with Windows Azure project. It’s easy enough to compile Windows Azure projects from Team Build but…