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TF53010 error and no TFS Warehouse updates after a SQL migrate
We recently moved our central SQL server to new SAN hardware and at the same time upgraded from SQL2005 to SQL2008. Once this was done we noticed that our TFS Reports were running against old Warehouse data. Checking the TFS Application Tier event log...
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 release and a new licensing model
About 2 hours ago Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released to MSDN subscribers , the usual wait for the download now start! Also the revised SKU and licensing model for 2010 was made public by Brian Harry. This is meant to be simplification, but still remains...
TFS for the small team
Over the weekend Brian Harry posted on this blog about a new ‘Basic’ edition of TFS. This is aimed squarely small team currently using Visual SourceSafe. It will provide version control with work item tracking and can be run on SQLExpress. The key difference...
TF250020 error creating new Team Projects
Whilst working on our TFS2010 Beta 1 test server today I got the following error when I tried to create a new team project TF250020: The following SharePoint Web application is not valid: http://vs2010.mydomain.com . Verify that you have the correct URL...
Slides from yesterdays presentation at VBUG
Thanks to everyone who attended my VBUG session yesterday on ‘Enabling agile development with Visual Studio Team System 2010’. I have just posted the slides on Black Marble’s web site
Visual Studio 2008 connecting to TFS 2010
You can connect a Visual Studio 2008 IDE instance to a TFS 2010 server, as detailed in Martin Hinshelwood’s blog , but I cannot stress enough you have to have VS2008 SP1 installed . If you don’t, you get an error dialog when you enter the URL for the...
Video recording gotta for VS2010 Test Runner
VS2010 has excellent new features to assist the tester in general, and specifically in the area of manual testing . One of these is the ability to video a manual test run; to get this to work you have to have the Windows Media Encoder 9 installed as well...
And eScrum is no more
I have posted in the past about the TFS 2005 and 2008 Process Template eScrum from Microsoft; a template we use internally for a number of Agile projects. Well today it has been removed from the Microsoft download sites. It was decided a while ago that...
Remember the new URL format for the TFS2010 web services have changed
To have a good look at TFS2010 I have migrated some existing VS2008 projects to VS2010. This has meant they are now being built using a new TFS 2010 build server. Now I wanted to make sure everyone still knew what was building and what was not, so I updated...
Visual Studio 2010 project upgrade bug; test assemblies being copied to release folders in error
After I upgraded an ASP.NET Web Application VS2008 solution to VS2010 I found a strange problem. When I build either the whole solution or the test project in the solution the test assembly gets copies to Web Applications bin directory. However if I build...
The setup story for TFS 2010
I have been looking at the various install and upgrade stories for the TFS 2010 Beta. I have to say they are very nice compared to the older TFS versions. You now have a SharePoint like model where you install the product then use a separate configuration...
TF255048 Error when installing TFS 2010 beta 1
When you setup a dual or multi server TFS installation you need to specify the location of the OLAP Analysis service instance that will be used for the reporting warehouse. As with much of the TFS installation and configuration process there is a test...
Microsoft.AnalysisServices Assemblies missing when configuring Reporting Services on dual tier TFS 2010 Beta1
TFS 2010 provides far more options for the configuration of your server than the previous versions. You now can easily make use of any existing server resources you have such as SharePoint farms or Enterprise SQL installations. Today I was looking at...
Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 has shipped
Today the Visual Studio 2010 Team Suite Beta 1 and Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 1 became available to download for MSDN subscribers and will be available to the general public on Wednesday.
Testing access attributes on the Microsoft MVC framework
The MVC framework provides an excellent way to create a testable web site. In fact when you create a new MVC project you are given the option to create an associated test project that contains MSTEST unit tests for all the sample methods in the MVC Controller...
Follow up to my session yesterday at VBug Newcatsle on DataDude GDR
Thanks to everyone who attended my session at VBug Newcastle last night, hope you enjoyed. As I mentioned in my session, to celebrate my talking at VBug, Microsoft chose to release the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR R2 yesterday....
Speaking in Newcastle tomorrow
If you are in Newcastle on the evening of the 22nd I will be speaking at Vbug on Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition . Hope to see you there.
Team Build, Code Coverage and MVC
I have been working on some automated build and testing for a project based on the Microsoft MVC framework. The build was working fine, and test were being run, but I was not seeing any code coverage data in the build summary in Visual Studio for the...
Holiday is when you catch up…..
I got round to listening to the latest Radio TFS podcast today whist our for a run, Adopting Team System with Steve Borg . If you are looking at adopting TFS or even just critically looking at your development life cycle with a view to improving (irrespective...
Visual Studio 2008 DBPRO GDR QFE (wow loads of TLAs there)
At my session at SQLBits IV on Visual Studio 2008 DBPro GDR it was mentioned that there was a major patch just about to be released to address some known issues. Well Brian Harry has provided links to the release of the release candidate of the GDR QFE
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