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My TFS session at Black Marble’s Tech Update is already out of date, there were announcements last night
Thu, Jan 31 2013 7:53
At the ALM Summit yesterday Brian Harry made some major TFS and Visual Studio announcements Git support for the hosted visualstudio.com , this allows you to choose if you want a centralised (existing TFS) source control repository or DVSC (using Git). There is also new tools with VS2012 to make using Git easier. Read more as to why Microsoft have made this addition... Read More...
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Fixing area permission issues when creating new teams in TFS 2012 after QU1 has been installed
Mon, Jan 28 2013 10:30
One of the side effects of the problems we had with TFS 2012 QU1 was that when we created a new team within a team project contributors had no rights to the teams default Area. The workaround was that we had to add these rights manually, remembering to add these as you would expect is something you forget all the time, so it would be nice to fix the default.... Read More...
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TF237111 errors when trying to add work items to the backlog after TFS 2012 QU1 is applied
Fri, Jan 18 2013 6:58
I posted earlier in the week about my experiences with the post TFS 2012 QU1 hotfix . When I posted I thought we had all our problems sorted, we did for new team projects, but it seems still had an issue for teams on our team projects that were created prior to the upgraded from RTM to QU1. As I said in the past post we got into this position due to trying to... Read More...
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Experiences applying TFS 2012 QU1 and it subsequent hotfix
Mon, Jan 14 2013 8:57
Brian Harry posted last week about a hotfix for TFS 2012 QU1 (KB2795609) . This should not be needed by most people, but as his post points out does fix issues for a few customers. Well we were one of those customers. When upgrading from 2012 RTM to 2012 QU1 we had attempted what with hindsight was an over ambitious hardware migration too. This involved swapping... Read More...
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Why can’t I create an environment using a running VM on my Lab Management system?
Tue, Dec 4 2012 15:47
With TFS lab management you can build environments from stored VM and VM templates stored in an SCVMM library or from VMs running on a Hyper-V host within your lab infrastructure. This second form is what used to be called composing an environment in TFS 2010. Recently when I tried to compose an environment I had a problem. After selecting the running VM inside... Read More...
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TFS & Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is available
Tue, Nov 27 2012 16:36
For those who attended Black Marble’s event today I mentioned there was an upcoming TFS and Visual Studio 2012 Update 1. Well I was out of date whilst talking, it had already been released overnight. See Brian Harry’s blog for details and Grant Holiday’s blogs   for a nice explanation of the download options. Read More...
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Did I delete the right lab?
Thu, Nov 22 2012 10:18
It was bound to happen in the end, the wrong environment got deleted on our TFS Lab Management instance. The usual selection of rushing, minor mistakes, misunderstandings and not reading the final dialog properly and BANG you get that sinking feeling as you see the wrong set of VMs being deleted. Well this happened yesterday, so was there anything that can be... Read More...
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More thoughts on addressing TF900546 ‘Unable to load one or more of the requested types’ on TFS2012
Mon, Nov 12 2012 5:33
A while ago I posted about seeing the TF900546 error when running unit tests in a previously working TFS 2012 build. The full error being: TF900546: An unexpected error occurred while running the RunTests activity: 'Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.'. Well late last week this... Read More...
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Change in the System.AssignedTo in TFS SOAP alerts with TFS 2012
Fri, Nov 9 2012 14:29
Ewald’s post explains how to create a WCF web service to act as an end point for TFS Alerts. I have been using the model with a TFS 2010 to check for work item changed events, using the work item’s System.AssignedTo field to retrieve the owner of the work item (via the TFS API) so I can send an email, as well as other tasks (I know I could just send the email... Read More...
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Cannot run coded ui test on a TFS lab due to lack of rights to the drops folder
Fri, Nov 9 2012 14:09
Whilst setting up a TFS 2012 Lab management environment for Coded UI testing we got the problem that none of the tests were running, in fact we could see no tests were even being passed to the agent in the lab On the build report I clicked on  the ‘View Test Results’ which loaded the result in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) and viewed the test run log, and... Read More...
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Team Foundation Service RTMs
Wed, Oct 31 2012 12:15
Today at Build 2012 it was announced that https://tfspreview.com has RTM'd as Team Foundation Service on https://tfs.visualstudio.com . Up until now there has been no pricing information, which had been a barrier to some people I have spoken to as they did not want to started using something without knowing the future cost. So to the really good news, as... Read More...
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New video on unit testing in VS2012 and TFS
Mon, Oct 8 2012 7:23
A video has just be uploaded that I did on the new unit testing features in Visual Studio  and TFS 2012. This is quick 10 minute introduction to some of the material I will be covering at DDDNorth next weekend . Hope you find it useful Read More...
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More fun with creating TFS 2012 SC-VMM environments
Fri, Oct 5 2012 11:14
Whilst setting up new a new SC-VMM based lab environment I managed to find some new ways to fail above and beyond the ones I have found before . We needed to build a new environment for testing CRM application, this needed to have its own DC, IIS server and a CRM server. The aim was to have this as a network isolated environment, but you have to build it first... Read More...
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TFS Test Agent cannot connect to Test Controller – Part 2
Mon, Oct 1 2012 16:33
I posted last week on the problems I had had getting the test agents and controller in a TFS2012 Standard environment talking to each other and a workaround. Well after a good few email with various people at Microsoft and other consultants at Black Marble I have a whole range of workarounds solutions. First a reminder of my architecture, and note that this could... Read More...
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TFS Test Agent cannot connect to Test Controller gives ‘No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:6910’
Sat, Sep 29 2012 8:38
Whilst setting up a  TFS 2012 Standard Lab Environment for an upcoming demo I hit a problem. Initially my environment had worked fine, I could deploy to my server VM in the environment without error. However, after a reboot of the TFS server (which has the build and test controllers on it) and the single server VM in the environment, the test agent on the... Read More...
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Type ‘InArgument(mtbwa:BuildSettings)’ of property ‘BuildSettings’ errors in TFS 2012 RTM builds
Thu, Aug 30 2012 9:30
I posted a while ago that you saw errors when trying to edit TFS 2012RC build process templates in VS 2012RC if the Visual Studio class library project you were using to manage the process template editing was targeting .NET 4.5, it needed to be 4.0. Well with Visual Studio 2012 RTM this is no longer the case, in fact it is the other way around. I have recently... Read More...
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Getting Typemock Isolator running within a TFS 2012 build – part 2
Fri, Aug 24 2012 9:05
I posted previously on getting Typemock 7.x running in a TFS 2012 RC build process . Well it seems the activities I previously published did not work on the TFS 2012 RTM build i.e if you do nothing other than upgrade your TFS server from RC to RTM a previously working build fails, no attempt was made to run any tests and I got the unhelpful error TF900546: An... Read More...
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Experiences upgrading our TFS2012RC to RTM
Mon, Aug 20 2012 6:56
We have just completed the upgraded of our TFS2012 server from RC to RTM. All went smoothly, just a few comments worth mentioning The install of TFS2012 (after the removal of the RC) required three reboots, 2 for C++ components and one for .NET 4.5. So if seeing reboots don’t worry too much. When running the upgrade wizard we got a verify warning over port... Read More...
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TF900546 error on a TFS 2012 build
Thu, Aug 9 2012 6:27
Whilst moving over to our new TFS 2012 installation I got the following error when a build tried to run tests TF900546: An unexpected error occurred while running the RunTests activity: 'Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.'. This was a new one on me, and nothing of much use on... Read More...
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Getting Typemock Isolator running within a TFS 2012 build
Sat, Aug 4 2012 6:01
I have posted in the past about getting Typemock Isolator to function within the TFS build process . In TFS 2008 it was easy , you just ran a couple of MSBUILD tasks that started/stopped the Typemock Isolator inception process (the bit that does the magic other mocking frameworks cannot do). However with TFS 2010’s move to a windows workflow based build model... Read More...
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