Richard Fennell : Build, VSTS

Workaround for TF900546: An unexpected error occurred while running the RunTests activity

But it works on my PC! — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:01:21 GMT

The problem I have been working on a project that contains SharePoint 2010 WSP packages and a MSI distributed WPF application. These projects are all in a single solution with their unit tests. I have been getting a problem with our TFS 2012.2 build system...(read more)

TF900548 when using my Typemock 2012 TFS custom build activity

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:52:25 GMT

Using the Typemock TFS 2012 Build activity I created I had started seen the error TF900548: An error occurred publishing the Visual Studio test results. Details: 'The following id must have a positive value: testRunId.' I thought it might be down...(read more)

More thoughts on addressing TF900546 ‘Unable to load one or more of the requested types’ on TFS2012

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:33:03 GMT

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...(read more)

New video on unit testing in VS2012 and TFS

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:23:34 GMT

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)

TFS Test Agent cannot connect to Test Controller – Part 2

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:33:24 GMT

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...(read more)

Type ‘InArgument(mtbwa:BuildSettings)’ of property ‘BuildSettings’ errors in TFS 2012 RTM builds

But it works on my PC! — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:30:02 GMT

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....(read more)

TF900546 error on a TFS 2012 build

But it works on my PC! — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:27:46 GMT

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...(read more)

Getting Typemock Isolator running within a TFS 2012 build

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 11:01:58 GMT

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...(read more)

Two problems editing TFS2012 build workflows with the same solution

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:27:08 GMT

Whilst moving over to our new TFS2012 system I have been editing build templates, pulling the best bits from the selection of templates we used in 2010 into one master build process to be used for most future projects. Doing this I have hit a couple of...(read more)

TF215097 when running a build

But it works on my PC! — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:16:53 GMT

I have been working on one of our build boxes today restructuring our Surface solutions to make better of Nuget. This involved upgraded the Azure SDK on the build box to the new June release , which needed a reboot halfway through the process. After the...(read more)

TFS Build error, 'Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of the argument list” when building XAML projects

But it works on my PC! — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:45:59 GMT

We had an interesting issue of late building a Surface2 application solution within a TFS 2010 build system. The solution built fine in VS2010 on both my development PC and also using VS2010 on my TFS build box (both Windows 7 64bit PC), so I know I had...(read more)

Unit testing in VS11Beta and getting your tests to run on the new TFSPreview build service

But it works on my PC! — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:23:00 GMT

One of my favourite new features in VS11 is that the unit testing is pluggable. You don’t have to use MSTest, you can use any test framework that an adaptor is available for (at the release of the beta this meant the list of framworks on Peter Provost...(read more)

New 1.3.0.0 release of the Community TFS Build Extensions for TFS 2010

But it works on my PC! — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:53:24 GMT

A new 1.3.0.0 release of the Community TFS Build Extensions has been published today. This contains some fixes and two new activities SPDisposeChecker – checks for SharePoint best practice CatNetScan – checks for common security issues...(read more)

‘Showing a modal dialog box or form when the application is not running in UserInteractive mode’ error upgraded to TFS build extensions 1.2.0.0

But it works on my PC! — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:14:38 GMT

Whilst upgrading a TFS 2010 build today to the new 1.2 release of the Community TFS Build Extensions we hit an issue. All seemed to go OK until the build tried to use the StyleCop activity, which failed with the error Showing a modal dialog box or form...(read more)

Community TFS Build Extensions – December 2011 released

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:51:52 GMT

A new release of Community TFS Build Extensions have shipped. You can find more details on Mike Fourie’s blog or at the project home on Codeplex...(read more)

Typemock Isolator 6.2 released–now with TFS2010 build support

Name of the blog — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:00:03 GMT

Typemock have recently released a new version of Isolator, 6.2. As well as the usual fixes and enhancements you would expect, this is the first version to support TFS 2010 team build out the box. Prior to this release Typemock supported MSBuild based...(read more)

Access denied when running a command with InvokeProcess in a TFS team build

Name of the blog — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:33:37 GMT

When you are trying to run a command line tool via the InvokeProcess activity in a TFS 2010 Team build you might see the somewhat confusing ‘Access denied’ error. There appears to be no more detail in the log. I have found that this is usually down to...(read more)

Using Nuget and TFS Build 2010

Name of the blog — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:38:02 GMT

At one of our recent events I was asked if I had any experience using Nuget within a TFS 2010 build. At the time I had not, but I thought it worth a look. For those of you who don’t know Nuget is a package manager that provides a developer with a way...(read more)