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TFS Test Agent cannot connect to Test Controller – Part 2

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...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Oct 1 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Lab Management, Technical Tips, VSTS, Build, Testing
TFS Test Agent cannot connect to Test Controller – Part 2

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...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Oct 1 2012
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips, Testing, Build, Lab Management
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’

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...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Sat, Sep 29 2012
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips, Lab Management
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’

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...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Sat, Sep 29 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Lab Management, Technical Tips, VSTS
Experiences upgrading an MVC 1 application to MVC 3

I have recently had to do some work on a MVC 1 application and thought it sensible to bring it up to MVC 3, you don’t want to be left behind if you can avoid it. This was a simple data capture application written in MVC1 in Visual Studio 2008 and never needed to be touched since. A user fills in a form...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Wed, Sep 5 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, Testing, MVC
Type ‘InArgument(mtbwa:BuildSettings)’ of property ‘BuildSettings’ errors in TFS 2012 RTM builds

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...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Thu, Aug 30 2012
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips, Build
Type ‘InArgument(mtbwa:BuildSettings)’ of property ‘BuildSettings’ errors in TFS 2012 RTM builds

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...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Thu, Aug 30 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, VSTS, Build
Experiences upgrading our TFS2012RC to RTM

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...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Aug 20 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, VSTS
Experiences upgrading our TFS2012RC to RTM

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...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Aug 20 2012
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips
Moving podcast subscriptions with Zune

If like me you listen to many podcasts, then swapping the PC your Phone7 syncs to collect the podcasta is a real pain. The problem being as far as I can see Zune has no podcast subscription export/import, so you are left with a lot of copy typing to re-enter them. Whilst rebuilding my PC with Windows...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Thu, Aug 16 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, WP7, zune, tec
Moving podcast subscriptions with Zune

If like me you listen to many podcasts, then swapping the PC your Phone7 syncs to collect the podcasta is a real pain. The problem being as far as I can see Zune has no podcast subscription export/import, so you are left with a lot of copy typing to re-enter them. Whilst rebuilding my PC with Windows...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Thu, Aug 16 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, WP7, zune, tec
TF900546 error on a TFS 2012 build

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...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Thu, Aug 9 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, VSTS, Build
TF900546 error on a TFS 2012 build

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...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Thu, Aug 9 2012
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips, Build
Using an internal Nuget server to manage the Typemock assembly references.

In my last post I discussed the process I needed to go through to get Typemock Isolator running under TFS 2012. In this process I used the Auto Deploy feature of Isolator. However this raised the question of how to manage the references within projects. You cannot just assume the Typemock assemblies...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Aug 6 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, Typemock, Nuget
Getting Typemock Isolator running within a TFS 2012 build

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...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Sat, Aug 4 2012
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips, Typemock, Build
Getting Typemock Isolator running within a TFS 2012 build

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...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Sat, Aug 4 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, VSTS, Typemock, Build
Two problems editing TFS2012 build workflows with the same solution

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 problems, turns out the cure is the same for both...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Jul 30 2012
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips, Build
Two problems editing TFS2012 build workflows with the same solution

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 problems, turns out the cure is the same for both...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Jul 30 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, VSTS, Build
Problems I had to address when setting up TFS 2012 Lab Environments with existing Hyper-V VMs

Whilst moving all our older test Hyper-V VMs into a new TFS 2012 Lab Management instance I have had to address a few problems. I already posted about the main one of cross domain communications . This post aims to list the other workaround I have used. MTM can’t communicate with the VMs When setting...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Jul 23 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Lab Management, Technical Tips, VSTS
Problems I had to address when setting up TFS 2012 Lab Environments with existing Hyper-V VMs

Whilst moving all our older test Hyper-V VMs into a new TFS 2012 Lab Management instance I have had to address a few problems. I already posted about the main one of cross domain communications . This post aims to list the other workaround I have used. MTM can’t communicate with the VMs When setting...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Jul 23 2012
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips, Lab Management

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