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• Use Msbuild Custom Action in TFS2010 build with a custom project

  Since TFS Build 2010 is ruled by workflow foundation, what happens if you want to use a custom msbuild task that you already have used in the past? I agree with the fact that the right approach to use, is writing a custom activity, but you need to write... Posted Nov 09 2009, 12:17 PM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Team Foundation Server

• TFSBuild 2010 some news.

  When you create a new build in tfs2010, you can immediately notice some changes during the definition. In the basic configuration there are more options devoted to testing. As you can see it is possible to specify now if a test failure must fail the entire... Posted Nov 02 2009, 08:31 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Team Foundation Server

• TF255352 and TF255331 warning during tfs 2010 beta2 install

  This can happen when you change machine name after you installed and configured sql server. I’m trying various type of installation of tfs2010 just to verify the various options, my virtual machine had the default name, so I changed after I installed... Posted Oct 27 2009, 08:49 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Team Foundation Server

• Tfs Build in Tfs basic

  In this post I dealt with the easy of installation of tfs basic. But tfs basic is much more than simply source control, if you open the TFS Administration Console, you can configure Team Build (Suppose you have installed it as I showed in previous post... Posted Oct 26 2009, 10:07 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Team Foundation Server

• TF255070 User account xxx\account not found

  In tfs 2010 beta2, when you configure the build agent, you start the wizard choosing the team foundation server that contains the project collection you want to build. If you choose tfs with ip address, you will end with an error like This error is probably... Posted Oct 25 2009, 02:46 PM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Team Foundation Server, Tfs

• Installing TFS2010 Beta2, first try

  Installing TFS is an operation that scares most people. With TFS2010 beta 2 the installation process is really more friendly. I installed a new windows server 2008 machine, update everything and begin the installation to verify the new installer. You... Posted Oct 24 2009, 02:36 PM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Team Foundation Server, Tfs

• Automatic deployment of a web application with TFS Build

  When you develop web applications you usually have X developers solving bugs and implementing features, and a series of testers that test application during developing process. A must to have requirement is that Modifications to the trunk are visible... Posted Oct 23 2009, 10:38 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Software Architecture, Team Foundation Server, Tfs, TfsBuild

• Deploy a database project with TFS Build

  When you develop web application you often have this scenario. Some people are testers, they are testing the application in dev all day, and they want always to test latest version. Moreover testers usually fills data into web application, so they want... Posted Oct 06 2009, 10:28 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Team Foundation Server, Tfs, TFS Build

• An interesting post

  As you can read in this post, there are a lot of new stuff around TFS 2010. The good news is that Standard TFS is a TFS so you can have not only version control, as Source safe does, but the Issue tracker and most important the build automation (how can... Posted Oct 05 2009, 03:14 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Team Foundation Server

• Correct use of a Source Control System, branching for long time task

  Source control system is probably developer’s best friend, but quite often people use only a small percentage of its functionalities. One of the most missed feature is a correct use of a branch. Let’s make a concrete example. Suppose that developer A... Posted Sep 30 2009, 01:36 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Team Foundation Server, Tfs, Visual Studio Team System, SCM, Branch

• Again on assembly numbering during TFS Build

  If you read this post, you can see how to customize a tfs build to modify versioning of the assembly. During that process to find the latest changeset of the repository, to use as “revision Number” , I used a direct call to tf.exe tool and a custom Regex... Posted Sep 07 2009, 04:20 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Team Foundation Server, TeamFoundationServer

• Take control of assembly numbering during a tfs build

  One of the most important stuff in a project build, is the ability to mark the assemblies with unique numbers that permits us to reproduce the build. Tfs does not have a standard way of doing this, but with a couple of MsBuild actions it is really simple... Posted Aug 21 2009, 07:50 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Tools and library, Team Foundation Server, Msbuild, TeamFoundationServer, ContinuousIntegration, TfsBuild

• Problem with TFS2010 Beta, error TF31002

  I’have a virtual machine with TFS2010 Beta, everything was ok, I’ve not worked with it for the last month, this morning I fire the virtual machine again, open visual studio and found that the TFS is not working. It gave me error TF31002, so I begin to... Posted Aug 18 2009, 03:57 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Team Foundation Server, TeamFoundationServer

• Speedup Tfs builds with parallel compilation and incremental get

  For large projects, the time needed to run a build can grow considerably large, until it eventually pass the famous barrier of 10 minutes. To speedup build time you can try to use some features of TFS, Parallel Builds: Msbuild can run faster in multicore... Posted Aug 13 2009, 10:08 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Team Foundation Server, Continuos Integration

• Team foundation server and excel

  One of the greatest features of Tfs is that it is a single product that is able to manage the whole ALM of an application, but another strength point is high level of integration with other tools. One of the coolest feature is the ability to use Excel... Posted Aug 07 2009, 11:14 AM by Alkampfer's Place Filed under: Team Foundation Server, Tfs, Excel