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Recently this question came up on an internal mailing list.  Dennis Habib, a developer on TFS, responded with the following. This is because '.com' is a restricted file type. Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) has a list of extensions that it will not accept and will fail (there are quite a few), but there is no way to get this list from WSS pr...

Aaron has written a great post on using Visual Studio (devenv) from within Team Build as part of the build process.  If that sounds strange, it's necessary because there are projects that Visual Studio can build, but msbuild cannot.  Projects in this category include Visual Studio setup projects (.vdproj), SQL Reporting Services (SRS...

Periodically we get the following questions about get. The answer to each is no for both TFS 2005 (v1) and TFS 2008 (Orcas).  It's something we considered doing in v1, but we ended up cutting it.  It remains on the list of features to consider for the future. If you have opinions on this or other version control features, you'll wan...

This was a 200-year old Osage-orange tree on what used to be part of my grandfather's farm in Charlotte, NC.  This former hay field is now a subdivision (the farm house is directly across the road in the grove of trees in the distance behind the scraper).  The house I grew up in is adjacent to the farm (way over on the oppo...

You can install the build agent (aka Build SKU) without going through the setup UI if you do the following.  Thanks to Tony Edwards for this information. Edit the msiproperty.ini.   Note that as of Beta 2, the ones that are in there are bogus and are not used.  You have to add two new ones.  This will be fixed before the r...

Periodically, the topic of keyword expansion comes up, which TFS (at least through 2008) does not support.  At one point during the v1 product cycle, it was a planned feature and was partially implemented.  However, there are lots of challenges to getting it right in TFS version control, and it wasn't worth the cost to finish the fea...

Aaron pointed out this post by Ben Day that talks about using the RunConfigFile property with a build that runs tests without using test lists (.vsmdi files).  It all boils down to looking like the following (in Orcas, you would specify the $(OutDir) part in the TestContainer's Include attribute, whereas you don't in the TFS 2005 power to...

The AssemblyInfo task has a new home, because the CodeGallery portion of GoDotNet is being phased out.  You can now find it here in the GotDotNet User Samples.The AssemblyInfo task is useful for updating assembly version numbers as part of your build.  Aaron Hallberg explains how to use it with Team Build in his post, Team Build and ...

The first chat is at 1:00 PM Eastern time, so I'm planning to be in that one. Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the upcoming Orcas CTP. We will ...

Matt Mitrik, program manager for TFS migration and synchronization toolkit, has announced the release of version 1.0.  Note that it also includes the source code so that you can extend it as well. Check it out! V1.0 of the Migration and Synchronization Toolkit has been released! The first complete version of the Migration and Synchronizat...