March 2012

TFS 11 Beta upgrade: Existing workflows that have custom workflow activities using the TFS client OM

March 19, 2012 Mar 19, 2012 03/19/12

Buck Hodges

Duat, a developer on Team Foundation Build, has written a blog post on how to resolve post-upgrade issues with your build workflow if your 2010 build workflow uses custom workflow activities that use the TFS client object model. Your custom assemblies need update, or else, redirecting Loading your custom assemblies in the TFS 11 build ...

Running only impacted tests in TFS 2010 Build

March 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012 03/12/12

Buck Hodges

Richard Hundhausen pointed out this blog post recently, and I thought I’d mention it here. Rob Maher walks through the process of setting up a build definition to run only the tests that involve the code that was changed. TFS 2010 Build - Only run impacted tests If your tests take a long time to run, you may wish to only run ...

Team Foundation Version Control client API example for TFS 2010 and newer

March 10, 2012 Mar 10, 2012 03/10/12

Buck Hodges

Over six years ago, I posted a sample on how to use the version control API. The API changed in TFS 2010, but I hadn’t updated the sample. Here is a version that works with 2010 and newer and is a little less aggressive on clean up in the finally block. This is a really simple example that uses the version control API. ...

Updating a team project to use new features after upgrading to TFS 11 Beta

March 5, 2012 Mar 5, 2012 03/5/12

Buck Hodges

[UPDATE 3/12/12] Aaron pointed out Ewald's recent detailed blog post that walks through adding optional metadata beyond the MSDN article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2012/03/06/get-your-agile-project-fixed-after-an-upgrade-from-tfs2010-to-tfs11-beta.aspx. Team Foundation Server 11 Beta can be used to upgrade your existing ...

Permission error with creating a team project from VS 2010 on TFS 2012

March 5, 2012 Mar 5, 2012 03/5/12

Buck Hodges

You must use the Visual Studio Team Explorer 2012 (included in all Visual Studio editions or may be separately downloaded) to create a team project on a TFS 2012 server. If you use VS 2010, you will get an error about not having permission. The error message is very misleading, because it’s not a problem with your permissions...

Buck Hodges

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