Showing results for March 2012 - 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 service ...

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 the te...

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.  It s...

[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 TFS 2...

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.----...