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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:51 AM

Visual Studio Team System 2008 White Papers

Microsoft has published a set of white papers which provide a good technical overview of the features available in Visual Studio Team System 2008. They're available individually for download: Visual Studio Team System 2008 Capabilities White Papers .
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 1:08 AM

TFS Tips

I'm just wrapping up a long article on Team System 2008 and its new capabilities, especially its continuous integration support and build server improvements. In the course of researching for this article, I found a couple of tips that didn't really fit
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Sunday, July 22, 2007 11:54 AM

Fixed: CCNET + MSBUILD Logger Error

Ran into a snag this weekend with my build server - it started throwing errors related to the path to a folder, like this: .MSBUILD : error MSB4015: The build was aborted because the "MsBuildToCCNetLogger" logger failed unexpectedly during shutdown. System.ArgumentException:
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Friday, July 06, 2007 11:52 AM

Team Project Creation Failed TF30225

So, I get this error now every time I try to create a new Team Project. I've checked my SQL Reporting Services configuration and it's all Green. I'm creating this project as an administrator. I've searched for help online, of course, but
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:34 AM

Orcas VPC TimeBombedBase Missing

I downloaded the Orcas Visual Studio Beta 1 VPC from MSDN yesterday and stitched all of the zip files together, and launched it. Ran into the dreaded: “E:\VPC\TimeBombedBase\Base01.vhd” could not be found message. If you run into the same
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 1:49 PM

Old Team System News

This is all from last month, but I’ve been busy so it’s been in my queue. Sorry for the late “news”: Microsoft acquired TeamPlain, makers of TeamPlain Web Access for connecting to TFS via a browser. TeamPlain will be free to anybody
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 1:21 PM

Speaking at Connection in Vegas in November

I found out that I should be speaking at the DevConnections show this fall. The show is being held in Las Vegas again, November 5–8th. I apologize to anybody that had hoped to see me present last month in Orlando at the spring show – I was
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:42 PM

Display Current Bin Folder Content Information

As part of my automated build and test process, I wanted to be able to confirm that my third party components were the proper version and, more importantly, that they were fully licensed. For some components, I can create a new instance of the control
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Thursday, March 22, 2007 3:28 PM

VS2005 Data Pro Dies on Compile Fix

I had an issue with VS2005 For DB Pros (the Data Dude SKU) where every time I would build my solution (or that project), VS2005 would simply die. This was on Vista. After looking for the answer, I contacted Gert Drapers who informed me of the fix —
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:22 AM

Plasma v1.0 Release Available

Plasma is an ASP.NET in-memory web server emulator that can be used for ASP.NET unit testing or automation. Its initial codebase was written by Microsoft and its current incarnation is a community project licensed under the Microsoft Permissive License
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Friday, January 05, 2007 1:00 PM

VS2005 SP1 Update for Vista Beta Available

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta Now available, this update fixes a bunch of issues with VS2005 (with SP1) running on Windows Vista. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Friday, November 10, 2006 11:52 AM

DevConnections Fall 2006 Summary

Got back home last night from DevConnections in Las Vegas. It was a very good show this year in terms of content, products being launched, and numbers of attendees and exhibitors. I think I had more people in my sessions than usual, too, and they all
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Friday, October 20, 2006 7:09 PM

Team Build TF42046: The Build Service used in the build process is not reachable

Ran into this error today trying to kick off a team build. Found this link that I’m using to try and troubleshoot. One note so far is that the Team Build install is now found in the “build” folder, not the “BB” folder, on
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Monday, September 25, 2006 5:10 PM

Source Control Structure

How do you like to set up your source control for a project? My personal preference is sort of a work in progress, and I do not have a great deal of experience with branching and versioning, so my design doesn’t take this into account, but I would
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006 3:05 PM

Upgrading TFS from RC to Workgroup Edition

Today I came into work and my build/source control server, which I thought I remembered installing the RTM of TFS Workgroup Edition, was complaining that my license had expired. When this happens, the error message looks something like this: "TF30072:
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