Whist on the road I have had need to access our Lab Management system via our TMG firewall through which we expose our TFS 2010 for remote users (via SSL). When I load Microsoft Tests Manager (MTM) I can connect to the TFS server, as expected, and go into ‘Lab Center’ mode. I can see my project’s environment and can start, stop and deploy them without issue (all communication routed via our TFS server)....
When trying to create a new Team Project on my test TFS 2010 basic installation I got the error Time: 2011-07-05T11:43:36 Module: Engine Event Description: TF30162: Task “BuildTask” from Group “Build” failed Exception Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.PcwException Exception Message: Multiple identities found matching workspace name ‘TYPHOONfbb296e15246421e9fc8d25e9d128512typhoon (VC)’ and owner name ‘BLACKMARBLEfez’. Please specify one of the following workspace specs: TYPHOONfbb296e15246421e9fc8d25e9d128512typhoon (VC);BLACKMARBLEfez TYPHOONfbb296e15246421e9fc8d25e9d128512typhoon (VC);BLACKMARBLEfez Stack Trace: at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.Build.ProjectComponentCreator.ExecuteInternal(ProjectCreationContext context, XmlNode taskXml, Boolean validationOnly)...
The first stable release of the Community TFS Build Extensions has been shipped. It contains around 100 activities. It is hoped that this project will be be shipping on a 2 to 3 month cycle in the future. So have a look, this project provides many ways to extend your build process. And if you have ideas for more activities why not contribute?
I am really pleased to say I have been re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM for 2011, this is my fourth year. I am looking forwarded to another year of working with such a great crowd of people.
Thanks to everyone who came today’s ISV session at TVP. You can find all the slides from the event at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukisvdev/archive/2011/06/27/slides-and-links-from-alm-and-visual-studio-2010-event-on-the-27th-june-2010.aspx
The videos from the various Microsoft UK Techdays events can now be viewed at the UK TechDays site. This includes my session on ‘Virtualisation of the Test Environment’ and the joint one I did with James Mann on the new experience for developing SharePoint solutions in VS2010 from the Leeds event.
I will be speaking at Microsoft UK’s ‘Application Lifecycle Management for Independent Software Vendors’ event next Monday. I am one of four speakers, between us well all address a variety of subjects within ALM Modern Software Delivery: The continuous delivery of high quality software - Colin Bird Driving Quality Throughout the Application Lifecycle - Richard Erwin Extending Testing into the Lab - Richard Fennell The Secrets of Repeatable Success - Adam Gilmore I believe there are still spaces available
The Build Customisation project was not the only ALM Rangers release over the weekend. The Lab Management Guide was also shipped. This provides scenario based and hands-on guidance for the planning, setup, configuration and usage of Visual Studio Lab Management, backed by custom VM Template automation for reference environments. If you work with Lab Management, or would like, this is well worth a read
For those of you have have not spotted it the TFS 2010 SP1 Cumulative Update 1 is now available. This is a roll up of all the fixes that have be released since TFS 2010 SP1. This form of cumulative release is going to be the way forward for TFS, so it will be easier to know what to install on a server without reading loads of QFE documents. For more details read the full details on Brian Harry’s blog
I am really please to say that the first ALM Rangers project I have been involved with, the Build Customization Guidance, has shipped. The project had the primary goal of delivering scenario based and hands-on lab guidance for the customization and deployment of Team Foundation Build 2010 activities such as versioning, code signing, and branching. You can find details at the Rangers blog,the project table of content or the codeplex site...