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After I upgraded an ASP.NET Web Application VS2008 solution to VS2010 I found a strange problem. When I build either the whole solution or the test project in the solution the test assembly gets copies to Web Applications bin directory. However if I build the solution from the command line with MSBUILD they are not copied (so MSBUILD behaves as VS2008 used to). Turns out it is easy to repeat, the process is as follows: ...

I am really happy to say that I have had my MVP for Team System Re-awarded, it is a privilege to get to work with such a great group of people as a have met via the MVP programme.

All the ports on the Netgear GS608 I think are meant to be auto speed and uplink sensing, I have found this not to be true. I had the 1Gb uplink to our central switches in Port 8 and a 100Mb Ethernet workstation in port 2 could not get an IP address via DHCP. When I moved the uplink to Port 1 it all leapt into life. Interestingly other 1Gb PCs in other ports had no problem with the uplink in either port 1 or 8. ...

If you apply the TFS2008 SP1 to a system that has been upgraded from TFS 2005, but the WSS was not upgraded from 2.0 to 3.0 you can get a problem that you cannot access the SharePoint portal sites due to WebPart load errors (you get an Event ID: 1000 error in the Windows event logs). This is because the TFS 2008 SP1 installs .NET framework 3.5 SP1 which causes some problems for WSS 2.0. Note this is not usually a problem for new installs of TFS 2008 as these use WSS 3.0 by default, but the upgrade of TFS from 2005 to 2008 does not force the upgrade of WSS 2.0 to 3.0 so sites that upgraded are susceptible. ...

Whist trying to work out if there is any way to get around the problem I am suffering with Sharepoint workflows idling inside a Typemock Isolator test harness I have been having a good look at CThru; a set if libraries for Typemock that, and I quote Codeplex here, ‘… allows creating interception and isolation frameworks for logging, testing and many other things very simply’. This is the framework is used to create the Silverlight mocking frame work on the same Codeplex site. ...

I was installing a new PC for a friend yesterday; after using the Easy Transfer Wizard (first time I used this and I can heartily recommend) to move their settings from their old XP system to their new Vista one I got the 0x800106ba Windows Defender error on start-up. Now there is a lot of frankly useless comments on this error on various forums, strange as the solution is simple. I suspect this is down to this issue being predominantly a problem that hits home user who are not a familiar with the internal workings of services etc. in Windows. ...

Whilst upgrading a single server TFS 2005 to a dual server 2008 install I hit a problem. I had installed the new 2005 Data Tier (DT) and patched it without issue. However then I tried to apply the patch VS80-KB19156-v2-x86, the Quiescence GDR patch, on the Application Tier (AT) I got the 29109 error: SQL Reporting Services configuration encountered an unknown problem. A search on the web found this is a common issue usually fixed by repeated retries! This did not work for me. ...

I posted yesterday about problem creating a new team project if you had missing templates on your Sharepoint server. This problem could of course be avoided if you had installed the TFS Sharepoint Extensions onto your Sharepoint server as your are meant to. However, as I have discovered it is not that easy to do if your chosen Sharepoint system has network load balanced front ends. The problem is that Sharepoint will replicate your MSFAGILE30.STP template between the various servers, but it will not move other TFS artefacts such as the TFSREDIRECT.ASPX in the 12 hive or setting to point to the reporting service instance in the registry. To add these other items you need to install the extensions an then run the TFSConfigwss.exe tool to edit the registry. The problem is the Extensions MSI will not complete if it detects the STP already in place (which as I said will that have been replicated by Sharepoint). The only solution I found was to cheat a bit: ...

Historically we have used the eScrum process template for our TFS team projects. However, with a view to the TFS 2010 future we have decided to moved back to the MSF Agile template. We used eScrum to provide an easy to use web based project dashboard; we now think that we can achieve the same or better in TFS 2010 using Excel’s enhanced links to TFS and Excel Services in Sharepoint. ...

I have been having some binding problems when trying to use Ivonna 2.0.0 against a version of Typemock Isolator other than the 5.3.0 build it was built to run against. This is a know issue, if your version of Ivonna and Typemock don’t match then you have to use .Net Binding redirection to get around the problem. So to track down the exact problem I used the Fusion logger shipped with the .NET SDK (via fuslogvw.exe). This in itself has been an interesting experience. A few points are worth noting: ...