Next Tuesday lunchtime (12th Apr 2011 1pm) I will be doing a webcast on on ‘Lab Management and Automated Build’. I will be looking at the build options in TFS and also how they can be extended with Lab Management. The event is free to attend you just need to register at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-gb/visual-studio-events
Whist recently installing a TFS 2010 system onto a single box server, that was also a domain controller, I had a problem that though everything seemed in order I could not view my reporting services based reports in either SharePoint or directly from the http://myserver/reports interface. During the installation I had verified I had the correct password for my [domain]tfsreports account used to run the reports. If went to the http://myserver/reports page and edited the TFS2010ReportsDs or TFS2010OlapReportDS and tried to test the [domain]tfsreports login it failed....
I posted a while ago about common confusion I had seen with Lab Management. We I have recently managed to get myself completely confused whilst working with Lab Management. It turns out the issue was so obvious I managed to miss it for hours, but as usual I learnt a good deal whilst trying to troubleshoot my stupidity. I have a Lab Management system linked up to a a Team Project Collection (TPC)....
IIS Express is a great addition to the tools for .NET web developers; it allow a slightly cut down copy of IIS 7.5 to be run without administrative privileges on a developer’s PC. This means we can hopefully get away from the problems associated by either Using Cassini – which is not IIS and does not do any clever Using full IIS which means Visual Studio has to run as administrator to debug it and also causes source control issues when a project is shared between multiple developers (their IIS setup must match up) If you install Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and IIS express you now get a new option, that is to use IIS express as your web server....
I got round to installing Visual Studio 2010 SP1 on my laptop last night; well I started last night via the Web Platform Installer method. It downloaded the bits fast but sat for ages on the first step, installing the actual service pack. There was no obvious activity on the CPU or disk. In the end I gave waiting and went to bed. I was pleased to see it was finished this morning....
If you try to create an automated TFS build of a Windows Phone 7 Silverlight application on a ‘default installed’ build agent you will see errors along the lines of The imported project “C:Program FilesMSBuildMicrosoftSilverlight for Phonev4.0Microsoft.Silverlight.WindowsPhone.Overrides.targets” was not found. Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk. This is because the PC your build agent is running on does not have the WP7 SDK installed....
For those who have not noticed, DDD Scotland’s registration is now open at http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/scotland2011/Default.aspx. Sad to say my proposed session did not get accepted, but that just means I have the chance to see more sessions myself!
At the end of the month I will be speaking at a series of free Microsoft events in Belfast and Dublin. There going to be two session at each location Managing application lifecycle “From requirements to retirement” with Team Foundation Server 2010 Dublin - 31/03/2011 (AM): https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032480694&Culture=en-IE Belfast – 01/04/2011 (AM): https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032480760&Culture=en-IE Better testing with lower costs - Saving your teams time and resources using Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Test Manager...
Further to yesterdays post on new bits for VS and TFS 2010, there is now some guidance to what order to apply SP1 to server and clients.
I am doing some work on VS2008 at present and I when I started my VS2008, which I had not used for a while, I was plagued by errors along the lines of “The operation could not be completed”. These occurred when running major features such as: Loading LINQ to SQL Designer Running the SQL 2008 Project Wizard The fix turned out to be resetting the package skip loading flag. It seems a number of add-ins were not being loaded on startup....