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I posted a while ago on using my Typemock TMockRunner Custom Activity for Team Build 2010. I left that post with the problem that if you wished to customise a template after you a had added the custom activity you had to use the somewhat complex branching model edit the XAML. If you just followed the process in my post to put the build template in a new team project and tried to edit the XAML you got the following errors, an import namespace error and the associated inability to render part of the workflow...

The last of the recent batch of announcements is that of the first official release of the TFS Integration Platform. This provides tools to allow synchronisation between TFS 2010 and ….. TFS 2008 TFS 2010 ClearCase ClearQuest File System Again more details on Brian Harry’s blog.

Another recent announcement from Brian Harry’s blog was about the release of the Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 MOSS Configuration Tool. I had a look at this tool during it’s beta testing and it certainly can help to get all the setting right to allow Excel Services to provide your charting for TFS projects, it worked for us.

In the VSLive! keynote Microsoft made announcements about Lab Management, it will be RTM’d later this month and best of all it will be included as part of the benefits of the Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN and Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 with MSDN SKUs. You can read more detail on Brian Keller’s blog I think this is a great move on licensing, we had expect it to be purchasable addition to Visual Studio....

[Also see Running MSDeploy to a remote box from inside a TFS 2010 Build (Part 2)] A fellow MVP Ewald Hofman wrote a great post on getting an Web Application to deploy as part of a TFS 2010 build. I have been using this technique but found a few points that were not right in the original post, I assume these are down to RC/RTM issues and the fact I was trying to access a remote system....