Why do all my TFS labels appear to be associated with the same changeset?

If you look at the labels tab in the source control history in Visual Studio 2012 you could be confused by the changeset numbers. How can all the labels added by my different builds, done over many days, be associated with the same changeset? If you look at the same view in VS 2010 the problem is not so obvious, but that is basically due to the column not being shown....

May 16, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Problem with CollectionView.CurrentChanged event not being fired in a WPF application

Had an interesting issue on one of our WPF applications that is using MVVM Lite. This application is a front end to upload and download folder structures to TFS. On my development PC all was working fine i.e. when we upload a new folder structure to the TFS backend the various combo’s on the download tab are also updated. However, on another test system they were not updated. After a bit of tracing we could see in both cases the RefreshData method was being called OK, and the CollectionViews recreated and bound without errors....

May 14, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Robert's new arrival

Look what the stork delivered to Robert! He has bought himself a robot, and brought it in to the office to show to everyone today

May 14, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Setting up a TFS 2012 proxy in a cross domain system

Today I have been setting up a cross domain TFS proxy. The developers are in one domain and the TFS server in another. Given there is no trust between these domains you have use a trick to get it to work. So I created a local user tfsproxy.local on both the TFS server and proxy with the same password on each. At the proxy end I made this local user a local admin....

May 10, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Interested in some tutor delivered training on TFS 2012 in the UK?

Interested in some tutor delivered training on TFS 2012? Well Anthony Borton, the TFS trainer and ALM MVP, is over in the UK running his excellent set of the TFS/VS 2012 focused courses. TFS 2012 Configuration and Administration 10th – 12th June 2013 | Course Outline Software testing with Visual Studio 201213th- 14th June 2013 | Course Outline TFS 2012 Developer Fundamentals 17th – 18th June 2013 | Course Outline Interestingly these courses can be taken in the room with the trainer or via Quicklearn’s Remote Classroom Instruction (RCI), so you can take the course in real time with the other students from the comfort of your own home/desk, but with all the benefits of a tutor classroom environment...

May 10, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell