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TFS Check-in Policy to check for warnings and/or errors


This check-in policy will evaluate the current solution to determine if any build warnings and/or errors are detected and if so the check-in policy will fail.  You will see a list of policy failures in the Policy Warnings tab of the Pending Changes window. You can download the check-in policy from here. Technorati Tags: Visual […]

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TFS Work Item Manager & TFS Project Dashboard


  These two free applications have been designed to make working with Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server faster and easier. Both applications were built by Imaginet Resources using Telerik RadControls for WPF. TFS Work Item Manager highlights Work Item grid filtering, grouping, and aggregation Area and Iteration filtering using single and multi select modes Filter query […]

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Windows 7 x64 and VMware vSphere Client Issue


After installing this and trying to run it you will find that it does not work.  You will simply get an error like: The type initializer for "VirtualInfrastructure.Utils.HttpWebRequestProxy" threw an exception The solution is posted in the following VMware forum thread and works great.  The same type of change must be done to get VMware […]

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Tech Days 2009 coming to Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto


Tickets are still available for $299 (plus tax), click on your city to buy now. With forty skill-strengthening sessions across five technical tracks, Tech•Days is a perfect way to learn the technology, connect with experts and peers, and apply what you learn with a Learning Kit that includes a TechNet Direct Plus Subscription—to continue growing […]

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VSeWSS 1.3 Lessons Learned….Put that PKG folder under Version Control


These are the SharePoint developer tools for Visual Studio 2008.  I had been using these to develop some features for SharePoint, specifically Content Types and Site Columns. When VSeWSS 1.3 packages (builds the WSP) the SharePoint project for deployment it creates a pkg folder inside your project directory where it maintains the IDs of the […]

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Notion announced v1.1 of the Notion Tools for Team System


  Notion Tools for Team System client tools include Notion Timesheet, Notion Work Organizer, Notion Work Planner, and the Notion Work Item Control Library to enhance the functionality of Team Foundation Server 2008. In addition to a few bug fixes, support in the primary tools (e.g., Timesheet and the Work Item Control Library) for VS […]

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Team Foundation Server Integration in Expression Blend 3


  Expression Blend 3 introduces support for Team Foundation Server. If you have access to TFS, you can perform common source control–related tasks on solutions and projects.  You will need to apply the following hotfix to get it all to work. Expression Blend 3 enables you to iterate and deliver on your ideas faster, creating […]

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Team Foundation Server Migration and Integration Solutions


Looking for tools to convert to, or integrate with Team Foundation Server (TFS)?  The featured tools and resources listed on this MSDN page can help to automate the process of moving data between other version control or work item tracking systems and Team Foundation Server. Some of the links you will find TFS Migration Tool […]

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Exception: Unable to create type ‘XXXXXXXXXXX.MenuAdapter’


[Exception: Unable to create type ‘XXXXXXXXXXX.MenuAdapter’.]   System.Web.Configuration.HttpCapabilitiesBase.GetAdapter(Control control) +2625202   System.Web.UI.Control.ResolveAdapter() +117System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +30System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +279  System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +279   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +279   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +279   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean We started to get this error after we applied SP2 on MOSS, while we had this error previously we were not able to reproduce it all the time.  […]

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Group Policy, Windows Server 2008 and SharePoint 2007 issue


Recently I was tasked to prepare some VMs for some SharePoint Developers and the configuration we decided upon was: Windows Server 2008 w/SP2 x64 SharePoint Server 2007 w/SP2 x64 SQL Server 2008 w/SP1 x64 After the installation/configuration of SharePoint 2007 the Central Administration site was launched and Internet Explorer displayed a blank page.  This was […]

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