Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Awesomeness

One question I was asked today after my SharePoint presentation was related to Team Build.  The question was how do I run a specific task (i.e. build documentation) in my build? You need to modify the TFSBuild.proj file to add your custom task In Source Control Explorer in your project select TeamBuildTypes, right click it […]

If you’ve been thinking the Vista SideBar could be more useful besides just displaying the weather or the Microsoft 2008 Global Launch Wave Count Down and you use Team Foundation Server you have to check out these FREE gadgets from Application Aspect. My Team Foundation Server Projects Gadget My Team Foundation Server Projects gadget will show […]

If you ever receive this strange error inside Visual Studio while viewing a work item with Team Explorer or errors like this: i) try to read or add a work item type "Bug" , the Microsoft Visual Studio window displayed " X ‘|’ is an unexpected token. The expected token is ‘=’. Line 1, position 1099."ii) try […]

Hi,   We recently had a client tell us they were no longer able to create any new Team Project on their Team Foundation Server.  The error they received was:   TF30162 Error Project Creation Wizard encountered an error while uploading documents to SharePoint   It turned out someone had deleted the "ROOT" Windows SharePoint […]

So it actually happened! On August 31st, 2006 I blogged about Team Foundation Server needing a web interface, much like Exchange has OWA. Microsoft has purchased TeamPlain, you can read about on Brian Harry’s blog here.  Effective today TeamPlain is available here to all users who own a Team Foundation Server. This is huge, I […]

The 6 month trial period is fast approaching, Brian Harry has blogged about this topic and included a link to the MSDN article. In the article under "Product Key Considerations" they mention: If you acquired Team Foundation Server through a volume licensing program, you will not have an individual product key to provide during the […]

We connected up MS project to Team System only to discover that MS Project uses "," as a list separator in the Resource Name and each resource now has become 2 people.   The work around is to change the list separator character in your Regional Settings to the ";" character.  This issue is apparently logged […]

After writing over a 100 unit tests for some business logic and running the tests locally it was time to let the build server execute the job.  I went to the trouble to organize the tests into lists which matched the namespace of the business logic.   When I created my build project and selected the […]

Doing another installation of Team System we got the following error installing the SQL Server:   Title: Unexpected error Occurred Message: The following unexpected error occurred: Button: OK   I have installed this patch many times already and this error was a first for me, we tried a bunch of things to solve it (which […]

I was saved today.  After configuring users in Team System using three different interfaces, I thought there must be a better way since I could not believe that it could normal to add a user/group to TFS, then SQL Reporting Services, then in Windows SharePoint.   I came across this utility on gotdotnet.com TFS Adminstration Tool […]