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Silverlight 4 Synchronous WCF Service Calls (or “How to avoid writing a 1-tier Silverlight App”)
Update 12/24/2010 – Check out my follow up to this post. Silverlight is great. Silverlight 4 is extra great. If you know a little bit about WPF and a handful about the ViewModel Pattern, you’re in great shape. If you’re like me, you tend to mock up your user interfaces and user interface functionality using…
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Silverlight 4 Synchronous WCF Service Calls (or “How to avoid writing a 1-tier Silverlight App”)
Update 12/24/2010 – Check out my follow up to this post. Silverlight is great. Silverlight 4 is extra great. If you know a little bit about WPF and a handful about the ViewModel Pattern, you’re in great shape. If you’re like me, you tend to mock up your user interfaces and user interface functionality using…
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Error updating the Bug work item template in TFS2010. “TF26177: The field Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.ReproSteps cannot be renamed from 'ReproSteps' to 'Repro Steps'.”
I came across another wrinkle this morning while I was doing some Team Foundation Server 2010 work item customization. When I went to upload a customized Bug work item template to my MSF for Agile project, I got the following error: TF212018: Work item tracking schema validation error: TF26177: The field Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.ReproSteps cannot be renamed…
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Error updating the Bug work item template in TFS2010. “TF26177: The field Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.ReproSteps cannot be renamed from ‘ReproSteps’ to ‘Repro Steps’.”
I came across another wrinkle this morning while I was doing some Team Foundation Server 2010 work item customization. When I went to upload a customized Bug work item template to my MSF for Agile project, I got the following error: TF212018: Work item tracking schema validation error: TF26177: The field Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.ReproSteps cannot be renamed…
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What happened to witexport.exe and witimport.exe in Team Foundation Server 2010? How do I edit work items in TFS2010?
I went to do some work item customizations for a customer’s Team Foundation Server 2010 this morning. When I was done making my edits to the work item template XML, I went looking for witimport.exe. In TFS2008, WitImport is the utility that uploads work item template definitions (aka WIT Definitions or WITD’s) to TFS. Well,…
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Load Test Stuck in Pending with Test Rig because of DNS problems
Trying to run Visual Studio 2010 Load Tests with a Load Test Rig but the tests always get stuck in the Pending state? It could be DNS problems. Make sure that your Load Test Controller can resolve the name of all the Load Test Agent machines and vice versa. While you’re at it, make sure…
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Beantown .NET / Boston .NET meeting — Thursday, 5/6/2010: Chris Dias from Microsoft
Hi All — Beantown .NET is going to be doing a joint meeting with Boston .NET meeting on Thursday, 5/6/2010. This month we have Chris Dias from Microsoft. Chris is the Visual Studio Group Program Manager and he’ll be talking about what’s new in Visual Studio 2010. As always, our meeting is open to everyone…
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TFS2010 Build failed — “Microsoft.Silverlight.Common.targets (104): The Silverlight 4 SDK is not installed”
I ran in to a problem trying to compile a Silverlight 4 project with Team Foundation Server 2010 and Team Build. I ran the build and got the error: C:Program Files (x86)MSBuildMicrosoftSilverlightv4.0Microsoft.Silverlight.Common.targets (104): The Silverlight 4 SDK is not installed I found Andru’s blog post with a solution for this in Silverlight 3.0 where he…
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TFS2010 Build failed — “Microsoft.Silverlight.Common.targets (104): The Silverlight 4 SDK is not installed”
I ran in to a problem trying to compile a Silverlight 4 project with Team Foundation Server 2010 and Team Build. I ran the build and got the error: C:Program Files (x86)MSBuildMicrosoftSilverlightv4.0Microsoft.Silverlight.Common.targets (104): The Silverlight 4 SDK is not installed I found Andru’s blog post with a solution for this in Silverlight 3.0 where he…
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Team Foundation Server 2010 – Team Build fails because build log file already exists
I ran in to a problem this morning with a TFS2010 Build. The build ran and was looking like it was going to succeed and then at the very end I got an error saying – The file ‘bendaytfs2010dropBendayUserGroupManager CIBendayUserGroupManager CI_20100420.1logsBendayUserGroupManager.log’ already exists. – Cannot cancel the workflow. Agent needs to be restarted. Details: The…