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Want to access TFS source control from Explorer.exe? Announcing "Dubbelbock TFS"!
Ever heard of Tortoise SVN? It’s a great tool that lets you control Subversion source control from Windows Explorer. Right-click on a file or folder and you can do operations like check-in, check-out, add, etc. I use Team Foundation Server for my source control and have missed the convenience of being able to access source…
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All Errors, All The Time: app_offline.htm, "The resource cannot be found", and non-stop 404's
This post — http://dotnet.org.za/armand/archive/2005/07/03/38757.aspx — saved me from spontaneous, self-inflicted baldness. I’ve been updating www.benday.com over the last few days and for about 4 hours this afternoon it was totally dead. Any aspx page that I tried to execute would come up as “404 – Resource cannot be found” even though the file was definitely…
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Fantastic post on majoring/not majoring in CS
There’s a great post (and an even better discussion thread) by Janelle Godfrey titled If I Could Turn Back Time: Why I Wish I had Studied Computer Science/IT/Technology in College. The gist of the post is that Janelle is hearing/seeing massive declines in enrollments in college CS degrees and is wondering why this is happenning.…
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Run tests from your TFS Team Build without a test list (.vsmdi) with code coverage
I got around to trying Buck Hodges’ power toy that lets you run unit tests in your Team Foundation Server (TFS) Team Build without having to use a test list (aka “.vsmdi” file). It works well but getting code coverage to run with it was kind of a trick. There’s a post on forums.microsoft.com that…
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"MSBUILD : Publish Failed. Test Type not installed on the server for test type"
Last week I stopped getting code coverage as part of the Team Build (aka TFS MSBuild) in my project. I started digging in and found the following error popping up in my build output file: MSBUILD : warning : Publish Failed. Test Type not installed on the server for test type: “Microsoft.Samples.VisualStudio.TestTools.HostAdapters.VsIde.RunConfigData”. This error ate…
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Beantown.NET Meeting: Rob Daigneau – "Implementing SOA Design Patterns with .NET"
The Beantown.NET User Group (INETA) is meeting on Thursday, 2/1/2007. http://www.beantowndotnet.org This month we have Rob Daigneau presenting “Implementing SOA Design Patterns with .NET”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers. If you want free pizza, send me an RSVP using the contact form (http://blog.benday.com/contact.aspx) by 1pm on…
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VSTS DBPro Talk at Michael Ruminer's Team System User Group in Waltham
Hey All, I’m going to be giving my Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals overview talk at Michael Ruminer’s Team System User Group in Waltham. When: January 18, 2007, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Where: Microsoft New England Office201 Jones Rd.6th FloorRoom MPR-B Waltham, MA 02451 Be sure to RSVP here if you plan to attend. BTW,…
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Custom Installer Actions: Edit Connection Strings, IIS Directory Security Settings, etc.
When I need to deliver a web application to a client, I create a Setup/Deployment Project and then send them the .MSI file. This makes it super easy to make sure that all the dependencies are there and that the web directory gets set up in IIS. It eliminates 80% of the deployment hassle. The…
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Migrating VS2003 Web Applications to VS2005 Web Application Projects
I just spent a couple of days migrating my remaining (important) VS2003 Web Application code to VS2005. It had its frustrating moments but each of those frustrating moments reminded my why it was such a great idea to dump the VS2003 Web App code. The #1 biggest problem was getting VS2003 Web Applications to actually…
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How to run an MSBuild "Desktop Build" without running tests.
I’ve been playing around with doing “desktop builds” with MSBuild. A “desktop build” is where you’d take the build script that describes a Team Foundation Server Team Build and run it on your local machine instead of through the TFS Build Server. There’s a page on the MSDN site that tells you how to do…