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Edit & Compile Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS2012) Builds with Custom Build Activities
So, you’ve all downloaded and installed your copy of Team Foundation Server 2012 and Visual Studio 2012, right? Of course you’re migrated all your code and servers over to TFS2012 and VS2012, right? (Answer: heck yes! We’ve been running it in production since the Alphas!) NICE! Anyway…I’ve been doing some TFS2012 build customization work lately…
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Slides from my talks at VSLive Redmond 2012
Thanks to everyone who came to my talks at VSLive Redmond 2012. As promised, here are the slides for my talks. Top 10 Ways to Go from Good to Great Scrum Master The Scrum Master role in an organization can be difficult. You live between a rock and a hard place. You’re influential but you…
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TFS2012 Lab Management & SCVMM 2012: Cannot access remotely & Error ID 1604
I’ve been working on installing Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS2012) Lab Management with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (SCVMM2012). I ran into this bizarre problem where I could log in to SCVMM from the SCVMM console on the local machine but if I tried to access it from a different machine, I’d get an…
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“Scrum Under a Waterfall” at ALM Chicago
I’m presenting my “Scrum Under a Waterfall” talk today (2/22/2012) at ALM Chicago. Here’s the abstract: It would be so easy if everyone at our companies just used Scrum — or at least Agile. No one would lean on the team for dates and deadlines, and everyone would know that change is a good thing. …
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VSLive Redmond 2011 Slides and Sample Code for my Unit Testing & TFS2010 Build Sessions
I spoke at VSLive in Redmond, Washington last week and gave two talks: 1) “Team Foundation Server 2010 Builds: Understand, Configure, and Customize” and 2) “Design For Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring, and User Interfaces.” Here are the abstracts: Design for Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring, and User Interfaces You’re sold on unit testing. You’re even doing…
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Three possible causes for TFS to Project Server sync “failure”
If you didn’t know already, there is a connector from Microsoft that lets you synchronize work items in TFS with enterprise project plans in Microsoft Project Server. I’ve been working with this synchronization feature for a project that I’m doing and ran into a couple of “user error” problems. Put another way, everything was configured…
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Speaking at VSLive Redmond on October 20, 2011
Updated 10/24/2011: the slides and code samples for these talks are available here. FYI, I’ll be speaking at VSLive in Redmond, Washington on October 20th, 2011. While I’m there, I’ll be giving two talks: 1) “Team Foundation Server 2010 Builds: Understand, Configure, and Customize” and 2) “Design For Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring, and User Interfaces.”…
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Workaround for TFS2010 MissingFieldException when attaching Team Project Collection
Summary: I was doing a Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS2010) migration project for a customer a few weeks ago and ran into problems when attempting to attach a migrated Team Project Collection (TPC). Although the customer assured me that the source instance of TFS2010 had never been attached to Microsoft Project Server, the collection contained…
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Article: Levels of Team Foundation Server 2010 Build Automation
My article discussing how to adopt Team Foundation Server 2010 build and the various levels of build “awesomeness” is up at VisualStudioMagazine.com. The basic gist is how to think about going from no automated builds to achievable levels of automated builds using Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS2010) and what that process would be. For TFS2010…
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How to fix the “TF30045: The instance information does not match” error in Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS2010).
Ok. I’ll admit. This error almost *never* comes up. Nevertheless, I ran into it last week while I was doing a Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS2010) upgrade and hardware migration for a customer. It starts out with an error message when you try to connect to TFS that says “TF31001: Cannot connect to Team Foundation…