DYK #4 : unshelve with local pending changes

You might already have been in the situation where you wanted to unshelve a stored shelveset when having local changes to files that were also changed in the stored shelveset. Out-of-the-box with TFS 2008, this is not possible and you will get the…

Test Impact Analysis

Test Impact Analysis is a new feature that will be part of Visual Studio Team System 2010 and it will enable developers to view which Tests are impacted by your latest code changes that are not checked in yet. I was struggling a bit to get it up-and-running but once you know the drill, it’s…

MSTest.exe exited with code -2146233082 during Team Build

Recently I was faced with a failure in a Team Build caused by MSTest that crashed when firing up the Unit Tests.



MSBUILD : warning MSB6006: "MSTest.exe" exited with code -2146233082



Digging a bit deeper and running the Unit…

Hypervisor not running?!

I’m running a dual boot (Win7 / Win2008) on my laptop and after I installed Windows 7 RTM this week-end, the boot configuration was messed up and I had to execute a repair to get Windows Server 2008 back in my boot menu. But apparently these boot configuration changes caused also…

DYK #2 : TFS auto-connection

By default, Team Explorer always tries to automatically connect at startup to the latest known Team Foundation Server. In my case I often start Visual Studio Team System at home when I was previously connected to the Team Foundation Server at work. So, when disconnected from…

Build Retention Policies in TFS2010

I noticed some interesting changes for the Build Retention Policies in TFS2010 (Beta 1):

• possible differences between retention policy for triggered and manual builds vs private builds