DYK = Did You Know?
Internet Information Server (IIS) is not required to be installed for a TFS 2008 Team Build machine
The application server for TFS 2005 still used .NET Remoting to communicate with the…
While showing a Visual Studio Release Management demo in a Practical DevOps training, I stressed how important it was that the build artifact, which was used during a release, was not destroyed by the…
Lately I got some time to play a bit more with the new build system which was released with TFS 2015 and which is also available for Visual Studio Online. The new build system was in the beginning announced as build vNext, but now with the release of TFS 2015, it’s safe…
I have experienced a number of migration scenarios where it was decided to first upgrade old Visual Studio 2010 solutions to the latest and greatest version of Visual Studio (VS 2013 at this moment) without forcing a TFS upgrade at the…
Some weeks ago I was asked for a proof of concept to design a TFS 2010 solution to fully (not less than 100%) automate a complex Dynamics CRM 2011 deployment for various environments (dev / test / staging / production). Many different…
The integration in TFS between Builds and Work Items is just too good. In this blog post I will describe a solution based on a TFS Server Plugin to have more fine-grained control on completed builds.
Automatically triggering a build after each check-in (continuous integration option in TFS Build Definitions) in a development branch is a good practice that nowadays needs less explanation than a few years ago. Many development teams seem to…
In a large SharePoint development project at a customer I was confronted with the not always reproducible build error while syncing the build workspace:
Lately I’ve been struggling with some weird behavior during a Team Build (TFS 2008). The build executed also a set of Unit Tests which passed, but during the publication step of the test results to Team Foundation Server, the operation failed time after time.
Everybody should be already familiar with Continuous Integration or should I say Continuous Building? Automatically building a development codeline after a check-in is often not immediately followed by an integration action towards a main branch. I picked up the term…