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Tweet I consider myself a calm person with plenty of tolerance, I believe in productive discussion and love it – Part of my job as a consultant is to talk with Teams and explain them why you should choose a specific product over another, in 99.9% of those meetings there is one guy that don’t like the change (No One Like Changes) and you need in a calm way to explain and show him the benefits of the new tool – Forcing someone to do something is never a good thing. But sometimes there is no wining...
CodeProject Some news for Visual Studio 2010, I’ll start from several updates you should to apply on you TFS and Visual Studio. KB - TFS 2010 SP1 Cumulative Update 1 – KB2536929 This is the first Update from Microsoft since SP1, and the new concept from Microsoft is to release hot fixes for critical bugs, every once in a while when the development team feels they have critical mass of fixes they will publish new Update includes all hot fixes. – So make sure your Visual Studio and TFS are up to date...
Code Metrics From The Command Line - Power Tools In my last post I’ve talked about What is Code Metrics in Visual Studio, and how Code Metrics will allow you to monitor you code to find those un-maintainable and complex hotspots “Microsoft just release a command line because many customers are looking for a way to generate code metrics information as part of their build process. In this way, the complexity associated with assemblies coming out of your nightly builds could potentially be tracked and...
Building Setup Project In devenv.com Command Line Fails, Works In IDE I started to build a Build Definition in TFS 2010 (WF) for one of my customers and ran into a strange problem with couple of Setup Projects, when I build the Setup Project in Visual Studio 2010 IDE the setup built just fine but once I tried to build it using devenv command it fails.. (To build setup project using Team Build you need to invoke devenv with command line arguments.) The Error from the command line is: ERROR: Unable...
Team Build Service Is Ready But Not Working Today I had a strange problem with Team Build 2010, I have installed Team Build 2010 on a dedicated machine. After the setup finished I saw that Team Build Service had Started and the Controller+ Agents in “Ready” state, but the Icon shows that the Controller and Agent in “Stop” state. I’ve tried to connect Team Build Service from TFS but nothing and ping works , and there is not even one error related to this issue. After couple of minutes I try to change...
How To: Fix error MSB3091 During MSBuild Building Build Script for a customer I got the following error: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Microsoft.Common.targets(1756,9): error MSB3091: Task failed because "LC.exe" was not found, or the correct Microsoft Windows SDK is not installed……. It seems like “ LC.EXE ” was not found and I need to install “Microsoft Windows SDK for Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5” (Running build on server 2003 machine). “ LC.EXE ” is the License Compiler...
How To Debug MSBuild Projects And Tasks Almost everyone customize their MsBuild scripts for the company needs. But some times because those customization you spend a lot of time try to make this script works as you want. There is no easy way to debug those MSBuild script / Tasks and here is a list of links to help you accomplish this: published by - Buck Hodges - Debug your build with MSBuild Sidekick v2.3 Powerful MSBuild projects debugger with extended functionality: step through mode, visual...
TFS Check-in Validation Tool There is a new version available in CodePlex Project Description The TFS Check-in Validation Tool extends TFS Team Build 2008 by enabling buddy build queuing (pre-checkin), validating checkins using shelvesets, and build agent pooling, all from the VS 2008 IDE. Buddy Build Process Flow
MSBuild Extension Pack 3.5.1.0 Mike Fourie post about the new version Available now - MSBuild Extension Pack 3.5.1.0 If you using Team Build you want to have this Task pack, this will help you make your Builds more advanced. MSBuild Extension Pack 3.5.1.0 which provides over 230 tasks. Also include Visual Studio IntelliSense for all tasks And Online Help.
Team Foundation Build Load Balancer Is a new project published on CodePlex called Team Foundation Build Load Balancer that balances builds between the build agents defined in a Team Project reducing the time developer's wait for builds to complete. It's a very simple tool that you need to run from command-line. Example: You need to pass the Team Foundation Server's URL as the first parameter to TeamBuildLoadBalancer.exe, for example, TeamBuildLoadBalancer.exe http://TFSRTM08:8080/. You...