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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...
Tweet First, what is the Build Service Host or IBuildServiceHost ? The BuildServiceHost object represent the physical location of the Controller and/or Agent objects. The name property is usually the machine name that the Controller or Agent lives on. In earlier versions, this was simply the Machine Name property on the Agent. Now, I’m working with a customer works with Lab Manager and after upgrading the SCVVM and perform some port changes we faced an issue – The Build Service Host stuck in your...
CodeProject Yesterday (4/6/2010) the Community released 100 Activities / Actions for TFS 2010, here is some of the new activities Download Page Code Quality : CodeMetrics, NUnit, StyleCop Web : Iis7Website,Iis7AppPool,Iis7Binding,Iis7Application Communication : Email Compression : Zip Virtualization HyperV - An activity to perform HyperV operations within a TFS 2010 build Valid Action values are: Start, Shutdown, Turnoff, Pause, Suspend, Restart, Snapshot, ApplyLastSnapshot, ApplyNamedSnapshot VirtualPC...
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...
In my last post on TFS API I summarize in Index Page include 37 parts - http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/shair/archive/2011/05/18/tfs-api-index-parts-1-to-37.aspx And I coming back with more about TFS API, and Today about how to create Label using TFS API. Download Demo Project Step 1: Create Project and Add Reference Create an WPF/WinForm application and add the following references: First add reference for Microsoft.TeamFoundation.dll Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client Microsoft.TeamFoundation...
Application Life Cycle Management with Visual Studio 2010 במפגש זה תוכלו ללמוד על פתרון ה- ALM המתקדם ביותר ולצפות בדמאויים עשירים. המפגש מיועד למפתחים ולבודקים ויועבר ע"י מיטב המומחים בנושא. לוח זמנים מתוכנן : 8:30-9:00 – התכנסות ורישום. 9:00-10:00 – Requirement Management using Visual Studio 2010 – מרצה : דן מורגנשטיין. 10:00-11:00 – Applied Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010 – מרצה : שי רייטן 11:00-11:15 – הפסקה 11:15-12:00 – סיפור לקוח – חטיבת מוצרי ה- Enterprise של Nice בחברה ב- ALM...
Since 2009 I ‘m writing about TFS API and several people asked to get an index page with all parts related to TFS API, so here is it: Basic TFS API Part 1: Domain Picker TFS API Part 2: Domain Picker Using Registered Servers (Cache) TFS API Part 3: Get Project List Using ICommonStructureService TFS API Part 4: Get TFS User List (Mail, Sid, Account, Domain) TFS API Part 7: Use IEventService To Get User Event Subscriptions TFS API Part 8: Subscribe/Unsubscribe Events Using IEventService TFS API Part...
This is the last of series of 3 about manipulating Build Controllers ( TFS API Part 35 – Create Build Controllers ), Agents and Definitions ( TFS API Part 36 – Create Build Definitions ) and now I’ll complete the series with a demonstration on how to create a new Build and set the Result using TFS API. This can assist you in building Fake definition in order to publish tests or setting a test environment much more easily. Download Demo Project As you can see from the picture above you can define...
In my last post TFS API Part 35 – Create Build Controllers I showed how to create Build Controllers using TFS API, this can help create a Fake Build and publish test results outside TFS. This post continue the coding from me previous post, and shows how to create or delete Build Definitions under a specific Team Project. Download Demo Project Step 1: Obtain Build Process Templates and Existing Definition from Team Project private void ListDefinitionsTeamProjectSelectionChanged( object...
In my previous post on TFS API is showed some basic actions for TFS Build API - TFS API Part 34– Build Basic Actions In this series I’ll some some more cool things in Build 2010 API, the first thing is a simple flow on how to get the all build definitions from Team Projects, how to obtain the Build Controller from the definition and how to get the Build Agents available in each Controller. Download Demo Project Than we can move forward to how you can use TFS API to create and delete Build Controllers...
Build folders for Team Explorer Terje Sandstrøm is a VS ALM MVP from Inmeta, couple of months ago his team built a cool extension for Team Explorer that creates Build Folders based on naming convention, all you need to do is change your Build Definition name to contain “.” , people who don’t have the tool installed just see build definitions with “.”s in the name and everything keeps working. Brian Harry also wrote about this tool - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2011/04/01/build...
Integrating Code Metrics in TFS 2010 Build – WF 4.0 In my last two posts I talked about What is Code Metrics and about the Code Metrics From The Command Line - Power Tools available, in this post I’ll show how you can integrate Code Metrics as part of your Build Process without writing any custom code activity. This is not the best solution but because Jakob Ehn – Already did an amazing work to integrate Code Metrics into Team Build 2010, I will show you how to integrate the Code Metrics into the...
TFS API Part 34– Build Basic Actions In my previous post on on TFS API– Get Build Definitions and Build Details I’ve showed how to obtain Builds Definitions and Builds using TFS API. In this post I' used the same project but I’ve added more functionality to the UI that will allow you to perform more actions on the Build item (Stop, Delete etc). Download Demo Project Step 1: Create Project and Add Reference Create an WPF/WinForm application and add the following references: First add reference...
TFS API Part 33– Get Build Definitions and Build Details Doing some major projects in WF under Team Build 2010 I decide it’s the right time to start writing about Build API in TFS 2010. This part is very very basic and in later posts I’ll show some cool stuff in Build 2010 API. Download Demo Project Step 1: Create Project and Add Reference Create an WPF/WinForm application and add the following references: First add reference for Microsoft.TeamFoundation.dll Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client...
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...
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