Tweet In my previous post on ASP MVC I showed How To Add Captcha to ASP MVC Web Application, but even if you use captcha you still want to make sure the user email is real and not just a fake one. In order to make sure the user has gave you his real email you need to use Email Confirmation mechanism to your site. ASP MVC is doing some of the work for us, when a user is register to your site is assign with a unique ID (Guid) property called -  ProviderUserKey I’ll use this value to verify the...

TFS API Part 24 – Get All Fields From TFS I got an email regarding previous post ( TFS API Part 6: WorkItemStore - Get Fields From WorkItemType ) how to get Fields without regard to Work Item Type? This is very easy using Team System API. Download Demo Project Step 1: Create Project and Add Reference Create an WPF/WinForm application and add the following references:      Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client.dll (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0...

TFS API Part 19: Merge In my last post about TFS API   TFS API Part 18: More Basic Stuff On Workspaces I demonstrate how to get / create and delete workspaces. In this post I’ll show how to perform Merge using TFS API . First add reference for      Microsoft.TeamFoundation      Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client      Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Common.dll      Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.dll located...

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...

The "BuildShadowTask" task failed When Running tests Team System you got this error - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Error 8 The "BuildShadowTask" task failed unexpectedly. System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.    at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.BuildShadowReferences.BuildShadowTask.Execute()    at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.TaskEngine...

This is Why Load Testing Is Important Not Just Before Release After a short conversation with one of my customers he told me that a month ago he invited a “Load Expert”  to perform load testing just before the company release the product. After the “Load Expert” exam the system he said every thing will be all right, 30 people is nothing I’m 99% sure nothing will happen. the customer asked him to perform the load test any way just to be sure… and the test passed just fine! Then I got a call from...

Wit-It! 1.4 – New Features If you don’t know what is Wit-It! please read Wit-It! – Outlook Add-in for TFS Work Item Alerts I saw that lots of people are downloading Wit-It! and I get lots of feedbacks. Also I got a place on MSDN forums. It’s time for the next version of Wit-It! I fixed couple of performance problems, change the Design to some thing more friendly. Add couple new features to Wit-It! Download Wit-It! Today Here is the list: New Work Item Convert Email message to Work Item     ...

TFS API Part 16: Mapping Source Control Using VersionControlServer In this post I’ll show how to use VersionControlServer class to map your Source Control. This post will be the basic start of how to use VersionControlServer class in TFS API. Download Demo First add reference for      Microsoft.TeamFoundation      Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client      Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Common.dll      Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl...

Wit-It! – Outlook Add-in for TFS Work Item Alerts After a small talk with Guy Burstein he comes up with a Great Idea : use outlook form region to show Work Item from Team System. Then I remembered that working with Event Email in Team System are so  irritating. You can customize Event Emails to work with Team System Web Access but then you can’t open the work item in XML (sometimes you may need it) But then I noticed that not everyone have TSWA and even this sometimes can be irritating(slow...

TFS API Summary & My #200 Post It’s been 4 months, 3 weeks(143 days) since my ..::: My #100 Post :::… and still having fun blogging in this great community. A month ago (12/01/09) I’ve stated posting about TFS API. In one month I had more then 450 downloads of my TFS API demos and over 3500 views. Also I got many email regarding TFS API problems, I can clearly say that knowledge in this area is needed! So be sure that I’ll keep posting about TFS API ! Here is a list of the last 15 posts on TFS...