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...

מה השתנה לנו ב – Team Build 11? האמת שלא הרבה, השינוי הגדול יותר בה מכיוון ממשק ניהול הבילדים שהוא למעשה חלק מה – Team Explorer החדש. בפוסט הזה אני רוצה להדגים יצירת בילד חדש והרצה שלו. צעד 1: נכנס לאזור הבילדים מה – Team Explorer ניתן לראות שממשק הבילדים שונה לגמרי ממה שאנחנו רגילים לראות. ב – My Builds אני יוכל לראות את כל הבילדים שהרצתי או מריץ עכשיו ב – Favorite Build Definitions   צעד 2: ניכנס ל – Manage ול – Controllers על מנת לנהל את ה – Controllers וה – Agents   צעד 3: ניכנס ל ...

Last week I was looking for solution how to Build and publish Windows Azure package during Team Build. I found this msdn reference that headline says it was Updated: June 20, 2012 … (While writing this post it still there …) Happy Building .

Everyone who works with workflow designer (and if you are TFS Build Developer – you do it a lot ) encounter the problem with Workflow Designer slowness and crashes (happened to me like 20 times today ) . Today, Microsoft announce a patch for that ! This patch includes fixes to ASP.Net & Silverlight as well and other 35 issues and 6 features as you can find in KB 2468871 . Read more in Buck Hodges post . Grab it from Here .   Happy Building.

This post is a sequel to a previous post - The TFS Build Definition List<T> OOTB UITypeEditor. In my previous post I showed how easy and cheep it is to use the TFS’s build definition OOTB “List<T>” editor. We even saw that if we use enum’s or Boolean's the “List<T>” editor’s properties grid gives us drop-down editors for them, but what if we want to use more advanced editors; such as the “ServerFileBrowserEditor” to select a project from the source control or the “PlatformConfigurationListEditor...

A while back I came a problem: I needed to build for a client an activity  that runs on an unknown number of projects and builds them with DevEnv 2005/2008/2010. I needed to create an editor that allows the user to select projects to be built in DevEnv and additional properties for each project such as “DevEnv version” and “Configuration to build”. The problem was that I had very little time to do this. This is where my good friend Baruch Frei came into the picture; He informed me that when...

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...