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Upgrading Team Foundation Server 2008 with SP1
06 September 08 06:58 PM | Richard | 2 comment(s)
Today I got round to upgrading our TFS 2008 (dual server setup) with Team Server 2008 SP1 . I tried it first on my demo VPC I use for presentations (reminder I am at VBug Coventry at the end of the talking about TFS , a free event open to all). Anyway...
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Publishing a ASP.NET WCF service encryption error
08 July 08 10:30 AM | Richard | with no comments
I was trying to publish a .NET 3.5 WCF service to a network share e.g.\\myserver\share\folder_to_holdservice and got the error "The specified file could not be encrypted" for all the files. I changed to a publish to the local disk it published...
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CA0055 error in FXCop
20 June 08 05:29 PM | Richard | with no comments
I have been setting up a new Team Build server today. All our projects are being set to do code analysis (FXCop) after the build. For one project this worked on the developer PC but failed on the build machine. The CA0055 error means 'file not found'...
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TFS Build server and running MSTest - directory creation error
12 June 08 12:37 PM | Richard | with no comments
When you create a build type for a team project on TFS you can enable testing using MSTest by saying 'run any tests that are found in a given DLL'. I used this today to create a CI build for a project, I am looking at using Team Build as opposed...
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Registry Access Errors with the TFS API
09 May 08 10:45 AM | Richard | 1 comment(s)
If you are using the TFS API within a WebApp with impersonation there is a good chance you will see the error below when you run the web site on IIS System.Security.SecurityException: Requested registry access is not allowed. at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowSecurityException...
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TFS 'Invalid File Handle' when getting files
11 March 08 12:35 PM | Richard | 1 comment(s)
I was recently working at a client's site where they were using TFS 2008 in a dual server setup. When getting large numbers of files (e.g. a Get Latest for the whole solution of 20+ projects) they were intermittently see 'Invalid file handle'...
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Fun upgrading from Visual Studio TFS 2008 Beta2 to RTM
23 January 08 09:31 PM | Richard | 3 comment(s)
A while ago I made the classic mistake of installing the Beta2 of TFS on our live servers after seeing posts that it was reliable enough for production use. I had stupidly assumed that there would be an upgrade path to the RTM; there usually is from the...
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Running the TFS Best Practice Analyzer and 2005 Team Explorer
16 January 08 01:12 PM | Richard | with no comments
If you run the 2008 Power Tools BPA against a TFS 2008 install that has the 2005 Team Explorer also installed on it you will get virtually no reports generated. It runs to completion but the reports are empty. This is due to some clash between the BPA...
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CCNet WebDashboard getting assembly does not allow partially trusted callers exception
13 January 08 10:33 PM | Richard | 3 comment(s)
Whilst installing a TFS & CCNet demo system I got an exception System.Security.SecurityException: That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers when I tried to load the CCNet WebDashboard. The problem was that default CCNet installer had...
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TF220066 Error installing TFS
10 January 08 03:46 PM | Richard | 2 comment(s)
I was installing a Dual Tier Team Foundation Server 2008 at a clients today and got a problem that when installing the Application Tier (AT) I entered the name of the Data Tier server (DT) and it said the server could not be found. Unlike TFS 2005, 2008...
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TFS 2008 Media on MSDN
27 December 07 10:05 PM | Richard | with no comments
Don't make the mistake I did with Team Foundation Server 2008 media on MSDN downloads. The MSDN file en_visual_studio_team_system_2008_team_foundation_server_workgroup_x86_x64wow_dvd_X14-29253.iso is the workgroup edition, as the file name suggests...
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Fun with a DDD6 demo
17 November 07 10:45 PM | Richard | with no comments
I have been working on my DDD6 demo, I intend to show eScrum at end of my session on Scrum. I thought I would use the VPC I had from DDD5, this was based on the TFS Orcas Beta1 and had all the tools I wanted configured. To get some more realistic data...
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TFS Update to 2008 Beta2 and Escrum Admin
02 October 07 02:33 PM | Richard | with no comments
As I posted before I have been updating our TFS server to 2008 Beta2, today it was the WSS from 2.0 to 3.0. Well I followed the process on Sudhir Hasbe's blog and it just worked, so now we have WSS3.0 running the the TFS application tier. The final...
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Upgrading from TFS2005 to TFS 2008 'Orcas' Beta 2
28 September 07 07:59 PM | Richard | with no comments
Today I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade our 'live' TFS installation to 2008 Beta2, now there is support from Microsoft. The only reason I have delayed this long has been we have been involved in the delivery of a big project and I did not...
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TFS and CruiseControl
09 September 07 09:23 PM | Richard | 1 comment(s)
I am speaking at the .NET User group in Bristol next week and have been putting some final touches to my demos. One thing I will be talking about is using CruiseControl with TFS . Whilst getting this running on my demo VPC I hit a problem. I did a default...
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