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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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PerformanceCounters not showing up in PerfMon
08 May 08 09:49 PM | Richard | with no comments
I have just adding some Performance Counters to instrument some code and had a few issues that are worth knowing about. I created two categories of counters using the following code: //Create a category with a single counter PerformanceCounterCategory...
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Outlook Mobile Sync Issues over 3G
17 April 08 09:20 PM | Richard | 1 comment(s)
I posted a while ago about my new HTC Cruise , well I am still really happy with it but I have come across a problem. I have found that from time to time I get problems trying to do a Send/Receive in Outlook Mobile via the 3G mobile phone network. Well...
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Installing SQL 2008 Feb CTP on a VPC
16 March 08 09:41 PM | Richard | 2 comment(s)
I have been trying to install the Feb CTP of SQL 2008 on an Virtual PC, but kept getting the following error SQL Server Browser Install for feature 'SQL_Browser_Redist_SqlBrowser_Cpu32' failed with exception System.InvalidOperationException: This...
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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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Intellisense not working in Visual Studio 2008
01 December 07 10:49 PM | Richard | 33 comment(s)
Since I upgraded my VS2008 Beta2 to the RTM, the intellisense has not been working. I have seen a few posts about this, some suggesting you need to reset the configuration by running devenv.exe /safemode (see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms241278...
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Virtual Server and MAC addresses
27 November 07 12:18 PM | Richard | with no comments
Today I had to do some work on an old VB6 system, a development environment I do not have on my Vista laptop. So I copied a Virtual PC image I had with most of the tools I needed and ran it on one of our Virtual Servers. As this VPC needed to run at the...
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