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 created the WebDashboard on the default web site as the virtual …

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 does not require you to to do a separate install on the DT to …

In my post on using TFS WebParts in Sharepoint I provided a proof of concept set of source to allow work items to be viewed and edited within 32bit SharePoint 2007. However I hit a problem that our live SharePoint is running 64bit and the TFS API is only available for 32bit, so the WebParts could not be loaded. To get …

The next meeting of the extreme programming club is going to be held on the Thursday the 10th of January 2008 at the Victoria Hotel, at 7.00pm, Leeds. I believe the session is on CRAP (Change Risk Analyzer and Predictor) code metrics but this still has to be confirmed. This is your chance to discuss the future for the …

I have just had pointed out to me there is a great video about Google's use of Scrum. It is a presentation done by Jeff Sutherland one of the founders of Scrum. Take a look it is well worth it.

Times are a'changing for the Yorkshire Extreme Programming and Agile Methods Club, our local user group. There are plans to put the organisation on a more formal structure including a organising committee with the key aim to extend the groups appeal. In the past it has really been driven by the good works of the staff …

If you try to install the Team Foundation 2008 SharePoint extensions on a 64bit farm you get a 'SharePoint must be installed' error; I guess the installer is looking in the wrong directory for something to confirm SharePoint is there. However, it seems the MSI is only installing some features that are not 32/64bit …

If you see 'TF215085 local build agent not authorized to communicate with team foundation server' when you queue a new build via Visual Studio, you would assume you just have to add the TFSBuild user to the team projects build group as the rest of the message suggests (right click in team explorer for the project and …

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. The problem is that you cannot upgraded it to a full edition. TFS …

I have been trying to get a simple means for our clients to log faults into our TFS system whilst inside our MOSS2007 based customer portal. I had been suffering from two major problems as my previous posts mentioned. However, I now have some solutions or at least workarounds: Historically all users who connected to …