Just started seeing build error on a build that was working until we upgraded the build agent to TFS 2013.3 1Exception Message: Stack empty. (type InvalidOperationException) 2Exception Stack Trace: at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestImpact.Analysis.LanguageSignatureParser.NotifyEndType() 3 at …

This morning DDDNorth’s agenda was published, registration opened and it was full. All within a couple of hours. Looks like a good event if you managed to get a ticket. Glad I can get in as a speaker, else this mornings meetings would have left me on the waiting list

My DDDNorth session "What is Desired State Configuration and how does it help me?" has been accepted, looking forward to it

Update 24 Aug 2014: Changed the PowerShell to use a pipe based filter as opposed to nested foreach loops The TFS Scrum process template’s Product Backlog Item work item type has an acceptance criteria field. It is good practice to make sure any PBI has this field completed; however it is not always possible to enter …

I have just had an article published on the Microsoft’s UK Developers site Migrating a TFS TFVC based team project to a Git team project - a practical example

Whilst creating some custom reports for a client we hit a problem that though the reports worked on my development system and their old TFS server it failed on their new one. The error being that the Microsoft_VSTS_Scheduling_CompletedWork was an invalid column name Initially I suspected the problem was a warehouse …

I have been a long time happy user of Windows Media Center since it’s XP days. My current systems is Windows 8.1 an ATOM based Acer Revo with a pair of USB PCTV Nanostick T2 Freeview HD tuners. For media storage I used a USB attached StarTech RAID disk sub system. This has been working well for a good couple of years, …

Windows 8 store applications need to be built on a TFS build agent running in interactive mode if you wish to run any tests. So whilst rebuilding all our build systems I decided to try to have all the agents running interactive. As we tend to run one agent per VM this was not going to be a major issue I thought. …

I have been trying to script the installation of all the tools and SDKs we need on our TFS Build Agent VMs. This included BizTalk. A quick check on MSDN showed the setup command line parameter I need to install the build components was 1 2 3/ADDLOCAL ProjectBuildComponent So I ran this via my VMs setup PowerShell …

Had an interesting issue during and upgrade from TFS 2012 to 2013.2 today. The upgrade of the files proceeded as expect and the wizard ran. It picked up the correct Data Tier, found the tfs_configuration Db and I was able to fill in the service account details. However, when I got to the reporting section it found the …