A key requirement for any DevOps strategy is the reporting on how your solution is behaving in the wild. PreEmptive Analytics™ for Team Foundation Server (TFS) can provide a great insight in this area, and there is a good chance you are already licensed for it as part of MSDN.

So why not have a look on the UK MSDN site …

Why is everything so complex to get going with Wix, then so easy in the end when you get the syntax correct?

If you want to allow your MSI installer to upgrade a previous version then there are some things you have to have correct if you don’t want the ‘Another version of this product is already installed’ dialog …

If you look at the labels tab in the source control history in Visual Studio 2012 you could be confused by the changeset numbers. How can all the labels added by my different builds, done over many days, be associated with the same changeset?

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Had an interesting issue on one of our WPF applications that is using MVVM Lite.

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This application is a front end to upload and …

Look what the stork delivered to Robert!

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Today I have been setting up a cross domain TFS proxy. The developers are in one domain and the TFS server in another. Given there is no trust between these domains you have use a trick to get it to work.

So I created a local user tfsproxy.local on both the TFS server and proxy with the same password on each. At the …

Interested in some tutor delivered training on TFS 2012? Well Anthony Borton, the TFS trainer and ALM MVP, is over in the UK running his excellent set of the TFS/VS 2012 focused courses.

• TFS 2012 Configuration and Administration
  10th – 12th June 2013 | Course Outline
• Software testing with Visual Studio 201213th- 14th …