I am currently working on a large enterprise windows store application. The customer came up with an interesting requirement the other week. They wanted to be able to have multiple versions of the same store application deployed on the same device, so for example they could be running the current production version …

The arrival of the Kanban board in TFS 2012 Update 1 was a great addition. One thing that has bugged me and customers I visit with this feature has been the missing link, or rather the confusion around the View board link. Teams that run with Kanban would expect that the View board link would navigate them to the …

It’s been a while since I have used PowerShell on a client operating system. I have been running Windows 8 for a while now, but have not needed to use Powershell. I wanted to write a small Powershell and thought I would use the ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) provided by Microsoft. I was surprised to find that …

Update 17/12/2012: Neno has now published his official 2012 version. The .exe can be found here A number of our customers use the TfsSyncIdentities tool by Neno Loje. When running the TfsSyncIdentities on a 2012 instance the following error appeared: I fired up an instance of ILSpy to try to understand what the …

After updating my local test instance of TFS2010 to service pack 1 I came across the following error when trying to connect to a team project collection: I launched the TFS Administration Console and selected the Default Collection from the Team Project Collections section, my first thought was to try stopping and …

For testing and demonstrations I have a basic installation of TFS2010 installed on my Windows 7 boot. Whist demonstrating the branching within TFS to a customer I came across an error when attempting to branch a folder by label: Branching by label is something I do frequently in our production TFS environment so I was …

If you use Visual Studio Database Projects you may be familiar with the VSDBCMD utility to control the deployment of a database project. Whilst testing a custom Team Foundation Server 2010 build template which included an activity to deploy a database project using the VSDBCMD, I came across the following error: *** …