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:

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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:

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When using TFS2010 It is possible for a build agent to appear to be ready (or so the status label says) but the icon stays in the off state.

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My development laptop is bitlocker’ed, and yours should be too. It provides a great and non-invasive way (assuming you have a TPM chip) to protect you and your clients data on a machine that is far to easy to steal or loose. However, whilst fiddling with Windows 8 I did trip myself up.

I have my PC setup for a boot to …

I tried to install Windows 8 Developer Preview on my Lenovo W520 laptop as a VHD boot. All seemed to go well following the same process as for windows 7. I got a nice new blue Window 8 boot partition choice screen (which went back to the Windows 7 DOS like one after I made Windows 7 my default partition).

If I selected …

If you are editing a TFS process template you have the choice editing XML files or using the Process Template Editor within the TFS 2010 PowerTools. Unfortunately neither is fool proof. You can make errors than means the revised template does not fully work.

The worst of these errors will be picked up when upload the …