What do you do with a Work Item History Not Found Conflict Type Details
If you have no history in the system you are migrating to TFS, you may have problems when you try to do a continuous unidirectional sink due to your system not having a “revision” of the work item. WARNING: I have currently no answer for this issue and I will update this post when I […]
Do you want to be an ALM Consultant?
Northwest Cadence is looking for our next great consultant! At Northwest Cadence, we have created a work environment that emphasizes excellence, integrity, and out-of-the-box thinking. Our customers have high expectations (rightfully so) and we wouldn’t have it any other way! Northwest Cadence has some of the most exciting customers I have ever worked with […]
TFS 2010 Work Item Seed: TFS Work Item system.id at a predefined number
This week my customer had a requirement to have all new work items created to have an ID greater than 40,000. They have another system that stores tickets and they don’t want any conflict. There have been a number of ways to achieve this through a database change, but it is not supported by Microsoft. […]
Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with Subscribers
There is a lot of references and blog posts on how to handle SOAP events raised by Team Foundation Server 2005, 2008 and 2010 but is there anything new in 2010 that supersedes this? Even though I knew it was there, n o amount of google-fu brought back any results relevant to anything new, so […]
Calculating the Rank of your blog posts or pages
I had an idea to have blog posts, or Rules listed not in date order, or an arbitrary order, but in some sort of calculated order. For this I would need to get data from somewhere and I fancied using; Number of Comments, Number of Trackbacks, Reddit, Digg, FriendFeed Twitter and Google Page rank. In […]
TFS Event Handler for Team Foundation Server 2010
I am looking at re-working the TFS Event Handler and I was hoping that you would help me decide what handlers to build! [Request an event handler] The original Event Handler sends emails when: A work item is assigned to you A work item that is assigned to you is reassigned to someone else A […]
Guidance: How to layout you files for an Ideal Solution
Creating a solution and having it maintainable over time is an art and not a science. I like being pedantic and having a place for everything, no matter how small. For setting up the Areas to run Multiple projects under one solution see my post on When should I use Areas in TFS instead of […]
Silverlight 4, MVVM and Test-Driven Development
As part of his UK tour Microsoft’s Jesse Liberty will be talking in Edinburgh for an evening on Silverlight 4. [Register Now, there are some places left] The Talk MVVM and Silverlight to build test-driven programs Understanding Refactoring and Dependency Injection A Walk through of a non-trivial application The Speaker Jesse Liberty, Silverlight Geek, is […]
MVVM for Dummies
I think that I have found one of the best articles on MVVM that I have ever read: http://jmorrill.hjtcentral.com/Home/tabid/428/EntryId/432/MVVM-for-Tarded-Folks-Like-Me-or-MVVM-and-What-it-Means-to-Me.aspx This article sums up what is in MVVM and what is outside of MVVM. Note, when I and most other people say MVVM, they really mean MVVM, Commanding, Dependency Injection + any other Patterns you need […]
Solution: Getting Silverlight to build on Team Foundation Build Services 2010
This is SSW’s first time using Team Build 2010 to automatically create a Silverlight application. In the past the guys have used Cruse Control, but we want to move to a pure TFS 2010 solution. When one of our developers (Allan) added a Silverlight 3 project to the Solution our build server spat it out. […]