Ooooh, RTM Delight

Well, MSDN will be busy today… Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1, Team Foundation Server 2008 Beta 1 and .NET Framework Beta 1 have all been released today. This is grate news as I have been using the Beta for about as long as it has been available and all those applications I have waiting in […]

TFS Error: MSB4018 The “BuildShadowTask” task failed unexpectedly

There seams to be a problem in MSBuild when you add an “Accessor” as part of a Unit Test project. C:Program FilesMSBuildMicrosoftVisualStudiov9.0TeamTestMicrosoft.TeamTest.targets(14,5): error MSB4018: The “BuildShadowTask” task failed unexpectedly. System.IO.FileLoadException: API restriction: The assembly ‘file:///C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727System.Web.dll’ has already loaded from a different location. It cannot be loaded from a new location within the same appdomain. at […]

Linked in VSTS Group

If you are a developer who customises or extends Visual Studio Team System then this LinkedIn group is for you… VSTS Developer   NOTE: All requests to join these groups will be checked before they will be approved. Evidence of your participation in VSTS development.   Technorati Tags: Personal .NET ALM TFS Custom Testing TFS Admin Version Control Design WIT Developing TFBS TFS 

TFS Sticky Buddy POC (WPF) release

You can now Download the TFS Sticky Buddy windows presentation foundation proof of concept demo from the Codeplex site. This is a proof of concept release of the Team Foundation Server Sticky Buddy digital dashboard project that is built using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This is the main version of the application as the WinForms […]

TFS Event Handler (Prototype) Refresh

I found a couple of bugs in the TFS Event Handler Prototype release. As I am still supporting this release (many people use it in production) I have fixed the bugs and uploaded new installers. The config files have not changed, so you should make a copy of your config file before you uninstall the […]

TFS Event Handler CTP 2 Released

I have just uploaded CTP 2 of the TFS Event Handler.This is a fully functional version of the application and I will be releasing documentation for this in due course, but all configuration of team servers and events is handled through the TFS Event Handler Explorer, but all Event Handlers are setup manually. I have […]

TFS Event Handler CTP1 Released

I have just released a new version of the TFS Event Handler. This is a really rough version and you should not be used in a production environment. Event handler system will work in this version, but a manual config is required, and the user interface is a bit flaky. Also all errors that occur […]

TFS Event Handler Revisited

As I now have a TFS server in the office and we have  Go-Live on 1st February I will be revisiting the TFS Event Handler prototype. I think there is too much work in the main code to get it working, but I should be able to rework the Prototype for Visual Studio 2008 and […]

TFS Event Handler gets 3 stars from Accentient

All be it it is only popularity, but they are stars non the less… Willy-Peter Schaub brought and update of the Team System Widgets page to my attention and I remembered that I had submitted the TFS Event Handler I built and headed over to take a look. Its even second from the top … […]

Installing TFS 2008 from scratch

Well, setting up TFS 2008 is pretty easy. I have done an upgrade before, but I have now deployed my first pure TFS 2008 server to a clean environment. I have Reporting Services, SQL and TFS on one box and SharePoint 2007 in my Farm. Word of warning: RTFM The first thing I did after a […]