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  • TF30331: Team Explorer could not connect to the Team Foundation server.

    In the last couple of months I have been helping a lot of our customers migrate from Team System 2005 to Team System 2008. Some customers did not have their licenses updated on the day that I came by to help them upgrade Team System. In order to perform...
    Published 21-10-2008 11:55 by martijnb
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  • Update: MSDN Evening session on Windows Installer Xml

    I recently blogged about a session I did for Microsoft Belgium on W indows I nstaller X ml. This session was recorded and is now online. The recording only shows the slides and demo’s I did. If you would like to view this session, you can view it...
    Published 23-06-2008 20:34 by martijnb
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  • MSDN Evening session on Windows Installer Xml

    On June 4, I did a session for Microsoft Belgium on W indows I nstaller X ml during a MSDN evening session. You can read more about MSDN evening sessions in Belgium here . In this session, I explained the basic concept of Windows Installer packages and...
    Published 06-06-2008 15:40 by martijnb
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  • Developer Days 2008 presentation on Sync Framework

    On may 22, I did a session on the Microsoft Sync Framework during the dutch Developer Days 2008. Here is a picture of me during the thursday session: In this session I gave an overview of the Sync Framework. I used a simple demo application to demo some...
    Published 05-06-2008 20:11 by martijnb
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  • Using WiX UI library

    When using WiX, I found that most of the development time is spend on building a user interface. Fortunately WiX provides a library with some default dialog sets. Those dialog sets provide a familiar wizard-style user interface and can help you build...
    Published 29-11-2007 8:33 by martijnb
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  • Uploading MsTest results to TFS

    At Info Support we have been building and maintaining an automated build process over the last six years. This process is largely based on NAnt and has a lot of custom code. When Team System was released, we started upgrading our build to use the Team...
    Published 21-11-2007 8:08 by martijnb
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  • Cloning a Team Foundation Server

    This weekend we upgraded our production servers running Team Foundation Server (the “Whidbey” release) to the Beta 2 of the Team Foundation Server “Orcas” release. First, I have to say, the upgrade experience compared to the beta...
    Published 29-07-2007 0:21 by martijnb
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  • Renaming TFS Orcas Beta 1 VPC

    At Info Support we are involved in the Microsoft T echnical A daption P rogram for Visual Studio Team System codename Orcas. As part of this program we recently downloaded the Virtual PC Image containing Visual Studio Team System codename Orcas beta 1...
    Published 08-05-2007 7:12 by martijnb
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  • An introduction to Windows Installer Xml

    Recently I wrote an article on Windows Installer Xml (WiX for short). Windows Installer Xml is an open source initiative from Microsoft for a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. I have written an introduction article...
    Published 07-12-2006 19:04 by martijnb
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  • Why my coverage didn't reach 100%

    Some time ago I encountered an interesting feature (!) of the test engine within Visual Studio 2005. I had written a couple of unit tests for some code I had developed. After running the tests I reviewed the coverage results. I'd expected to reach...
    Published 20-10-2006 10:47 by martijnb
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  • MsBuild metadata

    Last week I came across an interesting problem with MsBuild. I recently blogged about Web Deployment projects in a Team Foundation build. A big advantage of the Web Deployment projects is, that the website/web application output files are copied to a...
    Published 10-07-2006 14:13 by martijnb
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  • Web Deployment projects in a Team Build.

    Recently one of our customers decided to incorporate Team System into there development process. They wanted to migrate al there existing sources from there source repository system to Team Foundation Version Control. The sources mainly exist of ‘old’...
    Published 27-06-2006 10:28 by martijnb
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  • Team Foundation Build

    MsBuild is the new build engine that Microsoft provides with Visual Studio 2005. The MsBuild engine is used as well in the Team Build environment that is part of Microsoft Team Foundation Server. To learn more about MsBuild, visit this site. Creating...
    Published 23-05-2006 9:39 by martijnb
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  • TFS error while merging (TF14083)

    Recently, we release a new version of our product and created a branch of our main source tree. Last week I made a change in our development branch that I needed to merge into our release branch as well. Using the merge wizard in the Team Explorer from...
    Published 05-04-2006 10:30 by martijnb
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  • Changes in the SqlConnection class (.NET 2.0)

    This week I came across a very strange error. We have recently migrated an application, developed with the .NET 1.1 Framework, to the .NET 2.0 Framework. This application uses a SqlConnection object to establish a connection to a Sql 2000 server or a...
    Published 27-01-2006 15:36 by martijnb
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