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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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:55 AM by martijnb | 1 Comments Filed under: TFS

• 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 Read More... Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 8:34 PM by martijnb | 0 Comments Filed under: WiX

• 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 Read More... Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 3:40 PM by martijnb | 1 Comments Filed under: WiX

• 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:11 PM by martijnb | 0 Comments Filed under: Sync Framework, DevDays

• 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:33 AM by martijnb | 1 Comments Filed under: WiX

• 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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 8:08 AM by martijnb | 1 Comments Filed under: Visual Studio, MsTest

• 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 Read More... Posted Sunday, July 29, 2007 12:21 AM by martijnb | 1 Comments Filed under: Team System

• 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. Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:12 AM by martijnb | 0 Comments Filed under: Team System

• 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, December 07, 2006 7:04 PM by martijnb | 0 Comments Filed under: WiX

• 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 Read More... Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 10:47 AM by martijnb | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, Team System

• 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 Read More... Posted Monday, July 10, 2006 2:13 PM by martijnb | 0 Comments Filed under: Team System

• 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’ Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:28 AM by martijnb | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET

• 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:39 AM by martijnb | 0 Comments Filed under: Team System

• 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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:30 AM by martijnb | 2 Comments Filed under: Team System

• 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 Read More... Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 3:36 PM by martijnb | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET