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Everybody doing serious workflow development using Windows Workflow Foundation has probably experienced first hand that the workflow designer hosted by Visual Studio is not the most stable application ever. Every now and then you get unexplainable errors, while you didn't do anything you'd expect to be remotely responsible for trashing the ...

Just a tip: to teg a list of checkout for all users, navigate to the root folder of the directory tree you want to check in your workspace using a Visual Studio command prompt. Then use the TF tool with the following command line: "tf status /user:* .\* /recursive" When the ".\* /recursive" is left out, it will provide you ...

Just found some very interesting downloads at the MSDN site! You can download a complete VPC with "Orcas" installed if you want to get to know the new Visual Studio environment. Get it here: Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Beta 1 Team Suite Orcas Base VPC (required) Visual Studio Code ...

If you don't know what I am referring to in the title of this blogpost, read my previous post first. Mike wrote a follow-up on his upgrade guide for TFS v1 to WSS v3, and this time it's a lot better because (for starters) it doesn't involve hacking into the process template. Read his update here -> click Two remarks spring to ...

Yesterday, Mike Glaser added a comment to one of my previous blog postings. In this posting I quote Jason Barile who made it very clear that upgrading WSS v2 to v3 will break your project portals with Team Foundation Server.   Mike, managed to upgrade nonetheless and posted a guide on how to get your TFS project sites running on WSS v3. ...

According to Jason Barile, you will not be able to create project portals for TFS projects if you upgrade Windows Sharepoint Services v2 to v3.  Although I believe him, I would like to test it myself. Because the MSF Agile and MSF CMMI project portals are in fact WSS v2 site definitions, it seems likely that upgrading these site definitions ...

Recently VSTS kept throwing the following exception at me Unit Test Adapter threw exception: System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.. The weird thing was that debugging a test would work, but simply running it would ...

With the new service pack, some interesting features have become available. Until recently we did not have documentation on those things yet. But now Brian Harry has made some of these documents and links available. I found especially the feature interesting that allows you to define custom controls in Work Item Tracking forms. At ...

As most of you will know Rob Caron (and his blog) have been one of the major news sources for communicating about Team System developments. Rob has now announced that he will be switching jobs. His next job will still be at Microsoft though. As he writes: "Come Monday, I begin my new job as Lead Product Manager for Developer Tools Content ...

Yesterday, Brian Harry announced the availability of the TFS Powertoys as a separate download. Before, the powertoys were available in the Windows SDK which was a biggie if you wanted to download and install :) In this download a few new, really nice, features are included:tftp bindThis is a command line tool which will help you rebuild all ...