TFS2010: Build, deploy, test links

Ports Required for Installation of Team Foundation Components
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd578664.aspx

How to: Deploy an Application on a Virtual Environment
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee471614.aspx

Build and Deploy Continuously
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee308011.aspx

Understanding a Team Foundation Build System
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd793166.aspx

Define a Build Using the Default Template
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd647547.aspx#configs

Control Where the Build System Places Your Binaries
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff977206.aspx

Team Foundation Build Activities – InvokeProcess
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg265783.aspx#Activity_InvokeProcess

VS2010: Test upgrade a solution

HowTo test a Visual Studio Solution upgrade to VS2010 RC

• Make a copy of the whole solution
• Open the solution in existing version like VS2008
• Tools – Options – Source Control: Change from TFS to None.
• Right-Click the solution folder – Remove the ReadOnly attribute – subdirectories included
• Optional: Use tool like Agent Ransack to find all TFS files (.vssscc and .vspscc) from the solution folder - subdirectories included. Delete them
• Disconnect you network connection to avoid accidentially changing in TFS
• Open the solution in VS2010 RC
  => The Conversion wizard starts.
• Press Next
  
• Press No, when asked to upgrade to Framework 4.0
• You’re done. Play around.

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TFS: Avoid corresponding paths on VPC’s

Have you ever experienced that you and another developer has a copy of the same VPC and wants to Check Out from TFS to the same path on each of your copy?

If yes, then you also know that TFS won’t allow this. I forgot what error it comes with.

You could change local path or computer name to get around this, but it might not be without trouble.

If you cannot change local path due to it might give you some extra trouble
and you don’t want to change the computer name – this can also cause trouble for SW like SharePoint – then:

Give each user each own virtual path to the C: drive.

TFS 2008 test drive

At work I use TFS only for Source Control for .NET source code. Since TFS is much more I will in this post just get started looking a little around…

TFS 2008 inst: Errors

While trying to install TFS 2008 as in standalone mode on a Win server 2003 several installation prerequisites had to be met: