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When runs a product out of support? 15 Apr 2011 | 02:29 am
That is a question I get regularly from customers. Microsoft has a great site where you can find that information. Unfortunately this site is not easy to find, and a lot of people are not aware of thi...
Dutch Techdays 2011 in The Hague 8 Apr 2011 | 09:41 pm
Microsoft organizes at April 27, 28 and 29 the Dutch Techdays in The Hague. Already for 14 years this is the biggest Microsoft event in The Netherlands where you get the chance to get up to speed with...
Customize Team Build 2010 – Part 16: Specify the relative reference path 7 Apr 2011 | 12:56 am
In the series the following parts have been published Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Add arguments and variables Part 3: Use more complex arguments Part 4: Create your own activity Part 5: Increase...
SqlBuildTask failed due to ArgumentNullException(searchingPaths) 31 Jan 2011 | 03:34 pm
At one of my customers, they have setup TFS 2010. They are using the UpgradeTemplate.xaml to build all their solutions, including GDR2 database projects. When building the project, I got the following...
Want nice screen shots? 28 Jan 2011 | 01:45 pm
I do a lot of Knowledge Transfer to people, which include KT via e-mail or document. A lot of the KT is done by adding screen captures to the document. I just encountered a tool that does exactly what...
Customize Team Build 2010 – Part 13: Get control over the Build Output 13 Dec 2010 | 06:57 pm
In the series the following parts have been published Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Add arguments and variables Part 3: Use more complex arguments Part 4: Create your own activity Part 5: Increase...
Search files blazing fast 10 Dec 2010 | 01:25 pm
If you know there is a file somewhere on your machine, but you cannot find it with the default Windows Search Tools (that why they tend to call it Windows Search and not Windows Find ) then switch to ...
Programmatically use a server as the Build Server for multiple Project Collections 26 Nov 2010 | 01:41 am
Important: With this post you create an unsupported scenario by Microsoft. It will break your support for this server with Microsoft. So handle with care. I am the administrator an a TFS environment ...
Make ‘Associate’ the default checkin action 19 Nov 2010 | 08:17 pm
When you associate a work item to a checkin, the work item will be resolved by default. Some teams have work items that are bigger then one checkin (although this is not recommended) and don’t want to...
Part 15: Fail a build based on the exit code of a console application 10 Nov 2010 | 02:51 am
In the series the following parts have been published Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Add arguments and variables Part 3: Use more complex arguments Part 4: Create your own activity Part 5: Increase...
