To test a little bit how you can log information during a TFS 2010 build you can create a simple activity , this activity simply has a Message property and log three messages, at different BuildMessageImportance level The utility function is the following one Really simple isn’t it? . Now you need to insert this [...]
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Sometimes I hear people that does not like the way TFS manages merge conflicts, and quite all of the time the problem is that they does not like the Visual Studio Integrated tool to merge two files. I must admit that I do not like that tool too, but this is not related to TFS, [...]
If you are interested in implementing TFS 2010 in your company, or if you already implemented TFS 2010 beta2 but you want to go deeper because you want to use your tfs in a optimal way, you can check the Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation SERver REquirements Management guide from the TFS Rangers. You will [...]
I begin working on a open source project, hosted on codeplex. The first thing I need to do is to modify configuration files to make it work on my machine (in my situation I need only to change the sql connection string). In this scenario a big problem arise, if every developer has a different [...]
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In a previous post I dealt with the creation of a Custom Activity to use in TFS2010 builds, in that example I did not dealt about logging. Logging is a vital task to do in custom action, because it is quite difficult to attach a debugger to the Build Agent, and if a build fails, [...]
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