With VS2010 RC MS had released a vhd to evaluate Lab Management. This is a very good news, and since I already have a Beta2 Lab Management Up and running I want to try the VHD to see what is improved on RC.
Lab Management is and environment, so there is not a way you can [...]
A good option to customize TFS2010 build workflow is creating a Custom Activity, an operation that is quite different from creating a Custom Code Activity. A custom activity does not contain any code at all and it is only composed by sub activities. This kind of customization is really useful to create pieces of workflow [...]
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Since TFS Build 2010 is ruled by workflow foundation, what happens if you want to use a custom msbuild task that you already have used in the past? I agree with the fact that the right approach to use, is writing a custom activity, but you need to write more code, and if you already [...]
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When you create a new build in tfs2010, you can immediately notice some changes during the definition. In the basic configuration there are more options devoted to testing.
As you can see it is possible to specify now if a test failure must fail the entire build, it is possible to specify command line aguments, [...]
This can happen when you change machine name after you installed and configured sql server. I’m trying various type of installation of tfs2010 just to verify the various options, my virtual machine had the default name, so I changed after I installed sql server 2008. I already know that this could cause problems, so I [...]
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