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 [...]
Continue reading about Managing different config file with TFS Branching
In last post I showed how to build a custom code activity to customize tfsbuild for beta2 of tfs2010. In that post I inserted custom action manually in the xaml file of the build definition, and I know that this can be a pain, if you want to insert a custom action in a specific [...]
Continue reading about Using graphical editor with custom action in tfs2010 buils
There is a good post on Jim Lamb’s blog on how to customize tfs2010 build, but I decided to blog my experience because I need some more time to make it work.
The steps to create a custom activities in tfs2010 are the following ones. First of all create an activity, like this simple TweetActivity [...]
