Cheat sheet for TF.exe

January 30, 2007 · Posted in SCM, Team Foundation Server · Comment 

Here’s a nice roundup of commands for TF.exe

Rage Against The Machine – reunion rumors

January 27, 2007 · Posted in Uncategorized · Comment 

From the horses mouth:  Rage Against The Machine – The Official Site

Building

January 26, 2007 · Posted in Continuous integration, SCM · Comment 

When doing pc based development I think that having a working build environment that you can quickly recreate on a developers machine is very important.

I also beleive that making it possible to have more than one instance of said environment on any computer should be a prioritised goal.

This will:

  • save a lot of time when introducing new developers.
  • make it easy to do more than one thing at a time.
  • enable nightly builds.
  • visualize cloaked dependencies

… and if you do nightly builds along with some automated testing you will:

  • find errors early
  • always have someting to deliver
  • feel confident in your work

If Visual Studio crashes when setting DataSource in GUI

January 23, 2007 · Posted in Tools · Comment 

… or you get an ‘Object not set…’ when trying to expand the DataSource list in the properties window,it might be because you have a corrupt datasource in your solution.

Press ALT+SHIFT+D to open the data sources window.

If there is one with a yellow sign in front of it; delete it and Visual Studio should start working again.

I got a corrupt DataSource when I imported a solution to TFS.

A quick instruction on how to install SVN on Ubuntu

January 10, 2007 · Posted in Subversion, Ubuntu · Comment 

mindwarp.net » Blog Archive » SVN and you

TFS Server with friendly DNS name

January 4, 2007 · Posted in Team Foundation Server · Comment 

Since I didn’t find this info the first time I searched I’ll add it here to.

This is what you have to do to get the Team Explorer to work correctly if your TFS Server has a different DNS name than it’s machine name.

http://geekswithblogs.net/etiennetremblay/archive/2006/07/28/86542.aspx

…and what is really missing in that instruction is to disconnect/reconnect you project in Team Explorer since all URL’s are cached on the client.