http://blog.mastertheteam.net Jand writes about team development and Microsoft.NET Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:19:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An der Microsoft PDC (Professional Developer Conference) von letzter Woche in Los Angeles wurden viele neue Produkte und Technologien angekündigt, darunter sind Windows Azure, Windows 7, .NET Framework 4.0, Oslo und Visual Studio Team System 2010! Wer es nicht an die PDC geschafft hat, aber sich trotzdem die neuesten Bits vom ... http://blog.mastertheteam.net/2008/11/erfahren-sie-das-neueste-zu-team-system-2010-an-der-teamconf-08-in-zrich/ After helping a few customers to install TFS SP1, I'd like to note some problems often occurring. The SP installation package has some problems in dual server configurations and throws an error while installing. To avoid this problems, I always run the command line TFSQuiesce to shutdown all activities before installing. When ... http://blog.mastertheteam.net/2008/10/tfs-sp1-installation-retrospect/ Welcome to my new blog location. After started blogging on my company blog at Trivadis, I decided to move to my own domain and therefore a personal blog. I'll write about ALM (Application Lifecycle Managment) with Microsoft Team System and .NET Development in general. After the completed migration of some post to my ... http://blog.mastertheteam.net/2008/10/migration-complete/ Share ConnectionStrings A customer of mine have a Visual Studio C# solution with more than one project which uses the same ConnectionString. So how can you define your ConnectionString(s) once and share them between projects? This is how my sample solution looks like. The "Console" and "ServerConsole" projects should use the same ... http://blog.mastertheteam.net/2008/10/share-connectionstrings-between-projects-for-each-developer-differently/ Being the first is not always the best, especially if you want to be the first on a new software release ;-). So if you already want to install the Service Pack 1 for your Team System environment, I want to give you some hints to not getting troubles. Before installing ... http://blog.mastertheteam.net/2008/10/help-on-installing-team-system-sp1/ Currently I'm looking at the Rosario CTP's, what's new and hot. So this post will hopefully be the first of a series about small enhancements which helps you in the daily work. Work Item Queries It's now possible to group your queries in folders. In VSTS 2008, I created/changed the queries with a ... http://blog.mastertheteam.net/2008/10/rosarios-tiny-enhancements-work-item-queries/ Have you ever created a branch in the wrong directory and noticed it too late (after check-in)? For example, you create a branch under "$/Project/Main/" instead of "$/Project/Dev/". After you have realized your mistake, you go for a delete on the branch (checking in) and create a new one under "Dev". Now ... http://blog.mastertheteam.net/2008/10/deleting-branches-dont-removes-them-from-source-control-folder-properties/ This is my second post about errors which can occur while installing Team Foundation Server. If you find errors like this in your event log: Source: MSSQLSERVER Event ID: 18456 Description: Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM'. [CLIENT: <local machine>] Source: Report Server Windows Event ID: 107 Description: Report Server Windows Service (MSSQLSERVER) cannot connect to the report server database. and/or for example ... http://blog.mastertheteam.net/2008/10/team-foundation-server-2008-installation-errors-part-2/ Creating a new Team Project within Visual Studio / Team Explorer 2005 connected with a Team Foundation Server 2008 can cause in an error: Error: TF30170: The plugin Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.Portal failed during task SharePointPortal from group Portal. Message: The language id specified in the process template does not exist on the WSS server. This happens because ... http://blog.mastertheteam.net/2008/10/error-when-creating-team-project-for-tfs-2008-with-team-explorer-2005/ Do you want to checkin your files from the Windows Explorer (Shell Integration) like with Subversion add-ins? Some people don't want or need a Visual Studio Team Explorer, because they are none Microsoft-based developers like Oracle DBA's. But you want to use Team Foundation Server as your source control repository by ... http://blog.mastertheteam.net/2008/10/tfs-source-control-integration-in-explorer/