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Setting up my MVC project on IIS 6

I am very new at web development in general and I am trying to publish my first web app. I am using ASP.Net MVC 1 and IIS 6. I have read the post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/628236/how-to-make-asp-net-mvc-work-in-iis-6 and Phil Haack's blog post at http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/26/asp.net-mvc-on-iis-6-walkthrough.aspx. How...

How do I use TFS Build 2008 and my Web Deployment Project?

Hi folks, I wish to create a TFS Build for my solution. Is there anyway I can just make the TFS Build, build my WDP only .. and not everything in the solution, etc? Secondly, is there a special keyword I can use to tell my WDP that when it's a TFSBuild, it sets the ouput/drop directory to 'XXX' instead of the current hardocded output d...

What Report Services user id do I use when installing Team Foundation Server?

I'm trying to install Team Foundation Server for the main purpose of testing the source control tool. Upon installing the product on our server, it is asking for the Reporting Services user id. There are two problems with this. The first is that our reporting services environment is on another server. According to the people I work with...

TFS Folders - Getting them to work like Subversion "Trunk/Tags/Branches"

I recently started using Team Foundation Server, and am having some trouble getting it to work the way I want it to. I've used Subversion for a couple years now, and love the way it works. I always set up three folders under each project, Trunk, Tags, and Branches. When I'm working on a project, all my code lives under a folder called...

Automating workspace creation in Team Foundation Server

Is there any way to easily create a workspace, based on a pre-existing "template" one? ...or some other way of creating workspace on behalf of others? ...

TFS - TF209026 - ItemNotFoundException

I try to execute a build batch on my build Agent, the following error I get: TF224003: An exception occurred on the build computer : TF209026: An un expected error occurred on the Team Foundation server http://tfsserver:8080/: Item NotFoundException The item %2f%2f&changesetVersion=35&deletionId=0 does not exist at the specified versio...

Is it possible to extract values from itemgroups in TFSBuild.proj during a build

I want to extract values defined in an item group collection of TFSBuild.proj file in a C# application during a build . Can someone give me an idea as to how this can be done. ...

Is it possible to extract values from itemgroups in TFSBuild.proj during a build

I want to extract values defined in an item group collection of TFSBuild.proj file in a C# application during a build . Can someone give me an idea as to how this can be done. ...

Can TFSBuild replace part of your web.config settings?

Is it possible for a TFSBuild to replace part of your web.config settings with another section? Is this generally handled by a copy (overwrite) task on AfterBuild or AfterDropBuild where the parts of the web.config have been extracted out into their own seperate files? UPDATE Mid '10... If you're using Visual Studio 2010, it now comes...

ValidateXAML Failure on a TFS Build with a Silverlight 3 Project

Hi all I have a Silverlight 3 project which compiles and runs fine when compiled on a development machine. On our TFS environment with Silverlight 3 and the Silverlight 3 SDK installed, I get the following error: C:\Users\tfsservice\AppData\Local\Temp\\Release\Sources\Source\Trunk\Themes\ UserDatesStyles.xaml(63,47,63,47): erro...

tfs not showing working items in 2 screen mode

Hi I have a computer that is connected to 2 screens that show the same. since 2 days ago, couple of working items are not shown. the computer was restarted, but still. on another computer, the working items are shown. what con be the problem? thanks, Oded ...

TFS & Visual Studio integration - Get Latest does not always work?

I'm developing in Visual Studio 2005, using TFS as the source control. Whenever I haven't been working on the solution for a while, I always do a recursive Get Latest in Solution Explorer. However, this doesn't always seem to work. If I know I don't have the latest version of a file, even right-clicking this (in Solution Explorer), cho...

MSTest crash during a build in TFS 2008 SP1

I've never managed to make MsTest works during the build of my solution on TFS. When I look the build log, I see this that TFS want to execute MsTest : "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe" /nologo /searchpathroot:"C:\BinaryRoot\TFSBuild" /resultsfileroot:"C:\TestResults\" /testmetadata:"C:\Build\MySoluti...

Creating a project in Team Foundation Server without publishing to SharePoint Server

Is it possible to create a project in Team Foundation Server without having TFS wanting it to publish to a SharePoint site? We do have SharePoint Server, but due to unavailibility of our network administrator (hence cannot get rights right now), it is stopping us from exploring any further TFS features. ...

AppController error: Index out of bounds

I overrode the following target in my TFS build file to run various tasks that set up databases, import data, etc., etc. in Visual Studio 2008 - the aim was to stop only the website associated with an application pool on the server instead of stopping the entire W3SVC service on the entire machine (see alternate task for example): <Targ...

Team Foundation Server - How to team build a Team Project but not pull all branches

Currently we have a team project setup like below (in regards to branches) Team Project |__Developement |__Development - Isolated Feature Dev |__Main |__Production The issue that i have, is that when we want to do a team build on the production branch solution, it copies the entire team project...

MSBuild: build results shows 'no code coverage' while importing test-result does

I have a strange problem, my MSBuild runs tests, code-coverage and publishing fine (part of the build.txt shown): Results Top Level Tests ------- --------------- Passed BuildTestProject.UnitTest1.TestMethod1 Passed BuildTestProject.UnitTest1.TestMethod2 2/2 test(s...

Is there no TFS Snapin for PowerShell on x64?

I am trying to use the TFSSnapin in PowerShell from C# code using System.Management.Automation from the PowerShell SDK, however I would like to compile it using "AnyCPU". When I try debugging it in any CPU I get the "No Plugins Registered" error, I try debugging it in x86 mode and it works just fine. Is there anyway to get the Plugins re...

Microsoft Project Server / Team Foundation Server / Subversion / Wiki on same box

Hi all, We are in the process of setting up a new development environment for about a dozen developers in our IT department, and I've got a few questions as far as server setup goes.. We're going to be using TFS 2008 for our 6 or so .NET developers, and subversion for the half dozen CF people. Is it ok/recommended/not recommended to h...

MSBuild delete process

I'm working on ironing out some problems with MSBuild on a large project. As part of a custom build target in our MSBuild setup we insert the .PDB files into Symbol Storeafter the build is successful. This works fine. However when we delete the old builds we also have to delete the .PDB files from Symbol Store, which requires a transacti...