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Deploying SSRS Reports from Powershell
My current client has a BI group that writes SSRS reports. In the "legacy" ALM tool they built, they used VSS, nAnt,Cruise Control and a product called "Visual Intercept" to "build" (actually just extract RDL files) and a Read More...
Posted 25 November 08 06:17 by DanielS | 0 Comments   
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Feeling Like Homer and exclaiming "D'Oh!"
I'm a big Simpsons fan - and one of the appeals is watching Homer do something really stupid that he should have known better and exclaim "D'oh" when the inevitable happens. So there's nothing more painful when you end up "pulling Read More...
Posted 24 November 08 01:49 by DanielS | 0 Comments   
Removing VSS Bindings to Migrate SSRS 2005 Solutions to TFS Using Powershell
The last task I have for a VSS to TFS Migration is to convert a large number of SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) Projects. While Microsoft has a tool to migrate from VSS to TFS - I've avoided using it. Most "experts" have advised against Read More...
Posted 18 November 08 06:35 by DanielS | 0 Comments   
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Error loading SSRS Report Project in VS2005: "Could not load file or assembly 'ReportingServicesLibrary, Version=9.0.242.0"
I had this problem and "Google'ing" it turned up nothing relevant. So obviously this is prime material for blogging about it... The background is that I returned to a client I had previously consulted for after a couple months. They had Read More...
Posted 13 November 08 12:51 by DanielS | 0 Comments   
Cool Powershell Trick - Stopping and Starting a service on a remote server without having to explicitly load the .NET assemblies
I was chatting with my colleague at Magenic Donn Felker about two of our favorite topics TFS and Powershell. He found a cool way to load scripts into a profile. It reminded me of a cool Powershell Trick i found on the web before I started blogging... Read More...
Posted 29 October 08 02:56 by DanielS | 0 Comments   
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Extending TFS Presentation
I've given the presentation "Extending Team Foundation Server 2008-SP1 " twice in the past couple of months: at "Codeapalooza" on September 6, 2008 and at the Chicago VSTS User's group last week on October 2, 2008. I've Read More...
Posted 07 October 08 11:24 by DanielS | 0 Comments   
Implementing VB6 on TFS
I just finished implementing VB6 build for my client. It was pretty easy, but I learned a few things. To do it, I simply added the source code to Version Control (naturally). Then created a build type like any but with one exception. Obviously I couldn't Read More...
Posted 27 August 08 05:13 by DanielS | 0 Comments   
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Fun with VS2008SP1 and VPC
So I'm preparing for my presentation at the Upcoming Codeapalooza event: which will be Saturday September 6 at 2:30 PM in Wheaton (like how I got a little plug in on this blog post?). This will be a "hands-on" presentation so I have a separate Read More...
Posted 24 August 08 02:06 by DanielS | 1 Comments   
Output Issue with Transcript in Powershell
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, there is a "bug" in the current version of Powershell with the Transcript. For "external" commands, (that is programs that aren't Powershell commands) the transcript will log the input but Read More...
Posted 14 July 08 11:30 by DanielS | 0 Comments   
"Logging" Script Output in Powershell
I've been using Powershell for deploy scripts from TFS builds at my current gig. I COULD have used MSBuild, but I chose Powershell for a number of reasons (which I'll detail in a future article on the subject). One important feature (particularly Read More...
Posted 12 July 08 10:41 by DanielS | 0 Comments   
I'm a published author!
My article "An Introduction to Continuous Integration with Team Foundation Server 2008" was published in the June 2008 Edition of .NET Developer's Journal! The PDF can be viewed The URL is: http://pdf.sys-con.com/Dotnet/Walk_Spread.pdf (I Read More...
Posted 18 June 08 03:09 by DanielS | 1 Comments   
UTF-8 is NOT ASCII!
At my current client we had an interesting (and probably very common issue). The project we're on is to integrate my client's internal accounting applications (a mixture of Microsoft Dynamics 6.5 and custom applications) with "GetPaid" Read More...
Posted 18 June 08 11:42 by DanielS | 1 Comments   
Found a Bug in Team Build
I reported a problem on the MSDN TFS Build Automation Forum and Jason Pricket from Microsoft verified that it is, in fact, a bug in TFS 2008. My client previously hasn't used CI - so I setup the builds for the Application in TFS as "Daily Builds". Read More...
Posted 24 April 08 01:21 by DanielS | 0 Comments   
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Another Build Glitch
So here I am cruising along on my TFS Implementation. Got the code into version control redoing the File References in a way that will end the misery we're living with on the old system and ready to start building the Application. Instead of one big Read More...
Posted 15 February 08 03:15 by DanielS | 0 Comments   
Keep those Versions Straight!
I had been pulled away from the TFS project for a week to help out on another and finally was able to get back to TFS. My client has a Framework they wrote that is a mix of CSLA, Microsoft Enterprise Library and custom code. I have that building successfully Read More...
Posted 07 February 08 05:52 by DanielS | 0 Comments   
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