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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 it for a number of reasons.  Particularly, a desire to do some refactoring ...

Recently I was working with Dependency Replicator and I ran into an issue.     Background The file that is the ''dependency'' does not exist in the destination yet. Therefore the replicator fails. If it does not find the destination file in the dependent project location it will fail. In English: In ...

This is kind of a ''known thing'' to those of us who automate team builds tasks in TFS with build scripts but there are still a lot of people who don't know this... so here we go... The 2008 version of TFS implemented Continuous Integration. In TFS, a build is triggered upon every check-in (if you have that option enabled in TFS). This can be ...

With continuous integration being integrated into Team Foundation Server 2008 we can sometimes run into unexpected results. Such as extended build times.  By default the build file is set up to inform the TFS Build Agent that it should perform a ''Full Build''. What is a ''Full Build''? By default, when TFS performs a build the following ...

I forgot where I learned this (perhaps the TFS Admin guide) but ... this is a good little tip...   When you add users to groups in AD and those groups are present in the Team Foundation Server Security groups it can take up to 60 minutes for the policy to be pushed down into TFS. To jumpstart this, restart the ''Visual Studio Team ...

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 use the "Create Project File" Wizard, since there will be no ...

The VSTS Chicago User Group Meeting will be in Downers Grove at the Microsoft Office on Wednesday May 28th. Pizza will be delivered around 5:30pm. Chad Thomas of Neudesic will be presenting Team Foundation Server 2008 and Scrum/Agile Development starting at 6pm. For more information and signing up go to ...

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".  Or specifically the build's "Trigger" is "Build Every ...

The most important to keep in mind about Team Foundation Server is that it’s all about improving the software development PROCESS. Yes, it’s great to get rid of Visual Source Safe, to automate builds, and get a lot of nice reports—all easily accessed and integrated in Visual Studio, Office, and so on.  Developers love shiny ...

Over the last few days, I have been struggling with creating a new project on my TFS installation.  The project creation operation would fail about 85% of the way through the process with an error which read TF30255: Error uploading report : Work Item With Tasks. Apparently, TFS was attempting to upload report templates to SQL Server 2005 ...