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The Team Foundation Build Server at one of our clients was getting out of hand. We set up continuous integration so we are getting a lot of builds per day. The server had hundreds of builds that we just didn't need hanging around anymore. We asked our
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Did you know there are two ways to Deploy files to be used when executing unit tests in VSTS. You can added them to the .Testrunconfig: Or using the DeploymentItem attribute on the TestMethod: [TestMethod , DeploymentItem ( @"Bin\fr-CA\Thermo.Automation.Foundation.Tests.resources.dll"
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Two great tools come together to make our lives easier. I have been a fan of Snagit for many many years, and more recently Camtasia, both from Techsmith . Now snagit has a hook into Team Foundation Server, allowing you to create a Work Item from a Snapshot
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If you have done any serious unit testing with Visual Studio Team System and tried to include these tests in your Team Build you will have come across issues with the .VSMDI . It might drive you crazy until you completeley understand what is going on.
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I am speaking today at EnergizeIT . I'm doing a talk on unit testing with VSTS at 3:30. I'll be talking to the kids about some of the things to watch out for when doing unit testing in VSTS, as well as some of the really nice features. I attached my demo
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A colleague and friend of mine Andre who in my opinion is a guru of Test Driven Development discivered this issue. If you're used to Nunit and how it fires methods in your test Fixture you may assume VSTS fires the equivalent methods in a similar way.
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Many clients ask me if there is a tool that will help you keep track of time spent on different tasks in a TFS Project. The answer has always been, "Not that I have seen, but it wouldn't be hard to write one". Well I put my code where my mouth was and
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If you are a project manager or know a project manager who is using Microsoft Project with Team Foundation Server to manage Work items you may have noticed that Start and Finish Dates only update in one direction. It seems that by default PublishOnly
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Do you want to be able to run tests in Team Build without having to use a .vsmdi file. Well now you can. Buck Hodges has a post with a download which includes a task for running tests in your build by simply specifying the .dll's. Buck also says this
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After some investigation this seems to be a pretty well known issue. However I had not come across this issue so I thought I would Blog it so I can easily find the solution again. Although there are work arounds for this issue, you will be happy to know
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