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• Code coverage in Visual Studio 2008 using Test driven .NET and Team Coverage

  A colleague of mine this week showed me his code coverage as being over 94% for his production code, which impressed me so much, it spurred me on to ensure that all code paths in my code from now on go blue instead of red when testing with Team coverage, Read More... Posted 13 June 2008 14:55 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Team System, C#, .NET, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio, code, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5

• How to retrieve the database connection string from a Team Foundation Server Client

  The following code will get the correct database and server name for the Team Foundation Server Work Item Tracking database. Note in the call to GetRegistrationEntries you can use any one of the following types… <Type>vstfs</Type> <Type>Build</Type> Read More... Posted 06 March 2007 15:14 by merrick.chaffer | 1 Comments Filed under: Team System, C#, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio, ConnectionString, Team Foundation Server

• Accessing area paths created in code in TFS

  Looks like if you create area paths in code, then you can’t access them straight away from the item.Project.AreaRootNodes property, but have to go back up to the Store for the item, and look at its Projects collection… workItem.Project.AreaRootNodes.Count Read More... Posted 13 February 2007 17:44 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Team System, C#, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio

• Importing and Exporting Work item types in TFS

  EXPORT From Visual studio command prompt, issue the following command to export your work item type. C:\>witexport /f "c:\BugWIT.xml" /t myservername /p mytfsprojectname /n "Bug" /exportgloballists Work item type export complete. Read More... Posted 18 January 2007 13:10 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Team System, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio

• Automaton change set viewing error

  If you get an exception saying the directory name is invalid when browsing the change sets from the automaton dashboard for a build type, then ensure you apply the permissions as listed in the below fix on the automaton web site. Exception: The directory Read More... Posted 10 January 2007 11:28 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Team System, Visual Studio, Automaton

• Prevent Visual Studio Team Explorer from connecting to Team Foundation Server at startup

  http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/000286.html Hack #1 - Stopping Team Explorer from connecting on Visual Studio 2005 Start-up Add a DWORD value called "AutoLoadServer" under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\TeamFoundation. Read More... Posted 09 January 2007 09:19 by merrick.chaffer | 4 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Team System, .NET, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio

• Renaming a TFS Virtual PC

  Change the old server name to the new one in the following places in order to rename a virtual PC that’s acting as a Team foundation server… Registry changes 1. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\Secure\ConfigDb Read More... Posted 03 January 2007 17:30 by merrick.chaffer | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Team System, .NET 2.0, Visual Studio

• Missing TFS WorkItem Description and History

  If you ever have a need to manually update the [Changed Date] fields in the WorkItemsWere, WorkItemsAre and WorkItemsLatest tables in a TFS database, then ensure that you also update the WorkItemLongTexts table and set the [AddedDate] equal to or less Read More... Posted 27 November 2006 16:40 by merrick.chaffer | 1 Comments Filed under: Team System

• Enforce comments TFS Check-in policy

  Use this tool to enforce comments being added by developers when the check-in their code to a tfs source repository http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/teamsystem/archive/2006/08/22/3417.aspx More information can be found here about how to create check-in Read More... Posted 21 November 2006 10:04 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Team System, .NET, .NET 2.0

• Rebuild TFS warehouse failed

  If you receive an HTTP internal server error 500, when trying to invoke the GetStatus operation of the Rebuilder Web service (.e.g http://localhost/RebuilderService/RebuilderService.asmx?op=GetStatus or http://localhost:8080/Warehouse/v1.0/warehousecontroller.asmx?op=Reinitialize Read More... Posted 20 November 2006 14:37 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Team System, Visual Studio

• Creating Area Paths and Iteration Paths in Team foundation server

  Recently I had to automate the creation of areapaths and iteration paths via the Team foundation server Object model. After hours of searching this out on the msdn discussion forums, I thought I'd list the completed solution here. using System; using Read More... Posted 08 November 2006 15:50 by merrick.chaffer | 1 Comments Filed under: Team System, .NET 2.0