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I found more things to do with sandcastle after part 1 and part 2. Here's a trick that made the sandcastle build simpler. The basic problem is that sandcastle must run after all the binaries are built by projects in a solution (so that it can read those binaries), but before the WiX installer is built (so that the sandcastle output ...

It has been a busy time here at Conchango as we've been making plenty of changes to get Scrum for Team System working on Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server and also incorporating changes driven by community feedback and usage of the plugin on our own development projects. We should be ready to release after we ...

Further to my last post on sandcastle in TFS builds, I wanted to update on the complications that have happened in the last week.  Sandcastle docs and Wix installers.Our installer, built in WiX v3, acts as a project inside the solution and builds last, rolling up the output of the other projects into an MSI file. The sandcastle action ran ...

Sandcastle is a tool from Microsoft to generate documentation as help files from the XML comments in your c# (or vb.net) code.The latest version is the September 2007 CTP, announced here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/archive/2007/10/02/announcing-september-2007-sandcastle-release.aspxSandcastle has a reputation as being not release quality ...

I won't call it a miracle as I've been using and developing for Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server for over 2 years now, but with the release of the MCTS: Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server exam recently, I figured I should go and do it before Orcas gets released later this year ...

Yes the big gapling hole that was the lack of web access for TFS from Microsoft themselves has finally been filled by BillG getting his cheque book out. Microsoft have purchased DevBiz solutions which are the makers of Team Plain, which is as far as I'm aware is the most comprehensive web interface to Team Foundation Server out ...

I found a bug in datadude yesterday and, with a little help, I was able to come up with a workaround so figured I'd post here in case anyone else comes up against it. In the RTM version of Datadude it is possible to specify the name of the database when it is deployed. As you can see here: Note the specified name of the database ...