I ran across this issue today when working with a WCF service project. We had generated a settings file through the project properties and in turn added entries into the web.config transform files for the different deployment modes. The base config and the transform blocks for the <applicationSettings> element were what you would expect: Web.config: ......

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WORK IN PROGRESS - I WILL UPDATE WITH DETAILED STEPS SOON IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS PLEASE COMMENT AND I WILL RESPOND ASAP I have just completed the arduous process of integrating ClickOnce deployment (with the ability to have multiple versions installed side-by-side EX: DEV,QA,UAT) into my TFS 2010 build script. This took me about a week due to ......

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Microsoft has announced and released a Beta version of a new process template for Team Foundation Server 2010 that is based purely on Scrum Methodology and terms. You can download the new template from the link below TFS Scrum v1.0 BetaFor a more in depth look review see the Visual Studio Magazine announcement HERE ......

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The TFS 2010 Power Tools were released on the 23rd. Check out the link for download and info.

 

TFS 2010 PowerTools

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At my current client we have about 15 or so users of Team Explorer Beta 2 that needed to be upgraded to the RC client (since I upgraded the server to RC). Out of those 15 there were 2 cases of users experiencing installs that would crash after reaching the Complete/Custom selection screen. One of the users was on a laptop running XP SP 3 and the other ......

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I performed an in place upgrade of a TFS 2010 Beta 2 instance to and RC instance yesterday using this guide: TFS Beta 2 to RC Upgrade Guide The overall process was relatively smooth. There was only one hiccup at the very end of the "Upgrade from previous version" config wizard that almost had me in tears. The last step was to upgrade all exisiting Project ......

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Seems as though the "destroywi" command has been moved from the Power Tools into the actual TFS administration executables. I case you were wondering here is the /? from the new destroy work item command in TFS 2010. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE>witadmin destroywi /? Work Item Tracking Administration tool. (C) Copyright ......

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Looking to the future release of Expression Blend 4 I had some questions on how things will work with TFS. The main thing Iw as looking for was work item creation based on SketchFlow screens embedded within Expression Blend itself. Well I found out the other day that the extent of this integration has been expanded on from the previous release but it ......

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Steps to make MS Project create a log file of exceptions occuring during the load/refresh/publish using the "TFSOfficeAdd-In.dll" component. 1) Navigaate to the directory that winproj.exe lives in. (Typically "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\[Version]\" where [Version] is the Office version I.E. Office12, Office14) 2) Create a new text file named ......

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I was running into an odd problem today when trying to add some new custom columns to a Microsoft Project project plan. These fields were driven by the values in other columns, in other words they calculated columns that used custom formulas I created to poluate them with content. I had added new fields to my project plan and validated and tested the ......

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