Oh la la! Combining Pex test with Team Foundation Server is indeed a powerful combination, and boy is it easy as hell to setup. The end state of this type of integration is pretty straightforward, we wanted to repeatedly provision Pex tests when executing build events in TFS. This is a pretty awesome setup because [...]

I think I have actually seen this error in other versions of TFS besides 2010, but most recently saw it in 2010 deployment. Post-executing build configuration when running a build for something using Web Application projects you might receive the error: The imported project "C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets" was not found To solve this issue, just copy [...]

I was at a client today, working on a TFS 2008 cube corruption problem (I hate the super common code churn crap it always throws, requiring weird InstanceInfo and SetupWarehouse voodoo) when the subject of automating BizTalk 2009 projects came up. The company heavily uses BizTalk, so they threw up a staging server with BizTalk [...]

A client was asking me this today so I decided to make a quick note and send a link In TFS 2010 when trying to make Sequential builds (i.e. for one you have several interdependent solutions in your automation strategy) in the DefaultTemplate XAML file you have to change the tag to . It should [...]

When maintaining a TFS environment where WI's become crucial in terms of development artifacts, you may notice an issue with removed AD accounts causing a problem where WI’s are not privy to updates because the account has been removed from Active Directory. This becomes a huge issue because updates to the WI are no longer [...]