Archive | July, 2012

Upgrading your Custom Build Template to TFS 2012

July 31, 2012 by Rene van Osnabrugge 3 Comments

In the past years I have been quite busy with customizing the build for both my own and also custom organizations. Today I was experimenting with the build definitions on my TFS 2012 Release Candidate installation. I attached a TFS 2010 Team Project Collection to my TFS 2012 Server as my first step and this […]

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Build, TFS API, Tips & Tricks
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Want to implement an ALM process? Focus on the output!

July 24, 2012 by Rene van Osnabrugge 2 Comments

Want to implement an ALM process? Focus on the output! In my previous article “Implement TFS or ALM? Same or different?” , I talked about the differences between an ALM implementation and a TFS Implementation. Today I like to talk about the change process that is involved when an ALM process is being implemented. I […]

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ALM, Articles, Reporting Services
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Error when copying Build Template “The type ‘TfsBuild.Process’ already contains a definition for…”

July 9, 2012 by Rene van Osnabrugge 1 Comment

I do quite a lot of Build customizations and usually I create a new Build Template for each type of Build I want to do. You can choose to copy the file in the Build Definition Editor or you can just Copy/Paste the file in Windows Explorer. The advantage of the editor is that it […]

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Build, TFS API, Troubleshooting
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How to deal with generic libraries in TFS

July 2, 2012 by Rene van Osnabrugge 5 Comments

Last year I wrote an article about how to deal with generic libraries in TFS for a Dutch Magazine called Dot Net Magazine. This article was published in both the online as printed magazine. The online magazine has moved to another site and this article is now published on the be-init site. It can be […]

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Articles, Source Control
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