Category Archives: Team Foundation Server

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Today was my second day as a full time blue badge Microsoft employee. After a day and a half of New Employee Orientation (NEO) & kool-aid drinking, we all got smart cards and CorpNet logons. One of the first things I [...]

Force Visual Studio to think TFS is offline

Visual Studio 2008 introduced a feature that detects where the current Team Foundation Server is online or offline when you start the IDE.
In the situation where your server is actually ONLINE, but you want to treat it LIKE it’s offline, you have a couple of options.
Option 1 - Use the ‘tfpt tweakui’ utility
You can edit [...]

TFS Build: Running Integration Unit Tests

If you’re doing a deployment out to a test server as part of your Continuous Integration build process, you may have some unit tests (or web/load tests) to run after the deployment. Since these tests are testing more than just an assembly, they can be considered integration tests.
This can easily be accomplished by modifying your [...]

I’ve accepted a job with Microsoft

This morning I accepted an offer for a job on the Visual Studio team in Redmond (Seattle). My wife and I are super excited about this opportunity. Unfortunately it means that I’ll no longer be an MVP. (A small price to pay I guess).
Scott Hanselman summed it up well when he joined Microsoft last [...]