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T4: Pain Relief for .NET Configuration Management – Pt.1

Anyone who has done anything moderately complex with .NET will have undoubtedly felt the pain associated with having to deal with your application requiring different configuration settings when deployed into to different environments – and if you’re Read More...

Posted 04 March 2011 11:57 by james.dawson | 0 Comments

Filed under: Visual Studio, ALM, T4

DevOps to Solve all the Software Delivery World’s Ills?

As part of my self-imposed DevOps induction I’ve been casually following the #devops feed on Twitter, and a tweet from @emmanuel_belo got me thinking – seemingly enough to spur me into firing-up Live Writer! Whilst the underlying point is rather self-evidently Read More...

Posted 25 November 2010 23:58 by james.dawson | 2 Comments

Filed under: ALM, DevOps

On Discovering DevOps

A few weeks ago James sent me an e-mail saying that he’d been coming across this thing called ‘DevOps’ a lot lately and it seemed like it might be the closest thing yet to our Platform Architect role, outside of EMC Consulting. The Platform Architect Read More...

Posted 23 November 2010 00:14 by james.dawson | 0 Comments

Filed under: DevOps ALM

Installing TFS 2008 onto SQL Server 2008 SP1 (you can't!)

This post definitely falls into the 'note-to-self' category - myself and a blog-less colleague wasted a good few hours this morning trying to get Team Foundation Server (TFS) installed onto a new virtual machine. If you're in the habit of using slipstreaming Read More...

Posted 16 February 2010 01:25 by james.dawson | 1 Comments

TFS vs. SVN vs. Git …

So, there’s been a bit of storm blowing through the part of the InterWeb that I inhabit recently – see http://blog.benday.com/archive/2009/07/27/23233.aspx for the low-down. I’ve seen these types of discussions countless times, both online and in the Read More...

Posted 28 July 2009 16:15 by james.dawson | 2 Comments

Filed under: Team Foundation Server, Team System, TFS, Scrum, Scrum for Team System, VSTS

TFS, Build Servers and Un-Trusted Domains

I’ve been meaning to write this up for a while now, and a recent Twitter exchange with @thiago_bagua prompted me to finally get around to it. This post will describe a way of getting a TFS 2008 build server up and running in an Active Directory domain Read More...

Posted 12 June 2009 02:13 by james.dawson | 1 Comments

Filed under: Team Foundation Server, Security, TFS, Team Build, TFS2008, Trust

Using Linked Files with Web Application Projects

A customer recently contacted me saying that they had upgraded to Visual Studio 2008 and had also taken the opportunity to switch from a Web Site Project to a Web Application Project. A while back I'd helped them to centralise some of their configuration Read More...

Posted 03 June 2008 01:51 by james.dawson | 1 Comments

Filed under: Visual Studio, MSBuild

Attachment(s): LinkedFilesBugWorkaround.zip

TeamBuild Plug-in for CruiseControl.NET now on CodePlex

Back in May this year I blogged about a CruiseControl.NET plug-in that I had written to allow CCNet to trigger a TFS Build - I had a few comments at the time, but recently I've had a flurry of comments & emails (well, a comparative flurry for Read More...

Posted 24 November 2007 22:27 by james.dawson | 2 Comments

Filed under: Team Foundation Server, Continuous Integration

Configuring DCOM Security

This post started out as a comment on one of Jamie's recent posts , however, I realised that the explanation would be easier to follow with screenshots... so here we go. To paraphrase, Jamie's issue was that whilst trying to use an SSIS package Read More...

Posted 06 September 2007 22:52 by james.dawson | 0 Comments

Filed under: Security

TeamBuild Plug-in for CruiseControl.NET

I've been meaning to write this post for a couple of months now as a follow-up to a session that Colin and I gave at the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference back in March, but just haven't found the time... at least, that's my excuse - Read More...

Posted 24 May 2007 00:46 by james.dawson | 13 Comments

Filed under: Team Foundation Server

Attachment(s): ccnet.teambuild.plugin.zip

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