Monday, May 28, 2012

TFS 11 Beta – Team Explorer

Team Explorer in TFS 2011 allows you to view My Work, Pending Changes, Work Items, Builds, Reports and Settings
You can view the following using Team Explorer:
  • In Progress Work Items, Shelvesets and Code Review Requests
  • Pending Changes
  • Work Items and Queries
  • Builds
  • Reports
  • Team Project and Team Project Collection settings


Sunday, May 27, 2012

TFS 11 Beta – Web Access


Web Access in TFS 2011 allows you to view Work Items, Source Control and Builds without launching visual studio.
  • You can create and manage work items and view backlog, board and reports.
  • You can manage members, iterations and area paths.
  • You can also add team favorites.
The web access path looks like http://Server:8080/tfs/TeamProjectCollection/TeamProject










Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Windows Azure Dev Fabric: Keyset does not exist

If you see this error while dealing with X509 Certificates when your service is running on Windows Azure Dev Fabric:
Keyset does not exist

The fix is to grant Network Service account permissions on the corresponding certificate

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Visual Studio 2010 - The project type is not supported by this installation

If you see the below error while opening a project in Visual Studio:
...\xyz.csproj : error  : The project file '...\xyz.csproj' cannot be opened.
The project type is not supported by this installation.

The fix is to follow the below steps:
  • Open the csproj file in notepad or xml editor
  • Look for the node <ProjectTypeGuids>{E53F8FEA-EAE0-44A6-8774-FFD645390401};{349c5851-65df-11da-9384-00065b846f21};{fae04ec0-301f-11d3-bf4b-00c04f79efbc}</ProjectTypeGuids>
  • Do a bing search for the project type guids to find out the dependencies which need to be installed
  • Install the dependencies and you should be able to open the project

Monday, April 2, 2012

Windows Azure Portal - The Windows Live Network is unavailable

If you see the below error while trying to login to Windows Azure Portal:
The Windows Live Network is unavailable from this site for one of the following reasons:

This site may be experiencing a problem
The site may not be a member of the Windows Live Network
You can:

You can sign in or sign up at other sites on the Windows Live Network, or try again later at this site.

The fix is to change the Privacy Settings in the browser from High to Medium High

Thursday, March 29, 2012

TFS 2010 Build - Not enough storage is available to complete this operation

If you see the below error while building your projects on the build agents:
Not enough storage is available to complete this operation

The reason could be that the build agent machine is running out of memory.
Increasing the RAM on the build agnet machine should fix the issue. 

Friday, March 23, 2012

TF215097: An error occurred while initializing a build for build definition xxx: There is not enough space on the disk.

If you see the below error:

TF215097: An error occurred while initializing a build for build definition xxx: There is not enough space on the disk.
 
Please follow the below steps:

  • Go to Start->Programs->Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010->Team Foundation Administration Console
  • Select a build agent and click Properties
  • Change the working directory from to $(SystemDrive) to D:, E: etc depending upon the free disk drive