As we know that Visual Studio 2015 and Team Foundation Server 2015 has been released, when I started working with the new TFS Power Tool, I found that there are some errors with the Process Editor ...

It’s a small issue, you may encounter if you name your build definition with the same name as an old one. Here is the error Exception Message: Unable to create the workspace ‘80_6_tfs2bld’ due to ...

Contents Introduction 1: Build Definition 2: Loop Additions 3: Build Sequence 4: Running the Build with No Dependencies Download the Process Template Introduction The main question ...

One of our TFS assignments needed to extend the current build and deployment process which includes Creating and Deploying Web package, Deploying Database, Versioning Assembly, running post-integra...

When you install Web Deployment 3.5, you may miss to select the Web Deployment Agent Service, so if you couldn't find it in the Windows service as shown below. You will need to install it by goi...

I created a command line tool that provides a CSV file that counts all items for all projects in a TFS collection, like Count of ChangeSets, Count of Changes, Count of Files, Count of WorkItems, an...

I wrote in a previous post about how to migrate projects to VSO with different tools, but the most important question was [what is the estimated time for each project???]. This was really a hard qu...

One of our customers needed to change that, they needed to type the password for the SQL login inside the publish profile but of course, they couldn’t do that for security reasons, so we created th...

I had an assignment which required migrating all TFS on-premises to VSO (Visual Studio Online), this includes TSF2010, TFS2012 and TFS2013 I will try to explain most of the process and the steps. ...

I needed to create a Custom Activity that reads from an XML file and displays the values on the Build log. It’s very easy and I will not re-write how to do the basic Custom Activity, but if you are...