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...

My fellow MVPs Colin Dembovsky and Ricci Gian Maria had great posts on doing Assembly Versioning. It doesn’t cover my case but they helped me very well. Thanks, guys :-) First, it’s better to unde...

I have an old post that perform++the same idea++with TFS 2010 but as usual there are some differences with TFS 2013:-) How to run remote deploy with MS Deploy I tried many ways with++many blog pos...

Elements is a browser extension and does not require any server installation.It supports both Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server 2013.

Creating a TFS Job Agent was not difficult at all, but debugging it was a pain in the neck! :-) Here I explain how to find what the error is and how to fix it. [Extension not found for TFSJobAgent...

layout: post title: “Deploying SSDT During Local and Server Build” date: 2014-11-06 15:05:05 +0100 — Four years ago, I wrote a post about how to deploy VS DB (Visual Studio Database Project) to...

This post could be used for many scenarios as the following: Scenario 1: Migrate Team Foundation Server’s SQL Server to another machine, Migrating Team Foundation Server Databases, moving TFS conf...

In this post, I will explain with videos how to configure Lab Management 2013 with SCVMM 2012 R2 so we can create and manage SCVMM environments in Team Foundation Server 2013. For more information,...

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP 2) on September 22, 2014. It includes some new features and bug fixes. For more information about this release vis...

In a previous post, I explained when you should and should not remove Lab Management resources like (Templates, VMs, Environments). For more information click here. In this post, I will show and e...