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...

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...