TFS – How to Record Support Hours on an Iteration

In project management, there is always a need to record how much work is being done to troubleshoot and/or identify issues for a particular release.  To address this, we could set up a team project with the following settings: Area and Iteration Path: Create an area path specifically for support issues. For example, the area path could read the following: Area Path    Description...

Start Multiple Projects with Visual Studio 2008 and 2010

By default, Visual Studio allows us to set a single Startup project on a solution. There are instances when we need to start multiple projects. A typical case is when we have a client and server console application, and we want to debug/start both at the same time. There is a feature on Visual Studio (2008 and 2010) that allows us to start multiple projects within a solution. To configure multiple...

Customize the Build Number in Team Build

If you have used TFS team build, you know that MSBuild creates a default label and build number/name with the following format: Build Definition Name_YYYYMMDD_# Where the # is an incremental number for the date. This format does not really provide any information about the version your are building. Nevertheless,  The build number can be customized using the BuildNumberOverrideTarget. There...

How to Deploy Files in Different Servers with Team Build

I use Team Build to automate the build and deployment of my projects.  In the build project, there are settings that allow us to configure the build directory and drop location of the files. The build directory is a path in the build machine, and this does not really change. The drop location is a path where you want the files to be copied after a successful build.  Depending on your development...

Resolve /temp/global.asax(1,0): error ASPPARSE: Could not load type- Team Build

I was trying to automate the build an ASP.Net MVC Web application using Team Build, and the build kept failing with this error:/temp/global.asax(1,0): error ASPPARSE: Could not load typeAfter taking a look at the build log, I was able to see that the error is generated right after a command to aspnet_compiler.exe is made. I also looked at the parameters, and I noticed that the path was incorrect....