How to enable the TFS add-in for excel?

by XDK 18. March 2014 11:33

Solution:

  • Open Excel
  • Click on “File” --> “Option” menu
  • Click on “Add-Ins”
  • Search for “Team Foundation Add-in”
  • If you see “Team Foundation Add-in” under “Disabled Application Add-in”
  • Select “Disabled Items” and click “Go” button  
  •  
  • Select “Team Foundation Add-in” and click “Enable”
  •  
  • Close and reopen excel

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TFS 2010 | TFS 2012 | TFS 2013

Partial files while performing "get latest" operation in TFS.

by XDK 7. February 2014 12:04

Explanation:

All my source files where partial while performing TFS version control "get latest" operation on Windows Server 2008 R2 OS

 

 Solution:

Open Visual Studio with "Run as Administrator" option

 

Tags:

Visual Studio 2010 | Visual Studio 2012 | Visual Studio 2013

After a Gated check-in Build, reconcile or ignore pop up dialog\message is missing

by XDK 29. January 2014 09:04

Explanation:

This issue may occur If you have multiple Visual Studio version instances installed in your box

Solution 1:

Make sure the BuildNotification.exe version loaded in your box matches the Visual Studio version you used for development

BuildNotification.exe for Visaul Studio 2012 will be located at <drive>:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE

Solution 2:

1. Exit out of the BuildNotification tool from taskbar. (right click and Exit).

2. Navigate to <drive>:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE

3. Open BuildNotification.exe.config

4. Edit the trace in there to uncomment to capture the trace. 

Original from:

  <!-- enable soap tracing by uncommenting the following  

  <appSettings>

    <add key="TFTrace.Writer" value="true" />

    <add key="TFTrace.DirectoryName" value="%TEMP%\\TFLogFiles" />

    <add key="TeamFoundationSoapProxy.EnableSoapTracing" value="true" />

  </appSettings>

   <system.diagnostics>

    <switches>

      <add name="TeamFoundationSoapProxy" value="4" />

      <add name="General" value="4" />

    </switches>

    <trace autoflush="true" indentsize="3"/>

  </system.diagnostics>

-->

</configuration>

 to:

  <!-- enable soap tracing by uncommenting the following  -->

  <appSettings>

    <add key="TFTrace.Writer" value="true" />

    <add key="TFTrace.DirectoryName" value="%TEMP%\\TFLogFiles" />

    <add key="TeamFoundationSoapProxy.EnableSoapTracing" value="true" />

  </appSettings>

   <system.diagnostics>

    <switches>

      <add name="TeamFoundationSoapProxy" value="4" />

      <add name="General" value="4" />

    </switches>

    <trace autoflush="true" indentsize="3"/>

  </system.diagnostics>

 </configuration>

 5. Save the trace.

** You might have to open notepad.exe as Administrator if it does not allow you to save it.

** Don't close notepad, because you will need to undo this tracing later.

6. Run "Build Notification" from TFS2012.

7. Trigger a Gated Build. Once the build complete, wait for a few minutes to confirm the dialog appears.

If it works, you can undo the steps from 1-6 again to undo the steps.

 

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How to change build notification polling interval

by XDK 29. January 2014 08:39

Solution:

You can override the polling interval by modifying the value in the windows registry. 

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\TeamFoundation\Build\BuildNotification\Subscriptions]

(REG_SZ) PollingInterval = "00:02:00"

By default, polling interval is set to "00:02:30" or 2.5 minutes. Modifying this value will result in increased load on your TFS server

Tags:

Team Build

How to uninstall Visual Studio 2012?

by XDK 29. January 2014 06:28

Solution:

vs_ultimate.exe /uninstall /force

Tags:

Visual Studio 2012

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My name is Xavier Dilip Kumar Jayaraj having 16+ years of IT experience which includes solid experience and depth Knowledge in Application Life Cycle Management, Configuration Management, Implementation and Support using TFS on-premises and Azure DevOps. I have invested in gaining DevOps knowledege to expertise with Cloud Computing providers namely Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services in recent years. I am very positive to learn and adapt emerging technologies to client’s environment.

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