Building VS 2008 projects with TFS 2005

When you try to build VS 2008 solutions with Team Foundation Build 2005 you get:

MSB5014 - File format version is not recognized.

I posted about it and one of the comments (by Eran Kampf) linked to Mitch Denny's approach. Customers ask me about it a lot and this is the best approach to deal with the problem.

Buck Hodges says that the best "workaround" is to upgrade to TFS 2008. But not all of you will upgrade soon to 2008. For you, Mitch's approach is the best.

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Team System Chat Summary

There is a copy of the evening edition of Team System Chat. You can find it here.

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Announcing Volta: Web Development Using Only the Materials in the Room

Just released from Microsoft Live Labs: Volta.

Volta is another codename project from Microsoft that aims at Web UI experience.

 

The Volta technology preview is a developer toolset that enables you to build multi-tier web applications by applying familiar techniques and patterns. First, design and build your application as a .NET client application, then assign the portions of the application to run on the server and the client tiers late in the development process. The compiler creates cross-browser JavaScript for the client tier, web services for the server tier, and communication,erialization, synchronization, security, and other boilerplate code to tie the tiers together.

See detailed architectural and fundamental description here.

• Volta web site
• Team blog
• Community forum

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MVC vs MVP

MVC or MVP? You've probably heard about Microsoft's new ASP.NET MVC Framework.

MVC methodology divides an application's implementation into three component roles:

• Models
• Views
• Controllers.

MVP approach divides an application's implementation into:

• Model
• View
• Presenter

What is the difference between the  MVC and MVP patterns?  Todd Snyder has an excellent explanation. This is summary by the key differences between the two patterns:

MVP	MVC
View is more loosely coupled to the model. The presenter is responsible for binding the model to the view	Controller are based on behaviors and can be shared across views
Easier to unit test because interaction with the view is through an interface	Can be responsible for determining which view to display
Usually view to presenter map one to one. Complex views may have multi presenters

 

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Free Web.Config Editor

a nice tools which helps a lot in editing Web.Config and Application.Config files published at Microsoft Public Sector Developer and Platform Evangelism Team Blog.

You can download it from: http://asphere.aspweb.cz/default.aspx

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Team Foundation Build 2008 New Features Video

There's a great new video on MSDN by Richard Hundhausen introducing the new features in Team Foundation Build 2008: How Do I: Learn the New Features and Capabilities of Team Foundation Build 2008?

The video covers the major new features and provides a great introduction to the product.

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VSTS Web Access Power Tool for Team System 2008 released

Today Microsoft released the final version of the Team System Web Access (TSWA) 2008 power tool!  Team System Web Access provides a web interface to Team Foundation Server 2008.

Here's a list of feature changes (the release also included bug fixed).

(List from Buck's post)

• New direct links: Previously, you could construct a direct link to a work item (http://mytfs:8090/wi.aspx?id=123).  Now you can also construct direct links to more features, and the direct links no longer open the main TSWA page, making them more responsive.  Keep reading to find out how to use them.
• Performance improvements: The code now uses server memory more efficiently, resulting in increased performance.
• Custom work item controls: First introduced in the CTP, MS continued to refine support for custom work item controls in TSWA.  To take advantage of this feature, you'll need to implement web versions of your existing custom controls.  You'll find documentation for it in the SDK folder underneath the folder where you install TSWA.  The following examples have been added since the CTP, in addition to the samples for checkbox, a work item picker, and a multi-value selector.
  • How to validate a work item on the client-side (Javascript)
  • How to validate a work item on the server-side
  • How to design a control whose field depends on the values of other fields
  • How to design a control that changes other field values (such as the WI state) and saves the work item
• Team Build 2008 support: Also introduced in the CTP, you can view the build queue and queue new builds, which are features that are new for TFS 2008.

Full details you can find at Buck's post: http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2007/11/29/team-system-web-access-2008-power-tool-is-now-available.aspx

 

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