ASP.NET MVC Upgrade your existing ASP.NET MVC4 application to MVC5 To upgrade your existing MVC 4 application to MVC 5 you need to go through a number of steps to replace the references and patch the web.config [http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-5/how-to-upgrade-an-aspnet-mvc-4-and-web-api-project-to-aspnet-mvc-5-and-web-api-2] . These steps are clearly explained in the original post, but when you're
Visual Studio Extensions Enabling Mighty Moose for Visual Studio 2013 Warning: This is probably totally unsupported, and might come with its own class of issues, but so far it seems to work... To enable Mighty Moose in Visual Studio 2013 do the following steps: 1. Install Mighty Moose 2. Create a 2013 Addin file 3. Copy theC:\Program Files (x86)
Azure DevOps ALM Rangers ship the TFS Reporting guidance books and samples v1 It has taken a lot of people a long time to work on an extensive guide on extending the TFS reporting capabilities and getting some report data out of the Team Foundation Service. Grab your copy while it's hot [http://vsarreportguide.codeplex.com/]! [http://vsarreportguide.codeplex.com/releases/
XAML Build Enabling Resharper-CLI in Team Build JetBrains is working on a Commandline interface that allows you to run the Resharper Code Inspections without opening up Visual Studio [http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/tag/command-line/]. Which is pretty cool! It's still in Early Access Program mode, but you can already download it and play around
Static Analysis Updated MSOCAF for Visual Studio Code Analysis rules 2 years ago I worked on a huge SharePoint project where we had to run the MSOCAF wizard before deployment to the production environment. And of course, every time a few rules triggered that caused huge rework efforts. So I ended up recompiling the FxCop 1.36 rules that ship
Azure DevOps Team foundation Service is now known as... And I've updated the tags to all posts referencing TFSvc to now also include Visual Studio Online. This helps clear up the definition of TFS is that Server or Service? So, TFS is the on premise product and VSO is the one in the cloud (with a lot
Azure DevOps Use Git commandline directly from Visual Studio > Update: Instead of using the Package Management Console, you can now use The Whack Whack Console [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DanielGriffen.WhackWhackTerminal] , ConEmu Integration [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DavidRoller.ConEmuIntegration] or BuiltinCmd [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=lkytal.BuiltinCmd] for a better interactive console.
Visual Studio Extensions My must-have extensions for Visual Studio 2013 Visual Studio 2013 has been available for a while now, and next week is the official launch party. Ever since I started using Visual Studio my life has been made easier by all the great extensions that people write for it. This is the list of things I install almost
Windows Drivers TIP: Don't run the AMD Driver Cleaner Utility on Windows 8 or 8.1 Ok, let me repeat this a couple of times: * Do not run the AMD Driver Cleaner Utility on Windows 8 or 8.1 [http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=373750] * Do not run the AMD Driver Cleaner Utility on Windows 8 or 8.1 [http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.
Visual Studio 2012 Visual Studio Tip: How to always launch the debugger under a different user profile One of my team members shared his debug workflow for a set of executables that manipulate Exchange and CRM through webservice calls. This tool always needs to run in the context of a specific service account, even when debugging and testing against the development environment. A practice that needs changing,
XAML Build Change the "Sources", "Binaries" and "TestResults" folders in Team Build Team Build by default creates 2 folders on your build agent: * 2010 * Sources * Binaries * TestResults * 2012: * src * bin * TestResults * 2013: * src * bin * tst These folder names were shortened as part of the 2012 release, partially to resolve "Path too long" issues with team build. But some of your
Visual Studio 2012 Update to WebTools 2012.2 to resolve System.ComponentModel.Composition.ImportCardinalityMismatchException Today one of my teams was greeted by a Visual Studio crash upon opening their solution. It happened with no changes to the solution over the weekend, but some Windows Updates were remotely installed to the machines. After some testing we found that the crash will go away by ensuring
XAML Build Properly incorporate MsBuild arguments into your build process template Ever wondered how to put features like Architecture Layer validation into your builds? If you bingle it you'll find loads of posts that tell you which argument to pass to msbuild. The official MSDN docs for this feature can be found here [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/
XAML Build Use local NuGet file repository to use NuGet on a Build Server that has no access to the webs. Scott Hanselman has blogged about using your local NuGet cache as your private local NuGet server in case your connection is down [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToAccessNuGetWhenNuGetorgIsDownOrYoureOnAPlane.aspx] . And that works great when you're working locally. When working with Team Build you have multiple options, one is
XAML Build Update Build Quality and Keep Indefinitely in TFS from the commandline As you probably know, TFS keeps all kinds of data behind when it finishes an automated build. Test Results, the stuff it copied to the drop folder, symbols etc. And by default it will keep the last 10 builds of data around and then starts cleaning up. When you deploy
TFS 2010 Connecting Team Explorer Everywhere to TFS results in Certificate error When you're trying to connect Team Explorer Everywhere (or any other Java-based application for that matter) to Team Foundation Server you might run into the following, very helpful, message: An error occurred: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find
Visual Studio 2012 First ALM Ranger guidance in Ebook format By based on a Visual Studio User Voicerequest [http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2639467-make-alm-ranger-guides-available-on-msdn-and-ebook] and a lot of internal discussions we, the ALM Rangers, are proud to present our very first official ebook formatted guidance [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2013/05/29/better-unit-testing-with-microsoft-fakes-guide-a-la-mobi-and-epub.aspx?
Team Foundation Server Code Review Check-in Policy for TFS 2012 The question whether you can force that Code Reviews must be done before checking in a set of changes in TFS. And up until recently there wasn't. Colin [http://www.colinsalmcorner.com/]created a check-in policy and shared it on the Visual Studio Gallery [http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.
CodedUI Testing Creating a Custom Unit Test Generator Provider Plugin for Specflow 1.9 After getting CodedUI Code First and Specflow to play nicely together in the past week, we ran into a few issues with the distribution of the Custom Code Generator Provider assembly to all team members. The SpecFlow binaries installed under a path that contains a random character string and I
Static Analysis Combining CodedUI Code first, SpecFlow and Visual Studio 2012 Today we tried to combine a number of different test technologies on the latest version of Visual Studio and ran into a few small issues. We found a work around for all of them. So if you want to use the BDD style of Specflow to test the UI of
Code Review Techdays 2013 presentation - Better code through review and tools By request of the audience, a link to the slide deck of our Techdays 2013 presentation on Better code through review and tools [http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/techdays/SessionDetail.aspx?sessionId=3780] (in Dutch). There isn't too much useful information in the deck itself, since Thomas Huijer
Agile Bring back the "Create Unit Tests" feature from Visual Studio 2010? There's a feature request on User Voice that requests Microsoft to bring back the "Create Unit Test" menu item which was removed in Visual Studio 2012 [http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2748862-add-create-unit-tests-menu-option-back-] . I've seen it come up as a potential Ranger solution
TFS 2012 New Tfs Team Tools beta release Mattias, the main contributor to the Tfs Team Tools has published a new beta release which includes the changes I'd added to the project. So now you can download a pre-built copy of the tools that includes the ability to update user and team images and convert existing
Team Foundation Server Converting a Group to a Team in TFS 2012 Update * Download the latest version here. [https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jessehouwing.azure-boards-teams-tool] Some time ago I blogged about the few lines of code required to convert a TFS Group to a Team [https://jessehouwing.net/vsts-tfs-convert-security-group-to-team]. It's now available as part of the latest version of
Azure DevOps Microsoft provides full Git support for Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Service Today Microsoft publicly introduced the first Community Preview version of the Git tools for Visual Studio [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/01/30/git-init-vs.aspx] and the Team Foundation Service at the ALM Summit. Microsoft is fully committed to supporting this open distributed version control platform going
