Team Explorer Everywhere

Connect any version of Visual Studio to Azure DevOps or Azure DevOps Server

Visual Studio has been around for a long time and there are still people developing in Visual Basic 6 or Visual Studio 2008. Even if you're using a more recent IDE, you could need one or more hotfixes and/or service packs.

XAML Build

Building a .NET application using the GitUpgradeTemplate.xaml

Today I received a request which I first found strange. A team that migrated to Git, but still wanted to use their TFS 2008 era TFSBuild.proj. After seeing the investment made in that build file, I understood :). So we though to simply use

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.