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 the GitUpgradeTemplate.xaml which is provided

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 valid certification