I’ve been putting off doing this for a while, but I finally moved my blog to a permanent location. Starting today, you will find my blog at http://www.almguide.com/ instead of http://estebanfg.blogspot.com/. All previous content has been migrated to its new location and the old site (and posts) redirect to here. The site is hosted on […]
I’m installing SP1 for SQL Server 2008 64-bit and I kept getting an error message: “Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created.” The workaround is find the GUID temp folder where the setup files are extracted and before hitting the “OK” on the error message, copy […]
I’m installing SQL Server 2008 on a Server 2008 machine and I got the following error: “You must user the Role Management Tool to install or configure Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1”. To fix this issue go to Sever Manager –> Features –> Add Feature and enable the .NET Framework 3.5. If you try to […]
I gave another Oslo presentation at Tampa Code Camp over the weekend. It was a really well-attended event and I had about 40 people at my talk. I had some really good questions and it seemed like people are starting to understand the implications of Oslo could have in our industry. I tweaked my ONETUG […]
I had an interesting problem today. My current client uses a custom file to store build numbers in their application and that file gets used to show the number in a couple of places in the app. TFS defaults its build numbers to _YYYYMMDD.# format, which was confusing when we were dropping the files to […]
Both the MSF Agile and Scrum for Team System templates define the “Assigned To” list (“System.AssignedTo”) as: The problem with that is that the list displays every user in your domain. I wanted to change that behavior since not every user in the domain uses TFS, plus we had some service accounts that didn’t […]
We are using the Scrum for Team System template, and we found that the trend line was not showing up. At first I thought that we just didn’t have enough data and the report couldn’t generate a trend, but halfway through the sprint, it seemed like there was definitely an issue. The Trend Line was […]
I presented an intro-level presentation on “Oslo” last night at ONETUG. The presentation went pretty well and it seemed that people left the meeting with a pretty good understanding about the technology and what it can do and what it means for the future of software development. Here are the slides and code samples. I […]
I am finishing up a new TFS implementation at my current client. They are migrating their code from VSS. VSSConverter.exe needs a SQL Server database to perform some of the intermediate steps before getting the data over to TFS, the problem is that the converter defaults to a SQL Express database, which would be great, […]
I was installing the Oslo CTP on my XP laptop (I’ve had it on my Vista PC for over a month now), but during the installation I got an error telling me that I needed a newer Windows Installer, with no additional information. I downloaded the Installer 4.5 Redistributable, and after a reboot now my […]