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Fix Build-Deploy-Test workflow error, There are no test cases matching the...
You may face the following error while you running your Build-Deploy-Test workflow: Exception Message: There are no test cases matching the criteria specified. Use Microsoft Test Manager to view the...
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How to Call a batch file from TFS2013 Build?
I run into a situation which needed to run a batch file from TFS Build, this batch file downloads some files from a file server and I just needed to copy that files later during the same build process...
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How to get SystemRoot folder during TFS Build
Getting the System Root Directory during TFS Build was not straightforward as I thought, so I decide to share my experience on how to get that. I used InvokeMethod activity, in the Target Type I will...
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When we perform customization for build process, we may add some arguments that can be set by editing the build definition….. in some cases the string data type for an argument will be sufficient but...
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Creating and Deploying Web Package during TFS Build 2013
I have an old post that perform the same idea with TFS 2010 but as usual there are some differences with TFS 2013:-) How to run remote deploy with MS Deploy I tried many ways with many blog posts, they...
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Versioning Assembly during TFS Build 2013
My fellows MVPs Colin Dembovsky and Ricci Gian Maria had great posts on doing Assembly Versioning, it doesn’t cover my case but they helped me very well. Thanks guys First, It’s better to understanding...
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Create a TFS Build Custom Activity to Read From File
I needed to create a Custom Activity that read from XML file and display the values on the Build log. It’s very easy and I will not re-write how to do the basic Custom Activity, but if you are not...
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Changing the connection string during the TFS build for the Publish Profile...
One of our customers needed to change that, they need to type the password for the SQL login inside the publish profile but of course they couldn’t do that in terms of security reasons, so we created...
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Install Missed Web Deployment Agent Service
When you install Web Deployment 3.5, you may missed to select the Web Deployment Agent Service, so If you couldn’t find it in the Windows service as the following. You will need to install it by going...
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Backup and Restore (Rollback) DB and Web Application during TFS Build
One of our TFS assignments needed to extend the current build and deployment process which includes (Creating and and Deploying Web package, Deploying Database, Versioning Assembly, Run Post...
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