Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Resolving "The agent process was stopped while the test was running" on a TFS build agent

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I'm currently working on a project that uses TFS for automated builds. Recently, our builds started failing with the error "The age...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Implementing a WCF service on an Active Directory domain using a ServiceHost in a Windows Service with Windows authentication and a non-system user service account

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So, as it turns out, when you want to implement a WCF service on an Active Directory domain using a ServiceHost in a Windows Service with Wi...

Adding files generated at build time to your ClickOnce deployment

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So, it used to be that I didn't really like ClickOnce deployment, but it turns out it has a lot of benefits: It provides infrastructu...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Querying XML with namespaces in PowerShell

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Apparently it's ridiculously easy to parse XML in PowerShell once you have the right objects set up: [xml] $xml = Get-Content .\Deplo...

Implementing Code Analysis with Team Foundation Server 2012 and later

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I've been looking to get Code Analysis going on our team project at work. I found this helpful MSDN article .

Adding a computer to the local machine's list of PowerShell TrustedHosts

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Retrieve the current list: $curValue = (get-item wsman:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts).value Set the new list, appending the new host on...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Things I've learned (forcibly) on 2014-12-09

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There are database systems that are actually implemented using the Julian (sort of) calendar. Why ?! It is perfectly legitimate to use sc...
Saturday, December 06, 2014

Adding less to your MVC 5 project

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I'm going to have to just redirect to this post , because I'm in a rush. Hopefully it's still around when you read this. Note:...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Creating Azure Services with Visual Studio 2013 and Windows 8.1

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Download and install Visual Studio 2013 Download and install the Web Platform Installer, v5.0 or greater From the Web Platform Installer...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Correcting the default check-in action for associated work items in Team Foundation Server

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I've found that it's a giant pain in the ass in TFS when associating work items to checkins because the default assocation action is...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Regarding pre-test invocation scripts when deploying to a Test Agent with TFS

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So, I learned something interesting about TFS Test Agents today and they way they handle pre-test invocation scripts when running tests on a...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

A huge annoyance in Windows 8 store apps

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Apparently Bindings are no longer TwoWay by default as they were in WPF. They're now OneWay, which was a huge annoyance and wasted a sol...
Monday, September 01, 2014

Creating a WPF app with Microsoft Prism Framework 5

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To get started, do the following: follow the tutorial provided by Microsoft . follow the followup tutorial for linking views and view mo...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Getting an "RPC endpoint not found/not listening" exception when connecting to a remote machine with PowerShell

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Lately I've been dealing with a lot of remote management for the purposes of automating our deployment process for the product on which ...
Saturday, August 09, 2014

Creating a certificate chain of self-signed certificates for development / testing / private environments

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As anybody who's ever tried to develop secure services with SSL knows, it's expensive to buy trusted certificates from a certificati...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Retargeting a Windows 8 application to Windows 8.1

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Apparently, fuck Windows 8. So says everybody. Including Microsoft. That's why at some point you're going to have to retarget your W...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Making TFS builds consistent with desktop builds when invoking MSBuild directly on a .*proj file

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As it turns out, MSBuild has more than a few quirks when being invoked through TFS compared to being invoked through a command line or from ...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Getting code signing to work with ClickOnce on a TFS Build Agent

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Code signing is a giant pain in the butt. You have to : Obtain the certificate for signing the code by: buying the certificate from an ...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Converting an existing Windows Store app to using the Prism Framework

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I began converting an existing Windows Store App to using the Prism Framework provided by Microsoft. However, I'm running into the follo...

Creating my first Windows 8 store app

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As you may or may not be aware, there are multiple types of applications that can be created for Windows 8: Windows store apps, which use...