Sometimes it is possible that after you have done a full install of VS2008 with Team Explorer, than you can’t create a new project.  The only thing you could do is creating a new Team Project.

Mostly this happens when the installation takes a long time.  Internally the installation goes in timeout then.

Instead of re-installing your VS2008, you could also use following tip:

Follow this path

            Tools à Import and export settings à reset all settings

If you have done this, reboot your PC and restart VS.  You will see that you now can create not only new Team Projects, but also standard Projects.

In my new job, one of my functions is supporting Team Foundation Server for the development teams.  One of the first questions I have was a team that wants to have the Build server automatically copies the binaries from a build to their development server. 

First we must say that this task only can be done when the build is successful.

So I added following pieces of code to their build script before the SolutionToBuild part:
First I made a new property under the propertygroup node which contains the path to their destination server

<DestFolder><Put here your destination folder></DestFolder>

Next I use the AfterDropBuild, as this event is only fired when the build is succesfull.  So I override the AfterDropBuild target:

<Target Name="AfterDropBuild">
   <Message Text="Copy to ontwikkel started!"/>
   <CreateItem Include="$(BinariesRoot)\**\*.*" >
      <Output ItemName="FilesToCopy" TaskParameter="Include" />
   </CreateItem>
   <Copy SourceFiles="@(FilesToCopy)"
            DestinationFiles="@(FilesToCopy ->'$(DestFolder)\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')" ContinueOnError="true" />
   <Message Text="Copy to ontwikkel done!"/>
</Target>

Finally, from now on, you can follow me also on Twitter : http://twitter.com/Cipidos.

Cu in the Twitter zone....

Since this year I'm the house photographer for Visug.  There were already 2 events this year were I took some pictures.  You can find a part of the photo's on the Visug site.  If you want to see the full set, follow the links below.

Event 1 : 15 januari 2009 - Visug meets Juval Löwy Part 2

Event 2 : 19 februari 2009 - Visug Live Mesh

If you write programs against TFS, well this is something handy for you then.  Thanks to Neno Loje you can now save time by using the TFS Utilities Template for VS2008.

Download the template here : http://msmvps.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/vstsblog/TfsUtility_5F00_58E29B12.zip

Read more info here : http://msmvps.com/blogs/vstsblog/archive/2009/01/14/download-visual-studio-2008-project-template-for-tfs-utilities.aspx

The program manager of the TFS team has created a new TFS guide which is now released.

It's called "Troubleshooting Installation of Team Foundation Server Guide".

This guide is composed from all the problems reported by customers during installation or configuration of a TFS server.  You will find recommendations on how to avoid or eliminate them.  So be sure to check this first when having troubles .

Microsoft belux creates a new free newsletter.  One specific for Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects and Infrastructure Architects.

Read more info at the blog of Philippe Destoop.

During my Christmas holiday version 2 of the TFS Branching guidelines are released.

The new package contains :

• TFS Branching Guide - Main 2.0
• TFS Branching Guide - Scenarios 2.0
• TFS branching Guide - Q&A 2.0
• TFS branching Guide - Drawings 2.0
• TFS branching Guide - Labs 2.0

You can download everything here.

If you want to read the previous version, go here.

Belux Techdays 2009 registration is open now.  The event willt ake place on March 10th,11th and 12th in Metropolis in Antwerp.

More info can be found here www.techdays.be.