Define a custom workflow to Deploy Database Project(s) from Team Build 2010

  A few tips to get you started: Community TFS Build Extensions can be download here from CodePlex.  This is a collection of activities you can integrate into your process template. I used this blog posting from Ewald Hofman to configure my Visual Studio 2010 environment to edit the process template. I add the process [...] (read more)

How does the VMPrep Tool Apply Patches

  The VMPrep Tool for Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 is located on the MSDN Archive. Assuming your file-share is \\LabMgr, your layout should be as below \\LabMgr\AgentInstaller\ \\LabMgr\TFSInstaller\ \\LabMgr\PatchInstaller\ \\LabMgr\VMPrepTool\ All patches which need to be applied should be present in a folder. This folder should be indicated in the Applications.xml file (found inside [...] (read more)

DevTeach: Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Session

  Yesterday afternoon I did a session on Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management (targeted at the ITPro).  If you are looking for the links that were on the resources slide from the PowerPoint deck.  I will post them here (plus a few more).  Visual Studio ALM MVP Etienne Tremblay from Montreal also sat in on [...] (read more)

The converter framework returned the following error: CE_BACKENDUNAVAILABLE

  Actually the exact error message was the following: Errors: The attempt to create a page from that document failed with the following error: Converting the document to a page failed. The converter framework returned the following error: CE_BACKENDUNAVAILABLE Need to publish a word document as web page?  SharePoint 2010 can do this out of [...] (read more)

SharePoint 2010: Message: A security problem occurred.

  Message: A security problem occurred. Line: 2: Char: 12311 Code: 0 URI: http://hostname/_layouts/sp.ui.dialog.js?rev=XXX. If the script is debugged in the browser the javascript line that throws the error is a=b.getAttribute(“href”). This error occurred on a client site we support and tracking down the issue was extremely frustrating.  It only happened with clients using IE7 [...] (read more)