Oh what a P.I.T.A. this error has been. I received this error today... Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.ItemExistsException: The item $/path/to/myFile.cs already exists. ---> …
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TFS Build Not Publishing Web Applications
_PublishedWebsites does not exist?! WHAT?! Huh? One of our TFS builds was succeeding and a fellow developer noticed that the Web App was not getting copied into the _PublishedWebsites folder of our …
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Sending Email in a Development Environment without an SMTP Server
Sometimes I'm not at a client location and I cannot check to make sure that an email component is working correctly. This results from not having the email server at my disposal to relay the message …
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Visual Studio Hangs on a Team Foundation Server UNDO Command
Ran into a real pain in the @ss today. While working with Team Foundation Server I was refactoring a couple of projects and at one point I needed to "Undo" my changes. This is normally accomplished by …
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Full path to the solution file… too long?
I was creating a solution file for an application at a client and I got this error message. Sara Ford explains why this happens here. The OS limit is 260 chars for the MAX_PATH variable according to …
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Syntax Highlighting for .build and .msbuild
Sara Ford posted a blog entry (which I got from the VS2008 Tip of the Day Gadget on Vista) which made me slap my forehead and say "... #$@#! why didn't I find that before." Pretty …
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