Category Archives: TFS

Dependency Walker & SP1 TFS 2008 Upgrade Issues

My plan today was to upgrade Team Foundation Server 2008 to Service Pack 1 (SP1) today. My client runs a dual server implementation and we run Team Explorer on the App Tier of this set up. Therefore we needed to upgrade Team Explorer and TFS itself to SP1 for 2008.   Round 1 The TFS…

Knock Knock. Who’s There? Me. Too Bad. Go Away.

Yup, that’s right. Team Foundation Sever told me TOO BAD, SO SAD, GO AWAY, TRY AGAIN ANOTHER DAY. What a great way to start a Monday. Oh, any by the way, we have an emergency release that might have to get pushed out. We’re waiting on upper management to make the final decision… fun-fun it…

TFS – ItemExistsException Fix

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. —> System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The item $/path/to/myFile.cs already exists. — End of inner exception stack trace — at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.Repository.ProcessHttpResponse(HttpWebResponse response, Stream responseStream, WebException webException, XmlReader& xmlResponseReader) at (…) blah blah blah… We have two build servers set up…

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 drop location. I took a look at our TFSBuild.Proj file and I didn’t see anything that stood out. I took a look at…