tfs2010

Is there a way to exclude a specified file from the merge process? when merging from our production branch to the test branch for the testers to use, we want to exclude a config file which contains the SQL connection string. Preventing the need to edit it post merge. I did see a comment about using the cloak option but i can only see this available for folders not files. Tim Taylor Lafrinere There are a few different ways you can do this. If you don't plan on changing your config file in the future and you just don't want its current contents to make it to the parent branch, you could simply

Recently at the office we have been talking about placing large files into our TFS repository. The files themselves are XML, usually 100-200MB in size, and sometimes as large as 1GB. We use them as data for automated testing and they are mostly static (one gets a minor tweak every year or so). Anyway, there is a notion that putting files like this into the repository is a no-no because they are "big" and that will make things "slow" (outside of the original check-in/out) but we don't really have any evidence to back this up. So my question is, what are the pros / cons / implications of putting

We're working on Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010. We have our own BuildTemplate that is a copy of default template, but with some additions like (create Directory...), but the main point, that all that is in DefaultTemplate - is left. We have witten "unit" tests that also are working. I have made Build definition that runs all the unit tests. Have read the information here - http://geekswithblogs.net/jakob/archive/2009/06/03/tfs-team-build-2010-running-unit-tests.aspx and a lot of other places also. Build runs just perfect, the only thing that is'nt working is a Build summary - Test results,

I have a number of machines, all of which have Visual Studio installed, where something (presumably visual studio) is overriding the proxy settings: setting up localhost and some random port for both HTTP and HTTPS. In the "Do not use proxy server" box, it puts <vsts-proxy-installed-indicator> which is presumably a tag so it know it's done it. This occasionally prevents browsers from working on my desktop, and more recently, changed it on our build server which caused the code signing step (which connects to an external timestamp server) to fail all day until I finally found this proxy issue.

I'm trying to build a report to show the relative efficiency of my various build agents and having trouble getting the info I need out of the tool. What I'd like to have is a simple grid with the following columns: Build Number Build Definition Build Agent Build Status Build Start Time Build Duration Which would let me do something like chart the duration of successful builds of a given build definition on agent1 against the same build definition on agent2 through agentN. How would I go about this? My initial intention was to point you to TFS OLAP Cube & describe how you could retrieve what