Error in Team Foundation Server: This item cannot be added because its destination path is cloaked.

This item cannot be added because its destination path is cloaked.

if you have stuck with this error while adding any folders/files to TFS, Then here is the solution
nicely explained by Blog Author: Mike Christian.

http://thecurlybrace.blogspot.in/2011/02/fix-tfs-cloaked-path-problem.html

Snap Shot from his Post:

How to Fix the Cloaked Path Problem

As I mentioned above, a cloaked path simply means the parent directory is not recursively mapping folders.  We want to add a child folder map.  These two conditions are mutually exclusive.  To resolve the issue, simply change the parent map to be recursive: 

1. In the Source Control Explorer window, right click the parent node -- the context menu appears
2. Click the Remove Mapping... option in the context menu -- the Remove Mapping dialog appears
3. Check the box labeled, Recursive
4. Click the Change button -- a prompt appears, stating, "Newly mapped items will not be downloaded until you execute a get. Do you want to get $/[PARENT PATH] now?", where "[PARENT PATH]' is the path of the parent node
5. Click the No button -- the prompt and Remove Mapping windows disappear, and then the Get window appears
6. CAUTION: Use your best judgement here!  I decided to click the Cancel button in the Get progress window, to prevent mapping child objects

After changing the mapping of the parent to recursive, adding items should function normally.

Thank you so much Mike. for such a nice post.

Regards,

Md. Jawed

Enable Treat Warnings as Errors in TFS Build

Hi ,


Here you go with the settings so that the warning will get treated as error in Team Build(TFS 2010).

Provide below value for the section MSBuild Arguments(See screen shot)

/p:TreatWarningsAsErrors="true"

 

And after that all the warnings would get treated as error J

VS2010 vs. SQL Assistant

Hi guys,


My VS2010, started acting VERY weird! Upon startup, it gave my mysterious errors like “Could not load module this and that”.

And when I tried to open a solution, it just “Stopped working”, asking me if I wanted to debug the program. Yeah right, let me just debug visual studio 


Anyways, I ran devenv.exe with the /log switch, and got a pretty sweet XML file. It pointed me to what errors did occur during startup.


I did a Google search, and stumbled across this one: http://www.softtreetech.com/support/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=27786&sid=24857705cf905400d2125e79a4b72565

I realized that I just installed SQL Assistant, and guess what, I did not check the checkbox “ Integrate with Visual Studio 2010”. Just as the above link explains.


One guy at the forum, puts it down this way:


I found a solution. I installed SQL Assist with the the Visual Studio Addin checked, even though I don't want it.

Your installer is telling Visual Studio to load the Addin, even if you don't choose to install it.

Well, that’s what I did as well, and now it’s working.
Thanks,

TFS2010: Reconcile Workspace after Gated Checkin is weird if Visual Studio 2010 is Elevated

Visit below Blog for the solution:

http://www.benday.com/2010/09/09/tfs2010-reconcile-workspace-after-gated-checkin-is-weird-if-visual-studio-2010-is-elevated/

Thanks,
Md. Jawed

The Gated Check-in builds in TFS2010

A nice Article to read about “The Gated Check-in build in TFS2010”.

Here you go with the link

http://intovsts.net/2010/04/18/the-gated-check-in-build-in-tfs2010/

Thanks,

Md. jawed

Unattained Installation of Team Visual Studio 2012

Before we start our Silent Installation of Visual Studio 2012. We have to take care of few as mention below:

1.       IF SOURCE FOLDER CONTAINS SPACE(S) ANYWHERE IN THE ENTIRE PATH, INSTALLATION WILL FAIL.

2.       Create a copy of AdminDeployment.xml (to serve as backup in case any unwanted changes occur in original file)

3.        Change value of attribute NoWeb="default" to NoWeb="yes" in AdminDeployment.xml. See the highlighted section.

ORIGINAL:

http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2011/AdminDeployment

">

   NoWeb="default"/>

  

CHANGED:

http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2011/AdminDeployment

">

   NoWeb="yes"/>

  

3. Copy CHANGED AdminDeployment.xml into packages sub-folder of SOURCE FOLDER.

Now the below Script will do the magic to installed VS2012 in Silent, Unattained mode.

@echo off

echo ========================================================

set application=Visual Studio 2012 Premium

SET ERRORLEVEL=0

SET sourceLocation=D:\VS2012Premium\

SET setupFile=%sourceLocation%vs_premium.exe

SET adminFile=%sourceLocation%AdminDeployment.xml

SET logFileLocation="D:\Logs\Installations\vs2012_premium.log"

echo Installing %application% ....

echo SourceLocation=%sourceLocation%

echo setupFile=%setupFile%

echo adminFile=%adminFile%

echo logLocation=%logFileLocation%

:check

IF EXIST "%setupFile%" goto run

echo sourceLocation doesnot exist

SET ERRORLEVEL=1

goto end

:run

echo running installation file.....

"%setupFile%" /adminfile "%adminFile%" /quiet /norestart

:end

IF %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 (

                ECHO instalation done SUCCESSFULLY.

) ELSE (

                ECHO instalation FAILED. ERROR LEVEL %ERRORLEVEL%.

)

echo ========================================================

pause

exit

~jawed

Unattained Installation of Team Foundation Server 2012

Here you go with the command to installed Team Foundation Server 2012 silently or Unattained.

Create bat file and name it’s as TFS2012.cmd file.  And paste the below code in TFS2012.cmd,

When you are done just double click the cmd for some time and you are done with the installation of tfs2012.

                @echo off

echo ========================================================

set application=Team Foundation Server 2012 x64

SET ERRORLEVEL=0

set sourceLocation="D:\Team Foundation Server 2012\Team Foundation Server 2012 x64\tfs_server.exe"

set logFileLocation="D:\Logs\Installations\TFS2012-X64.log"

echo Installing %application% ....

echo SourceLocation=%sourceLocation%

echo logLocation=%logFileLocation%

:check

IF EXIST %sourceLocation% goto run

echo sourceLocation doesnot exist

SET ERRORLEVEL=1

goto end

:run

echo running installation file.....

%sourceLocation% /q /i /norestart /l*v %logFileLocation%

:end

IF %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 (

                ECHO instalation done SUCCESSFULLY.

) ELSE (

                ECHO instalation FAILED. ERROR LEVEL %ERRORLEVEL%.

)

echo ========================================================

pause

exit

Thanks,

Md. Jawed

What's New with TFS 2012

Source:


http://discountasp.net/tfs/tfs-2012-hosting.aspx

Javascript unit tests using QUnit

I would like to recommend you few links which would be helpful for you to go ahead.



To know more about QUNIT and create you first script suing Qunit you can follow below link:

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/how-to-test-your-javascript-code-with-qunit/

To Integrate JavaScript Unit testing into your website and enables to run JavaScript unit tests from Visual studio you can look into below open source tool.

http://chutzpah.codeplex.com/

Hope this would help you!!

Thanks!!

Announcing Git Integration with TFS

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/08/13/announcing-git-integration-with-tfs.aspx

Tracker Response files not found (Tracker.exe)

Few Days Back while building one of the project we were getting below error continuously.

On looking in to msdn we finally got the workaround solution for this issue.

Solution:

Edit the build definition (Team Explorer => solution => builds => (select your build definition) right click Edit Build Definition => Process (on left) => 3. Advanced => under MSBuild Arguments paste the following: /p:TrackFileAccess=false from http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsbuild/thread/baf16a4b-c25d-4722-a844-6276344b0db2

Here are words from MSBuild Developer from Microsoft.

The trigger for the error is that the GenerateResource task must be run during the build in such a way that we embed FileTracker (a tool we have been using for up-to-date check) in the process itself -- when targeting 4.0, when targeting 3.5 on a 32-bit machine, or when targeting 3.5 on a 64-bit machine when running 64-bit MSBuild. To work around the error, you can either set TrackFileAccess=false, as has already been observed, or if you're on a 64-bit machine and targeting 3.5 exclusively, the error should also go away if you start using 32-bit MSBuild instead. TrackFileAccess=false works around the error by turning off the use of FileTracker; the downside is that that means the you will no longer be able to use FileTracker-based up-to-date check, so your VS 2010 C++ projects and your GenerateResource task invocations will now always build, even when there have been no changes -- the latter generally causing a cascading rebuild for the managed compilers as well, since they consume the .resources files. Thanks, Sara Joiner Developer, MSBuild

For more Info you can visit below links.
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/508650/tracker-response-file-not-found


Feel free to provide your comments and suggestion.
Thanks!!
MD. Jawed

NetTcpPortSharing service: failed to start the service

Few Days back when I was running and build, it started throwing an exception as:

The TransportManager failed to listen on the supplied URI using the NetTcpPortSharing service: failed to start the service because it is disabled. An administrator can enable it by running 'sc.exe config NetTcpPortSharing start= demand'.. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot start service NetTcpPortSharing on computer '.'. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

Solution
To enabled, run the following command in console windows as mention in the error log
sc.exe config NetTcpPortSharing start= demand

 

To disable it, run the following command in a console window.
sc.exe config NetTcpPortSharing start= disabled


And after that run you build once again. I'm sure it would not throw any error next time.


Thanks,
Md. Jawed

Add an Alert on TFS when a build failed or partially succeeded

To get the notification related to your build you have launched the Team Foundation Build Notification tool to have a small popup alert every time a build finishes and starts.

But now you would like to go a bit further and receive a mail with the build result every time a build fails (or let's say do not succeed).

Use the TFS' alerts

The Team Foundation Server includes a powerful alert system, but by default, you cannot do so many things.

Use the Team Foundation Server Power Tools

If the Project Alerts does not allow so many things, the underlying alert system is very powerful. And you can use the Team Foundation Server Power Tools  that allow a very fine control of the alerts.

You can then create a new rule like the following one : 

Note that for the Send To field, you can either indicate an account name, or an email address. In the case of an account name, this corresponds to an AD account, and you must have configured the email address of that person in the Active Directory.

Concept taken from: http://www.pedautreppe.com/post/How-to-add-an-alert-on-TFS-when-a-build-does-not-succeed-.aspx

~jawed

Build Failed with an error as SGEN: Unable to generate a temporary class (result=1). SGEN: Internal compiler error (0xc00000fd) SGEN: Out of memory

One of the build were continuously failing with an error as

 

But in other hand the same build were getting succeeded on 32 bits Build agent machine.

Then we triggered the same build on our other 62 bits Build agent and we found that all 62 bits build agent are giving the same error while compiling this build.

And finally we came to this conclusion that the versioning of MSBUILD.exe which is creating an issue not the Build agent machine.

It means to run the same build with green we have to trigger the build on 62 bits build agent but force them to take 32 bits MSBuild.exe to run this Build.

To do this we have to perform this.

Edit Build Definition

Processes ->Advance-> MSBuild Platform-> X86.

 

Thanks,

MD. Jawed

Script to installed Visual Studio 2008 SDK in Silent mode

Here is the script to installed Visual Studio 2008 SDK in Silent Mode:

@echo off


echo ========================================================

set application=Visual Studio 2008 SDK v 1.1

SET ERRORLEVEL=0

set sourceLocation="D:\Applications\Visual Studio 2008 SDK v 1.1\VsSDK_sfx1_1.exe"

set logFileLocation= "D:\Logs\Installations\Visual Studio 2008 SDK v 1.1.log"

echo Installing %application% ....

echo SourceLocation=%sourceLocation%

echo logLocation=%logFileLocation%

set dest="D:\Logs\VsSDK_sfx1_1.exe"

set destfolder="D:\Logs\"

set destMsi="D:\Logs\vssdk.msi"
:check

IF EXIST %sourceLocation% goto run

echo sourceLocation doesnot exist

goto end

:run
echo copying the exe file to local drive

copy %sourceLocation% %dest%

echo extrating the file

%dest% /x:%destfolder% /q
echo running the setup file now

msiexec /q /i %destMsi% /l*v %logFileLocation%


:end

IF %ERRORLEVEL% == 0 (

ECHO instalation done SUCCESSFULLY.

) ELSE (

ECHO instalation FAILED. ERROR LEVEL %ERRORLEVEL%.

)

echo ========================================================

pause

 exit     ============= Thanks, Md. Jawed

Tutorial: Getting Started with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010

A nice Tutorial, if you are interested into knowing about TFS 2010.
Below is the link for the same.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd286491.aspx

Thanks,
Md. Jawed

Custom error reporting in ASP.NET by using C# .NET

The title sound interesting right. So, in this post we are going to discuss about the custom error reporting in ASP.Net application.


                                                    source Code

We are going to use C#.Net code to trap and respond to errors when they occur in the ASP.net or rather I would say in our web application.

To trap the errors occurs we have written a separate class with the name ExceptionLog.cs, and we are using Global.asax to know about the error and trap through our ExceptionLog.cs class file and record the details into text file.

ExceptionLog.cs file:

In the class file we will write our logic to trap the errors occurred in application and logged that error details into text file.

The Log File:

As I had mentioned that the error details would get logged in textile with the name ErrorLog.txt

Global.asax

We will use the benefit of Global.asax to call error trap method on any Application error.

To know more about the Global.asax file you can visit below links:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global.asax

2. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1xaas8a2(v=vs.71).aspx

3. http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=126

4. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306355

So here is the piece of code to catch the error occurred in the application and logged those into text file through our custom error logged class.



Hope it will be useful for you!!

Feel free to provide your comments and any suggestions!!

~jawed

My Name in the list of winners at C-sharp corner for the month of December, 2011.

I was unable to express my happiness when I saw my name in the list of winners. 

While posting any article on http://www.c-sharpcorner.com ,I never thought that my name would get listed over there with in 2 months .

But now this became true. All this happen due to all my readers’ comments and suggestion which gave me courage to write more and more.

Thanks to all my readers, http://www.c-sharpcorner.com and mentors who encourage me share my knowledge and experience.

These kinds of encouragement provide me a better and nice path to share my knowledge/experience with much bigger audiences. 

Lists of winners:

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/News/1338/december-month-winners-announced.aspx

Thanks,

Md. jawed

http://seleniumdotnet.blogspot.com

Hello All, it’s giving me intense pleaser to share that now I have started one more blog. That is http://seleniumdotnet.blogspot.com./


In this blog I’m going to share my learning about selenium web driver in .net using C#.

If you have any issues related to selenium dot net then feel free to visit this blog and feel free to provide your valuable comments and suggestion. Thanks!!

One glimpse of the blog:



http://seleniumdotnet.blogspot.com.

Thanks,
Md. Jawed
http://seleniumdotnet.blogspot.com./

Let's customize Google to show previous searchs by Hitesh Sharma

while going through code project website i show one article published by Hitesh sharma.
which catches my eyes with his nice idea and explanation of the article.
awesome!!
here is little introduction:
Introduction


Usually when I Google something there are a good amount of chances that I'll be googling the same thing again after a few days to recollect whatever I learned last time. So I run Internet Explorer and look into the history if I feel like hitting the search button again with the same keywords as I used last time to get the results I am looking for. This works great but one day I just wondered that why doesn't google shows recently searched text on its page, if it does so it will provide Googlers much ease. Certainly since I can't approach Google with the idea so I decided to customize google for my machine so that it may show me whatever I looked for last few times

you can visit this link to get the more details about the artile.

Let's customize Google to show previous searchs