Team Foundation error an startup of Visual Studio

Posted on February 16, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack 2 Comments

If you have TFS Power Tools installed and Microsoft’s Communicator IM tool installed, you may get this error: Team Foundation Error, Specified cast is not valid. To resolve this error, open Visual Studio, in the Team Explorer portion of the IDE, right click on Team Members. From the popup menu, select Personal Settings. In […]... Read More

TFS Labels and Change Sets

Posted on January 20, 2010March 2, 2018 by jrblack 13 Comments

Thought I would share some details I recently learned to save others some pain and suffering… When searching, viewing or getting source Label, know that you will search change labels in our Team Project, not just the labels/change sets for the current project (Trunk/Branch). Notice below, when searching for a label (after right clicking […]... Read More

.Net ConfigurationManager saving AppSettings

Posted on November 18, 2009March 2, 2018 by jrblack Leave a comment

Well, it has been a while since I posted anything code related. I have been working part time for a new start up company SimpleWorks, developing software for the pc (instead of a web application), and in this project I seem to always be learning something new. I wanted to use the App.config to store […]... Read More

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Team Foundation error an startup of Visual Studio

TFS Labels and Change Sets

.Net ConfigurationManager saving AppSettings