Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo Missing Backup

Or, how I learned to read the assembly name In which I include dll's I was trying out this tutorial on Geekpedia and the references were invalid. I removed the two (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo and Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo: yes, the dll names are missing the .Management part from the namespace they contain) and re-added them. Simple enough. Then...

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WSP in TFS: A few more parameters

After my last post on building WSP in TFS, I was at a stage where I thought the WSP file was ready to go. It's recognised by WinRAR, opening it up in there shows the expected dll's. But there was something missing... feature.xml Attempting to deploy the WSP threw: Failed to find the XML file at location '12\Template\Features\IL.SharePoint.Workflows\feature.xml' This...

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Building WSP in TFS

We needed to build a Sharepoint WSP file in TFS as part of our continuous integration process. Already using WSPBuilder interactively we just needed to get it into the team build and copied to the staging location. WSPBuilder Brian Farnhill discusses the process of building a WSP in TFS by first including it in the project file (summary by Alex Degaston). This pointed me in the right direction, but I really just wanted to build the WSP in the team build after check-in. We just copied the basics from Brian's post, and hoped it would work, and...

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Incremental Get

Trawling through Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build I found the flag for IncrementalGet. Not getting full sources every time has cut 40 seconds out of every build. This is particularly useful when debugging a build script. Buck Hodges discusses IncrementalGet and IncrementalBuild and links to Martin Woodward's 30 Useful Team Build Properties. Not sure I'm ready for IncrementalBuild yet, I like having shiny new dll's. This is what I added to my root level PropertyGroup just before DropLocation:     <!-- INCREMENTAL GET    ...

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Bloons Tower Defense III

Yay, today I finished the last stage of Bloons Tower Denfense III on hard. Hopefully this will cure the compulsion. Oh look, meeblings...

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