Jason Prickett's Blog
Changing the recursion type for the initial "Get" that Team Build does
In Visual Studio Team System 2008, the build machine downloads the files that it needs to launch...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 12/10/2007
Exploring WPF - Programmatically scrolling a treeview
Another one of the newest technologies released by Microsoft is WPF (Windows Presentation...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 11/05/2007
Scheduling a Build in VS2008 and Daylight Savings Time
In the US, most states have a time period from about March to November where we actually change our...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 10/26/2007
My Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
Team Build is a build workflow tool. It manages how and when builds are performed. Currently (in...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 10/09/2007
TFS 2008 - Running two Build Agents on the Same Machine
There have been at least a couple of forum posts from users that would like to run more than one...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 08/03/2007
Creating Fake builds in Orcas with IBuildDefinition.CreateManualBuild
In my last post about creating a Fake build, I gave you the code to create a fake build in V1 and I...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 07/06/2007
Adding a Fake Build to the Team Build Server
Why would anyone want to add a fake a build to the team build server? Well, there is one very big...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 05/21/2007
Visual Studio 2005 Client starting builds on an Orcas server and build machine
One of the problems that we are seeing pop up internally is with groups that for whatever reason...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 05/16/2007
Build Type BuildDirectoryPath => Build Agent Working Directory
In Team Build version 1, all information about how to perform the build was stored in the Build...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 04/30/2007
Queuing a build in PowerShell
I just read Aaron's post "Team Build Object Model - Queueing a Build" and I just had convert his...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 04/25/2007
Changing the list of Builds in Work Item Tracking
This post is directly related to someone asking the following questions: Hi. I’ve been working with...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 04/24/2007
Getting the Builds Associated with a Changeset Number
In the Orcas release we allow you to Query for builds (and build definitions) through the object...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 03/29/2007
Various PowerShell scripts
<Copying this post almost directly from James, but the scripts are my own. See his blog for more...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 03/29/2007
Monitoring Build Status in your Windows Vista Sidebar
So, I have been wanting to create a sidebar gadget for a while, but I also wanted it to be something...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 03/21/2007
Average Build Size
So, I haven't actually gotten a request for this, but I thought it might be useful :) This entry is...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 03/20/2007
Team Build OM thru PowerShell - Example GetAffectedBuildDefinitions
Well, it's been a long time since I have had the time (okay made the time) to blog on something...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 03/05/2007
Five things about me...
I've been tagged. So here it goes... I have been bald since about the age of 25. Not completely, but...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 01/12/2007
Team Foundation toys for power users
The Team Foundation Power Toys have just been released. Go here to download them. One of my...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 09/08/2006
Useful BuildCompletionEvent filters
In my previous post (How to filter the Build Completion Event), I explained how to change the filter...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 09/05/2006
How to filter the Build Completion Event
One of the fields that ships with the standard Bug Work Item Type in Team Foundation is called...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 09/05/2006
A new commitment and a new topic
I am committing to post more often this year. I am not sure if that will be a good thing or not. My...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 08/16/2006
WinForms: Subclassing the TextBox inside a ComboBox
I learned something new today and decided to share it here. Problem: I have a form with a ComboBox...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 04/24/2006
WinForms AutoLayout Basics – Button
I know. I know. You know everything there is to know about buttons. But, please bear with me. In my...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 04/06/2006
WinForms AutoLayout Basics: TableLayoutPanel
So, you are designing a form in Visual Studio and you need the form to size dynamically to its...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 04/05/2006
Introduction
Who am I? My name is Jason Prickett. I work as a UI developer on Visual Studio Team System. This...
Author: Jason Prickett - MSFT Date: 03/23/2006