Team foundation server - To Cloak a working folder

When you right mouse click a folder, and select cloak, this mean do not down this folder to local drive in order to save space.

More details:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg490753(v=vs.100).aspx#CloakWFolders

Team foundation server error when map a local path - The mapping for "$path" confilcts with one of its parent's mappings

You may have to clean up the workspace to bypass this error.

Team founddation server error when map local path - The local folder could not be set to "Path" because it is already the local folder for another server folders

You can not use the same folder to map a team project, you have to use 

project 1 -> D:\project1

project 2 -> D:\project2

Visual studio 2008 connection to Team Foundation server 2008 error TF30335

For VS2008 to work with TFS 2013 on Windows 7 machine.

1. install VS2008TeamExplorer.iso
2. install VS2008SP1ENUX1512962.iso or VS90sp1-KB945140-ENU.exe(I prefer ISO since you do not need to download during install)
3. install VS90SP1-KB2673642-x86.exe

for some machines, I have the error below after I applied below two KB, the way to resolved it is to do it one more time.

Asp.Net mvc must read

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/default.aspx

More asp.net registration

http://weblogs.asp.net/thangchung/archive/2012/11/15/customize-the-simplemembership-in-asp-net-mvc-4-0.aspx

Team foundation server for visual studio vc++ 6

You have to have source safe installed then download projects from Team foundation server using visual studio 2010 on Windows XP machine.

Otherwise you would not connect to TFS in VC++6

Asp.net nuget library package manager

From the Tools menu, select Library Package Manager and then click Package Manager Console.

http://docs.nuget.org/docs/start-here/using-the-package-manager-console

Adding Email Confirmation to SimpleMembership

http://kevin-junghans.blogspot.com/2013/02/adding-email-confirmation-to.html

http://aboutcode.net/postal/

Use facebook account to login in ASP.NET MVC website

You have to register a face book application ID, the tricky part is to add your web site url to the field below (see yellow high light).

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/appcenter/

More details of ASP.NET MVC registration form changes

AccountController.cs changes for more registration fields:

 //
        // POST: /Account/Register

        [HttpPost]
        [AllowAnonymous]
        [ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
        public ActionResult Register(RegisterModel model)
        {
            if (ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                // Attempt to register the user
                try
                {
                    WebSecurity.CreateUserAndAccount(model.UserName, model.Password, new { Email = model.Email,Mobile = model.Mobile, FirstName = model.FirstName,LastName=model.LastName, Gender=model.Gender});
                    WebSecurity.Login(model.UserName, model.Password);
                    return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
                }
                catch (MembershipCreateUserException e)
                {
                    ModelState.AddModelError("", ErrorCodeToString(e.StatusCode));
                }
            }

            // If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form
            return View(model);
        }

Team foundation server service online for free

Microsoft is giving away the service for free (up to five users). So my personal software development has a place to live in the cloud. I think this may be a good place to work with clients the entire software development process.

http://www.visualstudio.com/

ASP.NET MVC registration form radio button

It took me a while to dig out how to use radio button on the registration form. 

In RegisterModel I have to add:

        [Required]

        [Display(Name = "Male/Female")]

        public string Gender { get; set; }

In Register.cshtml I have to add:

 <li>

            @Html.LabelFor(m => m.Gender)

            @Html.RadioButtonFor(model => model.Gender, "Male") Male

            @Html.RadioButtonFor(model => model.Gender, "Female") Female

    </li>

In site.css I have to add:

    input[type="radio"] {

   border: 0px;

    width: 1em;

    height: 1em;

     padding: 0px;

     margin-left: 0px;

}

You see below the radio button just displayed right:

Below is the SQL table change: (See yellow highlight)

You have to use Package manager console to update the database table, turn on the auto update, ...etc. (see link below about enable database migration:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/jj591621.aspx

ASP.NET MVC 4 change registration form

Some articles help me how to change the from, I added server fields. But the radio button still need to be fixed. The format is not quite right.

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/120705-1.aspx

http://blog.longle.net/2012/09/25/seeding-users-and-roles-with-mvc4-simplemembershipprovider-simpleroleprovider-ef5-codefirst-and-custom-user-properties/

Upgrade from Visual SourceSafe

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms253060.aspx

Team foundation server 2013 - you can schedule backup SQL database

But you need to find a server share folder for it to save the backup.

Move MS SQL Express 2008 R2 to SQL Express 2012 for Team Foundation server 2012 to 2013 upgrade

It took me almost a day to try apply SQL 2008 R2 SP1, SP2 and SP3, still could not make the upgrade from TSF 2012 to 2013 successful. Eventually, I have to detach all SQL database first, then uninstall SQL 2008 R2 Express. Then install SQL 2012 Express, then attach database back. Then configure TFS to make the upgrade from TSF 2012 to TSF 2013 work.