Friday, April 01, 2011

VS2010 SP1 Crashing when opening a TFS2008 Build Report/Details? Here's a hotfix...

Microsoft Connect - VS2010 SP1 crashes on build details from team foundation server 2008 build explorer

"When trying to display build details from the build explorer connected to a team foundation server 2008 team project, visual studio crashes with a NullReferenceException.

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Hotfix KB2522890

"Title: KB2522890

Release Date: 3/21/2011

Size: 878 KB

Version: Hotfix

Category: Build

Milestone: Hotfix

Description

Visual Studio 2010 SP1 crashes or shows the following error when attempting to view a build report on a TFS 2008 server:

"TF50316: The following name is not valid. Verify that the name does not exceed the maximum character limit, only contains valid characters, and is not a reserved name"

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With Visual Studio 2010 SP1, when I tired to open a TFS2008 hosted Build Report my VS would crash. The above hotfix has fixed that...

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1 comment:

  1. DanTue Apr 05, 03:29:00 PM PDT

    Thanks, just had the same issue.

    My first search lead right to your post where I found a solution that works.

    I love when that happens.

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