I found this is the easiest way to it. First of all you have to add desired font to your project. I usually create some sort of “Resources” folder in such cases.
![embedFont1]( "embedFont1")
It is very important to set properties of your newly added recourse as follows.
![embedFont2]( "embedFont2")
Build action must be set to “Content” and it must be copied to application working folder. You can set Copy always or Copy if newer either one will work.
This is how you can reference your font from XAML code.
![embedFont3]( "embedFont3")
“.PathToResourceFolder/#FontName”
![embedFont3]( "embedFont3")
Basically font file will be copied to build output directory and will be loaded dynamically by .NET runtime.
Microsoft provided other ways to do this. It’s possible to embed font as resource into application or some other referenced assembly. However I found this most useful.
Some other solutions to same topic:
http://wpf.nickthuesen.com/?p=8
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms753303.aspx
http://blog.tremaynechrist.co.uk/post/2009/12/22/Embedding-Fonts-In-WPF-Using-Visual-Studio.aspx
Team Foundation server notifications are very useful for situations when you want to be notified about various changes to your project such as check-ins , work item changes, build completes or brakes.
Configuring notifications in previous versions of Team Foundation server required manual editing of Web config files of your TFS web service application. In 2010 version most common configuration tasks can be done through TFS administration console UI.
1. Configuring Email alerts on server side
Start up TFS admin console. test
![tfsadminConsole]( "tfsadminConsole")
Click on Application Tier tab and scroll down to Email Alert settings.
Click on Alert setting and enter details.
![emailalertsettings]( "emailalertsettings")
Even though your SMTP server doesn’t have to be on same domain as TFS box you can ran into trouble if your SMTP requires authentication.
Setup SMTP authentication details
If you try to use SMTP server which requires authentication you may run into following error found in Windows Server Event Viewer.
Detailed Message: TF271001: An error occurred while attempting to send an e-mail notification to the following address: xxxxxx@bizicbojan.com. Further e-mail notification errors that occur within the next five minutes might not be logged. Verify that the e-mail notification settings are correct in the Team Foundation Administration Console.
Exception Message: Transaction failed. The server response was: This server requires PTR for unauthenticated connections. (type SmtpException)
In previous versions of Team Foundation Server it was possible to configure TFS to work with SMTP user name and password, unfortunately IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO DO DIRECTLY IN TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER 2010.
TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER 2010 DOESN’T SUPPORT SMTP SERVERS WHICH REQUIRE AUTHENTIFICATION.
Googling around I found that:
TFS does not directly support using a username and password to connect to an SMTP server but it is possible to work around this limitation by using an SMTP virtual server on the TFS AT. That virtual SMTP server can be configured to provide the authentication credentials that the “real” SMTP server needs when relaying messages. Please consult the following links for more details:
Apparently “TFS 2010 Background Job Agent” service, responsible for sending emails, has hardcoded line such as this:
smtpClient.UseDefaultCredential = true;
However, there is workaround for this issue you can found it on this blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2006/07/21/smtp-username-password.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
Basically you need to setup SMTP server which does not require username and password which will “relay” messages to your main SMTP server. You only need to setup SMTP relaying correctly.
2. Configuring Email alerts on client side
Fire up Visual Studio and connect to your team project.
![projectAlerts]( "projectAlerts")
Right click on your team project and then on “Project Alerts”.
![notificationMails]( "notificationMails")
Use this dialog to setup for which notification’s you want subscribe to.
3. Monitoring
To monitor your TFS notifications open Event Viewer, expand Custom Views and click on Application Events and look for Source=TFS Services events.
![TFSeventViewver]( "TFSeventViewver")
Additionally you can switch on logging and tracing of your TFS Job Agent by editing config file usually located on this path C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010\Application Tier\TFSJobAgent\TfsJobAgent.exe.config.
Edit following lines under system.diagnostics:
<system.diagnostics>
<trace autoflush="false" indentsize="4">
<!--To enable tracing to file, simply uncomment listeners section and set trace switch(es) below.
Directory specified for TextWriterTraceListener output must exist, and job agent service account must have write permissions. -->
<listeners>
<add name="myListener"
type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener"
initializeData="C:\jobagent.log" />
<remove name="Default" />
</listeners>
</trace>
<switches>
<!-- Trace Switches
Each of the trace switches should be set to a value between 0 and 4, inclusive.
0: No trace output
1-4: Increasing levels of trace output; see Systems.Diagnostics.TraceLevel-->
<add name="API" value="2" />
<add name="Authentication" value="2" />
<add name="Authorization" value="2" />
<add name="Database" value="2" />
<add name="General" value="2" />
<add name="traceLevel" value="2" />
</switches>
</system.diagnostics>
Enter location for your log file and increase level from 0 to desired level of data in your log files.
Hope this helps ![Smile]()
When using Microsoft Team Foundation Server from windows domain other than your current logon domain user will be prompted for logon details whenever new connection to TFS is needed.
This can be quite irritating, because every time you start Visual Studio same info has to be provided all over again.
I will give in next few lines short tutorial how to utilize Windows Credential Manager to store user name and password in order to enable Team Foundation Server automatic log on.
1. In control panel go to Credential Manager
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2. Click on Add Windows credential
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3. Fill in details with address of team foundation server (without protocol prefix), full qualified domain user name and password.
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4. Click ok and you are good to go.
On next start Visual Studio should not prompt for user name and password. If there is ever need for any other user to login beside one added to credential manager , just removed previously added user to CM.
Hope this helps.
MSDN has a page on how to get the MD5 hash of a string.
Easy enough, but if you follow their example exactly for a file and use File.ReadAllText() to get the string, you will get the wrong MD5 string for binary files. Instead, use File.ReadAllBytes() to bypass encoding issues. (This also applies to SHA1 hashing.)
12 private static string GetMD5Hash(string filePath)
13 {
14 byte[] computedHash =
15 new MD5CryptoServiceProvider()
16 .ComputeHash(File.ReadAllBytes(filePath));
17
18 var sBuilder = new StringBuilder();
19 foreach (byte b in computedHash)
20 {
21 sBuilder.Append(b.ToString("x2").ToLower());
22 }
23 return sBuilder.ToString();
24 }