On the 30th of October last year Microsoft deployed an update for Visual Studio Team Services (still named Visual Studio Online at the time) which introduced a new start page that could be completely customized. The feature was named dashboards and when I first saw it I realized its potential for putting all kinds of information relevant to a development team right at their fingertips. For those who haven’t seen it yet, this is what the out of the box dashboard looks like:

Lately I’ve been diving into the new build engine in TFS 2015 RC (RTM release is planned for 20th of July). While running a build, I got the following error message: Mixed mode assembly is built against version ‘v2.0.50727’ of the runtime and cannot be loaded in the 4.0 runtime without additional configuration information. This got me puzzled for a while, especially since the build continued to run and it was doing what it was supposed to do, except that at the end the build turned red because of this error.