I had Catlight running initially and liked it a lot. But after installing some prerequisites for other software (including .NET 3.5) on my machine, I've started getting this error when running it:

 It keeps trying the same thing for a minute or two before giving up.

I've tried repairing some of the installed programs like .NET 4.5.2 and MVC 4 but to no avail. I also cleared everything in %APPDATA%\Catlight and reinstalled Catlight.

 

Any insight would be helpful, so I don't have to go looking for another program to keep me notified of my builds :)

Hi guys, and thanks for the great work.

I'm a TFS admin, and I would like to use your soft at work, but when I tested it I've seen two disturbing things in my fiddler :

CONTEXT : TFS 2015 Update 2.1, two AD Domains, and each user has an account on each domain (ex : DOMAIN1\adminuser and DOMAIN2\admlinuser)

1 - Seems like all requests are doubled : first one ends on a 401, and second passes (is it by design ?) :

Result Protocol Host  URL                Body Caching             Content-Type  Process  401  HTTP  tfs:8080 /tfs/defaultcollection/_api/_identity/checkName?name=band... 341  text/html;    charset=us-ascii dnx:2328 500  HTTP  tfs:8080 /tfs/defaultcollection/_api/_identity/checkName?name=band... 20 030 private text/html;  charset=utf-8  dnx:2328 401  HTTP  tfs:8080 /tfs/defaultcollection/_api/_identity/ReadIdentitiesPageJ... 341  text/html;    charset=us-ascii dnx:2328 200  HTTP  tfs:8080 /tfs/defaultcollection/_api/_identity/ReadIdentitiesPageJ... 7 521 private, no-sto...  charset=utf-8  dnx:2328 401  HTTP  tfs:8080 /tfs/defaultcollection/TeamProject1/_apis/build/builds/?ap... 341  text/html;    charset=us-ascii dnx:2328 200  HTTP  tfs:8080 /tfs/defaultcollection/TeamProject1/_apis/build/builds/?ap... 20 304 no-cache; Expir...  charset=utf-8;... dnx:2328

I'm the DevOps guy and for me CatLight installed perfectly fine. But I asked my developers to install CatLight so they can see very quickly if/when their checkins break builds. For many of them upon opening setup.exe, the dashboard shows gears spinning indefinitely.

So it seems to be happening quite regularly (3 times in the last 15 minutes) where all builds I'm monitoring will just go blank and show up as ? "no builds" then will refresh after a minute or 2 and send me a whole lot of notifications about each of the build statuses. TFS 2015 Win10 machine (while most of these are XAML builds, even the vNext build showed this problem) Is the app losing connection to TFS? then getting it back after refresh period to send all notifications?

I checked the %appdata%\catlight\logs\log.txt file and it showed just notifications were pushed.

Our Jenkins is accessed via a subdirectory, so effectively something like

putting in this URL in the Jenkins Connection Settings results in:

• Response status code does not indicate success: 404 (Not Found).

using Fiddler, I was able to see that the subdirectory is being dropped from the request to the API endpoint. If I modify that request to include the subdirectory (request #3 in screenshot below), the response indicates success.

 

So not sure here if it's just because the last time they were ran or what... but the dashboard is showing the builds as ? when I click to view the builds the last ones were successful (in January). Any reason for this?

after tfs password change the application keeps trying to connect and i am never able to set the credentials again

 

here the logs

 

[2016-03-29 15:02:27.603] [INFO] main - Starting app [2016-03-29 15:02:27.626] [DEBUG] main - Starting tray... Platform: win32. App version: 1.1.20. App path: C:\Users\fisemi\AppData\Local\CatLight\app-1.1.20\resources\app.asar [2016-03-29 15:02:27.626] [INFO] main - Processing command: undefined [2016-03-29 15:02:27.626] [INFO] main - App ready [2016-03-29 15:02:27.646] [DEBUG] main - Display scale factor: 100 [2016-03-29 15:02:27.691] [DEBUG] main - Update channel: beta from C:\Users\fisemi\AppData\Local\CatLight\app-1.1.20\resources/update_channel.txt [2016-03-29 15:02:27.692] [DEBUG] main - Updater configured [2016-03-29 15:02:27.699] [DEBUG] main - Starting web on port 4175 [2016-03-29 15:02:28.166]

We have found a problem with TFS API - it does not sort XAML builds properly. As a result, occasionally it will not provide a latest build information, but return older builds instead. We have submitted bug report to Microsoft and are looking for workarounds. 

 

This applies only to XAML builds. Other types of builds and other build systems should work fine.

Configuration Needed

Authentication needed. Error message: TF400813%3a+Resource+not+available+for+anonymous+access.+Client+authentication+required.

When I click the Configure link after it, it reconnects.

This is not desirable if I'm expecting notifications and can't tell that it is down unless I go to the dashboard.

HI,

I'm trying to setup CatLight, but I get an 404 error on the Collection Url. When I browse to the url, it shows the tfs page. Maybe the whitespace is a problem?

URL: http://tfs01:8080/tfs/company/client%20project

How can I fix this?

Kind Regards,

My dashboard does not always display the latest build which leads to a few different problems:

1. Sometimes when a build fails, the try icon will correctly go red but the dashboard may show an older successful build, so looking at the dashboard does not help me identify which build actually failed.
2. Sometimes when a build fails, the dashboard will show a different failed build which was submitted by a different user earlier that day, so essentially the dashboard shows that the wrong user broke the build, which creates confusion.

When opening the dashboard I saw this asp.net exception:

InvalidOperationException: Nullable object must have a value.

in default.cshtml line 65 (@definition.ShortSummary)

After "configure" it remains on a white screen without doing anything.

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