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• Pierre Thorey Teambuild

  Hello, I want to include the NDoc function in the teambuild service. I have 2 questions: How can I make this and where can I start the Teambuild Wizard thanks Hi TeamBuild, You can start the Team Build Wizard by going to the Team Explorer and doing a right click on the 'Team Builds' Node. Choose the option 'New build type'. This will launch the Team Build Wizard. As far as ...Show All

• Tim123 Win 2003 AD requirement for Beta 2

  OK, so I see that beta 2 requires a windows 2003 Active Directory, however we're running Win 2000 AD and I don't see a corporate upgrade coming in the timeframe I'd like - so that leaves me with creating a 2003 AD domain for TFS - questions are: 1. can I trust our corporate domain (or create a sub-tree, or ) and use the user accounts from the 2000 AD with TFS 2.  What specific 2003 AD features does TFS need to use that 2000 doesn't provide ...Show All

• QingY VSTS Ship Date?

  VS 2005, SQL 2005 and .NET 2.0 are supposed to release in early November, however on the FTP web site they are saying this: Updates and firm release dates for Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 (together previously code-named "Whidbey"), along with SQL Server 2005 (previously code-named "Yukon"). The target release dates are well within Microsoft's most recently stated goal (second half 2005), although some of the features expected in t ...Show All

• Chadk How to: Change How Fields are Mapped to Microsoft Project

  I have a team project created using my custom process template. Now I need to change or customize the project mapping XML file for that project - how do I do this I have read the help pages entitled "How to: Change How Fields are Mapped to Microsoft Project" ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181686.aspx ) and "TFSFieldMapping" ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252493.aspx ) but it did not help as the ...Show All

• peishores What is TFS RC?

  Can anybody explain me what is TFS RC (Team Foundation Server Release Candidate) Thanks The only changes were some bugfixes - are you looking to see if a specific bug was fixed I was looking for the list of bugfixes just out of curiosity. Is it published in a KB somewhere Regards, Thomas L The Trial is a timebombed version of the standard TFS. There are only two S ...Show All

• M M Mason Where is the file, NightlyBuild.exe?

  Hi, all, It must be silly question, but I really need your help. Have anyone ever reads this article about the build automation on TFS : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/NtBldTmSrv.asp I think, it is nice, but, my question is, where is 'NightlyBuild.exe' If anyone knows where it is, please, kindly let me know. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, killem ...Show All

• kevM Disconnected modified files

  The biggest reasons we are not switching over from VSS to VSTFD have to do with working on files is disconnected mode, sluggish performance and multiple file comparisions.  Perhaps you can address some of our issues 1. If I am disconnected from the source control and I have modified project files or deleted project files (and probably added files) team foundation does not find these file changes.  Moveover, a "get latest version" beli ...Show All

• Dave__Dave Recommended setup and hardware requirements?

  Reading my question please note, that I haven't yet received Beta 2 and consequently haven't read the documentation included in Beta 2. Problem: We would like to establish a test environment with the Team System Foundation Server that is as similar to the final production environment as possible. I have searched the web for descriptions of the recommended setup and hardware requirements and the closest I got to answers i ...Show All

• TrevorHughes The relationships of Area and Iterations

  This post is more of a comment than a question. I'm hoping to engage a few, or a lot, of people in a discussion on the relationships of Area and Iterations. One of my larger complaints about TFS is in the relationship of Areas and Iterations. Perhaps I think of them in the wrong mindset, in which case I need to bump up my reading on software development theories. I feel that Iterations need to come in two flavors- Team project level ite ...Show All

• Tim2048 Problems in mapping fields into project

  I created new fields for my own work items, but I am having problems when I try to map these fielsd into project. When I create a new team project, based in my template process, I get an error. Please, anyone knows how I can change my mapping file in a good way Do you get the error when using tfsfieldmapping.exe The error message is that: "Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.&quo ...Show All

• xoqx WebDav supports in Web Test

  Is there a way to simulate WebDav HTTP request in WebTest Different from standard HTTP request (only GET and POST), web dav supports other verb (OPTIONS, PROFIND, and so on). Can I simulate this in Web Test The stream was got from LoadRunner since VSTS can't record the binary request. However, I need a way to conver those stream so that i can use it in VSTS. Where are you reading in the byte stream that you want to post You should ...Show All

• Rakesh Rajan QTP with ActiveX Add Ins and .Net Application Problem

  I am using QTP to test an application build in .Net technologies. But when QTP is launched with ActiveX Add-Ins checked in and then if we try to launch the application then the application is not launching but the process(exe) of the application is found to be running in the Task Manager. Can anybody provide me the reason behind this. Sounds like a QTP problem. You should contact their support. Ed. I installed QTP on my new lapt ...Show All

• Bibble Initialization failed for plugin(s): "Microsoft.Pcw.wss"

  Hi, I have just managed to install TFS, but when I try to create a new project, I get the error: Project creating failed with error: "Initialization failed for plugin(s): 'Microsoft.Pcw.wss" * My installation is a single server, and it is not a domain controller (I have another machine that is my intranet DC); * I can access sharepoint (http://<server>); * I can access the reporting services URLs; * I can even access and run some of the we ...Show All

• gamer36 layout designer for Workitem forms

  Hi, Is there a tool which lets one design form for workitems and generate the o/p in XML format as required by the process template I have added some fields to workitems and now I want to show them in the forms too. Thanks, Deepesh Unfortunately there is no designer for workitem forms. Easiest way is to use VS's xml editor for manually editing the form xml. VS provides nice intelisense and autocomplete for tags. Then you c ...Show All

• bluedesert1001 File in use .mpp is locked for editing

  Hi, We're using TFS RTM We're experiencing a really annoying problem which is, when someone closes a nd saves a MS Project document to the Team Foundation Portal no one else can open it for editing, we get a message File in use *.mpp is locked for editing There are a couple of other posts which refer to this as well http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=8011&SiteID=1 http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN ...Show All