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• garmhappy Product Licensing

  I believe I know the answer to this based on the lack of informaiton available on the web site... At any rate, my question is, will the team editions be available outside of an MSDN subscription. Meaning can I buy a license of Team Developer without having to purchase an MSDN license. I'm asking because in the past we have always purchased indivudual licenses for our developers for the OS, Office, VS.NET, etc. So if we do go down the Team System ...Show All

• BrianBT Link Work Item to document on project portal

  Is it possible to attach a link to a Work Item that points to a document on the project portal For instance, if you have the work item Create requirements document, you would want to have the finished document in TFS. Either attached to the work item or in some document folder on the project portal. The latter one is the better location, I would say, but then I would want to link the work item to the document on the portal. However, it is onl ...Show All

• ericlock About code annotation?

  #include <CodeAnalysis\SourceAnnotations.h> #include <iostream> using namespace std; using namespace vc_attributes; void f ([Pre(Access=Read)] int x) { x=10; cout<<x<<endl; } int main() { int a; a=5; f(a); return 0; } This is a example from msdn~ [Pre(Access=Read)] means that x can only read. x can't be wr ...Show All

• Sarah Roberts SharePoint Services 2.0 with SP1 not installed

  I'm trying to instal TSF Beta 3 on W2003 with SP1 ENU but the System Health Cheacks always reports SharePoint Services 2.0 with SP1 not installed although it is installed. Any ideas Hi, You could install WSS SP2 and then try: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=9c552114-dc9a-43ee-9281-b080b7c280b4&DisplayLang=en Regards, Vikram Hi, i found the error. It seems that the ISO-Imag ...Show All

• khaled94 Team Build Error

  I keep getting this error when I try to build any of the projects under my Team build folder: The build service could not validate the caller.  Please ensure that the network connection between Build machine and Team foundation server is proper, and the caller is valid. Other people can build the same project on their machine.  Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Anna Thanks for the reply. I tried ...Show All

• David Chan Convert from ClearCase to VSTS?

  Hi, Will there be any Clearcase - VSTS importer/converter in the release of Team Foundation server I've checked earlier threads and found this ( http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=119343&SiteID=1 ), but I want to know if there are any later news about this   We don't have anything else to add publicly right now.  I think I can safely say that we won't have ClearCase ...Show All

• Brasiliansbr Database Operations

  I was wondering why there aren't any default rules available in FxCop for Database operations! Is it because these may not be possible to implement I have to develop quite a few rules under DB operations and I am not able to make any headway through them. In each one, I need to parse the instruction in the ilcode to check whether a stored procedure has been used as commandtype.StoredProcedure instead of commandType.text., or whether DataAc ...Show All

• Dragos.Stefanescu newbe Q about SP2 and Visual studio 2005

  Hello, I am new to visual studio as you can see from the type of my question,..which is: Do I MUST have SP2 on XP Pro in order to have a working well visual studio 2005(beta) I know SP2 is recommended, but I am asking If its a "must have" in order to make visual studio work properly. Am I gone have problems using my visual studio 05 without SP2 Thanks, newbe. Yes, .NET 2.0 requires XP SP2. No, you ...Show All

• Nikolay Evseev Create Team Project from existing Project

  Hi, I wanted to know that is it possible to Create Team Project from existing Project. The idea is my organisation will have say 10 different projects and I want to maintain same standards , roles and project permissions in all the projects. Only thing that will change is the project name. How to acheive this Thanks in advance, Sanjoyan Microsoft MGSI India I don't think the ability to create a Team Project from a ...Show All

• Ostenda property evaluation order (beta 3)

  Why is the following not working I tried moving the Import of the M icrosoft.TeamFoundation.Build.targets from the top of the build file to the bottom, but it had no affect. Our environment has separate TFS and Build servers. I'm using TFSBuild.exe to kick off the build through a batch file. This article describes http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171464.aspx the order of evaluation but it isn't working. I also tried moving the RootP ...Show All

• beso Can VSS users access the new TFS database?

  We have users that are doing development on Visual Studio 6 & .Net.  When our .Net users are ready to move to 2005 can we migrate the entire database and have the VS6 users access the database from VS6 and the old VSS6 client   I see that there is a option in the migration tool to only migrate a select set of projects but I would prefer to only have to admin one Source control database. Thanks! -J ...Show All

• ReinerZ System Health Check stops install because of processor

  Any way around this Trying to build a VPC for education purposes. Laptop is 1.86GHZ with 2GB of memory. Giving 1+GB of memory to the VPC, but cant get past System Health Check. Is there any command line switch to turn this test off or any other way to get around this I tried setup.exe /no_bsln_check and the install wasnt bypassed Yup, you got it. We do generate the report dynamically in order to give you the b ...Show All

• Spike2006 Enhanced build features

  I'm trying to setup the "out of the box" build environment that Microsoft claims the Foundation Server includes, however I'm obviously running into some problems. First off, I have two virtual pc's.  My server is running 2003 w/ sp1, SQL 2005, and Foundation Server, with Active Directory.  My client machine is running 2003 w/ sp1 and visual studio (beta 2.050215-4400). I converted my vss database to team foundation server and this enti ...Show All

• PhilYardley TFS problems

  I just emailed this to my whole team, who is getting ready to switch from SOS to TFS. I made a series of changes before checking in, including things like adding a new code file, then later removing that same code file. Recap of my issues: When I went to check in, the Pending Checkins window would not give me the option to check in. It only gave me the option to unshelve. So I chose that option thinking it would lead to a ch ...Show All

• KC k_cheung Assistance With Goal Based Load Pattern

  Hi, I am running a goal based load test for the overall Avg. Response Time counter with these settings Initial user count - 1 Max user count - 2000 max. user increment and decrement - 5 min user count -1 stop adjusting user count when goal reaches - true test time between iterations - 30sec I am recording the results for the above scenario and need some help understanding them. The userload shows as 1 for the first 3 ...Show All