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• GuinnessHead BisSubscribe examples

  Are there any examples for the eventtypes I can subscribe to in the BisSubscribe PowerToy Thanks! ~slee If you'd like to see the events used by Team Foundation: * Browse to : /Services/V1.0/Registration.asmx">http://<server>:<port>/Services/V1.0/Registration.asmx * Select GetRegistrationEntries * Press Invoke (leave toolId empty/blank) This displays the registration data for Team Foundation. You'l ...Show All

• pogsworth When to use which requirement type

  Does anyone know of a good resource for defining the different types of requirements (scenario, functional, QOS, etc.) Thanks, Randy. That would be very helpful! Yes and no - potentially. :-) It is reasonable that customer requirements are broken down directly into tasks (developer, user experience, architecture, user education, and test) in the Analysis workstream while product requirements are generated separately to focus on int ...Show All

• Scott Nichols TFS Warehouse errors

  The trials with Beta 3 are still going well, but I've spotted the following in the Application Log. Apart from watching TFS Version Control, TFS Services, TFS Warehouse and TFS WorkItem Tracking stopping and starting themselves, we've been getting hourly errors. It has settled down now to be: ERROR MSSQLServerOLAPService : Event 3 : OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted ...Show All

• Niki7 Team Foundation to Team Foundation Migration

  Is there a (supported) way of migrating data from one instance of TFS to an other when the machines are on different domains Cheers Simon   We are working on some documentation that will describe migrating TFS (data) from one domain to another.  One of the major issues involved in doing this is migrating users (in the TFS system) between the old domain and the new domain. Simon, for your scenario ...Show All

• jvervoorn How to backup the TFS site

  Hi For TFS beta 3 Is all the content stored in SQL server or are there other location that I should include in the backup regime. Ideally the SQL backup should be enough. Thanks in advance Warwick The TFS components are all DB based so it is essentially an SQL backup. For more info, check out this post here . ...Show All

• engeky How to reset passwords for service accounts

  I have had to change all the passwords for the service accounts used to install team foundation server and now I cannot connect to team foundation, apparently because the old passwords are hardcoded somewhere.  Where can I go to change these passwords to the new values   Why are the passwords hardcoded instead of using integrated windows authentication Did you change the Team Foundation AppPool passw ...Show All

• vivek kakkar TFS Beta 3 slow opening docs greater than 1 MB

  We have installed TFS Beta 3 successfully.  However, trying to open word documents in our requirements area that are larger than 1 MB is taking a long time (about 20 - 50 mins).  This was not a problem for us under TFS Beta 2.  Can someone please help us trying to resolve this   Thank you. Something is amiss in your Sharepoint setup.  I can open multi-megabyte powerp ...Show All

• Ak5intoe Problems with Team Build

  1) It seems that team-build is not honoring the sequence of project-dependencies. I have a web-app with a dependency to a business-logic backend-dll within the same solution (which must be compiled first). In VS the backend-dll is being compiled first, but in TB it isn't. 2) if I manually change the sequence in which the projects are listen within the solution file, TB compiles in that (correct) order, BUT the resulting backend DLL does not find ...Show All

• BobMaupin Handle for the Process Template of a TeamProject

  I want to get a handle for the Process Template of a Team Project created in TFS using VSTS. I need the handle to get what are the elements which are present for that specific project. Please help me out. I need it immediately.. But how do you do this programmatically I connect to the TFServer like this: TeamFoundationServer m_TFServer = TeamFoundationServerFactory .GetServer("ServerName"); m_TFServer.Authenticate(); Th ...Show All

• Pinball MS naming coding standard & Hungarian notation

  I've just read in MS coding standard naming guideline to not use Hungarian notation anymore. Why Hungarian notion provides useful additionnal information : visibility, type ... Thanks for your help. Clement M Guideline : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/cpconNamingGuidelines.asp Check out our own Nick Guerrera's take on this: Mmm... Hungarian Notation... ...Show All

• de3a10 Example Server

  There should be a server for public use (of Team Foundation) for evaluation of the product. Someone should do it! I don't believe that the license permits it. I've heard rumors that they're looking into making time-bombed VPC images available to support evaluating team system. The VPC was handed out at TechEd last week. I was told that it will be available for MSDN subscribers to download some time this month. ...Show All

• dadson98 Sharepoint Web Part for VSTS Work Item Maintenance

  Hi,    I understand that adding, updating etc work items for VSTS is not currently supported in the Sharepoint Team Site for a project. Does anyone know about any third party web parts available to achieve this. Thanks JW There are some 3rd party add ons in this space being developed but I don't believe any have been announced yet.  We'll put some links on our MSDN developer center when the ...Show All

• Comet Zombie Version Control 'Project'

  I've added a project to TFS, then added a couple of various VS2005 projects to version control. I then run TfsDeleteProject to remove the project. Just for giggles I then add a new project with the same name as the original project I just deleted. If I do that I find that version control now has two root entries both with the same name, that name being the project I've just added. Bug There are a number of bugs in the handling of delet ...Show All

• easygysi Bug in the Load results caclulation?

  Hi I think I have found a Bug in the load test results calculation: After running a load test, I looked for the network utilization counters, and i noticed that the Avg. rate seems to be smaller than the Min.rate: Category Min Max Avg Network Interface 58,924 420,073 7,594 ...Show All

• MattPatt Best Practices for ClearCase Migration

  Hi I am wondering, if anybody has some best practices for migrating ClearCase to TFVC to share with public Since there is no migration tool available I'm wondering if anybody decided to move certain snapshots of certain labels and inserted them by hand into TFVC. How did that work out What sould I look out for What are the does and don'ts Who ever has any ideas or suggestions pls let them hear. Tom Snapshot migrati ...Show All