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• davide_c Errors being logged by TfsWarehouseController

  Tfs has been ticking along steadily - a moment ago I decided to force a warehouse update through the web service and got back an ASP.NET error (NullReferenceException). The following events were looged to the Application event log on the system (in chronological order). Any suggestions appreciated! Clearly, I need the warehouse to be working :) -cd Event Type: Warning Event Source: TFS Warehouse Event Category: None Event ID: 6003 Date ...Show All

• KWLO Partitioning Team Build Type

  Before I start off down this route with Team Build I'm hoping someone can tell me if it is broadly possible and there are no hidden gotchas! I have set up a Team Build Type which builds an entire system consisting of multiple solutions, then runs tests etc, then builds a number of installers by doing an exec call to some msbuild format scripts that use WiX. I have setup this build type to do very fully comprehensive nightly build and deploy o ...Show All

• manojgarg Unable to connect to the database STS_Config

  Hi, The following error occured in the event log of our Team Foundation server. (single server installation) I've checked the connections to the database ... Any Idea Thanks, Arno #50070: Unable to connect to the database STS_Config on FOUNDATION.  Check the database connection information and make sure that the database server is running. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ ...Show All

• Drak Swordsman VSSConverter requires Visual SourceSafe 2005?

  I tried running VSSConverter against our production Visual SourceSafe database and received the following error: Initializing... TF60032: The VSS Converter requires Visual SourceSafe 2005 or later to run. Ple ase install Visual SourceSafe 2005 or later and try again. Is this true I can't convert Visual Studio 6d No, you do not need to convert the database to VSS2005 as the database format of VSS6 ...Show All

• CrystalDev Invoke Static Method

  I am trying to test a static method.  The method takes a DateTime parameter.  How do I enter a DateTime value in the Invoke Method dialog box for this parameter   I have tried: #1/1/2005# new DateTime(2005,1,1) and others with no luck.  It keep getting a type mismatch message. Here's how I was able to do this: 1. In Class View, create an instance of DateTime (under Project References->mscorlib->System->DateTim ...Show All

• Jeroen Molenaar viewstate error

  Test Type: Coded webtest VS.Net version: Team Suite Release Candidate I get the “The given key was not present in the dictionary” exception even though I replaced the hard coded viewstate with the suggested code in " Web tests resulting in Internal Server error due to Invalid ViewState" thread. Not sure what did I do wrong. Any help is appreciated. The   viewstate in our web application is constructed a little different. It is &n ...Show All

• bdub042 Exporting Load Test Results

  Hi, I am running load test runs on two different system with VSTeam Suite on both. I am trying to export results on the other system to the local system. When I try to open the results, i get an error :Could not read results repository. An error occured while connecting to the server....Error 26 - Error locating server\instance specified) I checked that the SQLserver has the TCP/IP enabled but am not able to open the SQL server surface are ...Show All

• Dafrapster Team Build vs MSBuild

  Hi I am a bit confused over whats the best way to run. i am trying to setup a build that does the following : Run Some Unit Tests Perform Code Analysis Create Docc (NDOC) Notify Developers if the Build is broken Deploy target code to another server and build a web site Run some web tests against the new server. I know this is possible using MSBuild, but where does this fit into Team Build I am getting a little bit confused over what I should be ...Show All

• Smat Can not build team project

  Hello! Why at attempt to build created " build type " I receive the message: " Some or all identity references could not be translated " How to be I use EN version TFS and VSTS EN, but TFS install on the WIN 2003 Enterprise RUS(Russia) and Client(WorkStation) is WinXP RUS. Is the build service runnng under the TFSSERVICE account or not YES Does the account belong to local admin group or not local admin And finally ...Show All

• Richard Prilop Team Foundation Report Errors after rebuild

  Hello, I have recently rebuilt a TFS Beta 3 installation (reporting portion) due to a corrupt ReportServer.mdf database. I've followed the instructions within other posts in this forum to regenerated the data source connections for the reporting piece and verified the warehouse analysis cube is functional (using the warehouse TS guide). Everything looks great; however when I run any report, I get the following error: w3wp!library!1!2/8/20 ...Show All

• A. Mereaux Agile, then CMMI

  My company is interested in getting CMMI certified. We are using Microsoft technologies a lot and would like to start learning about MSF. Forgive me if the question is silly. Is it possible for our company to go for MSF Agile, and then evolve into CMMI compatible practices This makes sense for my company because I want to make sure we can build the basic capacity first before we want to make it formal. Any idea or suggestions are welcomed. ...Show All

• BreSmith Team Foundation Server -- Team Explorer Licensing?

  Hi, We are planning to deploy TFS for one of our small development groups. We will be using the following: - install Team Foundation Server on one server. - install Team Explorer on each developer workstation (15-20 developers). 50% of these developers are under MSDN subscription. - install Team Explorer Proxy on one server. I read the Team System Licensing Whitepaper, however, I have no idea on what all we would need to buy and h ...Show All

• WebRevolution Unit Tests and Nightly Build

  Using VSTS for Developers. I have a solution with a test project for my unit tests. When I create a new build type and select the metadata file, (".vsmdi") the "Test list to run:" list is always empty. The only mention that I can find about test list says to create them within test manager. But I do not see a test manager tool within VSTS for Developers. Does anyone have some insight into getting my unit tests to run during the nightly build T ...Show All

• 74MGB What If Your Expected Result Is a Runtime Error?

  Suppose you have a method that accepts two numbers and returns a value equal to the first number divided by the second number.   If the second number is zero, you would expect a “divide by zero” error.   How do you program for that in a database driven test script if the expected value column is defined as a numeric   In other words, you expect a row of test data to generate a runtime error, but you cannot put ...Show All

• Adam Norsworthy Some hardCheck rules to cope

  the david Kean rules sample helped me great to dig into the custom rule creation by discovering some of the possiblitities of the RuleUtilities class or formally from the Microsoft.Cci dll. I'm facing some difficulties to create some namming convention special's rules, maybe you can help me to find a solution: R1: local variable must be like : __localVariable R2: local variable used as increment are just CamelCase : increment ...Show All