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• George.Saliba InstallationError 32000: in SetupWarehouse.exe (Team Foundation App-Data Tier Beta 2 Setup)

  Hello All, After a lot of installation problems installing Foundation Server I cleaned the Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition and started, allmost desparate, all over again. I checked everything and even started reading the installationmanual. I checked the User (TFSSETUP and TFSSERVICE are local Administrators) and  all the services (Analysis Server, Report Server, SQL Server, SQL Server Agentand Sharepoint) and started the installation ...Show All

• Antzz TF30177: Team Project Creation Failed - Unable to connect to the Windows Sharepoint Services

  I followed the latest installation guide TFSInstall-v60208.chm closely to create a 2 VM system. 1 VM for the DC/AD server TFSDCAD and 1 VM for the Apps tier TFSAPPS with SQL Server 2005, Sharepoint Services 2 and TFS I installed Sharepoint Services SP2 and did NOT configure it. Next I verified the Sharepoint Services install and saw the "Under Construction" page. I then went ahead installing TFS RC1, installed successfully ...Show All

• prami How can I define an alternate editor?

  We use XML Spy and another product internally to edit XML documents, DTDs and Schemas. How can I tell Team Explorer to use a different editor for these files Thanks, Chris Lively MRG Document Technologies In v1 (at least), if VS is able to open a file, it will do so when you select "view" (or double click on a file) in Source Control Explorer. We'll definitely consider an additional option to manually choose a viewer - righ ...Show All

• BillyTheGate Printing Reports from within Team Explorer

  We are trying to print reports from within Team Explorer and get the following error: Print Error: "An error occured trying to get the current window." After clicking ok on that error, we get an Internet Explorer Script Error that says: "Could not complete the operation due to error 8007f305." If I go out to the report server and print the report, it prints just fine. It is only when I am trying to print from Team ...Show All

• SQL_DATA TFS BETA3 & SHAREPORINT err!

  I'v installed TFS BETA3 with workgroup config (no use AD),   on a server named "vs2k5tfs".... when I browse http://vs2k5tfs/default.aspx the returned page contains from same machine, (I'v new a team project, and browse project portal,    got similar page....) ********************************************* Error [1] Web Part Error:  This page has encountered a critical error. Contact your system ...Show All

• PeteCarterGreenan The b2 profiling tools are great

  After watching Ian Huff's video on the beta 2 profiling tools in march, I've been patiently waiting to try these tools out. So far they are very impressive and well worth the wait. Great work. Brad Raulston Glad that you liked the video Brad! If you want more profiler info, you can check out the main profiler blog at blogs.msdn.com/profiler or my blog at blogs.msdn.com/ianhu . There has been some good stuff pos ...Show All

• mattsshelton COOKBOOK for TFS server installation - please

  Hi I've been trying to install TFS server beta 3 refresh for more than a week - it feels more like a month... Has anyone written down the complete cookbook for a successful installation If so pls. forward that, because this seems very difficult to do correctly. The very best would be a cookbook that starts off with a 'clean' virtual server, and leads me by the hand through this labyrint of strange options and issues. Thanx jcjj pls. MS do sup ...Show All

• LoneEagleJAG connect from sharepoint to query created in Vs2005

  hello, I created a custom query in vs2005 and want to connect to this query and show the result as a excel-table in the sharepoint portal. is it possible. In the vs I got the following url for the query: vstfs:///WorkItemTracking/Query/b900abbd-ffe9-4a34-a398-53e76e0a1a3d what does it mean how can I connect to this query kind regards --remo On a machine where you have both Excel and the Te ...Show All

• stilts Cannot connet to VMWare TFS from a other windows 2003 VMWare image with Team Explorer

  I've installed TFS (RTM) successfully on a VMWARE image (win2003 Standard). I can connect to the TFS on the same machine. I can connect to the TFS from a Windows XP machine. But I can't connect to the TFS form a other VMWare image with windows 2003 Standard with Team Explorer. All the machines/images are on the same domain and i use the same user on all the machines. The error number i get is: TF31002. If i try this ( http://srv_tfs_caesar: ...Show All

• Ahmed hussain Why Cant I enter start date and finish date on tasks work items?

  Those fields are disabled by default, and I would like to make some reports if I finish for example a task after the finish time. What I want to do is an estimate finish date and a real finish date, so in that way I can know how many days it took and how many days it should took. I guess I have to put something like this < Control Type = " FieldControl " FieldName = " Microsoft.VSTS.Scheduling.StartDat ...Show All

• graey Team Systems Question

  How does Microsoft Team Edition for software testers stack up against Mercury Winrunner Is there a side by side comparison of the two My company is debating on which one we should purchase Maybe it is a difficult question because the product is still in beta. Thanks Brian Mercury Winrunner is a UI functional testing tool. Microsoft Team Edition for software testers doesn't have a UI functional testing tool at the moment, although we are l ...Show All

• Michael Thornberry Looping

    I have created a webtest.  The business process is like .. 1. User Logs in 2. Selects one of the menu options. 3. Goes on adding master information    (For ex: Goes on adding country - 1. Types a country name                                 &nb ...Show All

• who_am_I How to avoid Designer classes

  How do we avoid throwing warnings for Designer class variables like resourceMan, resourceCulture, temp etc. And how to avoid system generated methods like .cctor etc I just noticed that ISSpecialName is not working for WebApps. I think have this alone would not meet the functionality. I shall post the code once I have completed working on the method "bool IsCompilerGenerated()" Regards, if (method is StaticInitial ...Show All

• Socrates Kapetaneas What is an area?

  I was just testing team explorer and all the menus, and I see an option where you can add Areas and Iterations, could somebody give me a brief explanation of areas in sofwware development in cmmi Thanks Area is a way for organizing work items like bugs, tasks etc in either feature/subfeature hierarchy or Component structure or team structure hierarchy. However, iteration is a way for organizing work items based on product mileston ...Show All

• scottgu E-Mail Alerts ...

  How i can get E-Mail Alerts of MSDN Forums. See the Notifications section of the FAQ. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/languages/en-US/docs/faq.aspx SiteID=1#18 ...Show All