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• Doug Owens Type definitions overwritten every night

  A small problem has come to light. I successfully exported and modified the Task.xml and Bug.xml type definitions. I then imported the changed template successfully. Subsequent changes to the templates were made and imported via witimport.exe. Any changes I made were reflected in any new bug or task added to the test project. We already had an existing project up and running, setup with the original basic MSFAgile template. When it came to use ...Show All

• David Travis TF output not conducive to efficient use from scripting

  Our builds are heavily scripted.  TF seems to output extraneous information which causes us to have to do unnecessary string parsing.  For instance, in over SCM tools usually there is a very easy way to get just the items in a directory that are under version control.  But in TFVC, if the best I can do is this: tf dir C:\proj\somedir but then I get this output to deal with: -------------- $/Proj/somedir foo.cs bar.cs baz.cs 3 item ...Show All

• patrick_pasha Check-in Policy Tab Hangs

  Hello, I recently started having a problem on the Source Control Settings option for a team project. The Check-in Policy tab displays, but when I click the Add... button, it hangs and never comes back. I tried reinstalling both Visual Studio (Team Suite) and TFS Client, but the problem persists. Anyone know of a fix Thanks! Cindy Hi Ed, It is beta 3 refresh, and there are two policies configured ...Show All

• john_j N

    Ray, It doesn't seem you are asking about a TFS issue. However, there are notes in the SharePoint documentation about migrating to SQL which preserves your current sites, etc. marc ...Show All

• Peterdes How do I ignore whitespace on assert.AreEqual

  I am comparing 2 strings; Both strings are in XML format. Unfortunately the 1st string has been formated as indented, while the 2nd has not. Is there a way to compare the 2 strings but ignore the whitespace Thanks, TomK Thanks Eric - now the 'real problem' When I cut / pasted data from a web form then used that data to compare to the results from a web service there were differences. The Cut/Paste had CR/LF, while the ...Show All

• ph1129 Team Explorer - red cross on "documents"-folder

  Since installation of TFS I am unable to see the content of the documents-folder (teamexplorer) on a client-machine. There is always a red cross on the folder! If I start the team explorer on the server the documents folder is shown correctly. I tried to copy the http-url ( http://[servername]/sites/[Project ]) to an IE on a client and there the sharepoint site is shown without any problems. I did the changes required after installation of ...Show All

• Khan16688 Can VS2005 Express/Standard/Professional Edition integrate with TFS? HOW?

  Can VS2005 Express/Standard/Professional Edition integrate with TFS How Can other IDEs like Eclipse use TFS for source control In order to publish a project to a web portal, any other licenses are required SharePoint Or TFS includes everything the web publishing needs With the probable exception of the Express editions, the answer is YES.  You can purchase a license to access the TFS.  This e ...Show All

• Canes86 Running Webservice Unit Tests on WSE3 proxies

  I have run into a bit of a brick wall in terms of automated running of unit tests using MSTest against webservice methods when the proxies are WSE3-enabled. My web methods are authenticated, so they require a specific UsernameToken in the SoapHeader, and they also require specifying a SoapActor in the header <To> section. This means that the proxy.Destination endpoint is addressing the message to a SoapActor (uri:\\mynamespace\webservic ...Show All

• Martin Odhelius Workflow question: Automatic Merges

  Hello there, I have another workflow question: In our company, we have a lot of products which are either bundled together in "office" products or sold separately as "standalone" products. I don't want to go into details how that works, but in effect, the source code used is the same both for the bundled products and the standalone ones, the bundled products just have a kind of "wrap up" framework which coordinates ...Show All

• somebodyelse Change Domains

  I recently migrated my BETA3 TFS install to a new domain.  Everything went fairly smoothly, but I'm having one problem that I'm unable to fix.  I cannot change the user assigned to the [SERVER]\Service Accounts group.  The group has a single read-only member: the TFSSERVICE user from the domain the server has left. TFS seems to be working okay with this account as is for Source Control.  However, when I try and create a ...Show All

• ph_prgn1 Team Build without SolutionToBuild?

  I'm wanting to have Team Build execute a MSBuild project that just executes an external program several times with different parameters. There's nothing to checkout of source control although the external program adds/updates files in source control (scripts from our development Sql Server). However, if any of the executions of the external program fail, I'd like for that fact to be fed back into Team System as a work item. What am I missing Th ...Show All

• schwabbie Cannot Create Team Project

  I have just installed team server and all its pre-reqs, single server install.  I have installed this on a Virtual Machine.  After all this, I installed VS 2005 on the machine and tried to create a Team project.  The error I am getting is "Unable to connect to server" When I try to connect to http://servername:8080/default.aspx i get the following error: Server Application Unavailable The web application you are attempting to acc ...Show All

• thermowolf Reduce the size of TRX files - limit logging?

  hi all, Hoping someone can advise me on how to reduce the amount of logging that is sent to the TRX file. I have a scenario where I am (trying) to test about 3500 URL's (and their dependent requests). The information that I would like to know is; 1. If the URL fails. 2. If any of the dependant requests fail. This is all the information that I need. I am finding that at about 1000 requests the logfile becomes unmanageable and VS aborts t ...Show All

• pcb Customization of MSF Agile?

  Has anyone been able to successfully customize the Process Guidance templates, incorporating attributes of your own software development lifecycle into MSF Agile This is become a critical problem for us, as we are trying to initiate a project using TFS, and would like to have the Process Guidance portal reflect how we really do things. I am looking for help from someone that has been able to either 1) modify the individual XML files (e.g. ...Show All

• oimtiaz Where is information of SMTP server located in Beta2

  Hi there,    Our SMTP server has been migrated and I need to change the smtp server for VSTS beta2 server. I could not find this information in any file stored, in VSTS UI or even in registry. How do I change this, so that we start getting mail alerts for our work Items Thanks, Anu For beta 2, see Keren's post. http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=13879 For beta 3, see the following. http://forums.mic ...Show All