Answer Questions

• CFQueb Newbie question

  Hi all, OK, I just got all of this stuff installed and I'm a bit confused. Do we link our solutions with the Team Services projects And if not, how does all of this work; how do we get from a work item to an actual piece of code I've been playing with this all day and it really feels to me like two distinct tools; an application development tool and a project management tools which just happen to be in the same window with so far no meaningful w ...Show All

• Ries Vriend Extending Team System Version control Mechanism

  Hi         I want to use my legacy Version Control Implementation using Team System clients(GUI). Is it possible for me to plugin my version control dll(eg:SCC.dll) in to Visual studio . In Visual studio ,we use to implement SCC -SDK and plug in our source control in to visual studio. is it possible to achieve the same in team system. On client side ,visual studio team system uses - M icroso ...Show All

• newuseroverhere Post build steps and TFS

  Hi all, I have a big broblem with TFS Here is the problem: I have a solution containing more than 200 C++ projects. Each of them has some post build steps that copies the output (and also configuration files such as XML) to a specific relative pathed directory. This works fine on desktop computers, but it does not work on TFS. What I observe is that TFS tries to move all output files to a central directory (Binaries\Mixed Platforms\Rel ...Show All

• wjvii1437 Is there any simpler way of customizing FxCop

  Hi, i am writing my own rules for FxCop. I thought it would be easier if FxCop generates any XML since i could traverse through the nodes of the xml and write my rule easily. But i came to know from David, Mike and Poguru that FxCop does not create any such XML. Is there any simpler or easier way to write my custom rules or is there any other way through which i can understand and write my own easily Thanks David, Than ...Show All

• Bigmo Programmatically insert requests

  Sometimes I have to use 3rd part tools to retrieve requests invoked from clientside javascript. These tools (primarily HttpWatch) lets me save output in xml format. To get the testing right, I manually insert request based on data from xml. a) Is it possible to write plugins to the "webtest-editor" context-menu b) Can requests be programmaticly inserted to the "webtest-editor" Thank you for the reply. a) I have previously added menu item ...Show All

• KCtin Creating a new Custom Rule

  Hi, I am trying to create a new custom rule in VS 2005. I guess I have pretty followed eveything stated. Some how I am not able to see the rule in VS. The xml file is embedded also. I am attaching the code. Will some body have a look at it and help me fix this. XML File: < xml version = " 1.0 " encoding = " utf-8 " > < Rules FriendlyName = " My Rules " > < Rule TypeName = " CheckforClassName " Category = " ...Show All

• dirish74 New test project type

  Is it possible to create a new test project type with Sept CTP If yes, where can I find information Thanks, Pierre That is what I was looking for. Thank you so much. Pierre Yes, this is possible. I assume your new test type does not have new file extension. It is just a wizard that generates test methods in .cs/.vb files. You just need do the following. 1. Create a .vstemplate file for your test type( http://whidbey.msdn.microsoft.c ...Show All

• Ares01 Seeing a report into VSTS

  Hi, I am very new to VSTS. My requirement is to see a report of load test through throught reporting services provided by TFS server. I have my Load test solution file, when I run this, It shows these many test passed or failed, and all the Data regarding the test like throughput, page load time etc. 1.) Is there a way to integrate the Load test solution to a team project. 2.) Is there a way to use the Loadtest.RDL file to view my re ...Show All

• FrozenFrog ExecutionException when add a 3rd party reference

  I am trying to use NMock with VSTS Unit testing. I have referenced nmock.dll locally. When I run the tests, all the tests are aborted. Below is an extraction from the error report. Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.TestManagement.ExecutionException: Test Run deployment issue: The location of the file or directory "%LOCALDISKPATH%nmock.dll' is not trusted. I tried to use the DeploymentItem attribute as [ DeploymentItem ( @"%LOCALDISKPATH%nmo ...Show All

• Deler Fail Team Project creation

  After installing TFS Beta 3, everything seems ok. Can connect to it, manage it, etc. However I cannot create projects sucessfully. When I try to I get this (excerpt from log): Event Description: TF30162: Task "SharePointPortal" from Group "Portal" failed Exception Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.PcwException Exception Message: Unable to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services at TEAMSYS1 Exception Details: The Project Creation Wizard w ...Show All

• chris steele 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

• Jason Bellis Reports using customized Workitems

  Hello TFS users. I’m tring to custimize the MSF Agile Process Template. I’ve added fields to the WorkItemDefinitions (like Role) and also added new WorkItemDefinitions with new fields. My problem is this: Now i want to generate Reports for the WorkItems, using the new fields in the query. for example: "Tasks by Role". where Role is a customized field. Is it possible to do this, using the "TfsOlapReportDS" and "TfsRepor ...Show All

• Toma? Pajonk Preferred method for setting solution-wide version numbers

  In VS.NET 2003 and our old source control system, we had a file, AssemblyVersionInfo.cs that we shared throughout all of the projects in a solution that would set the version number of all the assemblies in a compilation to the same value. What is the preferred method to acheive this in team foundation Yes, what we have is a top level folder in our tree with shared "include" files like this.  We then set up all of our solutions to re ...Show All

• kristalittle TFS and named instance of analysis server

  Can TFS access analysis server if it is a named instance if so is there any documentation on this cause I am told that it has to be default instance for analysis server... The reason I ask is we have 2000 and 2005 on a server and we need both versions of analysis server. Thanks much. thanks for the response... but that refers to named instance of sql server and not a named instance of analysis server ...Show All

• MarinaGre Can the test cases in the test project be merged into one document?

  Hi, I have a test project with test cases in VSTS. Is there any way or work around to put them together and have one document to contain all of the test cases I want Thanks, Leon Hi Leon, For example, if you want view the test case which "Severity" is 1, you can set the query is: And/or |Field |Operator |Value ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Team Project ...Show All