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• Jon Stroh How to register VSTS newsgroups in Outlook Express?

  As of Subject. What's the News server, and username/password There are no Microsoft newsgroups about VSTS, only this forums, and other forum in Spanish, but no dedicated newsgroup ...Show All

• sskalskii Plans to support remote working on GotDotNet

  Are there any plans to support remote working with VSTS on GotDotNet This would seem to be an ideal platform to showcase this facility. Will Yes, it certainly would be a great showcase - thanks for the suggestion. I don't think that we can really talk about this in much detail at the moment, but clearly it's an idea we'd like to explore further with the GotDotNet folks... ...Show All

• Fred Herring Rights-Management in TFS-SCC

  Hi Bug 1: I've denied rights (in Beta 2) to some files using the Source-Control Explorer. I am not able to remove these rights anymore (I had to do it via the database: vsteamscc.tbl_permission.DenyPermission = 0 (was 4)) and restart the scc webservice. Bug 2: removing the file(s) from SCC and re-adding them is not a solution to the above problem, as the permissions seem to stay ! Bug1: Can you tell me how you tried to remove th ...Show All

• J.T. Shyman Webtest

  In visual studios, if I click on test -> administer test control, when I run my load test I can add the results into the LoadTest database.  How do I accomplish the same thing but using the command line The connection string is stored in the registry on the machine that the test is running on.  It is also associated with the user the test is running as.  So if you a ...Show All

• hooosiers123 Connecting to TFS failes

  Hi, I have one server which exposes TFS to the Internet via HTTPS and it requires a certificate. I have two client-computers, one can access the TFS, the other can't. The one that failes shows the following output, when using the following commandline in a folder that has a workspace associated with this server: Commandline: tf get /recursive /noprompt > tf_get.log 2>tf_get_error.log Error: Team Foundation Server server.c ...Show All

• claydevin circular loop bug in compare tool??

  We have been having an interesting problem while checking in a file in team systems. The file in question was modified by 2 different people, and they had been modifying similar code blocks. After the 2nd person tries to check his code in he is presented with the standard files need to be merged and then the 'keep your changes, use server's copy, etc' dialog, but after trying to merge his changes the screen freezes up and there seems to be a loc ...Show All

• joehammond Configure website to run tests against?

  Within a web test are you able to configure what website you are hitting against   For instance, if I initially set all of my tests to go up against a specific website (QQA) for instance, but then want to globally change all tests to hit against the DEV site, how do you accomplish that If I code the test I see the following line:  Dim request1 As WebTestRequest = New WebTestRequest( "https://qqawebsite/applicationname/UserLogin.as ...Show All

• Toddpi314 cannot create a new team project

  Hello. I installed TFS successfully into single machine and could connect to TFS using TFSSETUP account. But once I tried to create a new team project, I got an error message. "Project creation failed with error: "Initialization failed for plugin(s): 'Microsoft.Pcw.wss'"" The TFSSETUP account is a member of Administrators group and Namespace Administrator(ADAM). My environment is below. - Windows Server 2003 with SP1 - IIS 6.0 - SQL Server ...Show All

• Karthik B Creating Code Review Tasks Automatically from Tasks

  When a task goes into Resolved state, is there a way to automatically create a "Code Review" task based on the Code Reviewer name submitted in the work item check in rule   This would be really helpful to keep track of comments related to code reviews and make sure that each code review is successfully done.  For instance: Developer A completes work item and checks in code. (it would be nice to be able to change the status of the wo ...Show All

• wlsteevens [BUG: 1.32RTM] Error when opening file with 'Save Rules By' set to 'Message Level'

  Guys, I came across this when I tried to open a file that I had saved in a pre-release version of 1.32 and tried to open it in the RTM of 1.32. The funny thing is that I don't ever remember changing the 'Save Rules By' option. FxCop displays the following error when opening a file that has 'Save Rules By' changed to 'Message Level'. An error occurred while loading '[FileName]'. 'Value cannot be null.  Parameter name: defaultCategory' ...Show All

• Michael Tumy Error Installing TFS in a Single-Server Installation

  I received an error: 32000 during the App-Data installation of TFS.  The event log showed the following: Adapter Microsoft.VisualStudio.Currituck.DataWarehouse.Adapter runtime error: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Currituck.Server.Common.ValidationException: Invalid object name 'dbo.WorkItemsLatestUsed'. ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Invalid object name 'dbo.WorkItemsLatestUsed'. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlEx ...Show All

• MM2002S How does the test pick up values from List Boxes

  I am trying to do some performance testing for our web application and have recorded a test using data entry from a listbox. However when teh test is run again it does not work as it has no value. The application in the test indicates that some criteria must be entered. Josh Many thanks for your responses. I am afraid I do not understand the link given, which may be able to help me if I understood it. The ContextParameterName is ...Show All

• Ethan Hunt Migrating two SourceSafe databases to the same server

  Hi! I am unable to convert more than one VSS database into the same Team Foundation server. When I run the VSSConverter for the second database it stops with: TF60099: Given folder mappings do not match with last migrated mappings. Following was the original mapping please use this only for incremental migration.\n<From>$/</From><To>$/Test/Data6</To> The first database was migrated with this configuation file (pa ...Show All

• tugboat90 Rename my projects

  Hi for every one, I need to change some names from my projects, this is for dosen't lost my document history, but on my source control I have disable rename option, I wants to know if exist some tools for change my name project Or if not necesary to chenge my name projects, how can I do for keep my documents history, let me explain, when I do some branch I lost all documents history so how can I keep it Thanks! Project rena ...Show All

• Zhiqiang Feng ImplementIDisposableCorrectly

  The rule “ImplementIDisposableCorrectly” should not be displayed in sealed classes as the Dispose(bool) method cannot be declared as protected or virtual. Also, the help page for this rule has no text for this rule and when clicking the feedback button, it generates an e-mail with the subject of InterfaceNamesHaveIPrefix Cheers, Steve  Thanks for posting this pattern. I think the cor ...Show All