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• idflyfish Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation

  Hi, (VS 2005, Beta 2) I get the error "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation" when I try to open any of the test windows using "Test|Windows|Test View" or any similar approach. I created a new solution a while ago and added some unit tests. Everything was working great, until now... Anybody have any suggestions Thanks, Tor Langlo If a "Web Setup Project" Deployment project exists within your ...Show All

• Shyam Bharath possible Workaround to use an XML file as a data source in unit tests

  I am trying to use VSTS to run tests that were previosly coded using XML files. For each test there is an XML file that is the equal to 1 row of a data-set. My idea is to: 1) Create an Excel file with the names of the XML files 2) Create a unit test that uses the Excel file as a data source 3) When the test starts have it create a dataset (DS) and populate DS using the XML file referenced in TestContext.DataRow[0 ] 4) fill in the values of ...Show All

• Neil_F Web tests resulting in Internal Server error due to Invalid ViewState

  I am seeing an odd problem when testing our web site.  I have no problems navigating through our website manually from a web browser and experience no problems when creating a web test that navigates through our web site. But, when I run the web test I created, then I keep getting an "Internal Server Error" on the first server page transfer.  When I look at our server logs it indicates that the problem is caused by an invalid ViewStat ...Show All

• ekekakos Workspace is already mapped problem

  I just installed TFS (beta 2) and I get the following error message when opening a solution from source control using VS 2005 beta 2 : The path 'd:\temp\xxx' is already mapped in workspace PCMRE\Disney\JMP. PCMRE is the workstation having this problem, Disney is the domain where TFS is installed and JMP is my own user account. The guy using this workstation has the MRE account. Due to security misconfigurations on the TFS server (my fault), MR ...Show All

• lray801 TFS and Project Server 2003

  Hi, When I create a new project in Project Professional 2003 not connected to Project Server 2003, I select the option Team>Choose Team Project, everything works fine. When I create a new project connected to Project Server 2003, I select same option and the following error appears: TF80071: Team Foundation encountered an error while accessing the work item database ... The scenario that I want is the ...Show All

• dianascherff Roles and Users

  Hi, How can I define roles How  can I assign different roles to a same user Is Project the way Thanks Leticia Thanks, Eric. Now, I'm in other step : 1) I have two new users created by Active Directory, which were added as members to the Team  Foundation Administrators group. 2) The same two users appears as new integrants inside Project Manager-Development Project Plan.  The problem :  In Vs,Team explorer, ...Show All

• Bernardo Heynemann 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 Yes, you have to install VSS2005 first. No, you do ...Show All

• Narrabeenzzz Various Package Load Failures with Beta 2 Install

  Yesterday I installed the new beta 2 of Team System. All appeared OK, i.e. no errors in install. However, I went to Tools/Options and clicked this. I was presented with a Package Load Failure stating that the Visual Studio Settings and Project Designers Package had failed to load, etc. I clicked No and got an Options dialog that had errors on the Text EditorBasic Editor and Windows Forms Designer Data UI Customization items. I decided to just cl ...Show All

• Jigar acharya How to generate a 'physical output' from the sharepoint query result?

  Hi, I'm using a SQL Query Analyzer to run a query in my sharepoint database. The query doings fine, and it shows results. My question here, how can we use the result and put those files into a folder It doesnt matter a particular or not, but basically to generate a 'physical output' from the result query that we had. Previously, i'm using VSS Reporter where it can search my database through labels, and able to select the particular l ...Show All

• wolfgang haag Team System Virtual PC images

  I thought I heard some talk about Team Foundation Server Virtual PC images being given used at PDC (or TechEd I forget which). I was wondering if there were any plans to make this available to the public or to MSDN Subscribers. It'd be great if they were as it would save a lot of time, when all many of us really want to do is get it up and running so we can test the functionality. Trying to sell this technology to the check writers is difficult ...Show All

• The Bear Adding users to Team Foundation Server

     All, Here is the situation. I launch VS 2005 go to tools/ connect to Foundation Server / servers /add. When I try to add a server it brings up the login box for my team server but none of the accounts I try work. My question is how do I add users to the foundation server so that I can connect using VS 2005. Also, how do I know that the server is running. What should be running under services Any help would be greatly appreciate ...Show All

• russian Windows Sharepoint Services is not configured as Recommended by Team Foundation Server

  I have gone through an installed all of the parts for Team Foundation Server. I installed SharePoint Services 2 (SP1). When the final page came up I did not do anything (per the instructions). I still keep getting "Windows Sharepoint Services is not configured as Recommended by Team Foundation Server" . I can not select "continue" as it goes back to the main Team Foundation Server Setup. What can I do   Matthew  I have the ...Show All

• Alek_Rus Microsoft Solutions Framework: A Pocket Guide - Recommendations?

  Does anyone recommend reading this book Microsoft Solutions Framework: A Pocket Guide http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9077212167/qid=1123079139/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-0091651-7011831 v=glance&s=books&n=507846 I have/read both pocket guides (MSF and MOF). My opinions about MSF Pocket Guide: - useful just as reference – they do not go far from white papers - as Bindiah said MSF v3 is covered Its abou ...Show All

• Michael He error when install december CTP of TFS

  I got an error message when install December CTP of TFS. It says: "D:\program files\Microsoft visual studio 2005 team foundation server\tools\TFRSconfig.exe " /setup /install /s chatsql2 /u "NT Authority\Networkservice" /buildInIdentity /l 1033" returned non-zero value:-2147220957. chatsql2 is the data tier machine.   Do you have any idea on this Hi Jemmy - Posting setup issues in the Setup and admin issues forum wo ...Show All

• Mostafa Omar Change Project in a Excel file

  Hi. I just copied the Issues.xls file from one Team Project to another. When I open the copied Issues.xls it still points to the first Team Project. How do I change the Team Project in the Issues.xls file Cheers, Chris There is a manual way of doing this: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=273633&SiteID=1 Thanks! The answer given by Yogita applies only to mpp-f ...Show All