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• Mahesh Chandramouli TF hanging

  When I run "tf.exe" commands that affect my workspace the program hangs indefinitely.  For example, if I run "tf.exe /workspace /server:myserver /comment:myComment" the program just sits.  Now, I did move my workspace recently with some files left checked out.  I don't know whether this may have caused problems.  But I deleted the workspace from another machine. My other machine works fine, however. Inside Visual Studio ...Show All

• Drum Red Time Log for Customized Tasks

  Hey all, I have implemented a few customized tasks in our team build. Everything works well, but I would like to see if there's a way to know how much time these tasks take. I checked the Build Summary and Steps report, but it doesn't have the time information for the customized tasks. I think I would have to modify the tasks so that they log the information in the report when they are run. Does anyone know how to do that thanks ...Show All

• Mikhail Kurskiy Unable to connect to BIS service

  Hi When I try to connect to Team Foundation Server I receive an error message: Unable to connect to BIS service Cannot connect to domain <domain name>. Projects for <domain name> not retrieved. Can You help me Thanks Arthooix Thank you Buck for your answer. yes I am running as TFSSETUP account and i still cant find a solution to this problem. I was able to connect to the server before but not ...Show All

• waterwalk Installing Team Edition over Standard Edition

  I just realized that somehow I installed the Standard Edition instead of the Team Edition. Can I install the Team Edition right over top of the Standard Edition or should I uninstall first I have already created some projects, will this screw anything up i just setup last week and ran into issues with side by side installation. i had to uninstall and clean registires and then install team edition... ...Show All

• Pankaj Sabnis Branch with Team Build?

  I'm relatively new to Team Build and have just successfully created a script to build a Web Deployment Project. Now I need (if it's possible) to Branch as the first step in the Team Build process, then continue the build from that new Branch. Is this possible, and would anyone please post instructions or a link to someone else’s Thank you!!! Hello Scott - Out of curiosity, why do you want to branch each ...Show All

• heppiedad Visual Studio crashing all the time

  I have two virtual servers running, one with Team Foundation server Beta 3 and Sql 2005, and one with Visual Studion Team edition RC installed. When working on the Visual Studio box, it constantly crashes and especially when working with tests.  Both virtual machines have 1500 MB of memory allocated. Is this not enough maybe I had the previos betas installed as well and they did not crash this often. Seems a bit too much fo ...Show All

• Mchafu Authentication problem with WSS and TFS

  I have installed a TFS server on a machine that is member of a domain. Once I created the team project I tried connecting to the Team Portal Site. Every time I do this it asks me for credentials and it only accepts the local administrator. The user (domain) I'm logged on with is part of the local admin group and is the user I used to install TFS with. The user is also administrator on the WSS portal. The app pool for the WSS site is configured t ...Show All

• Peej73 No data in LatestWorkItemRev_Fact in BisDWDB Database

  Hi there,      After doing some investigation that why there is no reports, I found out that there are no rows in LatestWorkItemRev_Fact table in BISDWDB database. Even though there are tons of bugs have been opend over last few days. Could someone tell me what could be the issue here Thanks, Anu Is it just that fact or is data not moving in at all If it's just that fact, we'll have to dig deeper for a bug. If the ware ...Show All

• BrijeshK biztalk server 2006 server administration

  When I click on biztalk server 2006 server administration from the biztalk server 2006. i get the following error snap-in failed to initialize Class id :{9a77c670...... I uninstalled and installed atleast 3 times. But this error seems not to go away. Its so frustruating.. Please help. let me know if u need any more info. Hello You should post this to one of the biztalk newsgroups. http://msdn.microsoft.c ...Show All

• John5150 Worst product install I've seen yet.

  I've got to say that I think that this is the worst product install I've seen Microsoft release to date.  It doesn't matter if you take a virgin machine, with windows 2003, follow the install guidelines to the letter, including the seemingly 'hard coded' required service names, you still end up with 28100 - Error on the event web service.... 28703 - Unable to connect to the SQL Server.. Then the roleback doesn't remove the application prop ...Show All

• nolim8ts Configuring Email address for the alert service

  Hi, During the setup of the foundation server i, had left the field, " Enter the Email address from which the alerts seem to originate ",blank. However i would now like to configure the server to send alerts .  Is there some way i can configure this email address , from which the alerts should originate Kind regards Check out Akhila's answer in http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=17517 . Buck The specific t ...Show All

• BigTre Visual Studio Team Software Testing

  Can you tell me please if Visual Studio Team Tester will allow me to generate automated test scripts for testing a 3rd party software application. That is, does it have the functionality to record key strokes and mouse movements etc on a GUI application Many Thanks Hi Mandy There are several posts already talking about this issue. You can see http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=27620 ...Show All

• GuidoBrunner Checking in/out project does not check in/out all files as expected

  I am noticing that in a couple of our projects when I check in or out the entire project not all items are checked in/out as expected. This behavior does not happen with all projects. This seems to happen when I check in/out these projects from within Solution Explorer when right clicking the project and choosing "Check in" or "Check out for Edit..." We are using Team Server Beta 3 Refresh with Visual Studio .NET 2005 RTM. Does anyone know why t ...Show All

• Walt Parkman Team Build vs MSBuild

  Hi I am a bit confused over whats the best way to run. i am trying to setup a build that does the following : Run Some Unit Tests Perform Code Analysis Create Docc (NDOC) Notify Developers if the Build is broken Deploy target code to another server and build a web site Run some web tests against the new server. I know this is possible using MSBuild, but where does this fit into Team Build I am getting a little bit confused over what I should be ...Show All

• Chris French How I can show the line number where the error takes place

  How I can show the line number where the error takes place. Now I have this code: (but only it serves me in methods) public override Microsoft.Cci.Node Visit(Node node) { if (node.SourceContext.Document != null ) { this .SourceNode = node; return node; } else { return base .Visit(node); } } public void ControlarError(Problem problema, Node node) { try { Visit(node); ...Show All