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• Ashwin Jayamohan Application Diagram: Windows Service

  Is there a way to represent a windows service on the application diagram, other than using the GenericApplication Hello Cindy, Yes you can represent a Windows Service on the Application Diagram. For this, add the Windows Component from the Toolbox. Select this on the Diagram and from the Property grid window, change the Template to "Windows Service". The other available Templates are Windows Application (which ...Show All

• Gordon Radley How to suppress instrumentation of dependent projects?

  I have a solution with several projects: web application, web service, library dlls, etc.  In my case, I have one library dll that I do not want instrumented (I'm only referencing a small portion of the code).  However, it appears that if you choose, via the testrunconfig, to instrument one project output then all dependent libraries are also instrumented, even if they are not checked. I would like code coverage to be pe ...Show All

• Ldaled Question about TFS folders

  This might be somewhat of a weird question. The company that I'm writting my thesis for are using Documentum www.documentum.com to handle alle their document versioning, and are as such not really interested in letting alle the important development documents be handled by TFS. Now if, and I dont' know if this is even possible, I was able to write a documentum extension that would somehow let me interface to a specific folder in Documentum, wou ...Show All

• ovmidori Error with VSCodeGenAccessors and static classes

  I used the test generation wizard to create test stubs for an existing static class, and can't compile the test project now. I receive this error:  '{ClassName}': static types cannot be used as parameters It comes from the ctor for the accessor: public ClassNameAccessor(global::Assembly.ClassName target) :             base(target, m_privateType) { How can you generate tests for sta ...Show All

• John Shuttleworth Default instance not SQL Server 2005

  We're still using SqlServer 2000 in most of our products and a switch to 2005 is currently not possible. I want to ask if there is way we can install TFS without everyone changing their configuration files to use a named instance of SQL Server 2000. Team Foundation does require that SQL 2005 be the default instance. We have some specific checking for this in V1.0. And, at the moment we don't have a direct way ...Show All

• KnowsEnuf2BDangrous The location link appears to not work

  The location link from the section at the bottom of the FxCop window always seems to gove an error indicating it cannot locate the file, the link from within the detail does however locate the code within visual studio. An example of where the actual files are located (The only place Visual Studio seemed to allow to put the files it gave no choose location) is C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\My Documents\Visual Studio\Projects\ProjectNam ...Show All

• Oliviertje How to move the $root repository to other driver (or location)??

  Hi All, I created new project. There 2 issues I need somebody help me. 1. How could I find out the physical path of the $root 2. Can move it to other drive or to network mapping from other server Best Regards, I'm not sure if I understand, Andy.  The root is a path on the server stored in a SQL database.  It cannot be remapped to other drivers or machines other than the TFS data tier. Are you asking about worskpace mappings ...Show All

• AndyB1979 Problem in installing load agent controller with domain account

  Hi, I am trying to install Visual studio 2005 Team Test load agent controller. I have the full admininstrative rights on my machine. While specifiying the logon account for Team Test Controller Service I have given the domain username and password. But while installation it is giving error message "Error 1920.Service 'Visual Studio Team Controller'(vsttcontroller) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start sy ...Show All

• John Dallman Cannot create new team project after upgrade from B3 to RC (error TF30217)

  Hi, after upgrade from TFS Beta3 to RC we cannot create new team projects (team explorer was upgraded, too). We receive error TF30217. The log file looks like this: 2006-02-15 19:34:59Z | Module: Internal | Team Foundation Server proxy retrieved | Completion time: 0 seconds 2006-02-15 19:34:59Z | Module: Wizard | Retrieved IAuthorizationService proxy | Completion time: 0 seconds 2006-02-15 19:34:59Z | Module: Internal | The template inf ...Show All

• Shuang Ma - ?爽 Transferring Team System projects from one server to another

  i have just been given the unenviable task of having to move our team system projects onto another server the new server will just be a completly fresh install of Team Server. is there a step by step guide to transferring the projects over im guessing it wont be simple as that with all the users etc within sharepoint & reporting services. any help is greatly appreciated as im panicing at the thought of it!! Cheers, Craig ...Show All

• Aaron Gibbs Sharepoint Portal Server is not compatible with Visual Studio Team Foundation

  Hi All When I'm trying to install Beat 2 VS 2005 Team foundation getting this error. I have installed Sharepoint portal server 2003 and Sharepoint portal windows service with service pack 1. Also I have installed sharepoint language pack also. But still Im getting this error. Anyone could you plz help me Thanks in Advance. Regards, Raghu Hi Thanks for your mail. Let me try with deployment guide help. Rgds, Raghu SPS 2003 is not com ...Show All

• C#wanabe In Web Tests, How to Validate the values on a grid ?

  I want to validate the values that are shown on a grid , based on the values that are selected on a Combo.(Herein internally, the grid gets filled, when the combo box value is changed.) I would also like to know the selected row from the grid, so as to try it... or else Manual testing has always been there at our help   Here's one example... A solution contains two projects, one project is a ...Show All

• FranckDG Team Build Error - TF42046 - Unable to Execute Team Build

  All,  I am working with a new installation of Team Foundation Server and I am struggling to get the Team Build component to work.  Here is the Setup that I  am working with: All Systems are running in a seperate Domain (BOOKSTORE) from my company's domain (CTS) BSTEAMSYSTEM - this is the Team Foundation Server that is running  Team Foundation Server.  I have the application that I want to build stored here in Sour ...Show All

• Mark Olsen Where can a non-MSDN subscriber get TFS WorkGroup?

  Based on the below info and comparison's on the VS Team site, the workgroup edition is included with all Team Edition VS's. We just purchased a copy of Suite, Developer and Tester. None of the CD's contain it. (obviously because the final was just released) The question now though, is how do we obtain it since we are not MSDN Premium subscribers and that is the only place MS has it to download from "Small Team If you are working on yo ...Show All

• madzip CustomDictionary.xml

  Is there anyway to avoid having CustomDictionary.xml uninstalled when FxCop is uninstalled before installing a new version It would be nice to be able to keep the work I put into collecting various words/acronyms not found in the Office dictionary. Thanks Peter, Users with low rights by default have both write and read access to the folder under their own user profile, so it shouldn't be a problem. By-the-way, the folder Mike p ...Show All