Answer Questions

• moimoiiomiom Application layer on same machine as Sharepoint Portal Server 2003

  Hi We are looking at changing our single server installation do a dual server and when doing this we want to install the Application layer of TFS on a machine that is running Sharepoint Portal Server 2003. I have found postings implying that it would work as long as I upgrade WSS to sp2 but I have also found postings saying that setup will not allow me to install on a machine that has Portal Server installed. (these postings are both for o ...Show All

• gheese Spelling checker for work item contents

  I would think that a spelling checker would be a must-have for work item contents. Is this on the radar not for this version, but good suggestion. we'll put this on the list going forward. thanks, Lori Lamkin ...Show All

• praveen gupta Publishing Test Results

  I have come across something strange with posting Test Results. This is security related. I have a user (developer1) that just ran some Tests. Now this user wants to publish these test results. The following security permissions/settings have been set for this user: The user is part of the <workspace>\Contributors group. The <workspace>\Contributors group has permissions set to "publish test results". The user also has "My Reports" ...Show All

• sof4king Setting up Alerts

  My install (single-server) of Team System was very smooth, except for a small glitch that I received when I inputted my smtp server.  It stated that it could not connect to the smtp server, however, I was able to ping it without any problem. I thought it might correct itself, but when I try to set up the alerts, nothing ever gets sent. First of all, is there a place where I can update the smtp setting for Team System   Also, if it tri ...Show All

• PuTeFabiO Namespace Administrators ?

  I find the term "Namespace Administrators" confusing.  What is meant by "Namespace" here   Isn't this really "Repository Administrators"   It is defined in the Team Foundation security service, which is known internally as GSS (you may have heard of gssutil, if that term sounds familiar). Buck So Team Foundation Groups exist an entities in a SQL database ...Show All

• Dems Track the "for" statement

  Hi, I need to track the "for" statement in my code. For this i am going thru the instructions and checking for the node type "for". But i could not get the solution. My code is ......... -------------------------- int memberCount = type.Members.Length; for ( int  mc = 0; mc < memberCount; mc++) { Method method = type.Members[mc] as Method ; for ( int count = 0; count < method.Instruction ...Show All

• Rose123 Project Creation Failure

  Hi, I installed the team server again today on an other server. Both server and client are member of different domain. Username on both domains is the same, but they use different password ... The account has been added to the namespace administrators. Now i'm able to connect to the team server from in visual studio but cannot create a new team project. After the wizard i get the following error: No user identity info returned from GSS Log deta ...Show All

• invalid display Data driven testing - multiple sources

  I have what is probably an easy question for you testing geniuses. I have an access database I want to use as the unit testing datasource. I have one test method where I want to use information from multiple tables in the  database to feed my data-drive test. Is it possible to do this using the attributes provided with .net or do I have to write my own How do you go about adding a 2nd and 3rd datasource to the test The [DataSource] ...Show All

• Avi_harush Try to connect to SQL Express or SQL DB Error...Failed to generate a user instance

  When I try to connect to a datasource, any Datasource, I am getting an Error that a User Instance could not be created for the current user... Your question will be best answered in the Visual Studio General forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowForum.aspx ForumID=25 When you post your question there, please include additional information, such as: project type programming language installed products ...Show All

• Martin Hooper TFS B3R and Office12

  I've installed the TF-Client on a computer with Office2003 ... all worked just fine. Then I upgraded to Office12 B1. Now Excel and Project have problems to connect to the server: TF84034: Team Fundation was unable to initialize the workbook. This document will no longer be associated with a Team Foundation server: TF80071: Team Foundation ecountered an error while accessing the work item database. Please contact the Team Foundation Server admin ...Show All

• Paris Baughman Project creation problem

  OK I'm probably being dense here. Installation is a single server with reporting services, sharepoint, SQL all running. I can get to the relevant pages. The client can see the server and ping it over the network. Both are in a W2K3 domain and the DC is running SP1 as is the VSTF Server. tfssetup and tfsservice are both local admins and domain admins so should have all the necessary permissions. I'm logged in using the tfssetup account (tried als ...Show All

• Pym Namespace rule

  Hi, I need to check my component namespace to abide by the rule that all the namespaces should be prefixed with Companyname.Groupname.Productname Please let me know how i can acheive this. I'm using VS 2005 Static Code Analysis. If there is an existing rule, please let me know. If i need to customize, it would be great if you can let me know what i need to do implement this rule. Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Kumar ...Show All

• janfe313 The node specified is not found in the classificaiton hierarchy

  Using Beta 3. Used CMMI template to create new team project. Opened up "Areas and Iterations" windows for new project. Deleted Iteration 1 and 2 nodes. Renamed Iteration 0 node to 3.0.0. Tried to run "All Work Items" query and recieved this error: TF51011: The node specified is not found in the classification hierarchy. Is this a known bug Hi there! The same happened to me. However, after one or two minutes later, all starte ...Show All

• Brad Raulston Distributed System template

  Hello, I've just downloaded Visual Studio Team System Beta 2 and started "looking into" the Team System features but was unable to locate the Distributed System Solutions project types when creating a new project.  Where can I find these Thanks, Scott Mead Marking this as the correct answer for now while Jyothi and Scott work on this offline so I can stop getting reminder e-mail every day Hi ...Show All

• capttrekker TFS Source Code\Document seperation

  TFS Explorer seperates Source Code control from the other document types. 1. Why was this done 2. Can a TFS Administrator restrict, say Business Analysts, from accessing source code contained in TFS while at the same time allowing programmers to access it Or is the idea behind TFS that everyone should have at least read only access to all documents in the Team project TIA, Barkingdog ...Show All