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• jscgraggs Context menu in Team Explorer extension

  I'm trying to implement a context menu on a node in my Team Explorer extension. I have my own node object that inherits from BasicHierarchyNode. I have my ctc file created and a header file to hold the guids and ids used in the ctc file and I have created classes in the solution to make the guids and id available to my other classes. To implement I override the ContextMenu method of the BasicHierarchyNode class like this. public CommandId ...Show All

• tony_qy Is there a way to associate the release version to a work item?

  I have installed TFS Server Beta 3 Refresh and started messing around with it.  Everything seems to be working good (for a beta) for me.  All the main path functionality works. My one question for now is if there is a way to associate a version number with a Work Item(bug).  If I wanted to fix a specific set of bugs for the v3.0 release how is that organized   Right now I just see one big pool of bugs with no way to organize ...Show All

• lildan Visual Studio Team Foundation server compatibility with Visual Studio 2003

  I work in a company with four developers using Visual Studio 2003 Professional - we need a new Source Control and Bug tracking system.  Is it possible to use Visual Studio 2003  with Team Foundation Server   I realise we would have to buy Foundation server seperately as well as 4 Client Access Licences, however, this would still be significantly cheaper than 4 copies of the Developer Team Edition. Much as I would like all the ...Show All

• Jingwei Lu finding an exception

  hi, Can anyone tell me what are the different ways of finding out an exception In general, the way to do this is to examine a type's Members. You need to locate a member that has the correct name, return type, parameters, and visibility (or other method-specific) characteristics. Did you not see the information I posted on a second thread on this There was a code snippet on it. http://forums.microsof ...Show All

• hhampa Problem capturing events from TFS (using Web Service Notify(string xmlstr) method)

  Hi,  We tried to build a prototype for capturing the events from VSTS as follows - 1. A windows application - EventingClient - It contains a button - Subscribe - on click of which the following piece of code gets executed to subscribe to workitemchangedevent. //Logon to the VSTS Server  LogonToVSTSServer( "xyz046247.testdom" ); //set the delivery preference to immediate delivery via SOAP DeliveryPreference DP = new Deliver ...Show All

• clr77 Requirement for Team Foundation Server.

  Hello, in my company we use an open source software called NetOffice, in this program people logs in to report the hours they work to the activities their bosses assigns to them. I think that its a good thing to put this on TFS, when you make cronogram, and you assign tasks the users should be able to put how many hours or days did it take to complete an activity. So there must be some reports that shows the manager how many time it took to acc ...Show All

• Malla Is it possible to limit the scope of a Field?

  While working with multiple process definition templates we have noticed that all fields are visible accross all projects regardless of which template was used to create the project. For example: We would like to customize the Priority field in the Bug work item definition and change it from an Integer to a String. Original : < FIELD name = " Priority " refname = " Microsoft.VSTS.Common.Priority " type = " Integer " reportable ...Show All

• tester9999 Team foundation Server Working?

  Hi, I am currently compiling a tecnical report on the working of Microsoft latest Visual studio Team System. I have gone over the resources available in the net. But they are on how to use Team System. I would appreciate if some one can provide me links to resources that describe how Team Foundation Server works I know that TSFS uses web services and SQL server 2005 to store data and generate reports. With Regards, ...Show All

• Fabian Goncalves Release Numbers

  For Tasks, bugs, scenarios etc. where is the best place to stick release numbers Somtimes we will have 50 issues in our current product tracker that spans the next 7 releases. Would these be best put into the Iteration field for easier searching Yeah, very easy and it works. (The field is also added to work items created before you added the field to the template) Look at witexport and witimport for help. Alternatively you can use ...Show All

• juan blanco Updating Assembly Version Information

  Hello, I am looking for a way to automatically update the version information for all projects in a TFS Build.  I have downloaded the AssemblyInfoTask from GotDotNet to take a look at it. Although it works fine for local builds I'm not sure how to use it with TeamBuild - or if it can even be used with TeamBuild.  Since the AssemblyInfo.vb (or .cs) file has to be checked out first I'm not sure how to implement this in a TeamBuild ...Show All

• McZ FxCopCmd 1.35b1 not processing any rules.

  When I run FxCopCmd on the command line from an MSBuild script: C:\Tools\FxCop\FxCopCmd.exe /o:"C:\Projects\Common\trunk\bin\reports\fxcop.xml" /p:"CodeAnalysis.fxcop" /axsl /verbose I noticed it isn't finding any problems even though opening the CodeAnalysis.fxcop project in the GUI does find at least 10 rules that need to be addressed: Microsoft FxCopCmd v1.35.51212.0 Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Microsoft Corp.  All rights reserved. ...Show All

• Jun Fang How can i dynamically create test suite?

  Using MbUnit framework i can create TestSuiteFixture and mark some method with the TestSuite attribute and i'll get dynamically created test suite. For example: [TestSuite] public TestSuite GetSuite() {   TestSuite suite = new TestSuite("a");   suite.Add("SomeTest", new TestDelegate(SomeTest), null );   return suite; }   How can i do this in VSTS What do you define a test squite ...Show All

• adragton create a default work item

  Hi,   I want to add a default work item which contains a predefinate list of links (with other workitem for example) into my process template. I want them to be present in a tabPage in the Form as the LinksControl. I saw how to add default work items with fields in workItem.xml but not how to do it with LinksControl ... I hope you understand what i mean and apologize for my english :)   PS: Is it possible to ...Show All

• CatalinB Cannot Create new project - Sharepoint permissions error

  I have successfully setup a dual server deployment.  I added myself to the admin group as per the installation.  It appears that Sharepoint didnt get configured.  When I try and create a new project in Team Explorer it seems to go through everything and then i get an error saying i dont have permission in Sharepoint to create a site. It seems that there is no configuration in Sharepoint.  The problem may be that i have SP2 n ...Show All

• jas20705 Sourcecode corruption

  I'm having some strange problems using Source Control. Previously I added a borland project just to test how the Source Control worked, and then deleted the files when I had played around with checkout, checking, testing with work items etc. I've now created a small project in VS 2003, and added the project to TF Source Control. When opening the solution from source, the content of the solution file has completely different content from what I c ...Show All