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• Somebody Check-in policy results in high use of shelving

  Check-in policies are a great idea. The result is that we need to find an alternative method for backup up developer's work, since they will no longer be able to check-in periodically throughout a day. Shelving appears to be the best option. However, shelving requires creating a shelveset name, and results in multiple versions of files if done daily or even more frequently. Shelved projects can be deleted and a naming convention developed, but ...Show All

• mark drury Project Creation Problem: Unable to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services

  After installing TFS Beta 3, everything seems ok. Can connect to it, manage it, etc. However I cannot create projects sucessfully. When I try to I get this (excerpt from log): Event Description: TF30162: Task "SharePointPortal" from Group "Portal" failed Exception Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.PcwException Exception Message: Unable to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services at TEAMSYS1 Exception Details: The Project Creation Wizard w ...Show All

• Hugh Perkins_ How we make ViewState Dynamic

  System is giving me ViewState Error when I run the Script recorded in Machine A and run it on Machine B. When I see the view state of the page (where it is failing) it has hard coded value while recording. How do we make it dynamic I tried to extract hidden value from previous page and try to paramatize this hidden value on the hard coded value, it is not working. It still says invalid view state. Please help me, how can we ...Show All

• Johan Nyvaller Web Test - Any support for Client side scripting and ActiveX Testing?

  Hi, I saw that VSTS Web Test are based on request and responses. Is there any support for testing Client Side Scripting and ActiveX controls used in a Web Page Thanks a lot LucasC Lucas, This is definitely something we're looking at improving after Whidbey, but our web/load engine does not currently run client-side script or ActiveX objects.  You can use validation rules to make sure the server sent the correct content (page o ...Show All

• Chris Aus Beta 3 Team Foundation Client: "Invalid license data. Must reinstall"

  After much trial and tribulation, got all the server components of TFS installed sucessfully (single machine installation, workgroup authentication). After all that, installing the client should be easy, right Well, install ran OK, but when I try to run it, get message box saying "Invalid license data. Must reinstall". Need I say that reinstalling didn't help Installed and attempted to run using same tfssetup a/c used in server installs. Any s ...Show All

• craig kelly-soens xpectworld.net Project Portal discussions: Can I have "New" ones opened automatically

  The project portal is a windows sharepoint site. I've placed the General Discussion web part on the home page to make the accessible and useful to the users of our project portal. I've displayed them in the Threaded viw and the threads are all collapsed. That's the good part. When people post new messages to a trhead, those messages are marked witha very used "New" label. The question is, can I get sharepoint to expand all thr ...Show All

• cybercrypt13 TFS on Domain Controller?

  Can TFS Beta 3 be installed in Single-Server Deployment on a server that is also a domain controller   The documentation appears to suggest this is OK (in "How to:  Install Internet Information Services for Team Foundation Server") but I am having some permissions problems relating to asp.net "temporary asp.net files" folder and wondered if it was to do with the asp.net process account on a domain controller Kind regards, Ian ...Show All

• PaisleyBud Problem about program when i run file.exe in another computer

  I'm sending my  Debug Folder of my Project to my friend  It are include 3 files    1.  filename.exe  2.  filename.PDB  3.  filename.ILK then my friend run this application it got error like this   Picture can someone help me . and help me make a install program of my application please   thank you. and how i fix error in the picture. Y ...Show All

• Omnibuzz Visual studio locking up when doing TFS stuff.

  Hi, I am wondering if anyones else is having a similar problem as me. It seems at certain times when I do various actions (getting latest code, checking in something) the action completes and then Visual Studio locks up to the point where I have to kill the devenv.exe from the task list. It has happened to me quite a few times now. I am running the VPC image for the server and have installed the TFC from the en_vs_2005_tfs_trial.iso file. ...Show All

• mjhoagland How to undo the check-out in case the developer leaves the team

  Hi all, We have a problem. One developer checked out a source file in VSTS with the mode of "Prevent other users checking in and checking out". One day he leaves the development team but does not check in the source file. Since he chooses the excluding mode to check out, others cannot check out, and we cannot do any change upon that source file, either. Is there any workaround to unto the developer's check-out Thanks, Le ...Show All

• Bayer Preferred method for setting solution-wide version numbers

  In VS.NET 2003 and our old source control system, we had a file, AssemblyVersionInfo.cs that we shared throughout all of the projects in a solution that would set the version number of all the assemblies in a compilation to the same value. What is the preferred method to acheive this in team foundation Yes, what we have is a top level folder in our tree with shared "include" files like this.  We then set up all of our solutions to re ...Show All

• ToddWolff Merging individual changesets

  I was under the impression that if I did a merge and specified a specific changeset as in: C:\Foo\Branches\Releases> h merge /preview /version:C39 RB-1.0 $/Foo/Trunk and that changeset only contained a change to one file then that one file would be the only one affected by the merge   I am getting other files with conflicts that weren't part of changeset 39.  Is this a bug or (more likely) is my understanding of merging with TF ...Show All

• Bob Torres TFS Beta 3 Install Error 32000 w/ Report Server

  Have repeatedly worked through many of the other issues posted here on this forum associated with installing Beta 3.  It looked like it was finally going to complete the installation when it hit one final snag.  Error 32000.  The Commandline "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Tools\creatds.exe /setup /install http://EDISVRDEV/ReportServer/ReportService.asmx TfsReportsDS "Data Source=EDISVRDEV;in ...Show All

• Scorpiious Upgrade from VS 2005 Pro To Team System

  I have several questions. I want to upgrade from Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition - ENU (what the heck does the "ENU" mean ) to Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers. Do I need to uninstall VS 2005 Pro in order to install VS 2005 Team Ed. for Soft. Developers My installation DVD is MSDN Disc #3073 from December, 2005. The DVD came in an MSDN shipment consisting of only that DVD and a lett ...Show All

• jennie44752 Where is the file, NightlyBuild.exe?

  Hi, all, It must be silly question, but I really need your help. Have anyone ever reads this article about the build automation on TFS : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/NtBldTmSrv.asp I think, it is nice, but, my question is, where is 'NightlyBuild.exe' If anyone knows where it is, please, kindly let me know. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, killem ...Show All