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• Matt Bamberger Work Item Customization - How do I create multiline textboxes on the Work Item Form?

  I am trying to display 3 controls on the Description tab of the Bug Work Item. Instead of 1 "Description" field, I would like to show "Actions to reproduce," "Current outcome," and "Expected outcome." Here is an excerpt from my SampleBug.xml: (From field declaration area) < FIELD name = " Actions to Reproduce " refname = " MyCompany.ActionsToReproduce " type = " String " reportable = " dimension " >< REQUIRED />& ...Show All

• Butch Clark Team Project Creation failed because of some user account problems

  I used a single-server mode and encountered the following error: Error TF30004: The New Team Project Wizard encountered an unexpected error while initializing the Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.Reporting plug-in. Explanation TF30171: The Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.Reporting plug-in used to create the new team project could not be initialized and returned the following error: TF30224: Failed to retrieve projects from the report ...Show All

• Kevin2 Can I get Team Build to run custom task, immediately compile a solution and then repeat in a loop?

  Ok, since I don't think the title conveyed the intent of this post, here's a more verbose question. I am doing a POC with Team Builds. I need to do the following: Get all source code for the build For each solution in the Team Build If the current solution requires code generation Then Run the CodeGeneration custom task for current solution End If Compile current solution Next Solution The reason I need this in tha ...Show All

• Shells Changing Drop Location in team build

  Hi, We have developers at two different sites.   Is it possible to have a single team build type that we can run on build machines at each site using a drop location local to the site Dean Yes, you are right.  In Beta 3 we were redundantly passing the DropLocation. We fixed this sometime after Beta 3 and since I tried on my dev box which has latest build installed, it worked.  Sorry about i ...Show All

• Joseph Kasende Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation

  Hi, (VS 2005, Beta 2) I get the error "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation" when I try to open any of the test windows using "Test|Windows|Test View" or any similar approach. I created a new solution a while ago and added some unit tests. Everything was working great, until now... Anybody have any suggestions Thanks, Tor Langlo I think you might be on to something here with the namespace/a ...Show All

• ShabbirK DataDriven test /TestContext DataRow support for C++

  I've created a C++ test project  in VS2005. I'm able to connect to my database, but I don't know how to make a call to access the database. The examples show to use TestContext.DataRow [<column name>] but this example is for C#.   Where's a good place to find examples for C++ Your test context will look like this: private: TestContext^ testContextInstance; public: prope ...Show All

• Healthcare Network Admin Jerry can VS2005 Team Suite and VS2002/2003.NET co-exist?

  We are in the process of evaluating VSTS Beta2. May I ask all developers to install VS2005 without uninstalling VS2002/2003.NET without conflicts Disclaimer: This is my personal perspective, hopefully others will speak up as well. You should be able to *install* both. I actually ran into some weirdness when I installed 2003 *after* 2005, but as far as being able to use both, you should be fine. Remember that ...Show All

• ash927 Recurring TFS errors in event log

  Starting about 60 hours ago, the System Log began showing this series of error, sourced from TFS, recurring continuously about every 2 minutes: > eDT: Field CategoryId is missing for fact Result; no default value defined for type NChar. Followed by: > eDT: Adding fact Result got exception System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Specified > argument was out of the range of valid values. > > Parameter name: Missing field value fo ...Show All

• ggvw VSTS Version Control and Phantom Items

  Has anyone else seen this happen A few of my fellow developers have run into what I've called "Phantom Items" in the VSTS Version Control System. Basically, what I mean by this is items that appear in the pending check-ins dialog but that are [no longer] part of the VS solution. When they appear, there seems to be no way to get rid of them short of directly going to the VSTS Version Control window and manually manipulating the repository fil ...Show All

• chamm3r Unauthorized Exception while creating a new project from VSTS client, WHY?

    I am in Namespace Administrator group of TFS, but when i try to create a project from my client then i get this exception . What can be the possible solution and What permission setting i have to make at WSS and RS ---begin Exception entry--- Time: 04/29/2005 07:11:09.720 Module: Initializer Event Description: Initialization for plugin " Microsoft.Pcw.wss" failed with error: "The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized ." Exce ...Show All

• LMS65 Trying to run

  I'm trying to run the 'Work Items' report. But when I do I get asked for the Iteration. I'm using MSF Agile so have three iterations but none is listed in the drop down box on the report window. Is there anyway I can get to run the report (this is running Team Explorer on the same machine as TFS is installed running as TFSSetup). Thanks, I did delete a project and re-add it with the same name. Is there a workaround for this Thanks, ...Show All

• mEt Remote Access Question - Web Server on different Server than TFS

  Hi, Is it possible to install Team Foundation Server all on one box, and then have a publically facing web server on another box to accept remote access requests to TFS We don't want to put all TFS applications on a publically facing box, but do want to enable remote access as we don't have a VPN. We are currently using the VSS 2005 internet plugin which required us putting our source on the publically facing web server, which is not ideal. ...Show All

• 10e Auto-Save of Manual Test Results in Beta2?

  I am using VSTT Beta2 and I have couple of Manual Tests defined. When I run the tests they run alright, but after I close the project I do not see any auto-saved *.trx files. Although the documentation from [ ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v80.en/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VSENT.v80.en/dv_vsetlt01/html/043df693-8af2-4a85-b4ba-876446057a82.htm ] states "Visual Studio Team Test automatically saves test results to your computer's hard disk when you run tests. " So wher ...Show All

• baty Problem with Workitem access control - does VS cache things?

  Hello! We have a problem with what seems to be access control in the work items. We are running TFS Workgroup edition (with domain accounts) on single-server installation Virtual Server running on Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition R2. The TFS version is RTM Workgroup. The problem occurs on user account that was defined to be Server and Project administrator as well as belongs to SharePoint services defined administrator user group. ...Show All

• beshaghy How does the OverlayIconIndex property of class BaseHierarchyNode work(TFS related)

  I'm assuming that the index would point to the same imagelist as that used for the display icon of the node but this seems not to be the case. Furthermore I'm guessing that provided I could get this function to work the icon at the index would be overlayed on the main Icon. Sort of like the short cut overlay icon. Am I right in my assumptions and can some one show me how to use the property. Thanks. Hi Morten, Can you ple ...Show All