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• Paul Farrell How to: Create a Web Service Test - more typos in MSDN documentation

  The above doc states to type in SOAP-Action when testing web services. This does not work. In the drop-down the correct word is SOAPAction. Thank You. We will update the docs. There are some more typos for creating web plug-ins. On step 4 for both the <How to: Create a Web Test Request Plug-In> as well as the <...Web Test Plug-In> the reference to be added mentioned actually is the using d ...Show All

• Str4fe Useful information that isn't in the warehouse.

  I'm trying to create a graph for a report that shows the inventory of a type of work item over time, among other statistics.  The problem is that the TfsWarehouse database doesn't have System.DateCreated in it.  When I tried to change the template so that System.DateCreated had an attribute of reportable="dimension", uploading the template resulted in the following error: "Actual reporting settings for the field System.CreatedDate are ...Show All

• Jesper144 How team system supports baseline control? CMMI?

  Hello, I am learning a little about CMMI and in my company there are 3 baselines, I dont know a lot about the theory of CMMI but in the company we have an excel file which says which files are the controlled files on each baseline. For example Assigned Baseline 1. Requirements.DOC 2. Arquitecture.VSD 3. ClassDiagram.VSD In any time one of these files can change and I would like to know which version of the base line had the ...Show All

• sm000 Changing Levels,Report Options, Altering existing rule

  Hi, I am using VS2003 and FxCop 1.32 . I have following questions 1. I have created custom rules, but i want to ask whether it is possible to alter/modify  existing rules 2. Can i change default levels of errors/warning like If i want to change Critical warning to warning .. how can i do it 3. Is it possible to log some specific messages to a different xml report in one run 4. I have added words in CustomDictionary. ...Show All

• DC_J Reports in Team Explorer : 403 error

  Hello~ I'm able to create team project and view the report in the browser /Reports">http://<reportserver>/Reports   and /ReportServer/ReportService.asmx">http://<reportserver>/ReportServer/ReportService.asmx  . But, I couldn't view the report in the team explorer in the VS.NET 2005. -- 403 error happend -- Why does it happen How should I do to fix this problem Help me, please.. Thank you. ...Show All

• Steven Guo Checking in a "checkout" lock on a branch?

  Wow this strikes me as odd.  If I want to "lock" a branch, say a checkout lock, I then have to "checkin" that checkout lock.  That's a tad confusing.  I would have guessed that applying a lock was an immediate action like applying a label. It's a little better to think of lock as status on a file rather than a pending change.  You can lock (checkout or checkin lock -- checkout lock is exclus ...Show All

• SSwam devenv.com broken in beta 2?

  The devenv.com command-line utility appears to be broken in beta 2. It works as in previous versions when the solution and source files for which it is invoked are not managed by a source control provider, but it fails with a misleading error message when the solution is managed by source control. The error message is the same one that is displayed when the C# compiler is not installed, but the fact that an incorrect error message is d ...Show All

• Eric Springer Can the Perf counter "PhysicalDisk: % Disk Time" be greater than 100

  I had used PerfMon to collect "Physical Disk:%Disk Time" for my perf-run. "Physical Disk:%Disk Time" is the percentage of elapsed time that the selected disk drive was busy servicing a read or write request. Can this value be greater than 100. I see the following values in perfmon log ie (103.4638,175.2998,100.3468) etc. Thanks, JReddy Yes, strange but true. There's a knowledge base article at th ...Show All

• stephan mantler Project creation problem TFS Beta 3

  Hi, first of all complements to the great improvents made on the install of TFS beta 3. much easier. I still have a problem though. When i try to create a project i get the following error Error Unable to connect to the specified SQL Reporting Services at http://url:8080/ . Explanation The Project Creation Wizard was not able to connect to the SQL Reporting Services at http://url:8080/ . The reason for the failed connection cannot be ...Show All

• R.E Problems with Debug and FxCop

  Hi All, Sometimes when I starts the debug process, it do not stops in my breakpoints. I do the same thing with all my rules, but sometimes all my breakpoints do not work in all my rules.... When it happens, I am forced to create a new project and import all my rules to this new project. It is not a good idea and I'd like to know why it happens and if there is a solution. It happenned 4 times up to now.  I am using fxcop 1 ...Show All

• stupidStan How team system supports baseline control? CMMI?

  Hello, I am learning a little about CMMI and in my company there are 3 baselines, I dont know a lot about the theory of CMMI but in the company we have an excel file which says which files are the controlled files on each baseline. For example Assigned Baseline 1. Requirements.DOC 2. Arquitecture.VSD 3. ClassDiagram.VSD In any time one of these files can change and I would like to know which version of the base line had the ...Show All

• Mandar Chandrakant Jambotkar Posted: Backup and restore procedures for TFS (beta 3 refresh)

  The pre-release documentation for backup and restore has been posted by the VSTS UE team . Backup and Restore Procedures for beta 3 refresh. http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsue/articles/500334.aspx How to: Back Up a Team Foundation Server How to: Restore Team Foundation Server Data How to: Restore Team Foundation Server Data to a Different Server Buck A newer version of the procedure how to restore a Team Foundation Server data-tier server: ...Show All

• Ches Weldishofer Extract text - need the code

  Hi,       I want to see how the extraction rule - extract text has been implemented. Can anyone provide the code. I am trying to implement my custom extraction rule with a few modifications...it would be a big help to me. Thanks, Shrad     Here's a sample regex search routine that can be used in a custom extract text rule. public enum SearchResult { Found, StartsW ...Show All

• e144909 Import Fails if varchar/nvarchar set to MAX length

  I have a SQL 2005 table with the following that I am trying to import in to my DB project:: CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Test_XML] ( [id] [uniqueidentifier] NULL, [name] [nvarchar] (50) NULL, [description] [nvarchar] (MAX) NULL, [testxml] [xml] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY] I get the following error: Error 1 Unexpected token was encountered. If I change the [description] [nvarchar] (MAX) NULL, to [descript ...Show All

• Ganeshm TFS Source Control - Get Latest not working properly - Files are not marked ReadOnly

  A couple problems with TFS Source Control. 1. Sometimes when getting latest, it will tell me that I have lots of conflicts because there are writable versions of a file in my working folder. I go and look and the file attributes are marked with an "A" instead of "R". This happens a lot and some of the files I never even worked on. Is there some way I can re-get everything from source control to overwrite all my files with ...Show All