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• Mikester Can I use an existing WSS infrastructure with TFS?

  Instead of using a TFS WSS, I'd like to use an existing WSS infrastructure.  Possible For Beta3 it may be possible, though not tested for Beta3. ----------------- Visual Studio Team System Beta3 is now available at MSDN Subscriber Downloads   ----------------- This post is provided as is and does not always reflect the views of Microsoft Corporation.   Any code samples contained ...Show All

• Reghunath a "pre-sales" question of sorts about source control in TFS

  Our team would sure like to get answers to the following questions before we decide to purchase TFS. Thanks for any information or referrals. Does the version control system support moving a file or directory to a different location in Solution Explorer (via the IDE) while still retaining the history of the file Does the version control system fully support renaming a file in the Solution Explorer (via the IDE) Does the version contro ...Show All

• RobinHuan View published test results

  Hello. I'm having a bit of a problem gathering test results. This is what I would like to do: Run Unit tests on the Build server. Have three/four testers running a set of manual tests. Gather the test results and code coverage to one big test report. This is how I'm trying to do it: 1. Run a build with Unit tests on the build server 2. Have the testers download the binaries and pdb-files from the build 3. Each tester runs their ma ...Show All

• ShadeZero CredentialPassword - Generating the 'encrypted' text

  Given a plaintext password, we want to put the 'encrypted' version into the webtest file's CredentialPassword attribute so that the webtest can (for example) go through NTLM authentication. What is the algorithem used to encrypt it and put it into the "CredentialPassword" attribute in the webtest xml to make this work (so that you can run this WebTest using Visual Studio)   I know we can still put the plaintext and seems to w ...Show All

• Dave Midgley Installing VSTS over Professional

  Hi there, Is it possible to install VSTS over Professional version (supported scenario ) Or is it better to uninstall pro and install VSTS after I have a question concerning integration as well... Is it possible to install the Beta 2 Team System over the final release of Visual Studio Professional 2005 If yes, how If no, can I use a different trial client that integrated with the Beta 2 Team Foundation server Thanks! H ...Show All

• Michael Vanhoutte Can't Fully Install VS 2005 Team Suite Beta 2 with SQL 2005 Express.

  Hello Everyone MAy someone help me to resolve this problem The problems happen since, I uninstall SQL 2005 Beta 2 Release last friday. Right now, I can't get any SQL 2005 install on my workstation, and I don't what cause the problem at all.   Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition April CTP: [2] Error code 1603 Tim Since the best people to solve this are over in the SQL Server forums, you should probably s ...Show All

• devender 1623 Agent problems with Sept CTP

  I installed the new controller/agent on a clean machine.  It appears to have installed correctly, but I can't run any tests on the agent.  The test (a simple web click test) runs fine on my local machine.  I have bumped up tracing on the agent and service.  The controller log says it sucessfully queues the test run and the agent log says it sucessfully connects to the controller, but it just hangs there.  After a while, ...Show All

• aahmad Problem with removing Visual Studio 2005 app-data tier

  I have problem with installation of Team System beta 2. First step I installed required components like .NET2.0, MSSQL2005, etc. After I'm trying to install Team System. However, I'm starting, setup show me message box with information: (o) Uninstall Remove Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation App-Data Tier Beta 2 (English) from this computer. I agree with him and uninstall this component, setup is finished. But when I res ...Show All

• Art Gaisin VSTF installatoion error

  I am trying to install VSTF beta3 \\products\Public\Products\Betas\Developers\Visual Studio 2005\Beta 3\VSTF on a single server (Win2K3, SP1), based on the installation guide http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=e54bf6ff-026b-43a4-ade4-a690388f310e&displaylang=en The pre-install checklist is strictly followed. But still I am getting following strange error during VSTF installation: Error 32000. The ...Show All

• Kieran Snyder Object not set to an instance after check-in

  I just cheked in all my files and at the end I got that error message.  Everything appears to be checked in, but I have no way to do a recursive compare to be sure. The option I chose was "Check in pending changes..." from the context menu of the SCE at the top of the Tree. Brien - which version of VSTS bits are you using Meanwhile perhaps you might want to try doing a devenv /resetuserdata  and restarting VS. ...Show All

• Chikodef Command line itemspec (sometimes at beginning; sometimes at the end)

  There seems to be no ryhme or reason as to where the itemspec/filespec shows up in a command line.  Some command line LOCK want it at the beginning and others like UNDO want it at the end.  Does it matter   If so, how about picking one and sticking with it.  :-) I found at least one nasty case were parameter order does matter in Beta 3.  Try this: Create a dir and a number of dirs ...Show All

• barnefr Is VSTS Client Beta 2 compatible with Visual Studio July CTP?

  Hi there,      One of the developers in my company already has visual studio 2005 July CTP version, who wants to install VSTS client for Bug tracking purpose, which is Beta 2 version. Now would that be ok to install that and make them work in parallel or should we need to upgrade our VSTS client to July CTP to work in his machine Thanks, Any The client/server protocol has had many changes and optimizations between beta ...Show All

• Music DOT NET

  I am trying to develop a rule which should do the following check logic on the class. If a default implementation is provided for a particular interface, a similar name should be used for the implementing class. Note that this applies to classes that only implement that interface. Example: A class implementing the IComponent interface could be called Component or DefaultComponent Can anybody help me ...Show All

• Darren Whobrey Question about TFS folders

  This might be somewhat of a weird question. The company that I'm writting my thesis for are using Documentum www.documentum.com to handle alle their document versioning, and are as such not really interested in letting alle the important development documents be handled by TFS. Now if, and I dont' know if this is even possible, I was able to write a documentum extension that would somehow let me interface to a specific folder in Documentum, wou ...Show All

• tkerns Important Information

  Hi, Im trying to create my own custom rules... logic looks very simple but there is not enough information specially about the namespace Microsoft.Cci Where can I find more information about the types of Microsoft.Cci Or where can I find information about how to start developing my own custom rules We are evaluating FxCop to apply in the white box quality assurance process in the biggest bank in Ecuador ( Banco del Pichincha www.to ...Show All