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• Dhatri TFS Installation is TOO Convoluted, Complicated, and Prone to Error

  The Team Foundation Server installation is way too convoluted, complicated, and prone to error. I sincerely hope that it will be streamlined when the RTM release occurs later this year. What do you think There would be hardly anybody who doesnt agree to this fact.. I must say you are few of the blessed one to get it up and running.  I am still struggling... I guess one thing MSFT can do in the release version is some kind of health c ...Show All

• Ruben T Msscci provider 1.1 is out!

  We've just released version 1.1 of Team Foundation Msscci Provider. It's available here . The most important changes are following: Support for Enterprise Architect 6.1 and PowerBuilder 10.5 Fixed order of parameters passed into external diff tool (it's the same as in Whidbey now) Work items can be reviewed and edited from inside the Checkin Dialog Setup is working in x64 architecture Checkin locks are treated as exclusive ...Show All

• Dome C. Report Checked Out Items and Changed Items

  Hi, Where can I find a list of all Source Control checked out items Where can I find a list of all Source Control changed items between two dates Regards Simon Hi Richard, Thanks a lot for that information!! Is there also a way to get the check-In notes between dates Regards Simon If you're in Team Explorer (the client add-in to Visual Studio for Team Foundation), you can open Source Control Explore ...Show All

• Xiongxiong2007 Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider Beta 2 Now Available (Feb 20, 20006)

  The Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider Beta 2 is now available here . IMPORTANT:   Beta 2 is not strongly signed, so you'll need to disable strong name validation as mentioned in the README.  You can find details at http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/02/21/536260.aspx . New in this beta: Support for Visual Studio 2003 and Fox Pro in addition to the already supported VB6 and VC6. Integrated Checki ...Show All

• Prophit User Problem adding / removing servers from the DomainProjectPicker control

  I have an issue related to adding servers to the list of servers provided by the DomainProjectPicker control (Beta 3 Refresh). Basically, if you remove a server you cannot seem to re-add it during the run of the application that launches the control. You need to restart the application in order to add the server back... Here are steps to reproduce it: create a WinForms app that shows the DomainProjectPicker control from a button handler ...Show All

• Mijoal Moving code from one team project to another

  In Beta 2 I tried to move code from one team project to another, but nothing happens. I don't get an error and the file stubbornly refuses to move. (I am able to sucessfully move a file to another location within its current team project structure.) I am unable to reproduce the issue. If I run across this issue again, I'll try to remember the exact steps to repro. Sounds like something you're doing is throwing an exception that ...Show All

• bahy Failed to merge the code coverage result of dll

  Hi all, I run the same dll on two computers. When I try to merge the code coverage results of the two run, it always fails. All the results turn to be zero. Is there any way to solve this Thx Tracy Hi Tracy, I tried the simplest case here and could not repro your problem. I created a C++ class libary which has two simple functions. I built it and got a .dll and .pdb file. I created unit tes ...Show All

• sujayg Problem with MSSCCI Provider

  Hi I've installed the latest version of the provider and tried to open a solution from tfs. It starts working fine(very slow) and gets all the folders and the csproj files but thats about it. It looks like its working but thats as far as it would go. no cs files! After few attempts, removed this version and installed the beta2 version and now it works. Avi Taking into consideration that the ...Show All

• ShortBus getting "Could not connect to Application tier" when accessing certain docs

  Certain users get a "Could not connect to Application tier" error when accessing certain team server docs, such as Project Management\Scenarios.xls.  I, who installed and created the project, do not get this error. I have not found much on this particular error online.  Does anyone have any input on this   Thank you in advanced. Hi Edwin4GS, we had exactly the same problem. In our case we c ...Show All

• Israel213 Need to install Client part of VSTS

  Hi All, I want to install Client part of VSTS in my local machine. Can anyone give me the location from where i can install that. Also Configuration of the client machine required. Thanks in advance Mousumi Sahoo I've merged your two threads since it looks like an accidental dupe. Are you trying to install Team Suite or one of the role-based editions, or are you trying to install Team Explorer (the client side ...Show All

• John Askew VSTS Ship Date?

  VS 2005, SQL 2005 and .NET 2.0 are supposed to release in early November, however on the FTP web site they are saying this: Updates and firm release dates for Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 (together previously code-named "Whidbey"), along with SQL Server 2005 (previously code-named "Yukon"). The target release dates are well within Microsoft's most recently stated goal (second half 2005), although some of the features expected in t ...Show All

• JanBaan Project Cost Control in MSF and Team System for Agile

  Hi, i dont know if is out-of-topic, but in some Project Manager diciplines the Project Manager should be concern about the project’s costs. At my company we are dealing with two issues: (1) Once most of the Agile metodologies is based in the fact that we dont have a clear vision of the whole project at its early life cycle and it should be detailed along the software cycle iterations. Is it possible to work with a fix Project Price The ...Show All

• Shai Kariv - MSFT Synchronizing Predecessor Info between VSTS and Project

  Since developers will probably not look at MS Project and will look at VSTS, we feel that predecessor information needs to be captured for Tasks, since tasks frequently have dependencies. Hence, we added a custom field in the process template to specify task predecessors. However, the predecessor information specified in VSTS does not get synchronized with MS Project. Also in VSTS, the predessor info contains VSTS-ass ...Show All

• GregAbd Visual Studio 2005

  We recently recieved a letter from Microsoft stating that upon renewing our MSDN Universal subscription we should choose from one of the following versions of Visual Studio.NET. Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers We are currently using Visual Studio 2003 Enterprise Architect. We are developing multi-tier medical bi ...Show All

• Martin Thorsen TFS RC1 Install - Account Related Errors

  Hi There, I've been trying to install TFS RC1 for several days and must confess to be running out of strength having encountered (and to some extent) solved a number of different errors. Environment is: Fresh Install of Windows Server 2003 SP1 Followed by a fresh Install of SQLServer 2005 (2 attempts) Windows Share Point Services SP2 (3 attempts) TFS RC1 (many attempts) We are running a Samba Domain server with L ...Show All