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Tom Z. VS 2005 Team automatically includes local files into the solution/project
Visual Studio 2005 Team - Architect with/without Visual studio sourcesafe 6.0d Visual studio 2005 team architect automatically adds the local exisiting files into the solution or project by default. "Exclude Files" doesn't work the same way that in VS 2003. For example if you close your project and copy some source files in to the project folder. after you reload the solution, VS 2005 recognises those files as newly added files ...Show All
Deadman How to delete a /$folder from Source Control?
After deleting a team project using the " TFSDeleteProject", although all the work items and sharepoint site and reports are all gone, the source control project is not being deleted. I've tried "TFSDeleteProject" with the "/force" option and also followed the instruction on this discussion forum: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=4809&SiteID=1&PageID=2 with no luck. Is there any way of deleting thi ...Show All
Davidsfg1 TFS Licensing Scenario
Hi all, Suppose that I have a team with 10 users, which all of them used VS for Team Developers edition. To use RTM version of TFS, I need to purchase only: 1. One TFS Server CAL for single deployment. I assume that we no longer need to purchase 10 TFS User CAL because the VSTD already counted as one licensed User CAL Am I right Please clarify. ================= Some questions: 1. We are VS Integration Partner. Would we g ...Show All
vbMikef List a user's activity...
Is it possible to list the history of a certain user's activity in Team Foundation; like [when] he checked in/out [which] files etc. Also, can I prevent certain users from merging code, only one person can merge If so, then what do I do when they want to check in files that are not merged, should they overwrite and the merger rolls back or what Thank you, Sammy With respect to preventing users from "merging ...Show All
doubletree Problem in changing the System.AreaPath Field in Work Item.
Hi, We customized the MSF Agile Template according to our project requirement. Now when we create a new Work Item we now want to make the "Area Path" field to accept the values from given by the user who is going to create the work item. But the problem is that it is by default displaying the project name in that field and if the user want's to changes the value it is not allowing him to do. We placed the following statm ...Show All
Taladan What is the purpose of the standard categories of checkin notes?
I can understand why a developer might want to add some notes to describe a changeset, but I can't see the purpose of the standard categories of: Code Reviewer Security Reviewer Performance Reviewer If you make it mandatory to provide these three types of notes before check-in are you envisaging that three different people will have to call by your desk and type-in some comments before you can submit your changeset Hopefully not! It would mak ...Show All
alex.knights Cannnot Connect to TFS
I have TFS setup in a Single-Server environment on a server within my companies domain. Today, I tried to connect to TFS and received the following error in an alert box: Team Foundation Server TF31001: Team Foundation cannot retrieve the list of team projects from Team Foundation Server <servername>. The Team Foundation Server returned the following error: The request failed with HTTP status 503: TF30059: Fatal error while initializing we ...Show All
Kenn Roland Stopping the build committing when it fails
When a build fails in the AfterDropBuild it still commits the work items and changesets so that next time the build executes, it does not associate with all the changesets and work items. Is there someway of stopping this Umm - actually not. The changesets and the work items association happens in a step before the DropBuild. That is why even if BeforeDropBuild (or later targets) fail(s), the changesets and work items commiting r ...Show All
Ziad Adada Source code control with documentation?
Hi all, Can someone tell me if our UML documentation for versions of source code can also be controled and stored within TFS Thanks To be totally clear, TFS does not care what kinds of files you store in source control. The only differences I can think of: old file versions are stored in SQL as diffs. binary file diffs are computed with a different algorithm. by default, files with extensions kn ...Show All
gtb TFS SErver Beta3 single server installation failed
with following error event log... Event Type: Error Event Source: Report Server (MSSQLSERVER) Event Category: Management Event ID: 107 Date: 10/13/2005 Time: 3:18:54 PM User: N/A Computer: TEST02 Description: Report Server (MSSQLSERVER) cannot connect to the report server database. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp . Event Typ ...Show All
radpin Fxcopcmd.exe file option
I have diffcullty in asscessing the file to check in other directory other that primary c: drive is there some problem with my statement or it is not possible to be done What difficulties are you seeing Can you post your exact command-line and the error output you've noticed It is certainly possible to reference files other than those on the primary drive. There must be something else going on for you. ...Show All
davidpmiller How do i assign a workitem to a user when a custom field is selected.
I have the following field defined. <FIELD name="Subsystem" refname="Bug.Subsystem" type="String" reportable="dimension"> <HELPTEXT>Subsystem which is source of the bug</HELPTEXT> <REQUIRED /> <ALLOWEDVALUES expanditems="true"> & ...Show All
John McPherson Need to do web tests and develop code
I am a developer who also needs to write web tests and do load testing. Which version of VS 2005 can I use I am forced to choose one of the 3 editions even though I wear several hats. If I choose the Testers edition, can I still write code for my web app If so, what developer features do I lose Thank you for your helpful reply Ajay. Will the code profiling in the Developer's edition also do memory profiling (s ...Show All
yestee Can not visit project portal site
This is odd. While the source control functionalities are working well. The Menu item Project Portal Site.... becomes gray. Then I logon to TFS server, I tried following sites. http://localhost:8080/bisserver/registration.asmx http://localhost/ http://localhost/reportserver http://localhost/reports all became inaccessible. All gives out " Service Availabe ". Enviroment is TFS beta3 and WSS sp2. Help!Thanks. Yi I think Bria ...Show All
ChronoReverse TF command line checkin
I am trying to update our old vss command line scripts to be used with Team Foundation Server. I have successfully tested the tf get , tf label and tf checkout commands. However when I run the tf checkin command it returns 'No files checked in' I am using this command line: tf checkin /comment:"Doing a new build" /override:"Build process commandline checkin" /noprompt On the screen I am seeing the check in policies that are not being meet (in y ...Show All