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• BMWAustin New report

  I created a new work item called "Issue" and customized some of the fields.  What I want to be able to do is create a report that will give me information on the new work item.  I can run the "work item list" report, but I would like for it to give me information on some of the new fields I added.  My question is how can I edit the report or create a custom report I've opened the report site and opened the 'work item list' report ...Show All

• Mark Fussell guidgen in TeamBuild

  Hi Is there an easy way to generate a new guid in a Team Build script. I've seen the following in a visual studio project creation tool and thought it might work, but it doesn't: < PatchGuid > {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} </ PatchGuid > Presumably I could do an exec to uuidgen, but wandered if there was anything neater The GenerateGuid is a task and should be inside a target. Pl ...Show All

• Udaya Bhaskar Thummala Manual Tests with Code Coverage for all assemblies

  Heya. I'm not sure I'm doing this the right way so I'll have to ask. I'm using Unit Tests together with Manual Tests and I'd like to view the Code Coverage information on these tests combined. The Unit Tests runs alright with Code Coverage but I'm not sure how I should run the Manual Tests to gather Code Coverage. Today, I just double-click the .exe in the bin/Debug folder but that seems to just collect code coverage information on the .exe, not ...Show All

• Redhaze Code analysis during check-in

  Is it possible to manage the rule settings for managed code analysis through the Process Template Manager For example, we'd like to disable a consistent set of code analysis rules across all our projects. How can this be done Thanks in advance. Mark You'll need to use the configuration files for code analysis to do that. Buck ...Show All

• sqlguy How to cloak some node in source control explorer?

  In VSS, I can cloak some node so I could ignore some folder. How can I do this in TFS SC Thanks! See this blog post. http://blogs.msdn.com/manishagarwal/archive/2005/10/13/480584.aspx --MikeH Thanks! However is there any easier way that just need a few mouse click on UI Yes. You can go to File -> Source Control -> Workspaces, select the desired workspace in the dialog, and cli ...Show All

• Rembo Can we change host files to do webtest on testing website?

  Hi, Sometimes we need test webpages on testing website not livesite. and we have many test servers with different domains, when we did manual test , we can change host file: add test's servers IP --> livesite url but we found changing hosts file doesn't make any sense to VSTE. It still run on the livesite. so How can we do any config to make that we can use one script running on different test server thanks in advance. ...Show All

• Shearman Team Project Creation Faild- not able to connect to the SQL Reporting Services at http://192.168.0.1:8080/

  Installation: ------------ SqlServer 2005 (command line install) SharePoint Service SP1 (command line install) patched with Security Update for Windows SharePoint Services (KB887981) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=6BB93661-0CE7-46CF-B8BB-55546B58A2F2&displaylang=en TFS Beta3, single server Some other facts: ----------------- Reporting Services function well at http://192.168.0.1/Reports and http://192.168.0.1/Repor ...Show All

• XMLUser beta2, personal website starter kit problem

  downloaded latest team system beta 2 today, created new personal web starter project, when i attempt to create an administrator account here: http://localhost:1689/asp.netwebadminfiles/security/users/addUser.aspx no mater what i type, it continues to say "please enter a different password".  you are instructed to create an admin account for your personal web site by the new starter project.  ideas ...Show All

• maila Using VS2005 (beta 2) with custom rules

  Hi, I'm trying to integrate custom FxCop rules using the Code Analysis capabilities of VS2005 beta 2 and I'm hitting some problems :( I've written a very simple custom rule which loads and runs OK under the stand-alone version of FxCop 1.32  I've then changed the FxCop and Cci references (and imports) to hook up to the integrated version of FxCop (SDK under "Team Tools") so I can load the rule for use in the IDE but that ...Show All

• iloveny How to delete a new project that failed to create properly?

  Hi, I tried to add a new Team Project and an error occurred when it treid to configure the sharepoint portal. It said it tried to roll-back the changes, but that didn't work. I'm not shown this project anywhere to delete it. If I try and create a new one with the same name it won't let me as the name is not unique. Is there a way to delete this 'dead' project from the server THanks Chunda Thanks the Reporting ...Show All

• Nyasha From Workgroup Edition to Standard Edition

  Hi, I've installed the Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition (RTM Ver. 8.0.50727.147) And now what to migrate/upgrade to the Standard Edition. Because of the limit with the 5 "Team Foundation Licensed Users", but i read that i can't use the "TFSUpgradePackageRTM". Can i do this by running the TFS setup in maintenance mode and then enter the TFS Standard Edition key Thanks Hi Marc, Thanks for you reply,,, It work ...Show All

• Megahalo conflict in extracting data

  Hi, I am unable to extract the data from hidden field. It is giving result in the details tab as "No HTML tag was found that satisfies the criteria". I'm also conflict with the fields in the 'ExtractAttributeValues'. Will you please elaborate it with an example Also as in opensta we can extract data into a variable and then that variable can be used anywhere in the code, can we use same technique for accessing hidden valu ...Show All

• Matti Seikkula WorkspaceMapping reference and Map info

  Where can I found the WorksapceMapping references I'd like to acces to mapped folders in the TFSBuild.proj. Thanks in advance. Laurent You can look up the file workspacemapping.xml in the specific build type folder under source control. This is the same folder where TFSBuild.proj resides. On the source control, this will be in $/TeamProject/TeamBuildTypes/BuildTypeName ...Show All

• goldandwhite Are bugs listed anywhere on the portal page?

  I am just trying out the functionality of TFS. I added a new bug to my project through VS.Net, but I don't see anywhere in the portal page for the project to show bugs, or any work items in general. Are these available somewhere Btw you can get the list of all work items for the current project by double clicking on All Work Items link at the following hierarchy in the Team Exploer, $(Team Project), &quo ...Show All

• prof.gabi MS Project Integration and Assigned To Field

  Can I change the binding for a work item in Team Explorer as it seems to be bound to the Active Directory Display Name which has the format of 'Surname, Firstname'. This is a problem when imported into Project as it defines a task as having 2 resources, one for the surname and one for the firstname which also effects the actual task time and therefore cannot be published back to TFS. Alan, We are currently t ...Show All