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• Rich MSFT Purchasing Load Agents/Controllers

  Hi, I am looking for getting team test load agents/controller software. I see that no evaluation copy can be downloaded. Is this correct The price for purchase seems to be around $5000+. Can some one confirm this Thanks, Praveen Hi Praveen, You are right, Team test load agent is not available via MSDN Subscription or MSDN Downloads. It is only available for retail. Pricing depends on seve ...Show All

• wundrlik Project Management in VSTS

  Hi e'body, I have created a project plan using Microsoft office project.This project plan contains my items/resources and duration in particular. I want to import this information to a team system project.Moreover how to delete default work items generated at the creation of team project.i tried to delete all work items from XML files but project creation needs at least one work item there in XML file. regards ...Show All

• david_dev Unattended Team Explorer (Client) Installation

  Hi, I am trying an unattended team foundation client (explorer) install.  I first ran      <cdrom>:\tfc\setup.exe /createunattend <inifile> to create the unattend file.  Unfortunately, when I then tested the ini file with      <cdrom>:\tfc\setup.exe /unattendfile <inifile > the installation failed.  What is the correct unattended TFS client installation command ...Show All

• Oodini VSTS Team Builds - Project Build Order

  VSTS Beta 3... I have a single sollution with approximately 10 projects - I need certain projects to build in a particular order. Setting up my project dependencies and building the sollution locally works fine...when I look at the Project Build Order in the Solution...it looks something like this: A B C D E and it succeeds on build. When I build via Team Builds, the build order ends up like this: B A E D C ...Show All

• Perry Bynum Detailled Error Stack Trace in Unit Test Results

  How can i view a detailled error stack trace of a unit test (e.g. stack trace with line numbers and the possibility to jump directly to that line) The "Error Stack Trace" Column and section in the Test Result view does not even show the line number. thomas To my knowledge, no. HOwever, if you submit a bug via MSDN Feedback Centre it means we can see it track it and make sure it gets properly looked at - ...Show All

• Muthu Arumugam Team Build Test Config Deployment Issue

  When we add a deployment folder to a test config the items will deploy without any issue locally. However, when we use the same test run config in a team build the build fails to deploy the items correctly and the build fails to run the tests. To reproduce this create a solution with a test project and a DB project. Add some files to the Create Scripts folder in the DB project. Add a unit test to the test project that passes. Under Solution Item ...Show All

• rosevines 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

• spectrablue tf30005 and tf30217

  Hi,   While creating a new team project, I got a tf30005 and a tf30217 error. How should this be solved The client and server run in a Virtual Machine, both Virtual Machines run on the same computer. Thanks, Bart I'm going to close this thread for now since we haven't heard back...please let us know if you are still having trouble. Thanks, jeff Do you have more information on what the error is ...Show All

• tqheel Timeout during unit test

  Greetings. I've recently been introduced to VSTSs integrated unit testing abilities, and quickly decided to adopt them and write an extensive suite of tests for some software component or another. Much to my regret, however, I soon stumbled upon a rather annoying problem as some of my tests take a relatively long time to perform. I'd tell you how long, but unfortunately I can't quite tell since the testing framework decides to terminate th ...Show All

• jhall Single Server Installation Error 28002

  About 1/3 through the progress bar I get this pop up error message that error 28002 has occurred. My options are to Retry or Cancel. I have retried and after short delay the same error appears. I try cancel and the error goes away. Shortly after that the installation comes to a screaching halt with 2 logs which I saved off. The installation fails. I have tried to reinstall 2 other times and I get the same results. It's definitely reproduceable. ...Show All

• Ben B Access to private const in unit test using private accessor

  Hi I have a class with private constant in VB. When I try to read value of this constant in unit test using private accessor I get an error: "System.MissingMethodException: Method 'namespace.class.private_constant_name' not found." I checed that in C# project such accessor works fine. How to solve this problem Hello This is a bug with how VB handles Consts when you try and use a private accesso ...Show All

• Jake Massey Connection to VSTS from Report Services server?

  We are implementing some custom reports in Report Services to be viewed in our VSTS project.  The reports use a custom data extension to provide a dataset to the report template as the datasource.  The dataset is filled using calls to the VSTS extensibility API.  We are having a lot of trouble connecting to VSTS in that context.  We can run a test console app with similar code on the report server and connect fine.  Howe ...Show All

• platinumbay Override Policy Failures

  My team uses Check in Policies. We all know how to override the policy from time to time. Easy Our problems is: " How do we see the comments that people entered when the did the override " Paul Big thank you's to Richard and Jason. Both answers were helpful and very appreciated. I'm trying out Jason's tool now which also seems to be a good extentable example of talking to the TFSEven ...Show All

• Reg J Any good books out there?

  Are there any good books or references on building tests TIA Ken Also A Tester's Guide to .NET Programming by Root and Sweeney. And Sam Guckenheimer has a book on VSTS with a lot of great test info that will be published soon. Ed. Have a look at the following books: Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET (Microsoft Professional) by James W. Newkirk XUnit Test Patterns : Refactoring Test Code ...Show All

• johnGa Unit test results not getting copied to output directory (RTM)

  I have some unit tests that are aborting in the build. At the end of testing Team Build is attemtpting to copy the results to the output directory and it is unable to do so because another process has locked the file its trying to copy. This also has the affect that nothing for this group of tests shows up in the dashboard. Thoughts anyone Aborted (AutoBuild/)Sales.Symphony.Config.Tests.Models.SNPModelTest.GetLineItemsIntoBasketTest Ab ...Show All