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• Praneeth Reddy TFS Workgroup

  I have received an update to our MSDN subscription (Disc 3073 December 2005) that claims to have the Developer version of VS 2005 Team Edition along with TFS Workgroup Edition. I popped in the disc and went through the install (Full) and what was installed appears to be the VS2005 product. This indeed seems to have the Team Edition for Developer tools but I am unable to find and install the TFS Workgroup Edition bits to get the task lists, sourc ...Show All

• Rosen M Auto generated code has underscore

  Hi how do you fix this rule when VS & crystal reports auto generated code adds the underscore as in " ugdListing_DoubleClickRow" , which is the doubleclickrow event of a grid control. Duncan Hi Duncan, There are couple of ways to get your code not to have violations against this rule: You can set your winforms designer to emit the code generated for your ugdListing as private ...Show All

• Fulano Help me justify TeamSystem to my boss.

  Hello. I am on a company that they actually work with another platform but they just knew that they had to satisfy their customers with .net applications. I have seen some screenshots of team foundation server, unit, test, class designer, report of bugs, and many things more.  I need to justify this. The test are actually donde manually and the indicators of bugs and so on are also done manually.  AS this is in beta2 yet I think its ve ...Show All

• niversen Unable to access Team Foundation Server after Domain Migration

  Hi, Initially, we were able to connect to the Team Foundation Server and access Work Items as well as the Source Code, as 'Contributors', but after we were migrated to a diffferent trusted Domain, we have got the following error, whenever trying to access the Foundation Server: "TF26000: Could not connect to the Team Foundation Server. Check that you have a network connection and that your Team Foundation server is available." ...Show All

• real green ASP.NET 2 & FxCop

  How to use FxCop efficiently in VS2005 Pro (not TS) and ASP.NET 2 Using generated dll in ASP.NET temporary folder is not really friendly ... Any tips Thanks for your help. Clement M Clement, In Visual Studio Team System, this is easy to do, as we support it out of the box. However, as we are not integrated with Visual Studio Professional, as you've noticed its a bit of a pain. We are now recommending us ...Show All

• Matthew Morrow Error creating work item

  I am using th beta 2. I never be able to open a work item. I have a server (Windows2003) and a client (W2000). I am the only user at this time. I have to test Team system before the other developper. At this time, I haven't seen any other problem with VSTS (but it is the beginning of my test). If you haven't yet been able to open a work item, it sounds like a installation or configuration issue. As long as you are only testing the product ...Show All

• TheWacoKid TFS Beta3 setup failed with 28905 error

  I try to install TFS and get error 28905. Something about "list fields" and "localization". System has location "Russia" and language for non-Unicode programs "Russian" and SQL Server has Cyrillic collation. First I reinstall SQL Server with Latin collation. And when I install TFS I get same error. Second I change Location to "United States" and language for non-Unicode programs to "English" and setup completes without error. I install ...Show All

• Penny Chiu Test Approach document

  Heya, we've just started using the Foundation Server and I'm being assign with the task of creating a test approach. I opened the document "Test Approach.doc" and I have no clue whatsoever what kind of information I should put there. Is there a guide (except for the "MSF for Agile Software development" web pages) that can explain it a bit more. Terms such as "Tests supporting programming" and "Tests challenging product" are a bit vague for me. ...Show All

• JL# Exception when executing a webtest run() from a test project build dll

  hi I have created webtests in my test project , run them succseffuly and build the test project to DLL i have created a simple application and added a referense to the test project DLL (TestWeb.dll) what am i doing wrong Dim wt As New TestWeb.TestWeb.WebTest1Coded() Try wt.Run() Catch ex As Exception MsgBox(ex.Message) End Try   I am getting exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an obje ...Show All

• Eric Bryant Mechanism to create a source control folder without creating a Project?

  Is there a mechanism to create a source code control folder without first creating a Team Project in Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Refresh I suspect perhaps via the command line No, all root level folders must correspond to Team Projects.  You can create folders under them at will.  This was a controversial design decision and one we may reverse in a future version if we get a lot of feedback that it is too problematic. Bri ...Show All

• PTS Connecting to TeamServer

  I recently installed the TeamServer Beta 2 on a Win 2003 Server SP1 machine. Everything went fine with the install and I did not receive any errors. I installed the client as well as the server. The only thing I didn't do during the setup was put in a From email and an SMTP because I didn't know them at the time. I now have two issues: 1. When I try to connect to TeamServer from the Visual Studio 2005 Beta2 client, while logged on as a doma ...Show All

• Jeremy Delozier New FXCop Versions and Visual Studio 2005 Code Analysis

  When a new version of FXCop comes out, will there be a way to update the integrated Visual Studio 2005 Code Analysis to use it Or will we have to use the standalone FXCop IDE to use newer versions I'm hoping it'll all integrate nicely, but I can't find any information about it... Thanks! Ok, thanks. The current system is more than adequate to our needs for the moment anyway, so I'm happy to wait for proper ...Show All

• tuanzhang "Assigned To" must be a valid account?

  In the MSDN Documentation - Walkthrough: Make Advanced Customizations to a Work Item Type , in the Customize the Assigned To Field section, the following example is shown: <FIELD name="Assigned To" refname="System.AssignedTo" type="String" reportable="dimension"> <HELPTEXT>The person assigned to do the work</HELPTEXT> <ALLOWEDVALUES expanditems="true"> <LISTITEM valu ...Show All

• Cap12 Visual Studio Team Suite Question

  Can I develop Operating Systems in Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Hi, It is possible to write a Operating System using .NET. In fact Microsoft Research has an OS prototype in C#. Take a look here: http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/ Regards, Vikram Thanks, Vikram. If I have other questions about OS Programming and Developing, I will post them here. Nice, I am Happy! But, I Need some g ...Show All

• DavidY - MSFT Lost Source Control Output Window in RTM

  I've seemed to have lost the source control output window using the RTM version of TFS. It was there at one time but no longer present. After opening my VSTF bound solution, nothing is in the "Show output from:" combo box in the Visual Studio 2005 output window. Can someone help me get back the "Source Control - Team Foundation" item Thanks. That did not work. Other suggestions ...Show All