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• Coleman Brumley What kind of CAL for TFS Project Portal for ISV Partners?

  Hello! Through the MS Partner Program we currently receive the TFS Workgroup edition and 35 licenses for VSTS Developer Edition (Gold + ISV Competency). Our development production server (Windows 2003 Server + SQL Server 2005)licenses are from the Partner Program as well (naturally). Team Systems highly anticipates the customer role in the MSF (Microsoft Solution Framework) processes, thus we need some CALs for our customers to access t ...Show All

• Ruslan Popov Lost version control mapping in Team Explorer tool window

  I created a team project called Foo.  Then I created a workspace via the command line called Main that mapped $/ to C:\Projects\Foo.  It turns out that mapped the root of the repository which I discovered after I added some directory not to $/Foo but to $/.  So I remapped $/Foo to C:\Projects\Foo.  Then I wanted to move the dirs from $/ to under $/Foo.  Well now I had to map $/ to C:\Projects (that seemed to remove the $ ...Show All

• Luu Sinh Ngoc Web Test Recording - how to record another window

  Hi, I have an application that opens another browser window and all work happens from that window. When I try to record a web test, it records only what happens in the original window, nothing is recorded for that new window. Any way to record communication from the new window Thanks! Alex Wow, that is strange.  Could you paste in the code (and the parameter values if they are all variables) that's doing ...Show All

• autodoc Web Based Defect Tracking Option?

  Does VSTS have any web based defect tracking system to hook into the VS2005 defect tracking database   I can't imagine that we want our QA teams in Visual Studio 2005.  Most of them are application people and not very technical. Thanks Scott That depends on the technical level of your QA team. Remember there is a Visual Studio SKU built specifically for QA team members called Visual Studio Team Editio ...Show All

• akeyes Can merge be run from the api, or do I need to shell out and run command line?

  Hi, I'm writing an 'promotion tool' application, that takes a workitem with its associated changesets, and promotes that workitem into another branch. I'd like to be able to run the merge command. Although I can shell out to the command line, and this does work, I'd prefer to use the api. Is there a way to merge using the api Thanks. Yes, you can use the Merge() method on the Workspace object.  Y ...Show All

• Harry Standley Generic Test does not seem to deploy the exe

  I seem to be missing something simple here, I guess. The help states that the exe being run by the generic test will be copied to the deployment directory. This is not happening. Even if I add it to the "additional files" list, in effect forcing it to be copied, it is not run from this directory. This matters a great deal to me because I am trying to use a Generic Test to run my GUI to produce Code Coverage results. So I need the test ...Show All

• BJUTJ Customizing work items - Remaining/Completed work

  Hi, I am going to try to customize the Task work item in the MSF for Agile process template. My plan was to change the 'Remaining work' and 'Completed work' into not having NumberFormat="WholeNumbers", since we would like to have half hours and quarters in the field. My question is: will I shoot myself in the foot Is the database defined to have a Int32 in that field Is there any other problem that may arise Regards, Thomas L ...Show All

• Peter Senescu how to unbind a project and rebind it in new location

  I bound a project in a TFS source control location that I want to move to another place. I cannot find any way to move the project, and rebinding it in Visual Studio does not let me add it to another location in the source control tree. I really would like to move the project down one level (ie: from $/MyProject/ to $MyProject/Library1/) so that I can organize other class libraries under the existing project. I have also tried the "tf delet ...Show All

• lxiao ADAM Error on Installation

  Hi, I could not ever install the ctp version of foundation server. Finally on beta 2, i thought my woes would be over... Far from it Now it stops at the ADAM install itself. I did exactly as the installation guide said.. fresh machine..  it completes the step 1 starts the step 2 and then it says there has been an error.. now no info on what the error is all abt.  I chkd the known issues and it mentioned abt the TMP variable spaces... ...Show All

• Mike Morine Team Explorer : External component has thrown an exception: Beta 3 Refresh on TFS with RTM on Visual Studio

  When connecting to TE (Tools|Connect to Team Explorer) we get the following errors: 1. Event Viewer: .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.42 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A05E2B3) (80131506) 2. Dialog Box: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- External component has thrown an exception. --------------------------- OK   --------------------------- Win XP, No legacy versions have been installed ...Show All

• nrasinec Installing on 3 servers

  I'm assuming we can split the install of TFS on 3 different servers: * 1 box for TFS * 1 box for SharePoint * 1 box for SQL Server Correct The directions suggest dual-server installs, but it isn't clear if the install be be configured across three servers. Thanks in advance. Mark http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa718901.aspx No. You can install the dual server ...Show All

• MarkusL How do you add a new security group

  I want to add a group for learning product folks.  Something like <TeamProjectName>\Writers or something like that.  I want to give these folks Read permission on everything except the UserDocs directory.  How do you do this   Do you have to use ADAM   BTW, why aren't these just AD global groups Hmm, I had to exit and restart VS to get the new groups to show up in the Team P ...Show All

• MSJ Code Coverage not working

  I debugged a problem where code coverage was not working for one of our people. The user was running VSTD and was getting the message 'Code coverage not enabled for this run'. There is only one testrunconfig, and code coverage was enabled. What I found was that the user was running the tests by pressing F5 (debug mode) They were not getting the message 'Debugging tests on a remote computer...' So I suspect they clicked on the box 'D ...Show All

• zoomkat Custom decimal field in a work item

  Hi everybody, I created a new Work Item Type activity and defined the following decimal field:       <FIELD name="Estimation" refname="Mycompany.MyProject.Estimation" type="Double" reportable="measure" formula="sum">         <HELPTEXT>A rough estimate of the cost of the work item in days</HELPTEXT>       </FIELD> The ...Show All

• Sucker in HK Saving Requirements Documents

  Having trouble saving a requierments documents back into Team System. When opened up they display Read Only on the title bar and when selecting Save As... from word there is not an option to save back into Team Server. I am in the Project Administrator's group. Any ideas. This works successfully for other users in other Team System projects. Any Ideas Thanks The Team Explorer integration with Share ...Show All