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• maxithron Using Team Explorer outside VS 2005 Team Suite.

  Hi, is it possible to use the 'light weight' Team Explorer client app outside of VS 2005 - I'm using Beta 2. The scenario is; I'm developing in both VB6 and VS 2005. I want to migrate the old VB6 source code in to Team Server. I know I will loose what VSS integration I had in VB6, so I need someway of checking out files when I'm not in VS 2005. Does that make sense I have tried installing the Client part of Team Foundation on my dev machine whi ...Show All

• Nicholas Campbell Chinese characters become "?" after using TFS source control

  After using source control, I found chinese characters in source code become " " How to fix this problem Thanks!   No, I use the same machine. But this problem was first found on different machines and all these machines using Simpilifed Chinese OS. I cannot reproduce this.  When you change accounts, are you using the same machine   (This might happen, for instance, if one user was running on a Simplified Chines ...Show All

• AndrewMcK Problem capturing events from TFS (using Web Service Notify(string xmlstr) method)

  Hi,  We tried to build a prototype for capturing the events from VSTS as follows - 1. A windows application - EventingClient - It contains a button - Subscribe - on click of which the following piece of code gets executed to subscribe to workitemchangedevent. //Logon to the VSTS Server  LogonToVSTSServer( "xyz046247.testdom" ); //set the delivery preference to immediate delivery via SOAP DeliveryPreference DP = new Deliver ...Show All

• Thomas H. Grohser Sharepoint creation failed

  I have tried to read all the post on other reports of the same problem but I'm sure what helps. On my box (single server, clean Beta3 refresh install) ordinary Sharepoint site ceration works fine ( http://myserver/sites/test ) and checking the virtual server list shows the following: Name URL Version   Default Web Site http://w2k3server/ 6.0.2.6568   Team Foundation Server http://w2k3server:8080/ Not Installed Ex ...Show All

• kjmsolutions Word defined as a recognized word in CustomDictionary.xml is still being flagged as a misspelling

  I am using 'num' as the name of an integer parameter on a method.  FxCop 1.32 flags this parameter as a violation of the IdentifiersShouldBeSpelledCorrectly rule.  In an attempt to make FxCop accept 'num' as a recognized word, I added this word to my CustomDictionary.xml (located in the same directory as my FxCop project file).  Unfortunately, FxCop still flags 'num' as a misspelling. IdentifiersShouldBeSpelledCorrectly also ...Show All

• Jishnu Project Items in SQL Server Database

  The SQL Server database on Team Foundation Server contains all the dynamic items related to a given Team Project. Specifically, Source files and directories in Team Foundation Source Control  (SCC) Documents in Windows SharePiont Services (WSS) Work Items in Currituck Queries in Currituck Reports in SQL Server Reporting Services Project Structure in CSS Apart from backing-up the database, is there another way to take a snap shot of a Team ...Show All

• jnickfl1 Error 32000 during Team Server install

     I installed the prerequisites: Sharepoint services, SQL Server 2005 CTP April on a new install of Windows 2003 Server Standard SP1. Around 99% through the install I got a 32000 error. I am using the Virtual CD tool to access the ISO image downloaded from MSDN. The image is set as drive z I am logged in a TFSSetup user who is an administrator on the current box I assigned TFSService user as the service user (Both users are domain ...Show All

• prabakaranm Files Versioning

  1. How is this possible to roll back specific changeset 2. Is this posible to turn need file version to the previouse one without removing current. In fact I need switch file version from e.g 1.7 to 1.4 temporary without removing versions 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 3. Is this possible to view user readable file version number in the source control client I need it e.g to refer to it in emails (I dont want create label for this)... thanks! ...Show All

• BerKim Resolve multiple conflicts is way too slow

  Using the B3R, I'm trying to resolve conflicts during a Get Latest operation.  The files in the working directory were previously writable, so it asked me what to do.  Note, there are 4300 files that are affected by this.  First, when the Resolve Conflicts dialog came up, it took 5 min of 100% just to select all of the items.  Then I click on Resolve... and select the Overwrite option to just blow-away the local changes. It' ...Show All

• IanW Unshelving

  Assume that developer X has shelved a web project with the shelved name of jschmo20060209d. Developer Y wants to view this project and modify some of the code. How does developer Y view all the shelved copies of a project and then select one and open it up http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms245465.aspx has directions, but my Source Control menu does not contain any option related to shelving or unshelving. Assume Beta 3 Re ...Show All

• James Blevins How would we go about converting an agile project to a CMMI project

  How would we convert a project from an agile method to a CMMI project without losing all of our work items Amy, Is there any downfall using your approach versus the approach stated in the previous reply from Martin Woodward. We are fairly new in our use of TFS and began with Agile about a month ago. We have about 500 work items, many of them completed or closed. We are not concerned yet at this point in losing history since our develo ...Show All

• MQ Tool for Continuous integration available?

  Hi, A latest post: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2005/10/01/476030.aspx mentions "This command line tool can be used to implement scheduled builds, rolling builds, continuous integration, etc." Can anyone plz tell which are the tools available for continuios integration and scheduling of team build. i am using scheduled tasks to schedule the build but have'nt seen any such build-in tool. Thanks Nike   -nike wrote: Can ...Show All

• LozD In web tests,how to validate the values on a grid?

  I want to validate the values that are shown on a grid, based on the values that are selected on a Combo.(Herein internally, the grid gets filled, when the combo box value is changed.) I would also like to know the selected row from the grid. Pls, give me the details of this.If we have to write a custom validation rule for this, kindly provide that custom validation rule too. It sounds like you would have t ...Show All

• PLF GUI regression tests with Visual Team System

  Hello,   We are currently searching for a testing tool to perform functional regression tests on our GUI application. For the moment, we developing with Borland C++ Builder 6.0 but we are going to make the transition to Visual soon.   We don't want to purchase a tool if Visual Team System offers a way of testing the GUI. Currently, TestComplete from AutomatedQa seems a good testing tool. Would it be useful to use this too ...Show All

• AnotherAlien Load Test Display

  Is it possible to display where each user is during a load test My goal is to have code webtest that is similar to the following: display (User Login) <http requests> display (User Logged in As UserABC) <http requests> Then while running the load test I have created for the webtest. I would be able to see where each user was in the code with the display statements in a list. For example, User1 User Login User2 User Logged in As Us ...Show All