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• KYLE kyle Another Bug in Source Control Explorer (Beta 2)

  If I create a new top-level folder, it will not show-up until I close and reopen VS. also I am not able to (re)name it, so it always gets a default name. I can only delete the folder again. In our more recent versions, we don't allow users to create folders directly in $/. Instead, all items need to be created within a Team Project folder. The inability to rename is an artifact of the restriction that Team Projects cannot be renamed. The ...Show All

• lokiprime Shipping Beta 2

  There's been a rash of speculation  as of late that Beta 2 has "slipped" to April [ Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 delayed ]. As you can read in this post from the Developer Division Release Team [ In the Home Stretch... ], we still plan to ship Beta 2 by the end of March. That has been the plan-of-record for months. Because it takes time to move from shipped bits to downloadable bits , Beta 2 will probably be available for ...Show All

• Peter paterson CredentialPassword - Generating the 'encrypted' text

  Given a plaintext password, we want to put the 'encrypted' version into the webtest file's CredentialPassword attribute so that the webtest can (for example) go through NTLM authentication. What is the algorithem used to encrypt it and put it into the "CredentialPassword" attribute in the webtest xml to make this work (so that you can run this WebTest using Visual Studio)   I know we can still put the plaintext and seems to w ...Show All

• master_rigel2 Setup of AT fails with "Setup did not find VS 2005 TF databases..."

  I just performed a new installation - I think I followed the install guide to the letter. But, I'm getting this error when trying to install the Application Tier in a two server configuration. Does anyone have an idea of what would cause this I got the same problem I must unistall the SQL Server on the data thier becaus a got a problem with my analysis services. When I tried to redo the TFS install, no databases was created. ...Show All

• David S. Anderson Differences between .testrunconfig files for Tester version and Developer version???

  This post is a follow-up question to my previous post at: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=174441&SiteID=1 Using the suggestion from the previous post to change the threading state of my test configuration helped solve my initial problem. However, now that I have created all of my tests (and test configuration file) using the Tester edition of Team System, I also need to be able to deploy these tests so that my develo ...Show All

• Les06291979 Public Service Announcement: How to fix new Test Projects on July CTP

  http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2005/08/09/449268.aspx It appears that on the July CTP there was a small bug that caused problems when creating new Test Projects. If you wish to create *new* test projects on the July CTP, you will need to apply this fix. Summary: One of the template files that is includes with VS for test projects was incorrect in the July CTP. It can be worked around, or fixed by downloading a file. See the abo ...Show All

• mspence Warehouse processing problems

  Hi, I'm running TFS over a Virtual PC, and the OLAP Services eats my CPU most of the time. I found a post (http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=3063) and a blog about this problem ( http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2005/04/19/409886.aspx ). But after I changed this setting to 3600 or to 360 and restart the TFSServerScheduler service, the OLAP Service crashed withot any additional information. I tried to process the wareh ...Show All

• Chrystian Customizing Bug Form

  Hi there,      I have 3 customized field in Bug form Opened Date , Resolved Date and Closed which I want them to automatically get Clock time when bug is getting opened, resolved or closed and at the same time i want this field to be read only for Users, basically users should not able to edit these fields, so I tried the below option for example for Resolved Date: < FIELD name = " Resolved Date " refname = " Mi ...Show All

• BobbyPeru Source Control for documents

  What is the way to keep the documents included in the project document libraries under source control The team project library uses Sharepoint, which has some rudimentary source control features. If you want to store documents in TFS Version Control proper, use Source Control Explorer just as you would for any other file type. Yes. We do not have any mechanism for sync'ing bet ...Show All

• Alan Hoiland Internal Error! Failed to acquire a ReaderLock

  Hi I get this error when trying to run a web test with around 50 iterations, Im using a access database for getting parts of some of the url's. Anyone know what this means The latest Trial Version, the error occurs during playback. I will try and get a stack trace if that helps Are you getting this in the playback ui   Do you have a stack trace   What version of the product are you using Stack trace could help.&nb ...Show All

• Thompsonson deleting team project not freeing space!

  Hello, While trying to delete some team projects I noted a strange behavior. problem: I am deleting the team project and it throws an exception while deleting sharepoint site. I am using /force option to delete. Expected: If the deletion is terminated in between, then the project entry should be retained in TFC. eg: ctrl c in between deletion. What's happening: The project listing in the TFC is not coming and the size of the disk is still c ...Show All

• ZebraTJ Load test for pre defined Number of Iterations

  Is it possible to configure a load test to perform a particular number of iterations ACT used to have this functionality but I can't seem to see it in the load test configuration wizard.     Databinding a list of users to the username field in a web test. In Load runner I would normally assign a block of data for each virtual user and have the user name the same for that size block ie the da ...Show All

• jDeVoss error 32000 during install

  Im trying to install team foundation server using the 1 machine option, so in a virtual pc environment I installed win2003 , sp3, Sharpoint services 2.0(verified it was working), sqlserver 2005(verified it was working) , then created a TFSSETUP account, logged in as that and started the team foundation server install, once it reached 99% complete(of course it has to do it when you are just about done), it comes up with this following error: Erro ...Show All

• Laurent Exclude File Types from Source Control

  In the "Add to Source Control" dialog, there is an exclude text box which lists "*.pdb;*.obj;*.dll;*.exe;*.res;*.resources" by default. Is there a way to add to this default list on a project level My goal is to make it less likely that a developer would accidentally add certain binary file types to version control. Thanks, Martin. I'll make sure my setup routine checks that key and adds to it if necessary. Mar ...Show All

• shao Controlling number of users in a loadtest via command line?

  Is there a way to control the load profile pattern at run-time   EG: use the same web test, but run it under a step-up load one time and a constant load the next time without re-compiling the solution or replacing the test container Also, can you launch a load test from the command line   You can also set the load dynamically by implementing a load test plugin. The plugin exposes the LoadTest objec ...Show All