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• lcdmendes Agile, then CMMI

  My company is interested in getting CMMI certified. We are using Microsoft technologies a lot and would like to start learning about MSF. Forgive me if the question is silly. Is it possible for our company to go for MSF Agile, and then evolve into CMMI compatible practices This makes sense for my company because I want to make sure we can build the basic capacity first before we want to make it formal. Any idea or suggestions are welcomed. ...Show All

• ASGMikeG How to set test run order?

  Hi, I developed some test methods, put my tests in a test list by using  the Test Manager. I have to questions: 1- The first test in the list take a little bit logger to execute.  The first test method take 0.5 sec more to execute.     Is it normal and if yes... why 2- How can I manage the run order of my test method in my test list     They don't always run in a predictable order... Thanks Alain Mart ...Show All

• LinaGT Uncalled / uninstantiated warnings go away when InternalsVisibleTo attribute used

  We'd like to be able to detect unused code in our application and its related assemblies, but currently a lot of classes and methods are public to facilitate unit testing. To find code that's only used in the unit tests, we tried making the testable methods internal, and marked our test fixture assembly as a friend of the shipping code using the InternalsVisibleTo attribute. Unfortunately, it seems that FxCop sees this attribute and suppres ...Show All

• nielsena Issue with data source access from Agent machine.

  I have a load test that has tests in it using a data source on the controller, that is just a CSV file. The load test works if i run it locally from the controller. If i try to run it from the agent, i get the following error. "Exception LoadTestException 1 Could not run load test 'CRM2' on agent 'CCIRSW5SAT': Could not access table 'Book3#csv' in data source 'DataSource1' of test '0b8b0faf-11a6-48ae-b1ca-b8a799ab89c2': 'D:\Visual Studio ...Show All

• Petya Check In Comment

  Is there a setting to require a non-blank Check In Comment I'd rather not create a check in policy for a user defined note called "Comment." Jennifer, I'm afraid that this check-in policy is missing out the box. You can however implement it yourself. See the following blog post by James Manning for more information:- http://blogs.msdn.com/jmanning/archive/2006/01/21/515858.aspx Regards, Martin. ...Show All

• NitinVed Automated Build: SQL Error 8152 ("String or binary data would be truncated.")

  Hi, Im hoping someone has encountered this and was able to fix it. We are using VSTS Beta 3 Refresh version I was able to auto build earlier today.  I havent any problems manually checking out all the files and building.   I got the following when I run the automated build that hadnt changed. From a little research, I found the "Error 8152 ("String or binary data would be truncated.") indicates that you have data i ...Show All

• Tiendq Team Build: Object reference not set to instance of an object

  We're currently using Beta 3 Refresh. When I build the solution locally I receive no errors, but when running a build through Team Build, I receive 462 "Object reference not set to instance of an object." How can I go back through each project and check that everything is correct if I don't receive errors when I build locally Build started 3/30/2006 9:36:06 AM. __________________________________________________ Project "C:\ARRM ...Show All

• euton_l Show Report Portal greyed out and Douments with red star...yes another one

  Hi, Finished upgrade from Beta 3 refresh and after various problems all looks ok but for sharepoint site. When I try to navigate to old site in IE I get "The Web site that is referenced here is not in the configuration database." Any thoughts Look under c:<install drive>\Program files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server\ Saw this: Issue: Sharepoint portal doesn't work. There ...Show All

• blindman Report "Remaining Work" does not show all Work Items

  Hi everybody, we are using Beta 3 Refresh for controlling our project. Now i got a problem with the "Remaining Work" Report. Our current iteration (started today) has 92 Work Items (80 Tasks and 12 Features (our new own Work Item Type). Every of this Work Items is assigned to the Iteration Path OurProject\Release 2\Iteration 8. When I run the report "Remaining Work" with the following parameters the report just ...Show All

• balupton Cloning a Request

  I am trying to capture button presses of an anthem (ajax code) button click and the test isnt recording this. I use fiddler to capture this and that works but when I try to use the fiddler FormPostHttpBody request2Body = new FormPostHttpBody (); request2Body.FormPostParameters.Add( "Anthem_UpdatePage" , "true" ); request2Body.FormPostParameters.Add( "__EVENTTARGET" , "ctl00$TicketContentArea$DealingCon ...Show All

• jkotas What “Default Value” is the correct one to represent “Scenarios”?

  I would like the report “Related Work Items” to show Scenarios as default, but I can not seem to figure out what default value I should use for the parameter WorkItemTypeParam. [Work Item].[System_WorkItemType].[All] This is the default value as standard and I thought it was just to change the [All] part to [Scenario] or something, but that doesn’t work. Regards, Kristofer ...Show All

• Acusis FXCOP

  Can anybody tell me the new function for ISMEthodCall() in older version Thanks Michael, Didn't know about the Jmp instruction (my IL is still a bit lacking - still waiting for my copy of Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler), however as you stated I did omit the NewObj intentionally. Will update the rule to check for the Jmp instruction. Do you know of any language that uses the Jmp instruction My Avoid ...Show All

• JLO19 Code Profiling for ASP.NET application

  Hi: I have looked through this forum and ASP.NET forum and could not find the solution. SO I just ask my question here. I had a file system ASP.NET application, run in http://localhost:1351/MyAspApp . I wanted to use code profiling to test the performance, so I followed the MSDN Library to set the performance session through Performance wizard. However, after launching the performance session, I got the following message: Launch Error: ...Show All

• Grant Fritchey Reengineering Migrated Applications

  Hi, Can we generate distributed system designer outputs from a migrated application I have ASP.NET 1.1 application to be migrated to 2.0 with VSTS and I would like to work on migration steps. 1. How can we generate the various diagrams from migrated code 2. Is there any information on VSTS specific to code migration perspectives Thanks Praveen   Thanks for answering this, Ali! P ...Show All

• Hatem.t Team Architect/Team Developer/Team Test oh my!

  In a small company I often wear serveral hats. I was wondering what I should install if I want it "all" In other words I want to install something that I can sign in as an architect for a while and later a developer and later a tester. The installations all seem separate right now. If I install the Architect version of Visual Studio will I also have the functionality of a developer and tester on the same machine Thank you. Kevin ...Show All