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• Ronald Cuzco FxCop Microsoft.Design and Generic outputs

  Working on a deserialization loader mechanism, I started out with a public method signature which looked like this: public static T Load<T>( string filename) FxCop suggests: CA1004 : Microsoft.Design : Consider a design where YamlLoader.Load(String):T doesn't require an explicit type parameter in any call to it. I what it's suggesting is that invoking this method with code like this may be hard to understand becaus ...Show All

• dhol Ignoring certain DependentRequests return codes..

  Hi all, I am having an issue parsing dependent links that I think has been mostly covered by a few other posts but a solution was not suggested at that point. In post 62544: How to Ignore Web Test Errors there was a suggestion to turn off ParseLinks. This seems a little extreme in my case as I have a request that pulls in about 30 links. One of these links is to an ad server which is called with a URL and no page at the end.. Because there is ...Show All

• chinta Custom "FxCop" rules in VS 2005 Code Analysis?

  I've written several custom FxCop rules that I want to use with VS2005's Code Analysis engine, but I can't find any way to add-in my custom rules assembly. I know Beta 2 doesn't have all the documentation yet, but can someone tell me how to build a custom rules assembly for VS2005 and get it installed for use in a project Thanks! Hi, I also encountered the same problem. After some thorough examination I found ...Show All

• phasic VS team edition latest version download size..?

  Hi,what is visual studio team edition lates version download size for msdn site or another alternate web site.. Right about the same size as the beta, 3.7 GB.  Took about 12 hours to download at 740 kb. thank you brucef... ...Show All

• Panagiotis Kefalidis Recomendation for common external assemblies?

  I use shared open source libraries in a multiproject solution (eg. lib1.dll, lib2.dll referenced in projects 1 (maybe a DLL), 2 (another dll) and 5 (an exe) of solution x). 1) The first problem I have using TFS version control is how to handle these assemblies so everyone else can get a copy of the source code and start to work without worrying about missing/not found assemblies, changing the assembly reference path and so. Ideally visual stu ...Show All

• Rafa Cabedo I've lost access to my shared folders

  After installing VS.net 2003 (academic edition), I've lost the ability to access shared folders on my computer from another, even though the settings on the folder, and on my firewall are unchanged. I do not use the windows firewall, so it is turned off. I have Sygate running, but even if I turn that off, I still cannot get in. The logs do not show anything from my own network. All I get is permission denied messages. Has anybody seen this and ...Show All

• Spock101 Accessing TFS without Windows Integrated Security? (Internet Access)

  From what I see after an installation of Beta 3 is this Web Site on Port 8080 with integrated authorization. I am thinking of changing this to basic authorization and after that publishing the site over SSL with an ISA server. So that it looks like that: Client - SSL (Port443) -> ISA - HTTP (Port 8080) -> TFS Is it really that easy or what is the recommended way of achieving this Does the Client in VS2005 offer a way to enter credite ...Show All

• Elver How do I deploy from a team build?

  From my team build, I'd like to publish a click once deployment, along with a matching web service. The config for the client will also need to have the URL for the web service updated automatically. Jonesie, We are investigating this issue currently and get back to you soon. Regards, Nagaraju Palla, Visual Studio Team System | Team Build It's a 3 tier app with a winforms app, a web service wrapper for the data layer and a sql 2k db ...Show All

• Sajjad Akhter Web Test recording unreliable - help!

  I've just installed the release version of VisualStudio Team Suite 2005, to use the web testing tools. (I had previously used beta 2 on a different PC). I go through the standard process of recording a web test. However not all the posts are recorded. In more detail:  - Start recording - OK  - Type in the URL of our logon page (we use our own authentication) - OK  - Enter the logon credentials and press Logon - OK  - We do a ...Show All

• _Rab_ Project Attributes

  Is it possible to extend the the Team Foundation Project attributes Something like add some field related to external app, internal attributes we use to identify our projects, etc. Thks, Max You can have custom fields for Work Items, but not custom properties on team projects themselves.  This was a painful v1 cut, but is definitely being considered for the next version.  What kind of projec ...Show All

• F0PS Build machine is not reachable

  I'm having trouble getting a Team Build type to run.  The error message that I receive is "Build machine is not reachable". I have defined the Build Machine as 'teamfoundation' in my build type, which is the name of the Team Foundation server (creative, I know).  I've tried various combinations of this, including the IP address, the FQN, and I've tried all of these from remote machines and on the server itself. Everything appears to be ...Show All

• Dotnetjunky Reports are present after upgrade to RTM, but they don't work

  After upgrading from B3R to RTM, I see all the reports in my projects, but they don't work. For example, the "Bug Rates" report shows nothing in the "Iteration", "Area" and "Priority" parameters, and the drop-down lists for those fields are blank. All projects are MSF Agile (the Beta 3 version of it, not the new 4.0 version). Ideas At least work items and source control migrated OK - but I would l ...Show All

• Tom Dey requirements management

  hi, I'm trying to determine how VS 2005 handles Requirements Management. I've read that VS provides a means for managing requirement traceability, and will produce a REquirements Traceability matrix. Has anyone used this functionality in VS 2005 I've used Requisite Pro in the past and have been very happy with it, if anyone can compare VS 2005 to Req Pro in terms of Requirements Management, that would be great! thanks, Ryan ...Show All

• o6619 Please give us better help files on the Version Control API

  I have been working on a POC that does a Get from the Version Control Repository. I have been heavily scouring the VS 2005 SDK help files, blogs and the Internet at large. I have found limited information on this API and the Help files are all but useless. An example of a help topic for the GetRequest.ItemSpec property is below. This gives me no indication of what this ItemSpec object is or does. Can someone at Microsoft please make it a priorit ...Show All

• adisD vssscc file corrupt

  Somehow (not too sure how it has happened) the <solutionname>.vssscc file has become corrupt in the Team Foundation Source Control. Performing an h get * in the directory that is bound to the solution folder in source control give an error about nulls in the database on the vssscc item. h get * /force seems to ignore the error and proceed though. This is causing our Team Build to fail when getting the solution out of source control. Any ...Show All