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• mango_123 Possible bug: Tools->Options->Database Tools->Database Connection->Instance option change doesn't affect until VS is restarted

  subj Nick, Thank you for the feedback, I think it may be one of the known issues for CTP. Anyway, I'll look into it. By the way, there is a way to submit a bug or a suggestion directly to the team (bypassing a forum) at http://connect.microsoft.com . Best Regards, Dmitriy_Nikonov_MSFT wrote: By the way, there is a way to submit a bug or a suggestion directly to the team (bypassing a fo ...Show All

• Fanlan How to view labels for a file in Team Foundation?

  I am using VSTS 2005 Team Suite June CTP. I add a label to a file, but the History command doesn't seem to show the labels that are assigned to a file.  I don't see any way to view the labels assigned to a file in Team Foundation. Am I missing something obvious or is this truly not supported In most other version control systems, you can see when a label was applied to a file by looking at the histo ...Show All

• ISW Duplicate copies of Work Item Queries appearing in Team Explorer

  Has anyone else noticed that if you double-click on the same Team Query repeatedly, it creates a copy within the project which is available to other team members Repro: - Open an existing Team Project - Within Team Explorer, double click on any of the Team Queries (e.g. "Active Bugs") to make it the selected tab. - With the tab selected, double click again on "Active Bugs" Expected: - Nothing, i.e. Active Bugs becomes the s ...Show All

• Endre Oláh About WSS and Versions of Documents

  With Vs 2005 team system can I control the versions of the documents. Can I know who did what on what day on any document Can I see the diffferent versions of the documents with WSS .    Note that you must have that document library configured to maintain version history of documents. This is configured in the General Settings for the doc library when you answer Yes to this question, "Create a version each time you edit a f ...Show All

• FADI_KHAN Providing help in the help collection for custom rules.

  Does anyone know how to provide help for custom rules in the help collection What i would really like to do is that if you press "F1" on a violation you get to the help topic for the rule, in the same way it works for the rules provided with Visual Studio 2005. ty in advance. There's no support for this in VS2005 (where custom rules development is not a supported scenario). We will definitely address it ...Show All

• Chris_1246 FXCop 1.32 with VS 2005 RTM

  Hello everyone, I am managing a development project which started around VS 2005 Beta 2. I have been using FXCop 1.32 since the start of the project, but now developers are switching to the RTM version. I was just wondering if the same FXCop 1.32 can also be used with this latest (and final :-) version. I have done some wee tests and this seems to be the case (after all, I don't think CLR has changed since) but I would appreciate if you cou ...Show All

• LoicBaroux VSTS Version Control and Phantom Items

  Has anyone else seen this happen A few of my fellow developers have run into what I've called "Phantom Items" in the VSTS Version Control System. Basically, what I mean by this is items that appear in the pending check-ins dialog but that are [no longer] part of the VS solution. When they appear, there seems to be no way to get rid of them short of directly going to the VSTS Version Control window and manually manipulating the repository fil ...Show All

• Rdan LOC Counter

  Hi. I'm trying to determine the ability of VSTS to count lines of code (LOC). I've noticed that VSTS "counts" new, changed, deleted and total lines of code for every build, but is there a way these meassurements from a file or group of files (even if you are not using team build) How about between changesets Is it possible to get the LOC data from  a work item Say: "using this work item xxx LOC where changed, yyy were deleted, zzz were ...Show All

• CalvinK Heeeeeelp!! i cant unlock a file locked by other user!!

  Hi, please help me, other user have locked a file for editing, but his PC crashed, now hes formating his PC. i've tried to unlock it without success, i've read about permissions, i found the "Unlock others", all my groups have this enabled, but doesnt work, what am i doing wrong Note that the workspaces command only affects your local cache. Workspace (no 's') is the command you want: tf workspace /delete:<workspace> ...Show All

• _howard Attempting to get the HttpContext.Current.Request.UserLanguages, asp.net unit test.

  I am running ASP.net unit tests against a class that lives in a virtual directory in IIS. In the class, there are references to the HTTPContext object. This object is populated, except the HttpContext .Current.Request.UserLanguages property. I assume that I need to modify the request headers with something like, webrequest.Headers.Add( "Accept-Language" , "en-us,es-mx;q=0.7,af;q=0.3" ); Unfortuntly, this doesn't add ...Show All

• Gleedo Testing Native Code (C++ ) using Team Unit Testing frameworks

  I have been looking for some pointers or guide lines as to how do I test C++ unmanaged code using Unit Tesing capabilities of VS 2005. Do I need to write wrappers in managed code ( a sort of mixed mode class one that calls into managed code and other that calls the native code) Any suggestion welcome Regds Dinesh There are a few options: - Create new Managed C++ Test Project. Change project options general->CLR support from / ...Show All

• naiad Team Builds error when connecting to the build machine.

  Hi! I'm currently trying to configure a build machine into my team foundation server environment, but I cant get it to work! When I'm from a client is trying to trigger a build of my project I get the following errormessage: TF42046: The build service used in the build process is not reachable. This error occurs when either the build machine is off-line, the required service is not running, Team Build is not installed on the build machine, Team ...Show All

• ProJester MSProject Fields Mapping Problem

  Hi, Based on the information we found from the list of Project fields at the following url: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181691.aspx and also how to: change how fields are mapped to Microsoft Project from the following url: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181686(VS.80).aspx We are trying to map the "Description" field in VSTS workitems with the "pjTaskNotes" field in MS Project but when w ...Show All

• skylar Fixing DoNotCastUnnecessarily in VB.NET?

  I originally had the following code which generated the DoNotCastUnnecessarily rule: ... If TypeOf someObject Is someSpecificType Then     Dim someSpecificObject As someSpecificType    someSpecificObject = CType (someObject, someSpecificType)     ' Do something interesting with someSpecificObject End If ...   The rule details tell me to cache the result of the 'as' operator or use a dire ...Show All

• Juan M. Aguirregabiria Win 2003 AD requirement for Beta 2

  OK, so I see that beta 2 requires a windows 2003 Active Directory, however we're running Win 2000 AD and I don't see a corporate upgrade coming in the timeframe I'd like - so that leaves me with creating a 2003 AD domain for TFS - questions are: 1. can I trust our corporate domain (or create a sub-tree, or ) and use the user accounts from the 2000 AD with TFS 2.  What specific 2003 AD features does TFS need to use that 2000 doesn't provide ...Show All