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• PaulLaudeman Errors in Team Build - TFS RC

  I've recently upgraded to TFS - RC and all is going well, except for Team Build. All the solutions build successfully when they are on their own (i.e., in their own individual build), however when I combine them up into a single Team Build, it crashes part way through with the following Error in the Application Log. (Below) I can't see any errors in the build log, it just stops ! I have tried several orderings of solutions, and it seems ...Show All

• ShinjiFei Types with disposable fields should be disposable

  CriticalError, Certainty 95, for TypesThatOwnDisposableFieldsShouldBeDisposable Fxcop says that my class (PrintText) which instantiates an IDisposable type (Font) should also implement IDisposable. The documentation goes on to say that I should not exclude a message from this rule. My PrintText class is just a way to encapsulate a particular usage of PrintDocument. I need a font for what I am doing. I instantiate it in PrintText.Print, ...Show All

• Mathijs van Altvorst TFS (again)

  Ive finally managed to install TFS (after 4 odd weeks). However, now the only user who can use it is the one who it was installed under. Ive gone into security and set up other users to have permissions to access the server, but whenever any other user tries to connect to the server a browser style logon dialog box appears and no user/password is accepted. Please help Michael Yogita I think the problem wa ...Show All

• TheKell Additional Alerts?

  How do I setup alerts for people to be notified when new tasks are assigned to them How do I setup alerts to be notified if someone checks in a particular file   How can I generate custom alerts Where is all of the documentation for TFS Thanks Scott Under the covers the filtering capability of the alert system is pretty extensive.  In the UI we only expose some pretty simple alert subscriptions. In ...Show All

• Mariam Dholkawala using vssconverter /Team Explorer from December ctp with Beta3 Refresh possible?

  Hi there: just wanted to ask this before I make a mess of my system. I just tried converting one project from Source(Un)safe to TFS using vssconverter. While the actual conversion went smooth, I do have the issue that all file names are all lowercase now - supposedly this should be fixed with the December CTP. My question now is whether I can happily install the Dec. CTP Team Explorer Client and work against a Beta3 refresh backend, or is this d ...Show All

• MattMcla WorkItem Field enabling/disabling based on current user

  Hi! I have another question regarding Workitems: I would like to achieve that the WorkItem Fields can only be editable to that user which is present in the System.AssignedTo field. Other users cannot edit the fields. Is this possible somehow Thanks, Bye! You can do this using <READONLY> rule. Every rule in work item type definition XML has two optional attributes - "for" (for specifying the group of people the r ...Show All

• saynotoms Entering Dynamic Value for a field

  How do I enter a dynamic value ABC1, ABC2, ABC3... like this for particular field for the web test. I am running .webtest file only. I have not generated any code right now. I tried with implement this with Extraction Rule. I do not want to bring the data from database with data binding. Please suggest me. Thanks Tampali You can write a webtestplugin which adds a dynamic value to the context and then bind t ...Show All

• evilc New Question

  You can help me with Report Builder because I have a few questions about that... Report Builder I'm not sure what that is. ...Show All

• ds12will [BUG] Possible false positive with ImplementIDisposableCorrectly

  Hi guys, I have encountered what appears to be a false positive with ImplementIDisposableCorrectly. When analyzing the code below, DerivedClass appears to trigger this violation incorrectly stating: 'Remove IDisposable from the list of interfaces implemented by WindowsApplication3.DerivedClass and override the base class Dispose implementation instead.' After some research, I found out that even though DerivedClass doesn't implement IDisposable ...Show All

• Renatas Lauzadis Can/Will beta 2 SCC/WI data be preserved in the GA release

  OK, we're interested in starting to use beta 2 for our next big project, however I need to know if the data we create using beta 2 can be preserved (or at least migrated) in the GA release Does the "go live" license apply to TFS too Dave Marc, The VSTS team has been using TFS for source code control for nearly 9 months.  In the beginning, we backed it up nightly to our old internal SCC system to make sure we didn't have a catastrophi ...Show All

• HurlyBurly Visual Studio 2005 Professional

  Will Visual Studio 2005 Professional be able to access Team Foundation Source Control directly or will we have to use the TFS 'explorer' to do Get/Check out/Check in etc I seem to remember reading that Professional would be able to directly access TFS Source Control but this page http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/productinfo/productline/default.aspx  seems to contradict that (and I can't remember where I read what I think I read) ...Show All

• chantit Branching Web Projects and IIS virtual directories.

  Hello, I have a question about how to deal with branching Web Projects and IIS virtual directories. This is the scenario that I am dealing with: Directory hierarchy: DataScripts/ ProjectSources/ LocalProject/ WebProject/ Solutions/ StressTest/ This directory tree is under source control. Also, when we branch, we branch at the root level, so we ha ...Show All

• Amit Puri HELP I THINK I DELETED THE TFS BETA 3 Registration Connection file with TFSREG tool

  Is there a way that I can fix this   Maybe someone can post this registration xml information and I can apply it to this machine.  I am using beta 3.  I am having problems registering the xml below.  I was able to update the registration file with the rest of the xml except for this. <RegistrationEntries>     <RegistrationEntry>           ...Show All

• Diogenese58 Problem with projectname and title in WSS

  It seems that the title of the project in Windows Sharepoint Services must be the same as the name of the project in Foundation Server for the webparts with the reports (like remaining work etc.) I defined a project 'TestServer' in Team Explorer and then went to the project portal. URL is then http://server/sites/TestServer . I then changed the title of the project in the portal to 'Test Server for TFS'. Note that the URL stays the same. After ...Show All

• Nomada eXtreme Programming Process Template

  Hi, Just wondering if anybody knows of an eXtreme Programming Process Template for Beta3 XP is being introduced across all projects in my organisation and concepts such as Iterations which have Stories which have Tasks doesn't match with the MSF Agile process (from what I can see there are 3 fixed iterations with no way of creating new iterations and setting stories under them and so on). Does anybody know of an XP process template for ...Show All