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• Gamb Sample Templates

  I downloaded the MSF Sample Tempates v3 and tried to open the MS Project files. I can't see nothing in there, altough the files are prety big. Can someone tell me how can I see for example the Gant chart OK, I found them in the CMMI zip, nothing in the Agile zip. Could you please post the link to the Agile zip that has them or could you email me the mpp file ( niros2@hotmail.com ) ...Show All

• Tiduske Listening for CheckIn event

  Hi, we would like to write an application that listens for the CheckIn event in TFS Source Control and perform certain operations (that requires user input) on the checked in file. Is this possible, and in that case how Regards, Per  What kind of changes will that person be making Since it's not an automated process, would email notification to the user suffice For security reasons, only accou ...Show All

• Arsoft Custom workitems problems in Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Refresh

  I have gottenTFS Beta 3 upgraded to the Beta 3 Refresh.  Everything went pretty smooth, but i am having problems with the custom workitems.  Basically what i have setup is the a SubSystem dropdown has changed the bug is assisgned to a certain user.  This worked fine in the Beta 3 version but will not work in the Bets 3 Refresh.  Below is how i have the conditon set.  I go this by exporting the workitem type from TFS. &n ...Show All

• Francisco Rivas Build FAILED: A database error occurred (SQL error 8152) ---> String or binary data would be truncated.

  Hi, I'm running Beta 3 Refresh in a single server environment. I've started moving our source code from StarTeam to TF Version Control, but have run into a problem with the build. I started out with a small sample and a simple build file and everything worked fine. Now I've checked a major part of our source code into TFVS and have set up a team build. The build have multiple solutions with multiple projects and several thousand source files. Th ...Show All

• db_guy Last discussion is put on the bottom of the list in Sharepoint. How to change it?

  Hi all, I have a discussion board on sharepoint. I notice the latest discussion is put on the bottom of the discussion list. From end user's view, I think they prefer to seeing the latest post on the top of the list, just like the MSDN forum. Is there any way to change the order of the discussion list, that is, list the latest discussion on the top of the list Thanks, Leon You might find a better answer by posting this to a ...Show All

• Amir Duany Getting an Evaluation copy of Team Explorer for non Visual Studio Users.

  Hi, I have installed Team Foundation Server Beta 3 for evaluation. I have a number of Users who will need access to Work Items as well as the Source Code Management System on TFS but I do not want to pay $5,000/User. I beleive that there is a Team Explorer Client that goes for about $500/User and does not require Visual Studio to be installed. Does anybody know how I can get an evaluation copy Thanks in advance, Dave ...Show All

• Martin Lapidus Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider Beta 2 Now Available (Feb 20, 20006)

  The Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider Beta 2 is now available here . IMPORTANT:   Beta 2 is not strongly signed, so you'll need to disable strong name validation as mentioned in the README.  You can find details at http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/02/21/536260.aspx . New in this beta: Support for Visual Studio 2003 and Fox Pro in addition to the already supported VB6 and VC6. Integrated Checki ...Show All

• chris22ka How to access Team system using Programs

  Hi all, I want to use the functionality of Team System. Are there any classes and interfaces opened by Microsoft to access Team system. So that I can access the Team system through my own written programs. If any one have some code snippet to explain or some links regarding the access of Team system using Visual Basic functions, it will be helpful Thanks Hello There are many parts of Team Sy ...Show All

• creagan multi-platform project dependencies

  Hi there, I'm trying to migrate to Team Foundation Build and ran into a problem which is caused by the different order MSBuild builds the projects with different platforms. Let's say there is a solution with 3 projects and following dependencies: project1 platform: x86 project2 platform: Any CPU depends on project1 porject3 platform: x86 depends on project2 My good old batch-script just calls 'devenv example.sln /Build Release', so de ...Show All

• nka4 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

• Moshe Gottlieb List of files updated?

  Our development team has just converted from CVS to Team System. One of the things we can't seem to find is the output of updated files when you get latest. I have gotten this output once in Team System, but only when I have a conflict. We'd really like to be able to see this output any time we get latest. Is there any way to get Team System to show it to us even when there isn't a conflict Thanks, Patrick ...Show All

• CEstudent Windows SharePoint Services is not configured as recommended by Team Foundation Server.

  I have tried everything to get TFS up running and i can't install the Beta on the server. Im runnning Windows 2k3 server and i have installed SQL server 2005 and the share point services. I tried to install everything as the help file describe. But when i run the TFS setup the error message says Windows SharePoint Services is not configured as recommended by Team Foundation Server So i have tried to uninstall the sharepoint services and then r ...Show All

• MeirAmiel the request failed with http status 404

  when I tried to open the team explorer I got the following error the request failed with http status 404 I have the same error. At first when I was creating new projects I was receiving that connection terminated error. I am using beta 3. I have rextended sharepoint onto default and team foundation server. when I extended team foundation server it started giving me the 404 when I did any team related functions in Visual Studio. I checked ...Show All

• VVPrasad Small Orginizations [RUP OR MSF]

  What do you people think …For Small Business…organizations having lesser number of people on hand What is the best way to adopt Process Improvement MSF or RUP I'm also a bit biased, but perhaps not as much Randy .  Both approaches are scalable to large and small.  My problem with RUP is that it is so massive that it is you need to expend a lot of effort just to get it down to a reasonable size. MSF seems generally a little ...Show All

• Ananth Ramasamy Meenachi How does TFS manage the WSS site images?

  For every WSS site created when creating a Team Project using MSF Agile, the page banner is head_agile.gif. This file only resides in a zip file. However, if I create a generic WSS site directly in WSS, every image is there under C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\IMAGES So how are the TFS images managed differently We need to change the WSS sites created by TFS use our own UI. ...Show All