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• Chris.Utter strings should not be hard coded.

  Hi, How to check whether the strings are hard coded For example: MessageBox.Show( “Error opening Form” ); How to identify this hard coded string " Error opening Form " Regards Kailash Kailash, No need to reinvent the wheel. ;) FxCop already has a rule under the Globalization rules called DoNotPassLiteralsAsLocalizedParameters that already checks for this. Regards David ...Show All

• Sugoiram Missing CMMI template

  Hi All, I'm still on Beta 2. When create new project, there only 1 template MSF Agile from Process Template Manager. Is it suppose to 2 2 template MSF Agile and CMMI Where can I get CMMI template and upload to my TFS server Best Regards, Beta 3 has both MSF Agile and CMMI process templates available. Beta 2 only had MSF Agile. I would strongly recommend moving to Beta 3, especially with all the latest releases now being shipped. If ...Show All

• jijo123 Team Studio builds successfully but Summary Build name access gives TF42002

  --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- TF42004: Team Build failed to open folder \\srbuild\share\ThirdDebugBuild_20060220.8 . Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. --------------------------- OK --------------------------- I get this error about unknown user or bad password after a successful team studio build on client side accessing server. This upon clicking on the link under the ...Show All

• sstackho 'Remaining work' Report fails in VSTS Beta3 refresh

  Hi there,      I have installed successfully VSTS beta3 server, few reports enabled but few of them are failing. Like 'Remaining Workreport is failing with error: How do i fix this Thanks, An error has occurred during report processing. Query execution failed for data set 'dsWorkItemHistory'. For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors ...Show All

• Confused999 During a merge, the "Building Change Summary" goes into infinite loop

  My machine hangs while resolving conflicts during a merge. Here's what is happening: I initiate a merge between 2 branches It correctly identifies the conflicting files. I select one of the conflicting files and click on "Resolve" button. The "Resolving Conflicts" window comes up saying that its building a change summary. This process of building change summary keeps spinning.....and my machine hangs. The re ...Show All

• ddlam Package Load Failure Error every time starting VS2005

  Hi, I have just uninstalled (using the tool) VS2005Beta2 and installed VS2005, and I get the following error message every time I start the program: Package Load Failure Package 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.ELead.ServicesHostPackage, Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.ELead.Client, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' has failed to load properly ( GUID = {8E01EC3E-2928-4AA5-B720-E28C163818E6} ). Please conta ...Show All

• zaoacila89 Synchronizing Predecessor Info between VSTS and Project

  Since developers will probably not look at MS Project and will look at VSTS, we feel that predecessor information needs to be captured for Tasks, since tasks frequently have dependencies. Hence, we added a custom field in the process template to specify task predecessors. However, the predecessor information specified in VSTS does not get synchronized with MS Project. Also in VSTS, the predessor info contains VSTS-ass ...Show All

• Moishe Organizing Projects into Products or Customers or Releases?

  Hi! We're trying to figure out how to best organize our VSTS projects. We have 5 different product all sharing the same core. We have core releases every 3 month, and a product release about every 6 month.The core is developed together with the product, so before the start of a new core release, the "core" functionality from all released product are merged into the Core. In addition a product are usually sold together with some c ...Show All

• Qasrawi Unplanned work report incorrect

  For some reason or another, the "Unplanned Work" report (MSF Agile 4.0) is not displaying properly. I set the plan completion date to a date somewhere in the middle of the project lifetime, click on the view report and only see "Planned" work items even though work items were created after the "Plan completion date". The report shows that the number of work items increases after the "plan completion date", ...Show All

• Rincewind60 Beta 2 migration to beta 3

  Hi forum folks Can I migrate data in TFS beta 2 (the one in VS2005 beta 2 release) to the forthcoming TFS beta 3 Reason for asking: Should I go for Beta 2 now or wait approx. 1 month and go for beta 3 instead. Looking forward to hear from you. Thanx in advance /Henrik If you haven't started using beta 2, I would wait for this month's release of beta 3.  Not only will you not be able to migrate the da ...Show All

• Michael_Bedwell Creating a hyperlink to a work item

  Is it possible to create a hyperlink that Visual Studio is able to interpret as open-this-work-item I would like to be able to write (in e.g. an e-mail) "Click this link and edit the remaining hours: vsts://{myteamserver}/WorkItems/{workItemID}". When the user clicks the link, Visual Studio (or Team Explorer standalone) is launched and the work item is opened. Is this possible out-of-the-box Regards, Thomas L ...Show All

• eric_l How to create a new report and include into process templates?

  How to create a new report and include into process templates I just created and rdl, and upload to report server and it has the connection string inside the project, but I would like to put this report on all the projects. How can I achieve that Tks You can modify an existing process template by downloading it, making necessary changes and uploading it back to the server (right-click on the server in the team explorer, 'Team F ...Show All

• Nick Ericson Code analysis reports on Visual Studio generated code

  Heya, I have a problem with the Code Analysis (FxCop I assume). Its reporting warnings on code generated by Visual Studio, such as code in the xForm.Designer.cs files. For example: Warning 99 CA1303 : Microsoft.Globalization : FLogOn.InitializeComponent():Void passes a literal as parameter 1 of a call to Control.set_Text(String):Void. Retrieve the following string argument from a resource table instead: 'OK' How can I turn off Code Analy ...Show All

• LawrenceSQL Adding new Test Types

  Hi, Can anyone tell me where I can get information on how to add my own test types to Team Test.   An example would be really helpful. TIA I expected them to show up in the Test->New Test dialog or the Add New Test or the Add New Item dialogs. It doesn't appear in either of the three. How can I check to see why devenv is not picking up the template Trying to get a POC\Demo working with a custom test type. Any help is gre ...Show All

• Esen Tuna - MSFT how can I backup team projects which I have created

  how can I backup the Team Projects in a TFS I'm using the beta2 version . if I reinstall the TFS , I wan to maintain the Projects I have created , can I export the projects which I have created and import them after I reinstall the server You will indeed have to manually import your work items, source code, etc. into the upgraded server. Buck As Ling says, it's not supported for beta 2.  However, you can find some useful info ...Show All