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• Rob Sherrard Grasping at straws here with VSTS Licensing!

  First of all thanks for reading! After many calls to MSDN and the Partner Program they all seem to be unaware or partially aware of what's going on. Since the forum seems to be the best place, I'll ask here! I logged in the MSDN web site last Friday and started a discussion with the online Concierge. I asked him why was I not able to view the VS 2005 Team Suite product (and I'm not talking about the 180 day free Trial here) The short ...Show All

• Soth Checking Inheritance Heirarchy

  Hi, I am using the following code to check the inheritance heirarchy. public override ProblemCollection Check(TypeNode type) { int baseCount = 0; while ((type = type.BaseType) != null ) { baseCount++; } } I have the sample (Test Program for this rule) as a Windows Application. But some what I am not sure why, it enters the loop only for the Program.cs file and not for the other referenced file ...Show All

• OkiMike The DoNotCatchGeneralExceptions rule

  The above rule documentation indicates that the rule should not be excluded, this is Ok in the case of a general Exception or catch being present without any other exceptions. The problem I have is that we have several Exceptions in place to catch the likly exceptions then a general catch(Exception) block at the end in case we have missed any exceptions. It is this general catch(Exception) that FxCop is complaining about. We cannot put a throw s ...Show All

• Jarvism Analyzing the results

  Hi, My unit test takes 1 minute to complete. For load test run duration I have given as 2 minutes i.e. My unit test runs twice during load test. I am using step load pattern. I am running the load test for 20 users. In avg column the results are showing as User load : 10 Test/sec : 0.46 Avg test time : 13.3 By seeing above results Response time for single user is 13. ...Show All

• rkuerbitz How to import TFS Users as Project Resources

  I have a new TFS project which has a number of our Active Directory users assigned with permissions. Our AD Friendly names are in the form "lastname, firstname". When I Get All Tasks from TFS in Projects, each name appears as two people. (E.G. Doe, John in AD appears as users Doe and John in the Project Resource Sheet.) Is there a way to get the TFS users into Project without having to change our AD I am too small a fish to force a co ...Show All

• Dalmuti Performance testing basics - what are some good metrics?

  Hi everyone, I got pulled into a performance testing project and I don't have any previous experience. My company is also just starting out with performance testing of our software, so we are still trying to determine the approach, what metrics we should collect and so on. We are planning to use VSTS's Load Test. There are so many different counters and metrics there, where do I even start It would be very helpful if you could share your &qu ...Show All

• vshitn VS2005 RC1 loses Source Control settings (using TFS Beta 3)

  Since this problems seems to be with Visual Studio 2005 RC1 client, I am posting it here instead of at TFS forums. I open up VisualStudio after a fresh install, go to Tools->Options->Source Control and set the plug in to Team Server. Then I go to Tools->Connect to team server and add our TFS Beta 3 server. At this point, Team Explorer is blank and there is no way to tell that window to refresh its contents. Then I go to File->Source ...Show All

• Blueshark006 unhandled exception on install!!!

  yeah someth totally new now...( great cause always the same errors r really boring :-)) all services runnin perfect! see my event log entrys >>>> http://foundation:8080/Currituck/SyncAclService.asmx    System.Net.WebException: The request failed with HTTP status 503: Service Unavailable.    at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, S ...Show All

• Anatoly Rapoport Team Build & Visual Source Safe - Creating build type

  I am assuming you do not need Team Foundation Source Control to be able to use Team Build. We’d like to stick with SourceSafe for now. In Tools->Options I have chosen Visual Source safe as source control. I have also created a sourcesafe database. From here I do not understand how to map solution and the solution to the team foundation project so that I can select the solution in the Build Type Creation Wizard. This is what I’ve done: 1. The ...Show All

• hfrmobile Connection to TFS only on HTTP

  Hi All, I am trying to connect to the TFS server using only http. The machine running the server is on the internet with a public ip. When I try to connect from the client, both client and server belongs to the same domain, the client connect happilly but when I try to open a project I get this error: Could not connect to application tier.  Please contact the team system administrator(s) Any idea The above senario, typical for consult ...Show All

• Dock run unit tests on different databases

  hi folk, I want to run my unittest automaticially on 2 different databases. once on a sql server and the second is a oracle db. Does anybody have information about how to proceed does it work with the runconfiguration thanks. remo Are you discussing data driven testing There is no direct way to do this per se, but you can get there using deployment items, different runconfigs, and App Configuration f ...Show All

• Newbie2007 Keyword Expansion

  Hello, I understand that VSTS does not support the keyword expansion elements of VSS ($History etc). Given this does anyone know how a developer could identify the version of a code file on their system without accessing source control Thanks, Si... I've logged a bug about this documentation error at https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx FeedbackID=227931 Not re ...Show All

• Marlund Could internal Version Control be replaced?

  Hello, My organization is interested in using Team System build, but not ready yet to abandon version control system we currently use: P4. Therefore I wonder whether it would be possible to implement an interface to an external Version Control System and configure TFS to use it instead of internal Version Control for team builds If that is possible then what API shall I use to do that Thanks. ...Show All

• IAOCHISON System life cycle versus development project versus Team Project versus source control branch etc

  System life cycle versus development project versus Team Project versus source control branch etc.   I have spent some time exploring the new source control system in Team System now and I haven’t got the grip about the relationships between System lifecycle management, development projects, team project and version control folders/branches. Maybe someone can explain how Microsoft has thought about this and Team System   Som ...Show All

• rcangus What's the password for hands-on VSTE DVD @ launch event?

  I got a DVD at the launch event this Monday, that has the hands-on labs on a VPC. But... how do I log in   What is the password to log into the OS that is on the VPC   Couldn't find the password anywhere on this DVD. Pass@word1 is the Administrator password for all four of the VPCs. This should be in the Readme on the VPC. If you're going to do the VSTS lab, please visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/learn/2005Labs/default.aspx ...Show All