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• Jacob Cynamon Bug in tf merges?

  Hi, I use the following command to find all merges to my branch: tf merges $/project/branch /r What I find VERY strange is that some lines look like this: Changeset Merged in Changeset Author Date --------- ------------------- -------------------------------- ---------- ... 6438 6436 author 02.03.2006 This means, that a changeset with a higher changeset id has been merged into a change ...Show All

• Foster Hardie TFS Report Error

  I am getting following error while brining a report in TFS An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Cannot impersonate user for data source 'TfsOlapReportDS'. (rsErrorImpersonatingUser) Logon failed. (rsLogonFailed) For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors this started after I changed the passwords of al ...Show All

• Vinoderiva Get latest before check-in policy

  Hello, I'm using the following configuration: 1. One integration project 2. Each programmer has one or more workspace on the integration project I don't want a programmer to do checkin to an unchecked work (means he didn't checked what's going to be in the interation). I want to enfore the programmer to do GetLatest operation. In this operation he might be required to do merges. How can I enforce this methodology If there is a ...Show All

• Srikanth Anumalla How to setup permissions?

  In the permission dialog, what's the exact meaning of each item : Administrate a build, edit project-level information, etc. Is there any document that explain the explain the detailed meaning of each item and their impact on the project management Thanks! If so, there raise a problem : If I connect to TFS from a remote machine (that machine is not a member of the domain), could I use that machine to check out the code, view the pro ...Show All

• Rakin Deleteing Work Item - Task

  Hi After importing the tasks from mpp to team project, I am unable to delete them from the team project even though I have administrative rights. Is there no way of deleting the imported tasks It will make managing tasks very difficult if deletions are not allowed at any stage. Atul Sureka Deleting work items is not a supported feature as part of V1. You can mark the task as closed which will stop it appearing in many of the reports ...Show All

• mduffin Team Build failure due to encoding changes

  Hey guys        I met a problem when launch my team build.  In one of my source files, there is a special character and I save the file with UTF-8. All solution can be compiled successfully in local machine. When I use Team build to build it, the error is raised and output says: "Too many characters in character literal". I checked the source file in TFS, unfortunately, the  encoding of source ...Show All

• John Vonesh Team Projects vs. Source Control

  The company I work for has a structured file system for VSS6.0. We want to keep the same system for the source code, but would like to utilize Team Foundation Server and Team Projects. Do Team Projects need to be associated in the same way as source code or are they independent of the code For example, my Explorer tree looks like this: Classes MyClass HisClass WebApps WebApp_A WebApp_B Each sub-directory is a solution whic ...Show All

• sureddd FxCop 1.35 RC1 - SuppressMessage for IdentifiersShouldBeSpelledCorrectly

  Is it possible to suppress all violations for a given word using a single module-level SuppressMessage attribute For example, if I use the unrecognized word "Foo" in several places in my code, e.g.: public int AddFoo(Foo f) { ... } public void RemoveFoo(Foo f) { ... } I would like to suppress the IdentifiersShouldBeSpelledCorrectly violations for all instances of "Foo" with a single module-level SuppressMes ...Show All

• Raggers Error: The underlying connection was closed.......

  using vs2005 and TeamSystem. when checking in my ASP.Net project to our development server i always get the following error:- "The underlying connection was closed: A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server" the check in fails. if i then attempt to check in again, it checks in fine without any errors. what would be causing this problem its not just me experiencing it either, its happening to all our developers ...Show All

• Hugues van Wassenhove RequestFailed: Context parameter '$HIDDEN1.__EVENTTARGET'

  I am getting the error in the subject on a web test when I change one of the contect variables. Any suggestions or pointers Thanks, TomK Go to this post for reference http://forums.microsoft.com/forums/ShowPost.aspx PostID=195567&SiteID=1 Go to this link and search for " Fixing __EVENTTARGET and other hidden form fields modified by JavaScript" http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp u ...Show All

• wayne62682 VSTE for Developers: EXACTLY which test tools are in it?

  I have read in several of the posts that unit test tools will be included with the edition for developers, and that "unit test and code coverage tools" will be included in the edition for developers.  I've seen the comparison tables, but different versions show slightly different information when it comes to test tools. I want to know what will and will not be included in the specific product.  Since the beta versions include the ent ...Show All

• esselfe Accessing work item history from API

  How do I access the work item history from the API I want to traverse the history of the work item by entry if possible. If it is not possible, a string with all the history will help too. Thanks here some example: foreach(Revision rev in wrkitem.Revisions) { foreach(Field f in rev.Fields) { Console.WriteLine("{0} = {1}\n",f.Name,f.Value); } } I'm thinking that Pablo is asking how ...Show All

• Beeblebrox_dk How to clean up a database after test recording and also after test has run and start with fresh database?

  How to clean up a database after test recording and also after test has run and start with fresh database I have a form in which there is a data grid on it.During recording i add some values in that field so as a result those values get added in the data grid and i got a string saying that record has been saved.When i ran this test those values were already in the data base so the test passed but in test results details in the browser window ...Show All

• mr_dipity Disconnected modified files

  The biggest reasons we are not switching over from VSS to VSTFD have to do with working on files is disconnected mode, sluggish performance and multiple file comparisions.  Perhaps you can address some of our issues 1. If I am disconnected from the source control and I have modified project files or deleted project files (and probably added files) team foundation does not find these file changes.  Moveover, a "get latest version" beli ...Show All

• luis jaramillo Checking a CoreField's Availability on its WorkItem's DisplayForm

  I have some code that sets certain CoreFields' values no matter the Project or WorkItemType. One of these fields is the Description field, which is defined in the CoreField enum in the WorkItemTracking.Client assembly. The problem is, there does not seem to be a truly reliable way to check if this field is visible on the DisplayForm in CMMI Projects (and perhaps all projects, but I have only come across this problem in CMMI ones). The Des ...Show All