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• Michael Entin Testing an outside website and going to an ISA server

  One of our environments (our staging env.) can only be accessed via the Internet. That means if I need to access this site, my request needs to go out through the ISA server on the the Internet to the staging environment. I have no problems recording, but the playback even after I have set the proxy, my id and password is failing. The response header shows: HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authoriz ...Show All

• Brian Evans Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Released

  http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/default.aspx The question is: It needs september ctp   DO I also have to license september ctp Will MSFT provide a way to upgrade from september ctp to sql 2005 final release I ask this because I am really thinking in using tfs beta 3 in a production server. How many CALS does it include I have to say that we also have msdn universal. Thanks    Hi Luis - As an MSDN Universal subscriber ...Show All

• S M Hasan Viewing Testing Artefacts in Team Edition for Software Developers

  I am software tester working with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers in a small team of software developers working with Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers.   As I raise Bugs from my manual test scripts they get automatically attached to the Bug as a link.   This should allow the developer to see the test script (manual test .mht file), result of the test and comments as to why the test failed.   This ...Show All

• kiwimitch AllowTeamServer configuration

  Hi, does anyone know when this value, either in the registry or in the tfsbuildservice.exe.config file, does this value get set Thanks in advance. Garnet. Hi Garnet This value is set when you first fire a build. The server value is set to the current server. Thanks -Khushboo The value is set in the registry when the first build is fired on particular build machine. Locating this ...Show All

• Nabeel Shahid From RC to formal release Trial Edition

  We are pretty much committed to using TFS so we'd like to move to the formal release version of TFS ASAP. Since it's going to take a couple of months for our software vendor to get the media ready for purchase, I have downloaded the 180-day Trial Edition from MSDN (we don't want the Workgroup Edition). Since we have been using the RC build for real projects, can I upgrade from RC to the release Trial Edition There's this upgrade tool for downlo ...Show All

• HariValath Permission problems

  hello, I've created a domain group "ts\developers" with two users: dev and dev2. Then in Team Sysem I created a TFS global group "Developers" adding "ts\developers" windows group as members (not each devx windows accounts). The "Global\Developers" TFS group has the following permissions: - Access the version control system - Create a workspace - Create new projects - Edit domain-level information - View domain-level information At the team proje ...Show All

• Ben Ryan Can not run Test in Debug

  Hi, I have big solution. For testing different parts of the solution I added unittest project to the solution. The project holds a score of tests. When I try to run test from TestManger (I check in check box a test and after click on right button of a mouse I pick up "Run Checked Test"), the test succided to run. But if I try to debug ("Debug Checked Tests") test, the VS is crashed. Before VS crashed it throw message box with next ...Show All

• Brent_Yager Error Generating model for Olap Data Source

  When I try to generate a data source for the TfsOlapReportDS in Report Manager I get the following error: An error occurred while generating model. (rsModelGenerationError) Get Online Help An error occurred during the generation of semantic model : [Create mapping between cube dimensions and database dimensions]Unexpected error occurred : Schema indicates that cube dimension '[Tea ...Show All

• Chris Kurz Different Source Control options when creating a project

  If I create a TFS project with the wizard I get options to create (or not) the source control folder. However it seems that whichever option I choose I always get a source control folder , or at least source control turns up in the project explorer and the project shows up in the source control explorer. Am I missing something Is this a problem with the beta or is this expected behaviour Thanks, If in the wizard you choose not to creat ...Show All

• Tech G-nome How do I delete a task?

  In going through the walkthrough, I accidently created a duplicate of a task. Is there some way to delete it ("Delete" doesn't seem to work.) Michael- I would like a detailed explanation of how to create a "deleted" state. You mentioned about posting something on your blog. Is it on there If so, where on your blog can I find it...is it archived Thanks. ...Show All

• Arkiliknam Missing VCOverrides.vsprops

  I've migrated to RC from B3R - no problems. In B3R, when I created a build type, the following files would get created under source control in the TeamBuildTypes folder: TFSBuild.proj, TFSBuild.rsp, VCOverrides.vsprops, and WorkspaceMapping.xml. However when I try to create a new build type (after migrating to RC), I only get the following files: TFSBuild.proj, TFSBuild.rsp, and WorkspaceMapping.xml. VCOverrides.vsprops is missing. Is this a bu ...Show All

• nick800 Work Item customization - referring other work items in dropdowns

  While customizing the process template - created work item A - creating work item B, want to use a dropdown that lists all work items created of type A i.e If there are work items called Parts and Machine, want to access a dropdown of all created Parts in the Machine work item What is the syntax for doing the same - This is not the case of a global list Is there a specific syntax of AllowedValues that can read from instances of a work item Rega ...Show All

• rocky8081 Global list issues

  I created a Global list of our customers. Many of the names include an apostrophe (') example "Joe's" Whenever one of these items are selected, the Work Item <Group> the list is in no longer displays correctly. Items earlier in the Group display correctly, Items in the subsequent Groups display correctly. Examples below... I have temporarily substituted (_) for (') in all customer names. GLimport.exe should screen for outlawed c ...Show All

• MPrutz Web Test - Accesing values from a Datasource

  Hi, When you use some values extracted from a Datasource (for User ID, Password or other parameter) you specified the Database, table and field. How are rows managed I mean which is the criteria to chose a record from this table (always the first, randomly or another criteria). How does it works when you include this test in a Load Test Does it change the rows from the table randomly Thanks LucasC There is an option when you create the d ...Show All

• DenMori config file for App Under Test is not used when executing test

  I have found what I think is a bug in the Unit Testing Framework: If your App Under Test (AUT) has its own config file, that config file will not be used when you run a test against it from within the IDE's Test View. I have a complete Visual Studio solution which demonstrates this behavior if anyone wants me to email it to them but here is the gist of the example: I have an AUT which has an app.config file that contains a string value: ...Show All