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• beezleinc Visual Studio Final and TFS Beta 3

  Hi Will there be any problems building solutions developed in Visual Studio Professional (released today on MSDN) with TFS Beta 3 Thanks Hmm, I don't know the answer to that question. However, I have now installed the Visual Studio Team Edition RTM, followed by the Team System Client Beta 3 (the one that has been available for a few weeks, not the currently non-existant "beta 3 refresh"). Having done that, I ...Show All

• Mike Stall - MSFT Thanks Rob Caron!

  I was thinking about it...I wouldn't mind soliciting a list of good Team System topics that we should cover.  Here's some thoughts: 1.  Customizing Team System Project Templates 2.  Managing Projects with Team System 3.  Using Team System to increase ROI of Software Development 4.  Business Values of Team System 5.  Team System Adoption Strategies Thoughts Those are all excellent suggestions. In fact, a ...Show All

• tazbigdog Problem getting code generated unit tests to work.

  Everytime I add a new test project a localtestrun.testrunconfig file is not generated for me. Everytime I open the project my output window keeps telling me: Error loading "FilePath".vsmdi: Input file not found: "FilePath".vsmdi. Error loading localtestrun.testrunconfig: Input file not found: "FilePath"\localtestrun.testrunconfig. So, my question is how do I add a .testrunconfig file to my project Thanks in advance, Dan ...Show All

• Eylem Ugurel Should I get this (VSTS)?

  My buddie and I like making programs together or trying to beat each others projects. What I would like to know is would VSTS really be worth it Ok. I just ordered the BETA but seriously... Hi Jason, from what you described I don't think that VSTS is the right version of Visual Studio for you.  If you classify yourself as a hobbyist (or a student ... or someone who doesn't code all day every day), you may want to check out the Expres ...Show All

• JustAnAverageJoe Creating a Visual Studio Add-in for "Search"

  Hello all! We all know search is a problem in VSTS, each time we need to export the list to Excel and then use the Ctrl+F keys to search in a particular field. OR Creating a simple Query and modifying that query each time I need to search for another string. So I decided to create an Add-in in VSTS that simply asks for: -Select Team Project : combobox -Select Work Item Type: combobox -Search For: textbox -All Fields radio button ...Show All

• Pete Smith TF26000 problem when creating a new global/project group

  I got an error message when i query a work items. (TF26000). My TFS is installed in single server and using workgroups. Let me show what i have done in Team explorer. create a global group named "Developer". assign an user "jobria" to that group (The account is local account). then i grant full right to that group in server and project. However, when i login the account "jobria" and query the work items, i show me the error mes ...Show All

• MilwaukeeCharlie Installed but where is it

  Hi, I have installed version one of the msscci provider but I'm unable to locate any new menu items etc to access TFS source control from vb6 (sp6) or vs2003. I have TFS RTM on a new server and VS2005 dev edition + Team explorer installed locally (with a vb.net test project under source control). I have read this post but I have a 'publish' menu item not 'team foundation'. How do I verify my install and access the TFS scc from vb6 and vs2 ...Show All

• Alan Cameron Wills How do you add a new security group

  I want to add a group for learning product folks.  Something like <TeamProjectName>\Writers or something like that.  I want to give these folks Read permission on everything except the UserDocs directory.  How do you do this   Do you have to use ADAM   BTW, why aren't these just AD global groups We believe that the behavior mentioned in this thread is not a bug.  Tha ...Show All

• RoadHired Error 32000 During Installation of TFS Beta 2

  I've done some searching but can't find a resolution for this issue yet. I've tried uninstalling ADAM, rebooting, and restarting the install. No go. During the installation of TFS, I get the following error: "Error 32000. The commandline "(temp)\getadminport.exe /vstf" returned non-zero value: 1" where "temp" is my local user's temp folder. When I run getadminport.exe thru the command line myself, I see this: Setting NTAuthenticationProvider ...Show All

• JoeJoeJoe ASP.NET source

  Is it possible to analyze ASP.NET source using FXCOP If so, are there any examples out there of how it is done Amaan, Code Analysis integration is only available in Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite or Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Developers. Regards David Simply right-click on the ASP.NET 'project' in Solution Explorer, and choose Run Code Analysis. Hi David, I am new to FXCop &am ...Show All

• RickMcdannel Monitoring traffic generated by Web Test

  I am attempting to monitor and capture the network traffic generated by a web test using Fiddler. However it never captures anything, I am curious to know if VS2005 (RC) uses a unique port number to conduct Web Tests And if so can it be set, as can be done with unit tests ( http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=59396&SiteID=1 ) Thanks, Terrell Durga has an even more helpful post ...Show All

• Pierre Charbel TF80071 connecting MPP to Team project

  Hi, I'm trying to connect MPP with my Team Server. When I click "choose team project" I get the dialog that list the projects. I select one (no matter which ) and get error TF80071 "team foundation encountered an error while acessing the work items database..." I followed every advice in the other thread regarding this error, including changing the mapping and turning off the connection to the office server (which I don ...Show All

• EricTN Is there an example of how to test web services using https with X.509 certificate

  Any examples out there to test web services that require a client-side certificate using https I created the tests on my local machine without ssl and now am trying to enhance them for our larger test system. Can't record as we are using Smart Client WinForms.  Actually, the problem migh not be the certificate but how to add a FormPostParameter with Username and password. Is this the same in Smart Client forms as in IE Thanks, Burk ...Show All

• Ricardo Oneda Pereira de Toledo FxCop Rules to catch non-externalized strings?

  We are about to start externalizing all the strings in our product, to prepare to translate it into French. Are there any FxCop rules that can find string literals and remind us to externalize them Thanks, Josh Yeager David, of course, the parameter name is "text". I was staring at it too long :-) public void SomethingElse( string somethingMore) works as expected. Thanks David. At le ...Show All

• Semipro Installing Process Templates

  Hi, I'm trying to install a process template that I've created. I'm able to upload it as a folder using the Process Template Manager within Visual Studio. I then compress the folder (i.e. so that the folders are contained at the base of the zip file - i.e. there is no folder called " MSF for Agile Software Development - v4.0 - TEST " but the zip file itself is called " MSF for Agile Software Development - v4.0 - TEST .zip& ...Show All