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• R.Tutus Unshelve confusion over "no pending revisions"

  OK I understand what happens during shelving but I'm not so sure I completely understand unshelving.  The docs for "Working with Source Control Shelvesets" say this about unshelving: "restores each shelved revision into the destination workspace as a pending change as long as the revision does not conflict with a change that was already pending in the workspace." and "To unshelve an item, there must be no pending revisions against it in the ...Show All

• Matt W. Saving diagram changes

  Hi,   I’m changing diagram programmatically. Is there a way to invoke (programmatically) saving of my changes to the underlying SDM files   Thanks, Nel Hi Dmitriy,   In order to reproduce what I mean please follow the steps bellow:   1. Create add-in with the following code: (The purpose of this sample to copy BindingName setting value from WebService provider port ...Show All

• Bill Connors MS Can not upload more then 4MB when create Work Item

  Hi I am create a Performance Session with Team Developer, after the performance profiling, I got a big report. therefore I would like to create a Qos WorkItem by right click the PerformanceReport the xxx.vsp file. -> create working item --> ... however, it fail in create a work item, because the report is too big, 45MB. the Visual Studio tool, just do not let me to do so. how to config to enable this scenario Fo ...Show All

• levous Move projects to a new server (with TFS beta3)

  I have installed a new team server with Beta 3, the old one has also beta 3 but it is in a VPC, the new server is not a VPC. I tried to backup then restore all databases but it did not worked (STS fails). What is the best way to move the projects from one server to a new server The best way to do this is through a backup and restore procedure as you are trying. Unfortunately (as I've posted elsewhere) our documentation is not u ...Show All

• Nicolaj Holm Where is consolebuild?

  I'm trying to find "consolebuild" to automate our build process, but I can't find it anywhere. There is a video that shows how to use it, but there are no project/binaries in that website.... Does anyone know where to find it Thanks     Here is a detailed entry on how to do scheduled builds for Team Build - http://blogs.msdn.com/abhinaba/archive/2005/11/21/495179.aspx   The video is here: ...Show All

• Roy Drenker Problem while installing TFS RC with ADAM installed.

  I am facing problem while installing TFS RC. I am installing TFS RC in below environment. I have DC installed in one Windows NT 4.0 system. I am installing the TFS RC in one Windows server 2003 system having ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode) installed in it. I can not remove it because its project requirement. While installing it is throwing error saying “Error 28002. Unknown Error” And when had a look at Event ...Show All

• Lisa Feigenbaum Tests run from Team Build can't find referenced assemblies

  I know I've seen this answered before but... I have a Team Build of a solution with 9 projects - an EXE, 4 class libraries and 4 test projects.  The team build is configured to run tests.  When the builder attempts to build the test projects, it get compiler errors because it can't resolve names in the class library projects, even though those projects built successfully. What do I have to do to get my test projects to build in the te ...Show All

• Timothy Carroll Problems with Branching

  We are running Beta 3 Refresh and are having problems branching (which worked ok in Beta 2). I created a new folder and then clicked on my main folder (with multiple sub-folders underneath) and clicked Branch. I then choose to put the branch in my new directory I created. It then states: "Preparing to Branch..." and sits there for over 1/2 and never does anything. I then clicked "Cancel" and it sits there for another 30-45 minutes saying "Cancel ...Show All

• cjbonelli Getting Error 28805 during TFS App Tier installation

  I've read the posts about this issue it appears from them that I have everything installed properly. When I try and connect to the report server via http://localhost/reports I'm getting the following error: The report server cannot open a connection to the report server database. A connection to the database is required for all requests and processing. (rsReportServerDatabaseUnavailable) Get Online Help Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\ ...Show All

• Excelerator In Custom Rule How to get the member Datatype.

  HI All,            I am writing a Custom rule in fxcop 1.32 to check the coding standards. My reqyuirement is variables with  integer DataType should be prefixed with int etc ex    Dim intEmpNo as integer    Dim strName as string       I am able to get the varibale names declared. But i am unable to get the Datatype of the ...Show All

• Jedimark please help with web recorder

  Hi! I'm trying to record webtest. 1. Create new web test 2. Window of recorder (IE) does not appears 3. Script is not recorded What solution can you suggest to resolve this problem Thanks for your reply! Moreover when i choose "create webtest" IDE hungs, while the IE window appears with grey (not active) controls Thanks Hi, i'm not running IE7, also also had reset settings for IE. I'm running WXP SP2 + VS2005 ...Show All

• reichel1 Is VSTS a full implementation of Software Factory?

  Threre are already tools for VS2005 beta for developing DSL's. Is it going to have some more No, not yet. The Domain-Specific Language Tools represent an early step on the road to realizing the Software Factories vision. See Keith Short's Software Factory Elevator Story , which can be summarized as: A set of integrated tools, process and content assets used to accelerate life-cycle tasks for a specific ...Show All

• minimi Design Documentation - Where is the best place to store them

  When working on Bugs / Tasks we create design docuemnts (I heard somewhere that these are useful... still trying find who said that :D ). Anyways, where would be the best place to store these Say if there were 5 bugs in our system that could be fixed with 1 code change, we'd only create one document for that (5 bugs still). So, attaching the same document to all those bugs is very bad in my mind. We could also upload it to our portal site and ...Show All

• Mr Adam Team Foundation Admin WebService

  Hi there,    I'm working on integration of TFS with an external application. I need to start the TFS project creation remotely, so, I've been looking through the TF WebServices and found the "projectMaintenance.asmx" at "services" app. It offers only one method: DeleteProject. Is it planned to offer another methods implementing tasks like project creation and update in future releases or should I work on that for myself  &nb ...Show All

• Juergen Weis FileMapping.xml gets corrupt during template upload

  We are making our own project template and we encounter a strange problem. When opening work items in MS Project we get an error "Data at the root level is invalid". This is usually caused by an XML problem. Further investigation learned us that the file FileMapping.Xml only contained "Classification\FileMapping.Xml". Well, I can understand that this doesn't work. However, when using the tool TFSFieldMapping to upload our custom FileMapping.Xml, ...Show All