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• PRamirez July CTP - worth installing?

  I'm doing production work on Beta 2 and really don't have any specific problems.  I do see the occasional crash of visual studio, and there are warts on team system here and there that I know have been fixed since beta 2. My question is - is it worth my effort to upgrade my environment to the July CTP   Doing so will require backing up all my code and documents, scraping the machines down to the bare metal and re-installing from scratc ...Show All

• daps Tasks do not show up in Window SharePoint site

     I have created projects in Team Explorer and have tasks in the project, but when I open the SharePoint site for the project and look at tasks, none show up. Aren't the tasks supposed to be shown in the SharePoint site no, these are WSS tasks, not linked to Work Items within TFS.  We will have a web client for TFS shortly which you will be able to link into a webpart for this thanks Micha ...Show All

• Nabeel Akhtar FXCop run befor i checkin the file in SourceSafe from VisualStudio2003

  Our project in the VisualStudio 2003 are to big to check it all the time with fxcop. So i want to check the file only when i checkin in the sourcesafe. Are there a posibility to call the cmdline of fxcop Thx for helping Matthias There is no direct integration w/FxCop in VS2003, unfortunately. You can add FxCopCmd as an external tool or you can run a batch file-based test as a post-build step (if a post-build ...Show All

• Guenter Prossliner Getting "Memory is Corrupt" errors when performing checkins.

  I have seen this a few times now. When performing a checkin of several files into VSTS I get the following error, any ideas running Beta 3 Refresh with VS 2005 RTM. "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." As a follow up to this, it seems to only happen with my Web Site projects. Windows projects work just fine. I am runni ...Show All

• carabasha Problem capturing events from TFS.

  We tried to build a prototype for capturing the events from VSTS as follows - 1. A windows application - EventingClient - It contains a button - Subscribe - on click of which the following piece of code gets executed to subscribe to workitemchangedevent. LogonToVSTSServer( "Tcs046247.testdom" ); //set the delivery preference to immediate delivery via SOAP DeliveryPreference DP = new DeliveryPreference (); DP.Sc ...Show All

• darknessangel C# or VB.NET

  It seems to me that all the code examples shown here and in the documentation are all based on C#. My client is completely standardized on VB.NET for all its developement and we are bound to this standard as well. For us, it would be nice if the examples were also available in VB.NET. Does anyone else feel that way or do we just have to bite the bullet and go for C# when we create tests OK, thanks for that. ...Show All

• Sacristy Adobe Reader and Popups in a web recording

  I am just starting to look at the Tester and have a basic question. We have an app that displays embedded PDF files in a frame. It also uses popups. Is this supported in a web recording Bill, I don't believe the PDF requests will get recorded automatically, but they can be inserted into the web test after recording. As for popup windows, basically we are able to record any popup that IE raises new window and n ...Show All

• Alan Pa TFS time info

  How do I get the TFS time from a client I tried using the TFS object but all I could get was the time zone info of the server and not the actual server time. Well, if you want to prevent folks from checking in from say 2:00 am to 4:00 am server time, one really simple way to guarantee that is enforced is to set up a windows task on the application tier to remove the checkin permission from the appropriate group at 2:00 am and then res ...Show All

• PrakashV Work Item tracking through web parts?

  Hi, Is it possible to perform work item tracking through web parts in project website Could we use Microsoft share point service to make it possible to add requirements/bug through web client (w/o installing VS 2005 in client machine) Thanks, Saurabh it should be possible, all of the calls are available through Webservice Calls. However, there is currently a 3rd party tool in Beta that does this throu ...Show All

• Eric Frame Client for Team Foundation version control

  Is there a separate client for Team Foundation version control, and if so what platforms (Windows, Unix, etc.) are supported   Not all our developers work with Microsoft technologies yet we would like a single source control solution for everyone. Yes, I think when we launch there will be a few third party add-ons that provide access from other platforms, IDEs, etc.  Keep your eyes peeled for announce ...Show All

• Ajey Deleting TeamBuilds in the RTM

  In the RTM of TFS will we be able to delete past team builds from within the IDE or are will still limited to using tfsbuild delete from the command line Thanks Hi Happer The tables that you are referring to are work item tracking tool tables and I have contacted the folks there to get info on what would be the impact of deleting these items from the table manually. They will get back to you shortly on this. ...Show All

• ArnieSacnewsome Project Alters

  Hi, I have a test installation of TFS and everything seems to be working fine but I don't receivce any alerts. I've gone to Project -> Project Alerts and I've enabled all alerts there. Also my project site is sending notifications when a new user has been added. How can I find if there is an error when generating the alter and sending an email Thanks, Marian. Hi! I'm having the same problem a ...Show All

• GtGyal Build Server

  Is there a document that covers the requirements and setup of a build server -THumphries http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2005/04/27/412575.aspx  would help you. Build SKU can be installed on a separate Windows2003 server or along with the client or on the Team Foundation server(AT).   ...Show All

• LoadStore Project fails to update project plan for tasks started early.

  We are using Team Foundation Server (MSF for Agile template) and Microsoft Project to manage software development and have encountered a problem severe enough to render Project nearly useless. Project fails to properly record work effort (actual work) for work done outside the timeframe for which it was scheduled. Step to reproduce the problem: 1. Use Project to schedule a task for some time in the future and assign it to a developer. 2. ...Show All

• SQLMcp How to test ASP with Mock Object ?

  Hello, I'm using RhinoMocks for mocking with my unit tests.  How can I set up the mock for a GridView that is bound to an ObjectDataSet that is connected to a web service. The web service method returns a DataTable. If a different configuration would facilitate the mock more easily, I'm all ears. Thank you Peter Fitzgibbons Hi, Peter, I passed around your thread to several people here but haven't been abl ...Show All