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• Leon Finker Profiler quits generating reports (or gets stuck on the same one)

  I upgraded to Team System for Sd earlier this week from 2005 Pro in order to try out the profiler. I can get it ro run once or twice, and then it seems to quit. In my solution, I have a class library (Rancher) and console app (Rancher.Test). I used the Performance Wizard to create a session for the console app, and then added the class library as a target project. Instrumentation, no allocation gathering. I ran it twice with no problem and go ...Show All

• Carsoni Associating one Work Item with other Work Items.

  I am trying to define my own work item called Milestone. I would like to associate one or more other work items (like Bugs, Tasks) with this Milestone. The idea is that I cannot finish (set “Finished” state) my Milestone unless every work item associated with my Milestone is finished. I cannot also associate one Milestone with other Milestone. The problem is that I don’t have any ideas how to code this in XML. As a base model to modify I am usi ...Show All

• ferrix GUI Change requires checkout of licenses.licx

  We are using a couple of 3rd party components that have information stored in the licenses.licx file. We have noticed that anytime you edit a GUI that has one of these 3rd party components, the IDE requires us to check out the licenses.licx file. The problem is that there is one licenses.licx file per project.  If I want to edit GUI-A, I have to check GUI-A and the licenses.licx file out.  If another develper wants to work on GUI-B in ...Show All

• Sang Kona getting select data records in a VS 2005 web test data binding scenario

  I want to create a web test in VS 2005 that logs in to the test site as an admin; and I want to pull the login info from our existing database table. So I need to query the database to return records where a particular column has the required value (admin). Given the datasource below: [ DataSource ( "XXX1" , "Provider=SQLNCLI.1;Data Source=localhost;Persist Security Info=False;Integrated S ecurity=SSPI;Initial Catalog=XXX" , Mi ...Show All

• Yajesh Error 28703

  Installing Foundation Server Trial Edition in Single Server mode. I am installing under a domain account that has admin rights to the local box, and is also the account that runs all SQL Server 2005 services and is explicitly in the SysAdmin role on the SQL Server Have separate domain level accounts (non-admin) for the Foundation Server Service and Reporting Service. At the end of the installation I get : "Error 28703. Unable to ...Show All

• Tipu Delacablu "Unexpected token was encountered" error after schema import

  Greetings, After importing a schema from a SQL Server 2000 database to a project targetting SQL Server 2000 the parsing engine seems to have some problems with specific constructs... IF dbo.fnIsBillPullError() = 1 "Unexpected token was encountered" error being generated for User defined Functions. RAISERROR ( '%s (%d)' , @Severity, 1, @sMsg, @iErr) "Unexpected token was encountered" error being generated ...Show All

• Michael Bennett TFS needs version 11.0 of Excel

  In trying to use the "Add work items with Microsoft Excel" feature I get a message that my machine needs to have Excel 11.0 installed to proceed.  I can't find any evidence anywhere that Excel 11.0 even exists - where does one obtain this If Microsoft Office Excel 2003 is installed, you may need to make sure that you have the primary interop assemblies (not installed by default) installed as well.  C ...Show All

• Jacques Bosch Migration

  Hey all  I am wondering if there will be a migration path between the Beta 2 of Team Foundation and the RTM Mostly what I am after is if I start a Team Project will I have a way of upgrading the TF Server when the full version comes out Thanks Kenzie I have heard a rumour that there may be an unsupported migration tool supplied by Microsoft, with the emphasis on unspported, but nothing confirmed yet. ...Show All

• Szilard <HELPTEXT> where?

  Where is the helptext attribute used I coudn't find it anyware in the Team Explorer Client interface. It would be great if you put a Status Bar or some ALT message on the controls to display it to the user during data input. Regards, Max The HELPTEXT appears in a tooltip if you float the mouse over a field. ...Show All

• Whizzo One of the team mate not able to access anything in VSTS even with exact same permissions as others

  Hi there,      I'm not sure why this is happening as most of the people are able to access Project just fine and open bug, query bugs etc. just fine, but one of the team mate with exact same right and permisions as other is not able to open bug, see query or even reports are not list in Under Reports section. in Team explorer for her. W hen she get to the part about trying to add a bug, it does not do anything.  She ...Show All

• kjmclark Require a Changeset comment on CheckIn

  Hi, i have some feeling, I need that my comments on my checkIn be requiere, how can i get that in my team system Any idea TKS! I think you need to install a custom check-in policy to enforce this. See the following post from James Manning for an example:- http://blogs.msdn.com/jmanning/archive/2006/01/21/515858.aspx Regards, Martin. ...Show All

• CRYOS error MSB3491

  C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets(2797,9): error MSB3491: Could not write lines to file "obj\INFAPNET.TENNET.UI.csproj.FileList.txt". Access to the path 'C:\Build\TENNET ERP\Nightly Build\Sources\INFAPNET.TENNET.UI\obj\INFAPNET.TENNET.UI.csproj.FileList.txt' is denied. C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets(3021,9): error MSB3491: Could not write lines to file &q ...Show All

• Erland Sommarskog How to fix the Development server's port number across different PCs?

  Hi I've built some web services and some unit tests against them.   I want these tests to operate on multiple PCs (multiple development PCs plus also the main Team Build server), but the port number used by the development web server on each PC is different so the test code (the web reference generated code) has to change on each PC - is there any way of getting the development web server to run on the same port number on each PC (I've seen ...Show All

• Olaf van der Spek About the format of line number information for Code Coverage

  I have a question about code coverage. When coverage is done with Visual Studio, it jumps from the list of the result to the source, and the source code is classified as a result. Please teach the format of line number information needed for these. Best Regards. Shinya Watanabe The first question I have to ask is whether the COBOL compiler you use produces the right symbols By right symbols, I mean in th ...Show All

• Sathish C Custom Rule: class data member should start with x_

  Hello, I'm getting trouble writing a rule that checks a class data member starts with "x_". Exemple: public class Thing{    private string x_ThingName = string .Empty;    private bool w_IsObsolete = false ;  //FALSE    public Product(){} } This is my test : if ( ! member . Name . ToString() . StartsWith( "x_" )){ failed = true ; } I think i don't use the correct object. ...Show All