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• blogg "Assigned To" must be a valid account?

  In the MSDN Documentation - Walkthrough: Make Advanced Customizations to a Work Item Type , in the Customize the Assigned To Field section, the following example is shown: <FIELD name="Assigned To" refname="System.AssignedTo" type="String" reportable="dimension"> <HELPTEXT>The person assigned to do the work</HELPTEXT> <ALLOWEDVALUES expanditems="true"> <LISTITEM valu ...Show All

• jhikel Web Recordings not getting inserted in script

  This may be a FAQ. I have just installed the release version VS2005 Team Tester and am trying to record a web test script. I press record (and also tried "add recording") IE pops up and I record a short series of URLs (yahoo, google) and press "Stop Recording" but nothing gets inserted into the test script. Seems to be a disconnect between IE and getting the steps back into the web test script. Is there something obvious I ...Show All

• Jherek Permissions Question with Reporting Site

  I have a question concerning the setup of permissions on my SQL Reporting. In order for someone to create a project in TFS, they must have Content Manager access, understand this, not a problem. The problem is that I have to add individual users to security settings, a group of users won't seem to take. Example: Dev A is part of the Development AD Group. If I add the Development Group as Content Managers, Dev A can not create a project ...Show All

• Heiko Wilkens About workstream "Process Bootstrap"

  Can someone explain to me more detail about the activities below : -    Establish Product Integration Procedures -    Establish Verification Procedures -    Manage Traceability of Requirements -    Perform Configuration Audit on workstream diagram "Process Bootstrap" (you can find it in \MSF for CMMI Process Improvement\Doc\MSF Process Design\ProcessBootstrap.doc or Pr ...Show All

• Denham Steynor How to backup and restore Source Control folders?

  I need to totally delete my existing team project and recreate one with the same name based on a new template. The only content I need to keep in the existing one is the source control folder. What's the best way to do this I was thinking of backing up and restoring like in VSS but I couldn't find such a function. Nathan, Richard, I did some investigations and sadly it appears that there might be some f ...Show All

• Allan_Hansen Error when creating new Team Project

  I've worked through several resources onlnine to fix other errors in the project creation process and have just about got the New Team Project option working from Visula Studio, however I'm running into an error I can't find a solution for. In creating a project named Foo2, the creation process gets through the Currituck Module, handles some CSS and WorkItemType definitions and then throws an exception saying: ---begin Exception entry--- Time: ...Show All

• Saurabh.Garg Dropping Files into Source Controlled Projects Fails Checkout

  I have just created a project within Team System and checked the source code in. Now when I drag and drop newer files in, generated from CodeSmith, it asks the following questions... "Destination File Exists [Title] A file with the name "xxxxxx.cs" already exists. Do you want to check this file out and replace it [ ] Apply to all items. Yes, No, or Cancel" I select "Apply to all items" and then " ...Show All

• bengchuan Deleting a Team Project

  Hi, is there any way to delete a Team Project created by me From Team Explorer exists the remove option but I couldn't find one to delete all the different parts of a Team Project (SCC, Project Portal, Work Items, etc). Is it possible Thanks a lot LucasC The deleteteamproject.exe file gets installed with the Visual Studio 2005 Team System on the client.  It's likely not in the data tier or application tier installations. Buck ...Show All

• SSISy Boy Team Systems Question

  How does Microsoft Team Edition for software testers stack up against Mercury Winrunner Is there a side by side comparison of the two My company is debating on which one we should purchase Maybe it is a difficult question because the product is still in beta. Thanks Brian Yes, Load testing too. I am planning on using more then one testing tool, so I can cross reference the results. I read of another software called Open STA for example, a ...Show All

• Damien Branching Strategy and Tracking ChangeSets to Multiple Branches

  I am trying to work out the best branching strategy and whilst I realise team foundation pretty much allows for any scenario, this unfortunately makes deciding on a strategy even harder :) As a minimum I want to have a multiple branches that represent a baseline of code on each of my testing environments (dev,testing,staging,production). Are there any basics rules to observe for example should these be represented as folders branched within ...Show All

• Steven Hemingray Source Control Tree

  Why isn't the source control tree displayed and manipulated by the Team Explorer window   Opening to a Source Control Explorer to have extended capabilities is nice, but basic check-in/out functionality should be available directly from the Team Explorer window.  Is this a feature that is going to be added in the final product Thanx, It would be nice to have some basic version control functionality in the Team Explorer window.& ...Show All

• ninterdo Manual Tests with Code Coverage for all assemblies

  Heya. I'm not sure I'm doing this the right way so I'll have to ask. I'm using Unit Tests together with Manual Tests and I'd like to view the Code Coverage information on these tests combined. The Unit Tests runs alright with Code Coverage but I'm not sure how I should run the Manual Tests to gather Code Coverage. Today, I just double-click the .exe in the bin/Debug folder but that seems to just collect code coverage information on the .exe, not ...Show All

• Lepa SystemDefinitionModel and Databases

  I'd like to be able to store SDM Models in an SQL Server database. However, the SDM Schema uses a processContents='lax' in a couple of places. this is not a supported schema element for use in Xml schema collection within SQL Server 2005. Aside from not assigning an Xml Schema to the column in the database table, are there any recommendations for an approach to be taken here Regards Stef Shoffren Stef, First of all, your workaround (i. ...Show All

• MAdWizard Error Report 28004. Error service acount is not valid

  Hi Everybody!! I hope Some could Help me. I got always this Error message at the end of installation. What this means How I can fix it I'm going to need more information in order to help you. It would appear that you got this error while initializing some of the security pieces. Can you tell me if you were doing a 1 or 2 box installation. If 1 box, was this domain or workgroup And, the TFSService account -- was this a local account ...Show All

• Amir19 Importing Bug Database to TFS Work Items

  Hi there, I am currently in the process of doing a proof of concept on TFS to prove that it will do what we need to do. Sourcecode I hgave succesfully imported from VSS and all is going well. I now need to try to import our Bugs database from a system called "Jira" http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/default.jsp clicked=footer into (I imagine) TFS work items. I cant find anything in the MSDN on how I would do this. ...Show All