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• IgorLiokumovich Max 260 characters in path + projectfolder-hierarchi + programname?

  I have just had a strange error saying that there is a limit to the total length of the source control path + project internal path + program name that may not exceed 260 characters. That is obvously too little if you want a minimum of structure in both your team foundation server structure and your projects and you want to stict to describing names for your files. How to I change this setting regards Jens Chr The limit ...Show All

• footballism VSTS and Excel integration

  VSTS agile process has a few Excel documents, which display the results of queries on Work Items. The Excel documents use VSTO code behind, which accesses Team Foundation Server using VSTS client API. In order to do the query, the URL indenfiying the Team Foundation Server has to be known. How does the VSTO code acquire the URL Is this configured some where Thanks, Yuhang.  Hi Yuhang, The spreads ...Show All

• New2 .NET well i think

  Hello, As you all probably know, when doing checkout in VSTS, it doesn't perform "get latest" to the files. instead, you work on the local files. I know that this is the way VSTS works and that i can't change it. what i want is to program a policy by my self. the policy will be triggered when someone will do checkout. it will check if he choosed files that aren't latest and if so it will raise "custom form" which i will design. the flow is: 1. a ...Show All

• SPotam DCR: Field level security

  I am sure this has already been covered in some past discussion somewhere, but just in case I want to add this thread so a person can search on "field level security" to find info about this request. The only thread I can find where the topic was touched on is titled "Let the submitter close the issue only". This is a design change request (DCR) to ask that in the next version or update of VSTS, that there be some way to add security on a per-fi ...Show All

• Milind Lele - MSFT Best Practices for ClearCase Migration

  Hi I am wondering, if anybody has some best practices for migrating ClearCase to TFVC to share with public Since there is no migration tool available I'm wondering if anybody decided to move certain snapshots of certain labels and inserted them by hand into TFVC. How did that work out What sould I look out for What are the does and don'ts Who ever has any ideas or suggestions pls let them hear. Tom Hi, as our p ...Show All

• zainshah Build machine is not reachable

  I'm having trouble getting a Team Build type to run.  The error message that I receive is "Build machine is not reachable". I have defined the Build Machine as 'teamfoundation' in my build type, which is the name of the Team Foundation server (creative, I know).  I've tried various combinations of this, including the IP address, the FQN, and I've tried all of these from remote machines and on the server itself. Everything appears to be ...Show All

• DevInstinct tfsbuild.exe.config AllowedTeamServer

  Hi, I'm having trouble executing a build from the command line or through TE on my build machine- which is also the TFS. I get the same error when I try each way TF42053: The build machine is not configured to build for server http://<servername>:8080/ . ... To change the team foundation server for the build machine update the AllowedTeamServer key in the config file for TFSbuildService.exe ... I don't see a config file for TF ...Show All

• EricN Error!SQL Server 2005 Report Server Web site is not running!

   When I installer TFS bete 3,I according to installer guide's content operation,but when installer TFS beta 3 ,System occur error!pls reference below: Warning   Description Physical memory does not meet recommendations Workaround / Remedy The physical memory (RAM) in this computer does not meet the recommendations for installing this product. If you continue with installation, you may experience performance or s ...Show All

• kablou Warehouse Troubleshooting Guide

  This will be a living document and as we troubleshoot issues, we will add to the query and document. It will culminate in a consistency checker tool which automates the checking and ultimately other functions like kicking the warehouse etc... Feedback is welcome and I will update this data. Symptoms: The data in the reports is stale and doesn’t seem to ever get updated. The reports error out. An error has occurred during report pr ...Show All

• AlbertoD Connection to TFS only on HTTP

  Hi All, I am trying to connect to the TFS server using only http. The machine running the server is on the internet with a public ip. When I try to connect from the client, both client and server belongs to the same domain, the client connect happilly but when I try to open a project I get this error: Could not connect to application tier.  Please contact the team system administrator(s) Any idea The above senario, typical for consult ...Show All

• Valkyrie-MT Impersonation and unit tests

  I'm unit testing a COM+ server component that contains some custom security code. This code gets the identity of the user who is calling it and applies business-level security rules. In the client ASP.NET application I use the HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Impersonate() method then call the component and Undo the impersonation afterwards. It works great. But when I call the component from a test console application or from unit tests, the ...Show All

• Fiaz Hussain Detecting COM Objects as local variables

  Hi, I've been writing a few custom FxCop rules and for the latest one wanted to establish whether a local variable was a COM object or not. Unfortunately Marshal.IsComObject appears to use an internal type to determine whether variables are COM objects and I have been unable to retrieve this internal type and cast to it with reflection. I have however noticed that the COM objects seem to have a base of null within the locals type informati ...Show All

• pasand Adding a domain user account to a TFS group after a "local" installation

  I installed all three tiers of VSTS on a single "development" PC. I used local user accounts. Now, I would like to add my everyday domain user account into the TFS security groups. I cannot because I can only connect to TFS using a local user account. As such, I do not have the credentials to query AD when I want to add my domain user account. And, I seem to be stuck in this chciken and egg scenario. I read the installation guid ...Show All

• seeker55 Project files of our solution are automatically checked out. What is happening?

  Hello, Since few time now, each time we open our Visual Studio 2005 solution, we get some project files that are automatically checked out. The output window displays several time this message: ProjectName.vcproj.vspscc, ProjectName.vcproj have been automatically checked out for editing. Then if we close the solution, Visual Studio asks that we save the changes to these projects but no changes have been made by us. If we compare one ...Show All

• fan008 Large solution performance (Was: Useless output from TFS source control)

  It pains me to see that even the new Team System source control writes the same pointless drivel to the Output window in visual studio: ---- Operation started at time 3:32:18 PM ---- ---- Operation completed successfully at time 3:32:18 PM ---- ---- Operation started at time 3:32:18 PM ---- ---- Operation started at time 3:32:18 PM ---- ---- Operation completed successfully at time 3:32:18 PM ---- ---- Operation started at time 3:32:18 PM ---- - ...Show All