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• Ferko04 Errors while managing Work Items in Excel

  I use Excel extensively to triage and prioritize Work Items.  I randomly get the following error when clicking in a cell. ****************** TF80070: Team Foundation encountered an error while performing the operation.  It is recommended that you save your work and restart the application. ****************** I can safely click OK to get past the error and continue working, but sometimes the error pops up every time I change cell!&nbs ...Show All

• BobWman Can Feature Area path break down be stored somewhere?

  Hi there,      Everytime I create new project, to add the all our Freature Area and component I have to go through Clasification and add them all one by one manually. I was wondering if this information can be actually added by copying and pasting some file ( like in case of customizing Bug form , i can just paste my customized bug.xml file) or if I can automate this process, so that it can save some of my time ...Show All

• Joseph Torre Beta 3 Source Control

  I am have several team projects created in TFS and I am having difficulty getting the local source to be added to the correct team project.  In Beta 2 there was a popup window that allowed you to make this association.  Now it appears the bindings window is intended to replace this, but when I add a new local project to source control it does not appear to be using the bindings to put it in the right place on the server (a new subfolde ...Show All

• nhl66pens Is VSTT an appropriate choice for our needs?

  Our team is rolling out VSTF to manage our other product group releases/QFE's and we are looking at only minimal testing (really just verification) of those pkgs. So I have a few preliminary q's that don't really seem to be easily answered in the waterfall of documentation on VSTF Is VSTT necessary to run a few basic scripts Are there other tools in the suite with capabilities similar to the web page recorder i.e., Is there a way to qu ...Show All

• shawn2005 Installing test tools

  Hi. I've set up a Daily build on the Foundation Server/Build server. I've also set up a set of unit tests to be run and I seem to get this error message: MSBUILD : warning : Visual Studio Team System for Software Testers or Visual Studio Team System for Software Developers is required to run tests as part of a Team Build. The previous error was converted to a warning because the task was called with ContinueOnError=true. Build continuing bec ...Show All

• Prasad V Unlock bug ?? TF10152 The Item <> must remain locked ...

  I did a recursive lock of an entire source (yikes that took so long I killed the console window).  In order to unlock everything I did the same thing again except that I used the /lock:none switch.  But I get a bunch of errors like these: TF10152: The item $/TestCmmiTemplate/Trunk/WWW/default.gif must remain locked because its file type prevents multiple check-outs. Now we added GIF as a file type that doesn't allow multiple check ...Show All

• SA12 Enterprise Library Development Team????

  Hello people, how are you Does anybody know the email, contact, site or blog of the Enterprise Library (set of Applications Block) Development Team Thanks Andre Andre, I am involved in the Enterprise Library development at this moment. Is there some way i could be of any help to you The site of entlib can be found: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/entlib.asp the blog of Tom Hollander mi ...Show All

• YnottonY Problem with VSTS workgroup instalation

  Hello During instalation, after Platform Scan, i've got the message The System Health Check has detected a problem that will cause Setup to fail. Description The original Internet Information Services (IIS) Default Web Site does not exist or is not configured properly. Workaround / Remedy Internet Information Services (IIS) Default Web Site is a prerequisite for this product and must be running before you can install th ...Show All

• Shyakuti Beta TFS MSSCCI plugin now available for VB6, VC6 (not yet VS 2002/2003)

  There's now a beta of the TFS MSSCCI plugin for VB6, VC6, etc., but it's not for VS 2002/2003 -- that's still too come.  You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=32202966-EF04-442F-8C5C-88BDF15F551C&displaylang=en . Brian Harry posted some details about it, including the fact that it is not part of the go-live license . http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2005/12/29/507993.aspx ...Show All

• chue Changing the mail server for email alerts in TFS

  Hi, I just installed TFS Beta 3 refresh. However I didn't add a mail server in the install step allowing me to do so. I would like to go and do that but trying to find out how to do this in the documentation is yielding the steps I need to do this. Is it possible to do Thanks Jay Sure. Take a look at this forum post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=222851&SiteID ...Show All

• Jimmy Zhu About WSS and Versions of Documents

  With Vs 2005 team system can I control the versions of the documents. Can I know who did what on what day on any document Can I see the diffferent versions of the documents with WSS .    Note that you must have that document library configured to maintain version history of documents. This is configured in the General Settings for the doc library when you answer Yes to this question, "Create a version each time you edit a f ...Show All

• dougzhoez Changing the logged in user

  Hi, I am using team foundation server for workgoups. The server is windows 2003 in a workgroup, we are not using active directories. The initial login to TFS was with the admin account to set up the users. I added all the users but cannot get a login screen. TFS always logs me in as admin. If I change the admin password on the server it gave me a login screen, but when I reset the admin password back to the original, TFS stopped asking fo ...Show All

• Dotnetter03 Can't create new team project

  Hi, the problem has already been described in this forum: trying to create the first team project the wizzard fails due to a Sharepoint connection problem. And I tried (probably) all of the solutions: - changed to NTLM authentication - permission for reporting services - permission to Sharepoint services Some hints that might be interesting: - the SharePoint Virtual Server List shows Default Web Site with an installed Version but Admin ...Show All

• SqlBoi FxCop Microsoft.Design and Generic outputs

  Working on a deserialization loader mechanism, I started out with a public method signature which looked like this: public static T Load<T>( string filename) FxCop suggests: CA1004 : Microsoft.Design : Consider a design where YamlLoader.Load(String):T doesn't require an explicit type parameter in any call to it. I what it's suggesting is that invoking this method with code like this may be hard to understand becaus ...Show All

• Nikas1 Source control compare - on a higher level

  Hi all I find the (new) Team Foundation Server and it's features great. Nevertheless there is feature of VSS that I could not manage to find in TFS. In VSS you can compare on a higher level than file, say folders or projects. That is, compare the $MyProject/Server with the corresponding files local (in your associated workspace). Is this possible in TFS I can only find comparison options on file level. I just had a, well.... ...Show All