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• Definite Reaction Configuring Email address for the alert service

  Hi, During the setup of the foundation server i, had left the field, " Enter the Email address from which the alerts seem to originate ",blank. However i would now like to configure the server to send alerts .  Is there some way i can configure this email address , from which the alerts should originate Kind regards Check out Akhila's answer in http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=17517 . Buck The specific t ...Show All

• M.KhoshZaban Error in executing a build. Failed to create the cache folder path

  Hi,      While trying to execute a newly created BuildType, I get an error that TS failed to create the cache folder as the cache folder path is invalid. Now, the cache path that TS is trying to create is derived from the servcie account that it uses. My company has a policy of creating service accounts on domains that are prefixed by a $ symbol. e.g. $MyTFSServiceAcct. Although, Windows has no problem creating the $MyTFSS ...Show All

• VinceDiBiasio Questions about MSF (70-301) exam

  I'm thinking about passing MSF Exam (70-301) but I can't find at certification page some details about it. Could someone tell me how long this exam will take, how many questions are on this exam and how many good answers are required to pass it All this information are under NDA... -- Lorenzo Barbieri MVP Windows - Virtual Machines, MCT, MCPD Web&Win, MCITPro DBA, MCTS Web,Win,Dist,Sql IT: http://www.genio ...Show All

• Mark Pemberton VSSConverter Failures/Flaws

  I am having no luck using VSSConvert to migrate a large VSS database into VSTF.  I could not convert the database in beta 2 and I still cannot convert it in beta 3.  I'm trying to convert a single root project and VSSConverter runs for a few hours then crashes with a Send Error type exception.  Neither VSS Analyze nor VSSConverter analyze reports any errors on the database.  VSS analyze does report several warnings ...Show All

• OoLee Team Project Creation Failed - SQL Reporting Services?

  Having trouble apparently at the connect to SQL Reporting Services stage of creating a new project. I've checked in the reporting services config, and my username is granted all Reporting Services roles. Any help appreciated! Here's the error log (note: values in <> such as <some server> actually contain real information): 10/4/2005 4:10:06 PM | Module: Wizard | Retrieved IAuthorizationService proxy | Completion time: 0 seconds 10/4/ ...Show All

• cl0 Deploy different projects to different locations?

  Can one Build Type deploy different application projects to different locations (for example, deploy app A to \\server1\drop and app B to \\server2\drop ) Can you provide an example of overriding CoreDropBuild Out of the box, this behavior is not supported. The easiest thing might be to create two different build types. Alternatively, you could override the CoreDropBuild tar ...Show All

• Brian Macomber Trying to install VS Team for Developers and there is no product key.

  Hi, Not sure if anyone can help me but, my IT department transitioned to MSDN Premium (Developers) and then downloaded the VSTS installs from MSDN subscriber Downloads. When I try to install it, I am asked for a product key, and my IT Department can't find one. Due to me not being knowledgeable about how the whole MSDN subscription thing works and the fact that my IT Department is pretty much useless, I was hoping someone out there could ...Show All

• Dana Mor Upgrade from B3R to RTM: Possible database upgrade issue.

  After we upgraded from B3R to RTM, all Microsoft created Work Items, Queries and Reports work perfectly, and all our Work Item customizations work perfectly, as well. B3R was our initial installation version. That said, we ran into an issue with some of Conchango's SCRUM for TeamSystem reports that utilize the Work Item History field. It seems that the TfsWarehouse>Work Item History>Date field was not upgraded from type int to type d ...Show All

• Nithi Govin How to suppress instrumentation of dependent projects?

  I have a solution with several projects: web application, web service, library dlls, etc.  In my case, I have one library dll that I do not want instrumented (I'm only referencing a small portion of the code).  However, it appears that if you choose, via the testrunconfig, to instrument one project output then all dependent libraries are also instrumented, even if they are not checked. I would like code coverage to be pe ...Show All

• Numan azam "Review unused parameters" shoudn't apply for deserialization constructor

  ... and for GetObjectData(SerializationInfo, StreamingContext) method as well. What do you think public HandleBoxProperties(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context) : this() { // if (settings == null) throw new DeserializationException(); settings = (Hashtable) info.GetValue("data", typeof (Hashtable)); } Andrew, I can't reproduce this, this rule should already ignor ...Show All

• Javarja Removing a source control project from a Team System project.

  Is there an easy way to remove a source control project from a Team System project I cannot find a way to do this in the documentation and in the source control explorer, Delete or Remove is greyed out. HELP! Yeah, I know that is something that would be good, but after having a chat with the local Microsoft Evangalist Charles "Chuck" Sterling. He informed me it was designed that way. Thinking a ...Show All

• Denispiow What does this error mean and why does it keep coming up?

  Exception LoadTestException Could not find dependent counter needed to apply threshold rule: \\MCSD-DEV\LoadTest:Page\Avg . Page Time(_Total)   The view is:    at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebStress.Rules.ThresholdRuleCompareCounters.CheckCounterValue(PerformanceCounterValue counterValue, ICounterProvider counterProvider)    at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebStress.LoadTestResultsCollector ...Show All

• Leo kaplin Is C++ instrumentation profiling broken in Beta 2?

  I have successfully run sampling profiling on a c++ project.  When I switch to instrumentation profiling I get a message box saying 'Value does not fall within the expected range.' and then the launch button greys out.  To get the launch button back I have to restart the Visual Studio application. Should instrumentation profiling work for C++   Alex,     I have a re ...Show All

• Omkar Singh Loads of Event ID 0 when performing a daily build

  During the daily / nightly build, a lot of these errors were logged in the EventLog: Event Type: Error Event Source: .NET Runtime Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 2006-03-09 Time: 03:39:48 User: N/A Computer: TEAMSYSTEM Description: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( .NET Runtime ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote comput ...Show All

• Dan Ellis Visual studio 2003 source control unavailable

  Hi experts, I am using visual studio 2003 with team explorer as TFS client, and I am a project contributor of a customized project on TFS workgrougp, but I found that the source control on my team exploreer is unavailable, it there something wrong, or should I reconfiguring the rights of the role. As you known, I am still in the progress of developing, so would you give me some suggestions as quickly as possible ...Show All