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• LC64 What is TFS RC?

  Can anybody explain me what is TFS RC (Team Foundation Server Release Candidate) Thanks Thanks Richard ... and is the Trial version available for download now from MSDN Subscriber Downloads the RTM version Team Foundation Server is the server component of Visual Studio Team System. It provides work item tracking, source control and collaboration services to your projects. Unlike the rest of the Visu ...Show All

• Edra Buckles How Extraction rules are useful in a web test?

  How Extraction rules are useful in a web test I dont understand the concept of extraction rules.Pls can anyone tell me how they are useful Regards Golu Extraction rules are useful when you have a piece of data from one page that is needed on another page. For example, maybe you have some unique id that gets returned when you logon to your application and this value is stored in a field on the resp ...Show All

• fourmi FxCop 1.35 RC1 exception during analysis

  I regularly get the following error message when running an analysis with FxCop 1.35 RC1: 1 exceptions occurred while loading <assembly name>. 0) Could not resolve member reference: System.Configuration.IConfigurationSectionHandler::Create. Is this a bug Joe, Thanks for sending a great repro. We reproduced this and we are investigating the problem. Thanks for the feedback! David This ...Show All

• Truc Nguyen Customizing bug form

  Hi there,     How do I make sure that the group box is only as big as it fills all the controls in it and does not leave any empty area, so that it looks better as well I can utilize maximum area of the form. Basically how do I set/control the height (as I can do for width by percentwidth attribute) of any control or group in form Thanks, Anu Hi Anu There is no option to set the height for each control. Y ...Show All

• Ben Movie Magic Diagram designer orders?

  Hello I was  trying a little about the new diagrams on vs 2005 but I just dont know which os the correct order to use them, application and logical and system designer all of them seems to be the same The only one different to my eyes was the deployment diagram Which should be the correct order of implementing each one of these diagrams Any links or recommended reading about each one of these diagrams What about if my Iis server is algo ...Show All

• Rosaria Test Manager Appears Empty

  I find if I have a project with Muliple class files in it I am not seeing the tests. To Repro (not exact, but should be close enough): 1) Create a file conaining a class that does no contain tests, and build the project 2) create a 2nd class from the tests template. 3) Build project. 4) Check Test Manager - Mine appears empty. 5) close the project, then re-open 6) Check Test Manger - Mine appears correctly populated. Hopefully this is enough to ...Show All

• Ravi Nidhonkar TF86001: Team Foundation was unable to load the Office AddIn

  After dealing with the daunting install process and getting it right, now I'm able to create projects and work with most of the items, however I found a new issue while trying to open any of the Excel sheets included in the default project team solution structure from WSS and I get that error, funny thing is that this only happens with XL files, since I can open Word and Project files with no issues Here's what I'm running on: Server: Wind ...Show All

• mrg209 how can I backup team projects which I have created

  how can I backup the Team Projects in a TFS I'm using the beta2 version . if I reinstall the TFS , I wan to maintain the Projects I have created , can I export the projects which I have created and import them after I reinstall the server Ajay addresses the question of Team System shipping with VS in http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=22482 . Buck Ok, so even moving to the release version of VS 2005 in November, I ...Show All

• Gillissie 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

• osos Work Items/ Bug + Web View

  we are about to roll over to VSTS 2005 and I have been asked about the accessability of work items/ bug tracking via a web interface - if it is going to be available - is their any major flaws that we must be away of. We would like to standardise the logging of software faults via a web interface which is easily utilised and assigned to developers, over multiple countries (that is bug logging) Team System does not provide web acce ...Show All

• Ian Ching Unable to view Source Control Explorer in Beta2

  I currently have 25 or so developers running up against Beta 2's Version Control. Everybody up to this point has been fine. However, I recently added another member to the team and they can NOT see any of the existing projects under Version Control. I have given them every access right I can find (include Project Administrator on the Team Project itself). Any ideas or things I could try Thanks, ~slee Still no ...Show All

• EggsBenedict DoNotCastUnnecessarily: Release vs Debug

  When I compare the outputs of FxCop for my assemblies in Debug and Release build modes, the results are very different. The Debug report shows 233 more issues that are all related to "DoNotCastUnnecessarily" messages. Is the compiler optimizing things for a release build and that's why I don't see the messages in my Release report Ah, there have been several questions about how to suppress FxCop mes ...Show All

• Phil C DoNotCastUnnecessarily

  Hi, I am getting this exception of "Do Not Cast Unnecessarily" for the following code in FXCop 1.32. I am using VS 2003. static void Main() { Application.Run(new Form1()); class1 c1 = new class1(); class2 c2 = new class2(); Test(c1); Test(c2); } public static void Test(object o) { if(o is class1) { MessageBox.Show("obj of Class1"); class1 cs1 = o as class1; } } In t ...Show All

• Joe Lynn problems with shared checkout - merge tool is not available

  I am having a significant problem with TFS version control that is making it very unusable in our development environment. We are allowing multiple checkouts. When two developers work on a file and check it in, the Merge option is unavailable and the auto-merge functionality is failing. This makes the product practically useless for projects that have more than one developer. Here is the scenario: TFS set to allow for multiple checkouts. 2 ...Show All

• Jonas Lundberg automate build with beta 3

  this is what i wrote and it complaint team foundation can't start the build when i try to run it. localhost.BuildContoller bc = new localhost.BuildContoller(); bc.URL = @ http://localhost:8080/Build/v1.0/BuildController.asmx ; bc.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; localhost.BuildParameters bp = new localhost.BuildParameters(); bp.TeamFoundationServer = "VSTSBETA3"; bp.TeamProject = "myteamprojectname"; bp.BuildType = "m ...Show All