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• badlydressedboy vssconverter error TF60702

  I was experimenting with vssconverter and importing from a VSS database to TFS source control when a power outage hit. I restarted the import, and got the following message: Initializing... TF60702: Unable to start migration. Manually delete the following workspaces and try again. Converter_WorkSpace0 Converter_WorkSpace1 Converter_WorkSpace2 Converter_WorkSpace3 Converter_WorkSpace4 Converter_WorkSpace5 Converter_WorkSpace6 Converter_Work ...Show All

• Tomas Martinez TF Server Domain Users Permissions

  We are trying to set up a sandbox Team Project so that anyone in our company can take VSTS/TFS for a test drive.  In setting up the permissions for the project's "Contributors" group where are trying to find a way to add all domain users.  We tried "Domain Users" but that doesn't seem to work.  Any tips on how to set up project permissions to allow this There is a bug in beta 3 which where addin ...Show All

• Andrew Chapman Using Custom Fields from a Custom Work Item Type in Reports?

  I was playing with reporting tool and noticed that I did not see any of the custom fields I added to the new work item type I created called feature.xml (DelekVision.Feature.xxxx). It looks like there is something that needs to be done ‘build data sources ’ Such that the reporting tool lists all of the entities/fields. Any ideas Thanks Scott Thanks for the information. How do I get my custom fields ...Show All

• Nick Tompson Check for throw or rethrow in a try block

  Thank you David ...I have another question.... How can I check if there is any sentence in a block ... for example i want to check an empty catch and I do this: public override ProblemCollection Check( Member member) { Method method = member as Method ; bool isCatchExists = false ; bool isThrowExists = false ; if (method == null ) return null ; InstructionList iList = method.Instructions; f ...Show All

• rah_sin Customizing iterations

  My goal is to have a template for a process like this (Agile RUP) Inception - Iteration1 - Iteration2 - IterationN Elaboration - Iteration1 - Iteration2 - IterationM Construction - Iteration1 - Iteration2 - IterationX Transition - Iteration1 - Iteration2 - IterationY There can be a variable number of iterations for each phase. The number is not known in advance, but will be added when needed. A number of work items must be added everytime ...Show All

• Marcus the Maker 405 Method Not Allowed using BuildStore object

  I'm getting the following exception: System.Net.WebException: The request failed with HTTP status 405: Method Not Allowed. at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall) at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters) at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Proxy.BuildStore. ...Show All

• Hiryux Load Testing - Counters

  I'm doing load testing with web tests.  The web tests that the load test uses require going through a couple different pages to get to the "important/interesting" page.  Every time I re-run the load test, I have to drill into the counters and find the "avg. page time" for the specific page I'm interested in.  Two questions: 1. Is there a way to "save" the counters I'm interested in so that they redisplay automatically each time ...Show All

• Brazzle TF single-server installation failed on a virtual pc

  My installation steps are: 1. Install a Windows Server 2003 with SP1 virtual pc. OK! 2. Config the virtual pc as an application server, enable asp.net. OK! 3. Install the SQL server 2005 April CTP, config the application pools. OK! 4. Install the SharePoint Service, exclude the Reporting Services. OK! 5. Logon as tfssetup and install the Team Foundation. Hang!!! The ADAM installation seems good but the installation stops at the last step. I foll ...Show All

• Glenn Wilson Unit testing C++/CLI

  Does unit testing in Visual Studio 2005 work with mixed mode C++/CLI When I try to perform a unit test, I get the following example error: Test method TestProjectRATS.AboutBoxTest.ConstructorTest threw exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: Attempt to load an unverifiable executable with fixups (IAT with more than 2 sections or a TLS section.) (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131019). I'm not sure, but I think that means that it can't load a ...Show All

• Ronald S Merge tool - missing dialog button labels and toolbar icons

  When comparing two identical files, the Visual Studio dialog box that should read "The files are identical" does not display the message or the "OK" or "Help" button labels. When comparing two different files, the differences are displayed but the toolbar icons are missing. What is odd is that it is only occurring when using the merge tool. I thought it may be a control library issue, but the controls in Visua ...Show All

• Pharaoh Atem Problem when changing status from active to closed

  Hi, We have Agile based team project which contains the bug.xml file from CMMI process template (Beta 3). When opening a bug, and changing the bug status from active to closed (in all other cases work fine), we get an error message: "tf20012 field 'closed date' cannot be empty" "tf20012 field 'closed by' cannot be empty". What is the problem Thanks, Michael Hi, This issue resolved by chan ...Show All

• Max Norris Team Build, local directory tree differs from source control

  Hi We’re building a web site which is dependent on two other projects. The local folder structure looks like this: $Project/WebRoot/WebSite $Project/Project1 $Project/Project2 This is how it is setup in source control $Project/WebSite $Project/Project1 $Project/Project2 The workspace maps $Project/WebSite to $Project/WebRoot/WebSite When building the solution I get an error that  $Project/WebRoot/WebSite is not found, this is since Team Bui ...Show All

• Dmitry Polyakovsky private branch for developer

  I know that this is not the default way to work in VSTS, but I think that when there is a big change private branch should be used. that way: 1. changes of others will not be a problem 2. at the end of the work merge to the main branch will be done this is an option - instead of working on a normal workspace. I wanted to asked if someone works that way, and if it is recommended thanks Ori, If you are talking about an it ...Show All

• Dan Stojadinovic WorkItemChanged event handler throws exception!

  I wrote a simple handler for the WorkItemChanged TFS event. The registration went fine and the handler is called when the event is triggered. So far so good. But, as soon as I try to get the WorkItemStore object inside the handler method, a ArgumentException is thrown:   Error:   Cannot pass a GCHandle across AppDomains. Parameter name: handle ,     at System.Runtime.InteropServices.GCHandle.InternalC ...Show All

• Indra Agustia Migration issue

  1. Backed up a 6.x VSS DB branch. 2. Restored it to brand new VSS 2005 DB. 3. Ran Analyze on the New DB and fixed all errors. 4. Ran VSSConverter Analyze -- 200+warnings (shared files) 5. Ran VSSConverter Migrate 6. On VS 2005 client machine, connected to new project and performed     a 'Get Latest' to pull all the source code local. Closed VS 2005. 7. Opened VSS client and ran a Difference against VSS and the local source. F ...Show All