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• Kyrin Questions : Installing and Configuring Team System

  Hi I have following with me 1. MS Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition 2. Team Foundation Server 3. SQL server 2005 ,Enterprise edition Having said that, I am planning to deploy Server and foundation server on one machines and Visual studio on one system. Please comment on this. Also please let me know that I read in a presentation that O Visual Studio Team system Edition O ...Show All

• Becky_Yny exception constructor

  How to find out an exception constructor I have to create a rule to check that exceptions are not thrown from inside exception constructors. 1) Override Check(Member) 2) Cast the member argument to an InstanceInitializer, if the result is not null, then return from the check override 3) If the result is non-null, check the Member.DeclaringType to see whether it is assignable to Exception 4) If that check succeeds, scan th ...Show All

• bill perlman Build fails on absolute path in solution file

  Hi Got the buil service up and running (thanks to a post on the fact that it had to be installed separately, reminds me of those commercials on Cartoon Network my kids know by hart which goes something like this "bla, bla, sold separately" :-) Anyway, decided to kick off a build of my first Team Project (called Kiosk!). Now I am playing both the independent thinking developer and the buildmanager with a sentralized mind here, ...Show All

• beezleinc Installing Visual Team Foundation Server 2005 Beta2

  Hallo, I have 2 partitions on my portable              C : Windows XP             D : Small business Server 2003 I formatted the D partition completely on my portable and I reinstalled a clean Windows Small Business Server 2003. The C partition I did not touch at all. Afterwards I installed in the following order (there is ...Show All

• Kryor Need means to automatically set one work item field based on another field

  Is there a means with TFS (via some sort of plug-in or otherwise) to programmatically check the value of a work item field and set another work item field to a value that varies depending on the first work item field For instance, we might want to set a default Assigned To value using a table of client IDs.  After a change of client ID, it would be nice to automatically update the Assigned To value based on the table. See also: & ...Show All

• Comet87 MSProject Fields Mapping Problem

  Hi, Based on the information we found from the list of Project fields at the following url: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181691.aspx and also how to: change how fields are mapped to Microsoft Project from the following url: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181686(VS.80).aspx We are trying to map the "Description" field in VSTS workitems with the "pjTaskNotes" field in MS Project but when w ...Show All

• prjuanl Assigning multiple users to a task

  Let's say you have task A, and persons X, Y and Z. I'd like to assign X and Y to task A. However, I don't want to create a group titled "XY" containing X and Y to assign this task to them. Is there a way to add both individuals to the task If the answer is NO, implying I'd end up creating groups XY, XZ, YZ, and XYZ, then when is this "feature" going to be fixed I really can't fathom having to work around this with 10 te ...Show All

• Gilles Lafreniere Install went fine - but not all features appear to work

  Help! First let me say kudos to the development team for the improvements to the isntall process.  I went through the TFS Beta 3 install on a clean Windows 2003 server with sp1 applied.  I followed all the instructions in the guide (Single server install) and everything appeared to go well.  I have been able to successfully connect to the sharepoint portion of a team site using the client (explorer) installed from the Beta 3 insta ...Show All

• ichi User Permissions - open and close work Items

  Hi Is there a method where I can restrict some user(s)/group(s) to - add new work items - edit work item status from "active" to "closed (restrict only the "Created by" user and the "testers" to close the work items) Thanks You can restrict write permissions by placing users in the appropriate security groups (on a project level) or by further restricting access within area classificatio ...Show All

• BrEnO_LEWROY Exclusively in these products?

  Hi, Can anyone tell me if the Team System Editions of Visual Studio will include the functionality to reverse-engineer databases I use Visio for Enterprise Architects (VEA) because I often need the database reverse-engineering functionality. This VEA plug-in is not part of the standard Visio included with Office, and it is one of the reasons I currently have MSDN Universal. This page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/howtobuy/vs2005/subscr ...Show All

• Derek Greer QTAgent Handle Count

  I am trying to execute a total of 350 users for a load test using team test. Both my agent and the controller are residing on the same machine, I have 1GB of RAM on this box. When I am ramping up the number of users the counters shows and error symbol against the PC and the counter  Process=> Handle Count => QTAgent shows an error. At this point my thorughput (Req/Sec) starts falling rapidly from 3.05  and stops near to .35 ...Show All

• Daniel Corbett VSS Migration Error

  Unable to write to SQL Server: .\SQLEXPRESS due to Error: The size (4969) given to the parameter 'Mappings' exceeds the maximum allowed (4000). This popped up twice and prevented my migration from going through. You'll notice the link goes no where. So, any clues/suggestions on what to do next Thanks, Drew I didn't use a custom SQL server, I just let it use SQLExpress. There are no other "settings& ...Show All

• kangkang Duplicate Project Names

  I am running TFS Beta 3. I have a situation where I have cancelled the creation of a new project (during the phase of it downloading the templates) and now I can't re-create the project with the same name. It says it already exists, although its not available as an Add Existing Project either. Is there anything I can run on the server that will  validate all existing project data in the database Regards Graham ...Show All

• matteo raumer Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Release on MSDN Subscriber Downloads (Universal)

  Hello everybody, Today Visual Studio 2005 Professional was released on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. We were unable to find the Team Suite Release. Any help Best regards Ralf Rottmann Thanks for answering! Unfortunately I don't see the download link for this version of Visual Studio. I am sure we are on MSDN Universal though. Do you see it In which category Regards Ralf I tran ...Show All

• jchau Manual Tests with Code Coverage for all assemblies

  Heya. I'm not sure I'm doing this the right way so I'll have to ask. I'm using Unit Tests together with Manual Tests and I'd like to view the Code Coverage information on these tests combined. The Unit Tests runs alright with Code Coverage but I'm not sure how I should run the Manual Tests to gather Code Coverage. Today, I just double-click the .exe in the bin/Debug folder but that seems to just collect code coverage information on the .exe, not ...Show All