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• VaishaliD TFS Beta 3 Installation - Sharepoint not being installed/extended to virtual servers

  Hi Been trying to install TFS Beta 3 and ran into some problems. I followed the instructions which said to install sharepoint in "server farm mode" and then let the TFS installation program configure the rest of sharepoint, however there are two main issues: - Before the TFS installer is run, the sharepoint admin site is accessible, but after the installation is performed the sharepoint admin site is no longer accessible (even when logged in as ...Show All

• I_luv_peanuts custom rule to check if namespace name and classname are different

  hi, i am writing a custom rule that checks if classname and namespacename are different. i tried but it seems to get the namespacename i should write different check method and to get classname i should write different check method. how can i get both in one check method and compare them Thanks Thanks alot Michael. It is working fine. Thanks Compare the Type.Namespace to the Type.Name.Name. ...Show All

• Wiroj automated release notes

  Is it possible to use the command line tool to automate gathering of the check in notes Ideally, I'd pass two labels to the command line and a text file with the merged release notes would be created. Not certain what you're looking for. You can automatically add notes using syntax like tf checkin /notes:"Code Reviewer"="Richard Berg" or tf checkin /notes:@file To gather checkin ...Show All

• Shibu Bhattarai Cannot deploy ASP.Net Web Service on my TFS Server ???

  I am trying to deploy an ASP.Net Web Service project to the same server that I have TFS on. This was a freshly formatted server that has had just TFS and its prerequisites installed. In my solution I added a web deployment project, added the content files of my web service to it, and compiled everything. When I take the resulting msi and install it on my dev machine (or any other machine) to the default web site (new virtual directory called ...Show All

• rusha Creating a new project fails

  Hi, Have installed TFS single server on 2003SP1 with WSS-SP2 and SQL2005 successfully (domain).  Followed the instructions to create users with appropriate permissions. I can connect to TFS from VS2005 on the client machine and change security, etc.  When creating a new project, however, I get the following error: Error TF30170: The plugin Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.WorkItemTracking failed during task WITs fr ...Show All

• YOOSEFI10 Does Business Intelligence Development Studio install when using SQL Server 2005 shipped with TFS ver 1.0

  Did your install of TFS ver 1.0 also install Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) We have done 2 installs and neither install enabled BIDS, even though we selected it from the Client Components. Any ideas Just to add to this, for anyone with the same issue..... I have been trying to do this with MS SQL Server 2005 Express. Having uninstalled Visual Studio TFS and SQL Express and re-installed ...Show All

• Mike O. Need some help with Unit testing some code, please.

  Hi folks, i'm trying to do some negative unit tests, that is, unit tests for bad scenarios, not just the good ones/happy path. so, i've got this constructor /// <summary> /// Default Constructor. /// </summary> /// <param name="username"> string: WebSerivce Authentication: Username. </param> /// <param name="password"> string: WebSerivce Authentication: Password. </param> /// & ...Show All

• Santig Work Item Details Report

  Imagine I have a report (on my Reporting Services server) that show a list of work items (e.g. enhancement requests) filtered by some condition (e.g. with state "Assigned to Analyst" ), and the main report's field, Title , is marked as EnableDrilltrough = True in the appropriate report model. So when I view the report I can click one a work item's title to see... an almost blank page with the only heading "Work Item" - I supp ...Show All

• Shaan Rathi Unit Tests - What database do you use?

  We want to run automated unit tests as part of our nightly build process. I'm wondering what is done about the database.  Our applications all do stuff against databases.  For example, in order to test our method that assigns men to a work order, there needs to be data in the Employees table, Work Centers Table, Sales Orders Table, Inventory table, Work Orders table, Employee Qualifications table, Parts table, etc.  We wouldn't w ...Show All

• Juan Carlos Velez Source control reports

  Hi, There are a lot of built-in reports available in Team Project. Surprisingly, none of them provides reporting for source control. For instance, I will need to see what files have been checked-in during specific day, who made the check-ins, what files are still checked out and who made it, and so on. How can I get those reports Regards, James. Here is a link to a blog where someone made a report ...Show All

• Kinns How to reverse a check-out (force check-in)

  Is there a way to reverse a checkout from an admin tool. We have two situations. 1. A developer checks out some code but forgets to check it in. They then leave for the weekend, but a situation arrises where another developer needs to fix an issue. We need to reverse the checkout of the first developer. 2. A developer upgrades to a new machine and names it something different than a machine that had some source checked out. The developer t ...Show All

• Adam Vanner Merge question

  I have the following scenario.  I started a feature implementation on the Main branch (say Main\Foo.cs), then I branched to Branch\Foo.cs.  Everything is checked in. Now I want to clean out the feature stuff I started in Main\Foo.cs.  Some other code is added to Main\Foo.cs.  Now I want to forward integrate changes from Main\Foo.cs to Branch\Foo.cs.  During the merge it removes the feature code from Branch\Foo.cs.&n ...Show All

• RonanD Is there an example of how to test web services using https with X.509 certificate

  Any examples out there to test web services that require a client-side certificate using https I created the tests on my local machine without ssl and now am trying to enhance them for our larger test system. Can't record as we are using Smart Client WinForms.  Actually, the problem migh not be the certificate but how to add a FormPostParameter with Username and password. Is this the same in Smart Client forms as in IE Thanks, Burk ...Show All

• Karamasov Accesing build programmatically (API)

  I've found a couple of examples to access the build objects (BuildInformation and BuildController) in the extensibility kit but they don't work, some of the libraries seem to be missing (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Bis...). Based on the comments on one of the slides, it looks like the beta 2 release doesn't have this feature yet, is this correct Is it possible to access the build objects programmaticaly in Beta2 Thanks Pablo Ok, this ...Show All

• qifeng FxCop 1.35 Copy as SuppressMessage

  I just discovered the neat feature that I can right click on an excluded violation and select "Copy As SuppressMessage" to get a SuppressMessage attribute to paste in my source file. Only thing is, the Justification named parameter is not added. It would be nice if the text of all notes, or at least the first note, associated with the excluded violation were used as the Justification parameter. Th ...Show All