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• HeHeHeHeHeHe Changing default SPS Portal for TFS

  I want to configure Team Foundation Server to work with another SPS Portal than the Default Web Site http://localhost:80 because I want to run my existing ASP.NET Projects as before. Whenever I run the existing applications I get: Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed. ...Show All

• Praisy Noel On the rule DoNotInitializeUnnecessarily

  FxCop flags a warning when it detects initializations that were already supposed to be have done by CLR; for instance: int _StartIndex = 0; While this is redundent initialization, I think it's good practice to include it to make it explicitly clear that your code relies on the default initialization of CLR. This is extremely helpful when doing code modification later because there may be many methods which might assume above initialization and ...Show All

• Shailesh Paranjpe Getting latest versions for non-labeled elements in Get by Label operation

  IMy requirement is as follows: I have label on folder but that label is not present on files inside except one. Now whenever i get labeled version of folder, i get only labeled file in it. Now is there any way so that i can specify that give me latest version for all those files inside folder which are not labeled. In other words, can i get versions by specifying two rules, so that if first rule is not applicable for some element, then sec ...Show All

• SmileMrk Unit Test Wizard doesn't let me select certain projects.

  When adding a new unit test to my test project, the Unit Test Wizard jumps back to the "Add New Test" dialog when I select certain projects.  If I try to click either the '+' sign for the tree structure of the project or try to click on the project's CheckBox, the dialog returns to "Add New Test".  Is this because test units cannot be auto-generated for this project, and if so why do I not see some form of message dialog --Edit-- ...Show All

• DONALD49 Limit of Work Items accesable in Excel

  Hallo, I just tried to open all our Work Items in Excel and got an Error 1. Run Query "All Work Items" 2. 2400 Work Items Found 3. STRG-A (Mark all) 4. Mouse-Click on Excel-Icon "Open Selection in Microsoft Excel" 5. Excel opens 6. An error occurs "TF80071: Team Foundation encounterd an error while accesing the work item database. Please contact your Team Foundation Administrator." If i open ...Show All

• Rich MSFT Where can I download AdventureWorksCMMI example?

  Hello everybody, I saw on a friend's machine a project example for Team Foundation Server, named AdventureWorksCMMI. Where can I download it Well, Dr. Camp, I've a previous CTP of TFS from which I've copied "source" folder with "adventureworks" folder one and .bak files, and of course I've SQL 2005 with AdventureWorks database. How can I import AdventureWorksCMMI project in a blank insta ...Show All

• deniscuba SharePoint services installed on separate server from the rest of the TFS Application tier

  Hello. Does anyone know if it is possible to install Sharepoint services on a separate server from the TFS Web service (and the rest of the application tier). We already have a SharePoint Server set up at our business and would like to continue using it for all our Portals including the ones created through the TFS and its new Team Projects. Regards /Mats Ok thanks Brad. I found this posting after ...Show All

• VidyaMN Need help regarding anonymous methods

  Hi, I am creating a rule which checks for Class level variables, method level variables and method parameters. I know that for anonymous methods the nested class is generated by the compiler. But for the following anonymous method no nested class is generated but compiler creates a static method is generated // Create a delegate instance delegate void Del ( int x); // Instantiate the delegate using an ...Show All

• W. Shawn Boone TFS RTM Project portal problem

  Hi all, I'm not able to add existing web parts to my team portal, which is based on the MSF Agile template. I get an .NET Framework 2.0 eventing error... Has anyone had the same problem Regards, Bjorn Bjorn, I too am getting the same error. " An unexpected error has occurred. Web Parts Maintenance Page: If you have permission, you can use this page to temporarily disable Web Part ...Show All

• Samuel Phung Work items seems to use sAMAccountName as key to the AssigneTo field.

  When assigning work items to people the dropdown list displays a list of sAMAccountName . In our case these are very none informative - they don't give a clue to the persons name as it consists of random letters and digits. Is it possible to get it displayed as givenName , middleName , sn or something other more readable When hovering over a user in the team project permission dialog a tool tip displays some other field from AD that is of some ...Show All

• SharonGuinee Tests cannot be found during build

  I've just got a Team Build server set up, and I'm trying to configure it to automatically run a list of unit tests during the build. When it gets to this stage, I get the following log messages: Target RunTestWithConfiguration:    Loading C:\TeamBuilds\SBD Platform\SBD Platform\Integration Build\BuildType\..\Sources\SBD Platform.vsmdi...    Search path(s) for tests:    C:\TeamBuilds\SBD Platform\SBD ...Show All

• Seb MARTY Project Template Export Directory Invalid

  I'm using Win x64, and trying to export a project template.  At work I can get this to work on a standard XP box with VS 2005 Beta 2, but for some reason when I try to export the template on my home computer I notice that the Output Directory is C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\My Exported Templates\WindowsApplication1.zip; however, there is no folder 'My Exported Templates'.  In fact, even in the ...Show All

• pkr2000 MSTest not binding to dynamic loaded assembly

  Hi I've got a VS2005/C# Test Project which is a conversion of an NUnit project. Everything runs great from within the VS IDE, but when I try to run it using MSTest, an assembly which is dynamically loaded during the [TestInitialize] stage is failing to load. I'm getting FileNotFoundException. (MSTest is being run in the same folder as the test assembly, which includes the 'dynamic' assembly) This is the output from the Fusion log: === Pre-bind s ...Show All

• Michael Gomez AvoidUninstantiatedInternalClasses

  Just ran a newly converted solution through FxCop and am seeing several of these warnings: AvoidUninstantiatedInternalClasses Cause: An instance of an assembly-level type is not created by code within the assembly. There is one for each of the following classes: MyComputer MyApplication Normally I would just exclude these form my solution but the 'When to Exclude Messages' portion of the warning states: It is safe to exclude a message from ...Show All

• hyslopc Lock level of file superceded by check out

  When check out operation is performed on file, the lock set will be that of the check out option specified. It may lead to some not entirely obvious consequences. Obvious example 1) No lock on file prior to check out 2) After check out is performed with lock option other than "None"("Check-out" or "Check-in" lock), the file is editable and has changes "Lock,Edit" associated with it (in "View Pendin ...Show All