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• Edwin Castro Upgrade Beta 3 to Beta 3 refresh

  What will be involved in an upgrade from VSTF beta 3 to the beta 3 refresh TFS Beta3 refresh is now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads.  Look in the Visual Studio 2005 Pre-production folder. All in jest, my friend. I do appreciate the level of commitment that MS has made to the VSTS effort. I realize that the CMMI process template is still in a state of flux. I love this product, but I also don't mind poking fun in the proc ...Show All

• tedeum Work item type editor

  Any editor available Can I update an existing Team project with new fields(Bug.xml) This requires three steps: - Export work item type you're interested in (using witexport.exe or WorkItemType.Export method) - Edit the exported XML document - Import it back by using either witimport.exe or using WorkItemTypeCollection.Import method More information on work item type definitions and on command line tools for ...Show All

• Mongrel Project level lists

  Hi, How can we define project level lists for work item field values I don't want to use local work item lists (for reuse). Allowed values for field in question should differ from project to project. May be we can use some sort of when condition in conjunction with global lists Thanks in advance. Leon I believe what Leon wanted was to have lists of field values (not workitems), something like {Dev, Test, Program Management} which c ...Show All

• TiborK Question about pricing

  Hi: I'm confused about the pricing of Team Foundation Server and Team Edition for Software Developers, etc. It appears that a Team Foundation Server license will cost about $2,799, but there is an additional $499 per-client access license. Would we have to pay that per-client access fee for everyone using Team Edition   If not, then who is the access license for In concrete terms, if we buy Team Edition for Software Developers fo ...Show All

• TonyDecasca Unit test fails because of referenced dll on a remote server

  Failed to Queue Test Run 'thsk@AYNRAND 2006-03-02 11:57:54' with id {6d251b4c-8811-4d08-b8ba-53aaf93eeb25}: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.TestManagement.ExecutionException: Test Run deployment issue: The location of the file or directory '\\myserver\path\MyLibrary.dll' is not trusted. The same machine functions as our build server, and the automated central builds in Team System works fine. I have added the server to the list of trusted sourc ...Show All

• Esmond Warning CA1822 : Microsoft.Performance :

  The Error: Warning 1 CA1822 : Microsoft.Performance : The 'this' parameter (or 'Me' in VB) of ActivateFormClass.CheckActiveMidChild(Form):Void is never used. Mark the member as static (or Shared in VB) or use 'this'/'Me' in the method body or at least one property accessor, if appropriate. C:\Documents and Settings\joe\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\BMC_2005\BMC_2005\Components\ActivateFormClass.vb 15 Bmc20 ...Show All

• turnkey VsTestHost Forced to write to DB?

  Is it possible to have vstest host write to a csv file or some other type of file or does it have to right to a DB With the attached DB file, can you use an access database (or preferably a CSV) to record the results of a webtest Basically we're trying to bypass the need to write the results to the LoadTest database if possible. Change the value of the "Storage Type" property on the load t ...Show All

• AlexFeinman Question about TFS folders

  This might be somewhat of a weird question. The company that I'm writting my thesis for are using Documentum www.documentum.com to handle alle their document versioning, and are as such not really interested in letting alle the important development documents be handled by TFS. Now if, and I dont' know if this is even possible, I was able to write a documentum extension that would somehow let me interface to a specific folder in Documentum, wou ...Show All

• in-q-ztiv How to delete obsolete fields from Query builder form

  Hi there,      If I use new field let say called 'Repro steps' in bug form and create new procress template using that. Now when I update the bug form and remove this field and delete that process template and create new process template. I still see those removed fields in query builder as drop down fields to choose from to create query. How do I remove them completely Thanks, Anu In Beta2, there is no s ...Show All

• amosz42 Testing Native Code (C++ ) using Team Unit Testing frameworks

  I have been looking for some pointers or guide lines as to how do I test C++ unmanaged code using Unit Tesing capabilities of VS 2005. Do I need to write wrappers in managed code ( a sort of mixed mode class one that calls into managed code and other that calls the native code) Any suggestion welcome Regds Dinesh Paresh, Unit Test Framework allows you to do validation using Assert class, something like: Assert::AreEqual(S_OK, hr); Ass ...Show All

• kdossey29 Visual Studio crashes running web test many times

  I have built a web test with the view to running as part of a load test. For the most part I can run the test fine from Visual Studio and have done so with up to 250 cycles of the test (i.e. fixed run count of 250). As I had it running so well I decided to increase the run count and leave it running while I went on holiday so I set the run count to 10000. So it would be like a single user running this process over and over. In addition I figu ...Show All

• grover2 Exclude low certainty levels

  I run the check in a batch script every night using FxCopCmd with an project file which only contains excuded rules. targets are added dynamically How can I exclude all remarks with a certainty lower than a specified level. Is it done by filtering the output file   If it would be helpful, we could post a list of rules by certainty. Filtering the output file is one way to go. Alternatively, you could manually&nb ...Show All

• Kila Converting NUnit Tests & Importing Test Director Defects

  1) Will there be a way to batch convert NUnit Attributes to the MS versions Or will it just be use of Find/Replace 2) Will there be an easy way to import Mercury Test Director Defects into the VSTS Defect Management system Thanks, Philip Fantatic, that's great. Thanks everyone. Conversion was pretty straightforward.  I did a find and replace for the following items ...Show All

• MRogers Create Team Project from existing Project

  Hi, I wanted to know that is it possible to Create Team Project from existing Project. The idea is my organisation will have say 10 different projects and I want to maintain same standards , roles and project permissions in all the projects. Only thing that will change is the project name. How to acheive this Thanks in advance, Sanjoyan Microsoft MGSI India Honestly, I haven't seen it but that doesn't mean its not ...Show All

• Andrew Cowan Does Visual Studio Team System support WAN Remote Access

  I have seen several comments to indicate that Visual Source Safe 2005 will better support WAN by way of HTTP access over the web. Is there going to be strong support for WAN source code control in Team System as well    Presently we need to use SourceOffSite because of the poor performance of Visual Source Safe 6 over the WAN.  We are very interested to know if Team System will remove the need for third-party products for remote a ...Show All