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• Kenny Spade Adding users to [project]Contributors: Cannot access users/groups in domain

  Beta 3 - Refresh Client Tier installed on Windows XP connected to TFS on Windows Server 2003 with Active Directory enabled. Domain = SIGNAUSTR I've successfully created a Team Project called SandpitTest and now want to add users to the group [SandpitTest]\Contributors. I followed these steps: 1. Logged on as TFSSETUP 2. Started Visual Studio and connected with TFS (Tools | Connect to TFS) 3. Selected the TFS in Team Explorer 4. Applied Team | Te ...Show All

• RetroFire Availability of Team Foundation Server

  Is the beta of this publicly available, or do I need to be an MSDN subscriber See this page for information on how to get it: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/get/ or here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/getthebetas/ I also encourage you to try the pre-built Virtual PC image (single-server installation).  It can save a lot of time. http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive ...Show All

• sanj_vam 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

• Sheetal Kamat Client expiration?

  Does the Team Foundation Client that's on the Trial DVD have the 180-day expiration, or is that just for the server components Thanks, --Oren Installing the TFC using the Trial DVD with the PID provided will have a 180-day expiration on TFC as well as the server. ...Show All

• Jeff Patton Pulling info. from db into headers and footers

  Hello, Is pulling information from the database (sql server) and putting it into the headers and footers even possible I have heard there some kind of work around to achieve this but I am not sure how to go about it. Any ideas thanks ahead. I solved the problem ...thanks for the help. Can you give a little more information. In what context are you trying to do this. A ...Show All

• pmcdermott Change Domains

  I recently migrated my BETA3 TFS install to a new domain.  Everything went fairly smoothly, but I'm having one problem that I'm unable to fix.  I cannot change the user assigned to the [SERVER]\Service Accounts group.  The group has a single read-only member: the TFSSERVICE user from the domain the server has left. TFS seems to be working okay with this account as is for Source Control.  However, when I try and create a ...Show All

• Paul Rony Deployment attribute : System Designer

  What does the Deployment flag in System Designer settings attributes mean The documentation says "In System Designer, you can also specify that the Authentication setting is fixed by clearing the Deployment check box." What does it mean, "fixed". Where is the value "fixed" I can't change ANYTHING in deployment designer , and the deployment flag has no effect on the Systems Designer. The deployment report ...Show All

• Stripes Is the March Extensibility SDK good for RTM

  The title largely says it all. Is the March extensibility kit from VSIP the valid set for RTM or will there be a few changes that we may need to grab Thanks Yes, it is valid for RTM. I'm sure there are errors, and I know there's lots more documentation that folks would like to have. Visual Studio 2005 SDK – March 2006 CTP for v2 For those of you who use the tfpt.exe power toy , there's an updated binary in there as well ( ...Show All

• mannis WorkItem Field enabling/disabling based on current user

  Hi! I have another question regarding Workitems: I would like to achieve that the WorkItem Fields can only be editable to that user which is present in the System.AssignedTo field. Other users cannot edit the fields. Is this possible somehow Thanks, Bye! You can do this using <READONLY> rule. Every rule in work item type definition XML has two optional attributes - "for" (for specifying the group of people the r ...Show All

• GoodisonBlue Issue for printing out work item

  Hi: I tried to print out the work item as the record to be kept in folder.  I found that I could not see the detailed information in History category.  Under History, it always printed time, Edited by or Created by, but no detailed information. I did print out a detail in history.  This happened in MSF for CMMI Task WIT.  After expanding in History textarea under Summary tab, right-click to print, I saw ...Show All

• Big1 Biztalk?

  Can someone tell me how to do a Logical Datacenter Diagram that has Biztalk in the mix We do not have an LDD component representing a BizTalk; however, using the SDM SDK (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/architect/sdm/default.aspx ) you can create such a component. (so you'll have to provide the HostingDefinition for WebService and ContainmentDefinition for HttpServer in the model for your BizTalk LDD component) ...Show All

• Tomer Gabel CustomDictionary.xml

  Is there anyway to avoid having CustomDictionary.xml uninstalled when FxCop is uninstalled before installing a new version It would be nice to be able to keep the work I put into collecting various words/acronyms not found in the Office dictionary. Thanks Michael Fanning - MS wrote: In the meantime, you might want to place the customdictionary.xml in your user settings directory. C:\Documents and Settings\mikefan\Application ...Show All

• Mike Gustafson SuppressMessage for .NET 1.1?

  Hi, In this GotDotNet thread (of the FxCop project): http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/Thread.aspx id=300724&Page=1 ...there is mention that  SuppressMessage was scheduled for removal from version 1.32 of FxCop. I have 1.32 and would very much like to mark-up my (.NET 1.1) code to exclude certain messages. What would you recommend   Thanks! - Oli Hi Joe,   ...Show All

• Khairul Zarir Bug rates report fails

  Next problem:  The Bug Rates report on the default project portal page fails with the messages: An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Query execution failed for data set 'AreaPathPath1'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand) The default members for the dimension 'Specified' do not exist with each other. This is rediculous. Does any one have a solution to all these crazy SharePoint Errors See this thread f ...Show All

• JasonToTheH Displaying a bug description in Excel displays as #####

  When adding the description column (or any long free form text field) within excel, if the description is long (more than a 5-6 lines), the cell displays as ########## You cannot expand the column for this not to happen (as you would do with numbers). You can change the cell format to general to display properly but it reverts back to text on a refresh to the list (or by simply accessing and exiting the cell). I have created macros to r ...Show All