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• Excelerator AT for Team 1 on same machine as DT for team 2

  Another wierd configuration question:  I have a machine that's currently hosting the DT for a TFS installation.  I'd like to install the AT on that machine, pointing at another machine for the new DT. I have three machines: S1 - AT (machine is flakey) S2 - DT S3 - unused I'd like to end up with the configuration S1 - unused S2 - AT S3 - DT So, can I install the AT on my current DT machine (S2), pointing at my ...Show All

• jrimpo Denied. Moving TFS to a new server doesn't work

  After following the arduous and kludgy procedure for moving my TFS server to a new machine, I'm faced with a totally broken system. OK, that's not entirely true, but it might just as well be.  The new server seems to be running fine.  A Team Client installed on the new ATDT machine can connect to and interact with the new team server just fine. If the old server isn't running, existing clients insist that they cannot connect to t ...Show All

• svincoll4 HOWTO: Single server Deployment TFS Beta 3 w RTM SQL on existing Development Box

  After much trial and error here’s the setup -   With a single machine Development Domain   Environment             Up and running Windows Enterprise Server 2003 x86 sp1 fully patched             2.8 Ghz HT Dell 4600             Active Directory/DNS ...Show All

• Carbonear Merging from one branch to another

  I'm having issues merging from our main development branch to our test branch. Before it worked great, but we're restructuring our code, so we've moved about 100 files around. I tried merging the changes but it totally screwed the branch up. We're going to re-do the branch, but in the future is there any way to do a pure "copy & overwrite" from one branch to another Richard, Thanks for the help. The solution wasn't par ...Show All

• Sebastian Mares Webtest - Upload File fails

  Hello, I am using VS 2005 for Software Testers - I am having trouble testing the upload of a file (simple text file) to the server. My .NET code is as follows :- ASPX: <input id="filefield1" type="file" name="filefield1" runat="server"> <input type=submit runat=server id=DoUpload value="Upload" NAME="DoUpload"/> ASPX.VB: Protected WithEvents DoUpload As System.Web. ...Show All

• Sumedh Kanetkar -- Microsoft Ordered Test

  I have a need, which should be fairly common, to run a set of tests for a given location in my e-commerce website. This location is several layers (pages) down in the page hierarchy. To avoid repeating the same recording (or script) in each of these tests, I'd like to create task-oriented modules that can be put together in any sequence necessary to navigate to a given location in my site. It seems the Ordered Tests might be the way to do this, ...Show All

• ThinkGuru Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques

  My whitepaper titled Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques is now live on MSDN. It covers some best practices for creating web tests as well a lot of things to look for when things don't go the way you expected. Josh This is a great article! We've been getting many customer requests for information like this. Thanks for publishing it! Cheers, -Noah Coad, PM VSTS Dev/Test, Microsoft ...Show All

• King Solomon Looking for a model/methodology to capture system capabilities

  Hi - We have numerous, interdependant systems within our environment. Many of these systems are integrated at the data, and business tiers. The problem is when a change occurs w/in the environment (like application A changes a business rule or an interface, it breaks applications B, C, D). Question: Is there a model or methodology that will help us too: 1) List all the capabilities of our systems 2) Show dependencies between our systems 3) Hel ...Show All

• Jonathon H. How to use workspace.checkin with workitem, example needed

  Private Sub checkInWithWorkItem(ByVal s_key As String)         Dim w As WorkItem         ' retrieve the work item.         w = workitem_collection.Item(s_key)         ' get pending changes.         Dim pendingChanges As PendingChange()      &n ...Show All

• fan008 Error 28100.Error loading Event web service.

  Hi,   During installation I got "Error 28100.Error loading Event web service.". Any idea what is going wrong TFS is being installed on a Virtual Machine.   Please feel free to contact me if you need any more information. Thanks, Bart ps. Is it possible to upload the setup log Hi Scott,   1. IIS was installed before starting SQL2005   2. The default web site was not changed If necessary, I c ...Show All

• viewpl WebProxy for webtest tests and view browser when running coded tests

  hi there, I am new to having a look at the web test product and only have the Bet 2 at the moment (long story)... A couple of questions: 1. How do you set a webproxy for the webtest tests. I have set the username and password under the credentials tab but this just results in a 407 Proxy Authentication Required. I can do it in the coded version with the following NetworkCredential credential; credential = ( NetworkCredential ) CredentialC ...Show All

• loureiro App.config and Unit Tests

  Can you not add a app.config file to a Unit Test project Here is my app.config file in my unit test project: < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <configuration>  <connectionStrings>   <add name="mycn" connectionString="server=myserver;Trusted_Connection=False;database=mydb;uid=username;pwd=password"/>  </connectionStrings> </configuration> And  here is one of my unit t ...Show All

• aprisoocc I cannot create a team project

  2005-12-1 6:02:49 | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | Team Foundation Server proxy retrieved | Completion time: 0 seconds 12/1/2005 6:02:49 AM | Module: Wizard | Retrieved IAuthorizationService proxy | Completion time: 0 seconds 2005-12-1 6:02:49 | Module: ELeadServiceMediator | The template information for Team Foundation Server "218.249.222.118" was retrieved from the Team Foundation Server. | Completion time: 0.140625 seconds 12/1/2005 6:02:49 A ...Show All

• js12 VSTS Unit Testing Private Methods of Unmanaged Code

  Hi, Does VSTS provide any support for unit testing private methods of unmanaged code If not, are there any tools or techniques that will enable me to do this I have come across some options that are not really viable as follows: 1. Making private methods public. 2. Writing public wrapper functions to call the private methods. Any other options or suggestions will be much appreciated . If it's unmanaged, then ...Show All

• TradinPaint3 Continued Errors after troubleshooting guide

  This will be a living document and as we troubleshoot issues, we will add to the query and document. It will culminate in a consistency checker tool which automates the checking and ultimately other functions like kicking the warehouse etc... Feedback is welcome and I will update this data. Symptoms: The data in the reports is stale and doesn’t seem to ever get updated. The reports error out. An error has occurred during report pr ...Show All