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• Stephen Englefield-Grantham Assistance With Goal Based Load Pattern

  Hi, I am running a goal based load test for the overall Avg. Response Time counter with these settings Initial user count - 1 Max user count - 2000 max. user increment and decrement - 5 min user count -1 stop adjusting user count when goal reaches - true test time between iterations - 30sec I am recording the results for the above scenario and need some help understanding them. The userload shows as 1 for the first 3 ...Show All

• eLliDKraM also confused about licensing (TFS)

  This should be an easy question for someone to answer. As a Gold Partner with ISV competency, how many developers at our company can use TFS Reading this from somasegar's blog a while back, it seems that 35 can use Team edition of VS.NET, but only 5 can use TFS because we only get the Workgroup Edition Is that correct, or do the 35 Team Edition for SD licenses also get to connect to TFS · Partners at the Gold Partner level will rec ...Show All

• Praj VSTS Architect vs. VSTS Developer

  With he proposed changes in MSDN subscriptions and Visual Studio licensing, I now have to make a decision between VSTS Architect and VSTS Developer. As I understand, MSDN Universal subscribers will have a choice - they can either go for VSTS Architect and VSTS Developer. I believe that I need both architecture and development tools. Which out of two should I go for I also have to agree with you. I am an independent consultant and I h ...Show All

• asdfj No luck in installing TFS in a more or less single server installation. Different Error 32000's...

  Hi, I've been trying to get VSTF Beta 2 running for last 3 days with no luck. Always ending with different Error 32000's example: Error 32000.The Commandline '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise Server\widbloc.exe" -s hostname -d CurrituckDB' returned non-zero value: 1. I have a Lab domain, consisting of 2 DC's running smoothly (and have been for well over a year now). No errors whatever if I use Netdiag or DCDIAG. Now I have ...Show All

• ajit patra Rule Idea - Use Create and Not New

  Programming visual basic.net ISBN 0735620598 page 1307 has the following 'rule' When using SymmetricAlgorithm, Rijndael etc on cryto routines, you should do the following Dim encr as SymmetricAlgorithm = SymmetricAlgorithm.Create() and not use new, so your code is generic and can work with different machine level defaults. I don't know if this applies to other creation routines. I can't see such a rule in the existing list but it looks like a g ...Show All

• Michael S. Kaplan How could I add a Setup or a TearDown procedure in the xxx.webtest?

  How can I add a Setup or a Teardown procedure in the xxx.webtest, not in the xxxCoded.cs I want to prepare some test data for xxx.webtest before it is run and cleanup this test data after the test is done. But I don't want to do it in the xxxCoded.cs because it will be overwritten once the xxx.webtest is modified. This is correct.  The namespace changed after beta2.  If you are still using beta2, I ...Show All

• IQ7 WIT (work item type) editor available?

  I'm currently using Notepad.exe to edit work item type definition files. I'm wondering the WIT editor available from Microsoft You can use the one provided by " Imaginet Resources ". There is not a WIT-specific editor for version 1.  You can use the XML editor in VS to edit the XML files, however. Buck ...Show All

• crimzonthunder ASP.NET and FxCop

  Does anybody have a guide on what FxCop rules should be enabled/disabled when analyzing an ASP.NET Application Thanks! I simplified example and move method to the Class Library. Rule dosn't fire up too for such simple method. public List < String > DoQuery( string query) { SqlConnection someConnection = new SqlConnection ( @"Data Source=.\sqlexpress;Initial Catalog=Werp;Inte ...Show All

• SquareDanceSteve Random server 400 errors

  Usually on startup of VS.Net I get 400 errors connecting to TFS. After 1-3 retries it works. The same things happens once in a while for checking out code. Usually after 1 or 2 retries it's successful. I looked on the server IIS logs and I don't see any 400 errors. I'm wondering if anyone else is getting this error All the directories have integration authentication enabled. It's just very annoying. Have you ...Show All

• Martin Naplava Errors in Team Build RTM (180 days)

  Hi Folks, It looks like I have hit this issue with the TFS RTM (180 day). TF53010: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff. Technical Information (for the administrative staff): Date (UTC): 6/15/2006 3:17:21 PM Machine: MASTERBUILD5 Application Domain: msbuild.exe Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation. ...Show All

• CG_JCAHO What is Visual Studio ProjectAggregator?

  Hello everybody, I noted CTP3 setup installs two additional components. First is SMO (but why "Collections" ), but what is "Visual Studio ProjectAggregator" We use the Visual Studio ProjectAggregator to integrate our package into Visual Studio. The ProjectAggregator is from the VSIP SDK ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/partners/default.aspx ) and here is some information from the April 2 ...Show All

• Brian Campbell How can I check if an assembly has a reference to another assembly..?

  Hi I need to implement a custom rule to check if an assembly has a reference to another assembly, for example: "Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility". How can I do this Thaks..! Your can get the references of an assembly by overriding the Check(Module) method and using the Module.AssemblyReferences property. Check out the following post which gives more information: http://forums.micros ...Show All

• Reshu Visio for Enterprise Architects 2005 does not like Bold?

  I have an issue with Visio for Enterprise Architects 2005 where it takes all of my non-null fields and changes them to non-bold text and only bolds the first primary key. Anyone have any ideas to fix this Jacob,   It is not our policy to release patches in this manner.  I know this bug is troublesome, but we won't be able to release a fix until we do a major code integration with the rest of Visio ...Show All

• Aaron West No binaries when built!

  Hi, I have configured a build machine associated with TFS. I successfully created few team build types using my Team Explorer, and the builds run successfully every time. But when I look at the folder where the output binaries should be created, I cannot see any project output files. No executables, no config files, no DLLs. I checked in both the folder and network share (which is configured as part of team build type) But I cannot see the ...Show All

• Ricacho Distributed System template

  Hello, I've just downloaded Visual Studio Team System Beta 2 and started "looking into" the Team System features but was unable to locate the Distributed System Solutions project types when creating a new project.  Where can I find these Thanks, Scott Mead Hi Elona, SQL Server 2005 has never been installed on my system.  I do have SQL Server 8 running on my system, however. Also, I am currently ...Show All