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• ChuckAbe Team Build - Security

  Hi, we would like to implement multiple team-build types, but only certain users must be allowed to execute certain team-builds. I have not found a way to ristrict which users may execute a specific team-build. Will this be an RTM feature - or must we use alternatives for all restricted Team-Build functionalities Hi Tilli, TeamBuild does not have support for this scenario in V1. We are looking for possibility of a workaround that may hel ...Show All

• DMan1 "Latest" with MSBuild

  What's the best way of getting a "Latest"-folder for builds performed by VSTS I guess this involves changing the TFSBuild.Proj-file, but I also guess someone else has done this before me... Thanks! I wasn't clear enough: In the drop folder structure, I want a "Latest" folder, like this: \\buildserver\drops\ Build-20051128-1 \\buildserver\drops\ Build-20051128-2 \\buildserver\drops\ Build-20051128-3 \\buildserver\drops\ Latest Where \\buil ...Show All

• PedroMarques Project Alters

  Hi, I have a test installation of TFS and everything seems to be working fine but I don't receivce any alerts. I've gone to Project -> Project Alerts and I've enabled all alerts there. Also my project site is sending notifications when a new user has been added. How can I find if there is an error when generating the alter and sending an email Thanks, Marian. Jeff, I may have found the proble ...Show All

• Wamiq TFS Install - Quad 1.8GHZ Xeon... Not Good Enough ?

  I am trying to install TFS on a quad 1.8GHZ with 4GB ram; this should be enough to run a TFS trial at my company for 2-5 users. However the TFS install requirements checker prevents me from installing the product because of a minimum speed of processor requirement. I have four 1.8GHZ Xeon chips, that should be plenty.   Is their a command line install that can bypass this check     Thank you, John ...Show All

• garmhappy When will TFS be released?

  I just looked on MSDN Subscriber Downloads (Dev Tools / VS 2005) and could not even find December CTP ISO. Right now the official guidance is still Q1 CY06. Rick and Soma usually announce release news when it becomes available. http://blogs.msdn.com/rickla/ http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/ Please translate "Q1 CY06" for the uninitiated ...Show All

• A81 SharePoint Portal Server or Services?

  Do  need to install SharePoint Portal Or just the SharePoint Services Hello Raphael, You need to install Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 with SP 2 for use with Team Foundation Server. For more information on how to go about installing this, please refer to the installation guide here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=E54BF6FF-026B-43A4-ADE4-A690388F310E&displaylang=en Hope this helps! ...Show All

• Nektar bissubscribe error

  I am trying to follow the Continuous integration sample on Buck Hodges website ( http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2005/09/19/471347.aspx ) minus the actual project building. I am interested in the event notification so that I can capture the changes and email out the diffs to my project manager. When I use bissubscribe I get the following error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". I am not exactly sure what thi ...Show All

• Phineas Subscribable server events?

  I read http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/04/10/event_filtering.aspx with great interest. Although I dont fully understand how to enumerate the events I'm happy to know this list. I have downloaded the March version 2006.03 of the SDK. Herein I cant find a description of these events - "only" a description of the eventing service and the BisSubscribe tool. Could somebody help to understand these events a little better - e.g ...Show All

• David McKinney Reporting Custom Test Results

  If I have a custom test type (which I do), and a custom testresult class defined for that custom test type (which I do), how do I make any new properties that I have added to my testresult visible in Reports In other words, if I add a property to my testresult and want to be able to filter report results based on the value stored in that property in a report once the results have been published, how do I do that For example: I store value &qu ...Show All

• Sidd Shenoy GUI regression tests with Visual Team System

  Hello,   We are currently searching for a testing tool to perform functional regression tests on our GUI application. For the moment, we developing with Borland C++ Builder 6.0 but we are going to make the transition to Visual soon.   We don't want to purchase a tool if Visual Team System offers a way of testing the GUI. Currently, TestComplete from AutomatedQa seems a good testing tool. Would it be useful to use this too ...Show All

• rahman Status and Wildcard search in Visual Studio Team System

  Does the new source control in Team System (using SQL server as the repository) have the Status search and Wildcard search like the old VSS had under View -> Search     I need to determine if anything is checked out in a particular tree (and if so, what, and by whom).   I used to be able to do this with the Status search in VSS but I can’t seem to find it in Visual Studio Team System.   :( ...Show All

• jasMSDN 'Remaining work' Report fails in VSTS Beta3 refresh

  Hi there,      I have installed successfully VSTS beta3 server, few reports enabled but few of them are failing. Like 'Remaining Workreport is failing with error: How do i fix this Thanks, An error has occurred during report processing. Query execution failed for data set 'dsWorkItemHistory'. For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors ...Show All

• A_Maltas Manual test and ordered test

  Hello, I am a newcomer to VSTS for tester. How can't I add a manual test to an ordered test sequence If my question makes no sens then how to do a sequence of manual test in VS Is there a short cut to go from one test to the other Do I need a third-party tool for my needs Thanks, Igrekkel David, I am using VS 2005 beta 2. I do new ordered test and then all my manual test are not availab ...Show All

• THDPaul How to deserialize a webresponse to object using a custom extraction rule

  Hi, I want to deserialize a webresponse to object using a custom extraction rule. What should i do. Web request is: POST /WebSite1/Service.asmx HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: length SOAPAction: "http://tempuri.org/HelloGoal" < xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" > <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap= ...Show All

• Kjeld Tommeraas Registration Service

  We are creating an artifact provider and I am having a hard time finding documentation about the artifact type registration process. I know that there is a registration service, and I know that I need to create a xml file to register the type. What I cant seem to find is a description of what the elements in that xml file mean. for instance, in this section: <ServiceInterface> <ServiceInterface> <Name>IBISEnablement&l ...Show All