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• rlk Warehouse Troubleshooting Guide : Step 2 has a lag before updates reflect correctly

  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

• adonndel Web Test - Any way to compare an Extracted value (Context Variable) against an expected result?

  Hi, Is there any way to compare an Extracted value against another expected value without using coded Web Tests Thanks The extracted value can be compared without using coded Web Test. It can be done by combination of Extraction rule and Validation rule. The "Context Parameter Name" entered in extraction rule can be used in the validation rule as expected value. It has to be taken care that the context parameter name should ...Show All

• THaines Extending/customizing test data sources

  Hi, Sometime ago i was experimenting with creating a db test data generator. I abandoned it for lack of time but one of the features i was working on was a mechanism by which i could set up some standard data tables containing City names/codes, country names/codes, popular first names and surnames, public anonymous address lists etc so that these could be combined and used to generate more meaningful test data instead of a simplistic 'colum ...Show All

• Valerio "Connect to Team Foundation Server" option not there

  I installed the VS.NET 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers but I don't see the "Connect to Team Foundation Server" option. Shouldn't this be there by default That makes perfect sense. Glad to know the why....sometimes I retain the info a little better by knowing the "why". Thanks again. Jason you brain is not gone... They removed the functionality and moved it the the Team Foundation Client because of the fact the TFS is shipp ...Show All

• NL_Sander Re-indexing:TfsIntegration failed

  I noticed this SQL job was failing and was wondering if I should be concerned TFSIntegration Mainetance Job. Error: Date 23/04/06 00:00:01 Log Job History (TfsIntegration Maintenance Job) Step ID 1 Server TFS Job Name TfsIntegration Maintenance Job Step Name Re-index Databases Duration 00:00:12 Sql Severity 15 Sql Message ID 0 Operator Emailed Operator Net sent Operator Paged Retries Attempted 0 Message Exe ...Show All

• LaxAtMsdn Error when trying to build few solutions from different team project based on single label

  I’m trying to build few solution based on one single label, the thing is that my label contains solution from different team projects. I get always error that the sln that in my label from the other team project is not found. Here is the log file: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Build started 6/19/2006 9:28:25 AM. __________________ ...Show All

• Salim How to delete Work Items?

  I found this post from a while back:   John Lawrence MSFT wrote: We don't currently provide any means to obliterate individual work items from a project - the only mechanism is to delete an entire project using the DeleteTeamProject tool. As noted above, this is is largely to support the rich auditing functionality built into Team System, and it also ensures that any links between work items are always preserved. Historically, this ...Show All

• Dean Forant Problem with Microsoft.Pcw.currituck initialization...

  There's a problem with creation of a new project... Single-server scenario, all plugins succeeded except subject plugin: ---begin Exception entry--- Time: 05/12/2005 09:09:10.360 Module: Initializer Event Description: Initialization for plugin "Microsoft.Pcw.currituck" failed with error: "Unable to handle request. The action 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/Currituck/2004/07/mtservices/clientservice/GetMetadata' was not recognized." Exception Typ ...Show All

• Tampico Hot to plus two numbers in DOS-Command?

  There is needed for an auto-incrementing version number in my software build process. I want to place the version number(like 2.0.3.6) in a .txt file, and the txt file just has one row. Now i want to know whether it can plus two numbers in DOS-Command and return result Thinks! No, you cannot do this using DOS command. You will need to write a Task of your own. There is Math.Add at http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/ which may do what you ar ...Show All

• evercool Access SharePoint error when install TFS

  I setup the Beta2 TFS , first I install SQL 2005 , I can access the http://localhost/reports , then I install WSS2.0 , then I try to access http://localhost , it failed , the error message shows "You are not authorized to view this page" , adn then I try to update windows , and restart , this error still occurred , any one meet this error also what's the reason .   I have resolved this problem : after install WSS , i found that ...Show All

• James Moore - Visionspring No tasks in task list on project portal

  Hi, Shouldn't the task list under the 'project portal | Document & Lists | Tasks' be the same as the list of tasks you see in the VS Team Explorer under 'project | Work Items | Team Queries | All Tasks' If so, can someone tell me what are the possible causes for not seeing any tasks under the project portal (e.g. my project is PJ228, so the link is something like:  http://localhost/sites/PJ228/Lists/Tasks/AllItems.aspx ). tia, --R ...Show All

• Ryan Tessier BUG: MS Project Work Item Publish Error

  I believe there is a bug in VSTF where MS Project thinks that Work Items are assigned to multiple people when the username is the in the form: Camp, Jason It looks like the comma in the "Assigned to" field is used as a delimiter. Is this a known issue If so, are there any workarounds Had the same problem but still not managed to get the fix, I believe the article number is KB919232 but the support line says it does not ex ...Show All

• smiledotnet When does the 180 day evaluation version expire

  Is there a way to see what day the TFS eval version will expire Or do I just have to figure out when it was installed and count forward. -dave http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/howtobuy/ Look for "Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server" Sometimes you guys are totally correct and totally useless <punch line from a great joke> Ok... how can I buy it....I sure as hell don't n ...Show All

• Nikhil Dabke Data source-based web test does not run with test load agent

  I have made a Web test based on a database table where information such as userid and passwords are fetched to simulate several users. This works fins on my machine, and also when running a load test. Now I am trying to make a real test using the test load agent, but the test fails with an exception on the agent. This is from the log file on the agent. [E, 224, 10, 2006/05/18 07:37:38.222 109036049731] QTAgent.exe: WebLoadTestAdapter: Shut ...Show All

• George Giles Useless output from TFS source control

  It pains me to see that even the new Team System source control writes the same pointless drivel to the Output window in visual studio: ---- Operation started at time 3:32:18 PM ---- ---- Operation completed successfully at time 3:32:18 PM ---- ---- Operation started at time 3:32:18 PM ---- ---- Operation started at time 3:32:18 PM ---- ---- Operation completed successfully at time 3:32:18 PM ---- ---- Operation started at time 3:32:18 PM ---- - ...Show All