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• Timothy Ng MSFT Problems deleting Queries from Currituck.xml

  I'm trying to produce a minimal MethodologyTemplate - see my other posts. I have successful removed most of the initial tasks, work item type 'Qos', work item type 'risk' and work item type 'Scenario'. I have also added the new work item type 'Story' and added a corresponding query 'All Stories'. All this seems to work fine. However there are the following issues 1. Although the Team | Add work item menu correctly shows Bug, Stor ...Show All

• Lauriew Messages Suppression

  Hello! At the moment we are trying to get rid of all the fxcop warnings in our project, but have three issues we can't resolve. 1. Is there any ways to specify all the message suppressions in one place (file) We need it because suppression attributes like this: [System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis. SuppressMessage ( "Microsoft.Security" , "CA2118:ReviewSuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurityUsage" )] make code complitely unreadable. We have opti ...Show All

• Reggie Chen Which version for Business Analysts and Project Managers?

  I'm leading an effort at my company to review VSTS to determine if it is a right fit. We are using the Beta 3 evaluation and so far it is a great product. The thing I can not figure out is which version do people in the role of Business Analysts and Project Managers use Their main usage would be to interact with reports and work items. Any suggestions The document I just downloaded "Visual Studio 2005 Te ...Show All

• Radu TFS July CTP + VSTS August CTP = error!

  Ok, so I eagerly installed the latest and greatest bits of VSTS - the August CTP.  Having read that Team Foundation Server won't be released until September I naturally assumed that the TFS June CTP would work with the VSTS August CTP.  WRONG! When I try to install the Team Foundation Client it generates an error when trying to install the .net framework and cannot proceed with the install. Am I doing something wrong or is this a known ...Show All

• kosar1349 Source Control Explorer

  I find the new way of dealing with Source Control in the Source Control Explorer very frustrating.  It seems like another case of the tool dictating how I work, rather then letting me work the way I need to. I want organize and include other files in Source Control in a "Non-Solution" way.  I have Word Documents, Images, Text Documents, Help Files, etc.. that do not belong to a VS Solution, but I want to keep them under version control ...Show All

• sharif_m Performance Counters in Load Test

  Hi, I am trying to run a load test on a webservice (.asmx request) to track the performance counter sets on a remote computer. Here is a list of metrics I get Requests Executing in ASP.NET applications is 0 transactions per second in ASP.NET application is 0 Requests current in ASP.NET is 0 Requests in application queue in ASP.NET Applications is 0 Requests succeeded for both total and LM_W3SVC_1_ROOT is 106,611 on average total transaction ...Show All

• QbyCarl TFS and Domain Controller

  Hello, I read that Domain Controller on beta 3 and RC are no longer supported. If I want to install TFS on a Domain Controller, It seems I have to use two 2003 Server. But I don't understand one  which server I have to install the DC, the prerequisites and TFS, (For Single-Server Deployment) Does it mean I have :one server for the DC and the other one for IIS, SQL server ...Show All

• Marcus Vinicius de Lima Vssconvertor

  hi, I try used the VssConverter tool to convert a VSS 6.0 database to Team Foundation. I followed the walkthrough for converting VSS to Team Foundation but with not succses I ask for more exmpale or guide with screenshot or any kind of help 10x vizi Vizi, Check out these blog entries on the same question http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsue/articles/Migrating_from_Visual_SourceSafe_to_Team_Foundation_Source_Control.aspx htt ...Show All

• Ray Marshall The Local Security Authority Cannot Be Contacted

  After installing a Team Foundation Server (beta 3 refresh, single server, in a domain, on a virtual server). The server is up, and all works fine for 3 client systems we have. I have setup 2 projects so far... no problems. But I have one machine that cannot talk to anything on the team server anymore. It is a laptop. Yesterday when I first installed the vs 2005 team suite trial and team foundation client software, all was fine on that ...Show All

• Ashish Kaila Error installing TFS final release

  This error occurs during health check, "The SQL Server 2005 KB Update is not installed on this computer" We have SQL 2005 Standard installed....is there an update any ideas -Jim Are you installing TFS on a single server or a dual server If it is single server, TFS install will not configure the report services. SQL needs to do that properly before you can install TFS. Bo ...Show All

• Francis Shum code coverage "off road"

  I've tried using the sample from http://blogs.msdn.com/ms_joc/articles/406608.aspx  to get the off-road experience of code coverage. However, when I run the tests on my instrumented binary, I'm getting the coverage results for the test project instead of my instrumented binary. Am I missing something here! yes I've verified that the instrumented binary is in the bin directory of the test proj. I've tried the very steps, yet una ...Show All

• CommonCents CA1002 - DontExposeGenericLists

  Hi, FxCop has flagged my use of System.Collections.Generic.List<T>, saying I should expose System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection<T> instead. If I use Collection<T>, I lose the ability to use Anonymous Delegates with the List<T> api. For example, I cannot use: ForEach() FindAll() What is a solution to this   Use List<T> internally and but then cast it to a Collection<T> for public exposure purpose ...Show All

• PhilipHTaylor Error while Building a Setup Project

  Hi, I m trying to Build a Setup project(InstallShield) in TFS.When i build it ended succesfully with no error, 1 warnings ,no result.The warning message is: warning MSB4126: The specified solution configuration "Debug|Any CPU" is invalid. Please specify a valid solution configuration using the Configuration and Platform properties (e.g. MSBuild.exe Solution.sln /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform="Any CPU") or leave thos ...Show All

• RichLeyshon Is there any way to assign two resources or more for a workitem?

  I had the same problem.Needed to assign a task among 2 developers. My workaround was done in MS Project, I assigned lets say 200% of resources to the task (2 developers assigned) , created a new column (ie. Outline Column 1) with a custom lookup values (developers name groups) and finally group the gantt chart by this column. In this way I can control the timmings and dates appropiately , I can control my shared tasks + I can publish/refresh f ...Show All

• bjornstoro Team Projects vs. Source Control

  The company I work for has a structured file system for VSS6.0. We want to keep the same system for the source code, but would like to utilize Team Foundation Server and Team Projects. Do Team Projects need to be associated in the same way as source code or are they independent of the code For example, my Explorer tree looks like this: Classes MyClass HisClass WebApps WebApp_A WebApp_B Each sub-directory is a solution whic ...Show All